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I know I've been making jokes and all that, and usually I don't really care about awards, but seeing something as unapologetically weird and ambitious as Alan Wake 2 receive such widespread acclaim kinda gives me some hope for art generally
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tell me there's a better moment in video games and i will call you a filthy liar
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NEW VIDEO! Dragon's Dogma 2 has been criticised for its many inconveniences, like reduced fast travel. It got me thinking—since when was efficiency the goal of art? Why do we hold games to decidedly more corporate standards than other art?
Let's talk about it! Link below 👇
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And it's live! No Man's Sky by
@hellogames
turned five recently, and after promising I'd never go back... I decided to take one more trip into the galaxy.
Turns out No Man's Sky is really, really good now.
Hope you enjoy the video!
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In the wake of Fires of Rubicon's reveal at the Game Awards, I decided to play through a whole bunch of the Armoured Core games to see what all the fuss was about.
It ended up becoming one of my favourite franchises. Let's talk about it in my longest video yet!
Vid link below!
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I think artists should be able to tell people to fuck off
Helldivers 2 boss apologizes for "horrible" dev comments, says Arrowhead has "taken action internally to educate our developers."
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It never ceases to astound me the ferocity with which audiences will attack reviewers regarding their opinion on a game that *said audience hasn't played*.
No room for meaningful critique. Hell site/industry/world.
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Made up console war shite has people celebrating a fuckin corporate merger. Hell industry.
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reviewed the anime lady game
liked it a lot
also the internet is bad and you shouldn't take it seriously
link below
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Armored Core 6 absolutely snubbed. Land a charged laser lance strike, then try and tell me that Fires of Rubicon doesn't at least deserve a nomination in Games for IMPACT
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Suddenly I just became a million times more interested in watching this show
‘SHOGUN’ will likely not get a Season 2.
“We love how the book ends; it was one of the reasons why we both knew we wanted to do it — and we ended in exactly that place.”
(Source: )
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FOR THE LOVE OF GOD BY ABSOLUTELY NO MEANS SHOULD THIS BE YOUR ENTRY POINT TO THE SERIES
Hey kyodai! Tell your friends, co-workers, distant relatives, and barista that Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name is the perfect entry point to the series and available now.
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New video!
@SEGA
reached out asking me to check out the new Kaito Files DLC for Lost Judgment and make a video about it. My verdict? I think Kaito might have been Judgment's biggest strength all along. Let's talk about why!
#sponsored
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Safe to say that without The Escapist, Zero Punctuation and the like, myself and a good deal of my peers wouldn't be doing what we're doing now. Sad that the Game Journalism Machine seems to keep grinding people down. Hope everyone involved is doing alright.
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playing the pokémon rip off everyone has been talking about. nintendo should sue
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I say this with nothing but hope that people can be better—the ability to navigate small talk is one of the most important social skills you can learn. It can lead to some of the deepest connections. How do you expect to get to big talk without starting small?
Introverts hate small talk. They wanna dive deep. Share your lessons. Your purpose. Your secrets. The stories of your spiritual journey. Discuss psychology, philosophy, and meaning of life. The talk that connects the mind and nourishes the heart. Soul talk. That's what they want.
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Metal Gear Solid 4 is really good. It's also really shite, which kinda makes it really good.
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please stop giving attention to obviously bad takes made by people who crave attention
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You ever just think about how good the 2015 Mad Max game is
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Video is rendering, will be up very soon. Long time in the making, I hope you enjoy it when it's available!
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I made the mistake of starting a new Elden Ring character to get to the DLC starting point (as opposed to my NG+ character for whom the DLC will presumably be much harder) and now I can't stop playing and thinking about Elden Ring again HELP
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New video! The Depths, with their abyssal darkness and truly oppressive atmosphere, initially seem to go against everything Tears of the Kingdom stands for otherwise.
Let's talk about why they're my favourite part of the game.
Link below 👇
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Can't stop thinking about how fuckin hard a line "it's not a lake... it's an OCEAN" is to end your game on
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New video! Leon Kennedy is the video game equivalent of John Wick and, through play, shows us just how terrifying being John Wick would actually be. What does this mean for how genres are portrayed across different artforms? Let's talk about it!
Link below 👇
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Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio now has one of those Marvel-esque intro reels for their Like A Dragon stuff, and I can categorically say that they are the only studio allowed to do such a thing.
In this one case, and this one case only, it absolutely rules
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Like, seriously, if you're getting fuckin raging about someone's review of Da Space Game, I beg you—please, get a fucking hobby. Become interested in something that will use up your energy. You have tied your ego to a product, a corporation. You are BORED.
