the director voluntarily exited BioWare, not fired, and articles specifically state this does NOT mean Veilguard failed to meet sales.

I feel like I have to say this because EVERY OTHER POST about this reads like a whining child baby about Taash and their scenes or someone whining that it’s not Origins

The fact that all of the major platforms are changing hands, having to change due to government bans or laws, or from CEOs who force changes people don't like into their platforms.

Then and a bunch of others cropping up trying to take their place.

not that I would mind considering that the entire mainstream internet is now 5 or 6 websites owned by 3 or 4 people and all of them are either fucking awful, have TONS of ads on them or Boost Right Wingers and Bigots while censoring LGBTQ content

Overall, I'm kinda hopeful and Scared about the future of the internet

Look at how many Twitter Alternatives out there were created/gained popularity after Musk took over

Bluesky, Mastodon, Spoutible, CoHost, HexBear, SpaceHey,

and those are just the ones I've been to/heard of, there are probably more that I didn't mention

with this Tik Tok ban in place, It'll be interesting to see what other competitors (That aren't owned by Google, Meta or Elon Musk) try to fill the void

Instead of "it's not for me" it's always "this is horrible". Most of the time I'm on social media I see people talk down to others or ridicule them for liking or enjoying certain games. I get that gamers can be annoying, but it's just so draining sometimes.

And don't get me started on this anti-"woke' movement. Some people are BEGGING to see developers and games fail just because they don't like their stuff. Not to mention most of their complaints are based in BIGOTRY alone, which is definitely not getting better in the coming years. It's so fucking infuriating

Plus, In the early times of the Internet, gaming discourse wasn't this negative at all outside of the stupid Console War discussions.

I'm pretty sure that it's the way that social media is designed. It's designed to generate outrage to maximize engagement

If chuds actually gave a shit about Nier beyond 2B's ass they'd absolutely fucking hate it. Half the characters in Automata are just bi/lesbian disasters and it dabbles in some real gender fuckery.

The original Nier has one of the best written intersex characters I've ever seen and it literally FORCES you to read her backstory and how she was discriminated against because of it.

They don't give a shit about the Nier franchise outside of the amount of porn that it has generated.

When I see people discussing the PS2 Ratchet and Clank games, most of the time it feels like they either ignore Deadlocked or straight up act as if it doesn't exist.

I'm currently playing all the R&C PS2 games for a You tube video, and I'm halfway through Deadlocked. While it does feel like a spin-off with Clank not being present during gameplay or the title, the story and humor feeling like background elements, I honestly think this is the most polished shooting gameplay of R&C on PS2 has ever felt (and the platforming element being pretty much non-existent).

I think Deadlocked is an Ok entry. Best gunplay of the ps2 era and the mod system is the best in the series. The writing is pretty neck and neck with the first 3 as well. But, it's a pretty drab game, the environments being mostly drab and barren makes sense in the universe of Deadlocked, but it doesn't make the mostly green and brown levels much more interesting.

Let me here your thoughts on it

the boomer shooter revival genre that the Doom Reboot saga started actually has a good amount of female protagonists.

In fact, it may be the only modern game genre where i can safely say the gender split is roughly half and half with games like Selaco, Ion Fury, Forgive me Father, Hedon, Nightmare Reaper, Project Warlock 1 and 2, Rise Of The Triad, Supplice, Zortch, Ghostware, Beyond Sunset, Viscerafest, The Citadel, Sprawl

There are genuinely so many boomer shooter female protagonist and you know what, and i say this with full confidence as i am very active within boomer shooter communities and follow boomer shooter youtubers like Civvie11 and GmanLives: NOBODY CARES.

Which is a hilarious fact in and of itself since the boomer shooter genre, more than any other videogame genre is DOMINATED by a male audience. And yet they do not care.

Selaco is one of the most beloved and best selling games of that entire genre and it stars a female protagonist that kicks all sorts of ass. And

is a pretty solid Horror game from the Demo I played but, it commits ONE fatal flaw that a lot of games do have

having Aim and throw/shoot/attack being the left and right Mouse keys

It's quite hard to press both mouse keys on a laptop trackpad but, it still is a pretty good Horror game and I will DEFINITLEY be buying the full game when I get the chance to

Some tweets from piratenation and asmon about the bald protag in intergalatic got, lets say 20k-40k likes on Twitter. Which is a lot for the platform. Lets say that it was 50K though, lets ignore how many of those are bots Let's ignore how many of those wouldn't be interested in the game anyway Let's ignore how many might follow them without even being gamers really but just bc they are part of the culture war BS let's ignore that even on twitter they got ratioed by a tweet that got 300K likes

after this, Games like NFL 2K, NFL Gameday, NFL Fever, NFL QB club and NFL Blitz could no longer exist, only Madden.

A quote form on Old Forum website when this news broke 20 years ago:

"5 more years of Glorified Roster Updates

EA is the biggest cancer to the Industry, they put out mediocre games and nobody says anything bad about them because they have the reviewers paid off

not to mention the numerous ways they find to spit in the face of people who buy form them"

It's pretty damn accurate, even 20 years later . both EA and their games have gotten worse over the last 20 years

Which is it? Do the Gooners want photorealistic graphics or not?

Because when you go photorealistic you get realistic humans. People don't look the way do in SFM porn or Hentai

You have to pick and choose, if you want more stylized looks (Because apparently, More Stylized= "Not Woke") then don't complain about graphical stagnation.