People making the decisions are removed from how work gets done, how users engage with the product, and any real consequences. But they keep most the profits despite contributing minimally.

I dislike AI. It’s like the one ring. Stop trying to use it. But all these people think they’re stronger than Boromir.

That’s tough. Lot of choices. Are we filtering by “most impactful” or “most likely to replay” or something else? I’ll go games that made a big impression on me. There’s some boss towards older games.

• Diablo
• Final Fantasy 7
• Baldur’s Gate
• Dark Souls
• Guild Wars 2

Haha get fucked DoorDash. I’ll pick up my own food before using them.

Sales number is the only language they speak.

They also speak violence, but historically that’s in the form of the rich and/or the state attacking labor.

Microsoft should be broken up. They never should have been allowed to get so big in the first place.

One of the most common sources of alienation for me is seeing what other people, my alleged peers, spend their money on.

Sometimes I wonder what would happen if everyone’s spending habits became like mine. Lot of industries and practices would die.

People will play this like “Fucking hey! I aced that bike segment first time!” all proud of their gaming skills when the reality is you did absolutely nothing, my brother.

I remember a little indie game predicated on this once. You were shown upcoming game state the player was in, and had to make choices so they’d get the maximum score without doing anything. I was a like Columns or Tetris like game, so you’d have to arrange the board so if they just dropped the pieces they’d get a combo.

Weirdly fun, interesting commentary.

It’s been a while but from what I remember every character woman is either an idiot or a manipulator.

They took the witch from the first game and made her a conniving lying betrayer.

The way Leah was written is… Not good. Weird purity issues. And she dies horribly.

The female follower NPC is… A scantily clad enchantress.

You start to see a theme and wonder about what the author thinks.

I completely forgot diablo: immortal even existed. I see it has generally poor reviews, which is not surprising.

At launch, it was pretty bad. The story was awful. Bad writing. (Whoever wrote ‘How tastes your fear?’ needs to go back to school). Misogyny.

The gameplay was really bad at launch. The auction house borked it up. The game is essentially a lot of gear checks, and at launch you would slam into that wall pretty frequently. The same tactics would wipe or be a snooze based entirely on the numbers on your gear. Getting good gear was really hard, unless you used the auction house. It was deeply unsatisfying. Also most of the random boss powers were really annoying to play against.

Even after the expansion and updates, it tends to turn into disco laser rollercoaster. Personally, I’m not a fan of that. I preferred the original’s more sedate, gloomy, mood. Holding down right click to shoot lasers and drop meteors for billions of damage is amusing for a little while, but it’s so tactically shallow it doesn’t hold my attention for that long.

I played it a lot anyway, because the first two games were favorites in my youth. I didn’t even get 4. Fuck microsoft.

By the time you’ve read this it’s too late not to read it.

But maybe you meant longer content than just a headline

Need more details to really make sense of this.

There are some things in games that could be parses as annoying or core, depending on what you’re looking for. Like, some people might say not being able to quick save/load is horrible, and being sent back to a checkpoint on death is bullshit. But that’s fundamental to some game loops

Shouldn’t be allowed. Companies shouldn’t be allowed to buy each other. We already know what happens with consolidation.

I would so much rather just have a full timestamp. I can do the delta fine myself.

I honestly forgot that game even existed!

Controversial take: doom 1 is better than doom 2. Doom 2 has a bunch of awful levels.

I didn’t really like doom2016 or eternal that much, either. Too much start-and-stop.

Microsoft and Bethesda are creatively incompetent. They don’t really want to say anything. They just want a funny theme park full of kitschy shit so they can pander to fans.

They’re fucking soulless morons.

The first fallout was interesting because it was pretty fresh. The 2nd was a bigger exploration, with some interesting questions about remnants. I don’t really remember 3 but it had some weird narrative problems, I think.

New Vegas actually asked a new interesting question: who rebuilds after?

And then 4 just shits the bed because Bethesda has no soul. It’s also mechanically a mess. Power armor in the intro, except it sucks? Fuck everyone who thought that was a good idea.

Most people don’t really care about abstract or long term things. You can tell them that buying the game supports bad stuff, and they could at least wait for a sale, but they’re no better than a toddler.

I’m still in the “Microsoft can fuck off and die” camp, so I don’t imagine I’ll be using this.