Have you ever just been happy to be out? Like I'm seeing Reddit threads of people trying to get some FFXIV emote from this Jollibee collab and I'm just thinking, man I'm glad this is not siphoning any of my limited attention span right now.

I keep reading about Destiny 2 players trying like Warframe for the first time and being blown away. Maybe the only reason why I don't hate D2 with all my heart is that I've allowed myself to enjoy other looter shooters over the years and have stuff I like (and don't like) about em all.

Pragmata is just like The Last of Us, except it’s not ashamed to be a video game.

Guys will do literally anything except release a Bloodborne remaster.

Forget Hideo Kojima, the most prescient thing in all of video games was naming a teenage girl Selphie before the word selfie was invented.

Need to stop this trend of April Fool's jokes that are just shit you wish was real but isn't. There's already more than enough disappointment to go around.

Honestly, it's kind of funny reading serious critic reviews for a movie that basically exists to sell Mario (and Star Fox?) games. Personally, I just hope they nailed the music. Any coherent story on top of that is just a bonus.

So is AI the reason why everything reads like a LinkedIn post nowadays or?

Maybe I should use more line breaks.

For emphasis.

You know I love Square Enix for basically building cheats into FFVII Remake and FFXVI, there’s plenty of people out here who don’t give a shit about being good at every game they play.

I'm of two minds when it comes to modern gaming. Of course it was great when you could just pop in a cartridge or CD and the game just worked, but nowadays it can be like a mini Christmas when a game you like gets a surprise update.

Gonna set my DLSS5 to Concord.

Some shit just feels wrong and requires no further explanation.

DLSS5 is further proof that we've reached critical mass on how "good" a game needs to look. And here I thought we'd finally escaped the uncanny valley.

Disliked trope: millennials seeing some shit from the 90s and suddenly realizing they’re the old ones now. I’ve been too old for this shit since I was like 22.

It's just another roguelike

Such an indictment of the industry when we gotta worry more about how well a game sells and how many people are playing more than how good a game actually is.
You can’t just like a game, you also have to hope it sold enough to get a sequel, DLC, or avoid EOS.

Part of the reason why the Switch 2 is working for me is that I feel like I'm finally reaching critical mass on how good I expect games to look. Like I'm totally fine with VRR at 40 FPS with decent lighting and textures nowadays, and games aren't much better looking than they were 5 years ago.

Most Switch 2 ports are good enough to play if you’re only getting one console, and having a mainline RE game release day and date with other platforms is something I never thought I’d see again from Nintendo.

Man, Square Enix just isn't gonna let me forget about FF7 until part 3 comes out, are they?

Yeah, I just wish Gamers saw it that way.

"bloat," "pacing," "immersion," "unfinished," "needs more time to cook," "woke," and other things we say when we can't articulate why we don't like something.

These days I find myself looking at internet discourse mostly in the third person, it's amazing how quickly a group of people can gaslight themselves into hating just about anything. It's got to be exhausting.

And throughout the whole live service game frenzy and bust, I'm still playing World of Warcraft. Sometimes I wonder if it's the last game I'll ever play.

This is Lemonado's power!

XCX:DE:NS2E

If I could wipe the memory of any game I've played to play it again for the first time, it would probably just be tied between Breath of the Wild or Outer Wilds. I find that most other games (especially story based) are actually enhanced on subsequent playthroughs.

Forget MGS4 for a second, this touchup of MGS1 is actually pretty dope. AFAIK it's the only high resolution version available on consoles now which is huge for parity with the other titles.

Intergalactic still MIA, hope Naughty Dog is doing okay.

"Zero and I, Liquid and Solidus, we all fought a long, bloody war for our liberty to free ourselves from systems, nations, norms and ages, but no matter how hard we fought, the only liberty we found was on the inside. But you have been given freedom. Freedom to be... on the PS5"

New theory on why everything sucks: art is supposed to draw on personal experience in order to resonate, maybe nowadays people are just experiencing less stuff (or at least positive stuff) and therefore fiction has more trouble connecting with personal experience.