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If I had to describe what I thought about that new Kojima documentary on Disney+, I'd probably frame it like one of his tweets where he goes "saw that new Kojima documentary." and doesn't elaborate any further on his thoughts, seemingly because he can't be arsed
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Layoffs are never good but announcing to staff that their Christmas gift is that they need to spend the holidays job hunting is a special kind of callousness. Games industry CEOs will soon regret not taking a slight cut to their pay instead when NO ONE IS LEFT TO MAKE GAMES
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Starfield being a potential contender for the Game Awards nominations seems preposterous, sure, but this is also the ceremony that awarded Game of the Year to It Takes Two. That show ain't right
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Alan Wake seriously might be the worst game I've played that I nevertheless really enjoy. It's not so bad it's good, it's just "here's some flashes of brilliance that require you to endure a gameplay torture beyond all things in order to reach to reach"
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one of those twitter days where i'm refusing to believe anyone actually gives a toss about yellow paint in games. just not possible to have that much time or energy
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New video! Tears of the Kingdom, like Breath of the Wild, contains a lot of open space. That said, with the wealth of new powers and how they change the rules of the world, said space felt like it took on a whole new meaning for me. Let's talk about it!
Link below 👇
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pov: kazuya being told he's not a serious person
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Perhaps this is the most obvious statement ever to some, but I've been taking the time to watch a film on blu ray every night and man... physical releases really beat out streaming every time for me now. Watching something becomes so much more committal, purposeful. Feels nice.
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Bumped into some of the folks at
@giantbomb
this morning. Despite me being a tired wreck that hadn't eaten properly in aaaaages, they were extremely nice. Hard to overstate how important that site was in getting me to start doing this daft YouTube thing. Very cool
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Been asked about the Hitman 3 video *constantly* since minute one of its release. Some jokey, some normal, some legit angry creepy stuff that suggests my other work is shit.
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NEW VIDEO! I hated almost every minute I spent *playing* Alan Wake, and yet I can't bring myself to call it a bad game—quite the opposite. Let's talk about what it means to search for the good in a less-than-'optimal' gameplay experience.
Link below👇
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As of tomorrow, Writing on Games turns nine years old. Feels absolutely mad to say that. Cheers for the continued support everyone.
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People involved in games (A MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY I might add) deserve so much better than the job insecurity and constant layoffs they currently face. Fuck sake.
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Not trying to rag on anyone but this has always been a bit of a weird mindset to me. Like, sure, the online sucks, but I guess I'm just... basically fine with the game as it is. It's a complete work. It fulfilled its potential as a story.
It’s been said countless times but RDR2 is a beautiful masterpiece and it sucks that Rockstar completely abandoned it.
No single player DLC, no PS5/XSX port, and no support for RDO except for monthly events. Any other studio would’ve made this game reach its true potential.
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Thanks to
@PlayStation
for auto-renewing my PS+ sub with zero notice and taking 100 quid out of my account out of the blue, only to make sorting a refund impossible because it's all handled by a chatbot that wouldn't even let me use it. Great stuff.
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You ever just think that, like... video games are really fuckin cool
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made a video because the games industry really sucks right now and even making great games that sell a ton isn't enough to keep you safe from mass layoffs and i just needed to get my thoughts on that out there i guess, sorry
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I mean when you think about it Lord of the Rings is basically just one mega Death Stranding delivery so this pairing makes total sense yup definitely
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Sorry to keep posting about this one game, but man—if you had told me a week or two ago that Alan Wake 2 would be a serious contender for my GotY I would never have believed you, but here we we are. Been a while since a game's atmosphere has enthralled me like this. So, so good.
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After some daftness on the part of Royal Mail, I finally got the Adachi jacket from Insert Coin. Extremely cosy. Highly recommended
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As time has gone on, I've become more comfortable with the idea that as long as the person you're communicating gets what you're trying to say, your use of language is sufficient. Really, who gies a fuck
pro writing and speaking tip:
never ever for any reason ever start a sentence with "so".
do not do it. don't. ever. for any reason.
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New video! The intro sequences of Bethesda RPGs have developed a reputation—restrictive, sluggishly paced & failing to capture the grandeur and freedom of what follows.
Even by those standards, Starfield's opening is positively languid. Let's talk about it!
Link below 👇
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Finally finished my first playthrough of Baldur's Gate 3. One of those cases where actually finishing it felt truly bittersweet. Already itching to start a new campaign.
In short, game good
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imagine people clapping at you for a full minute, let alone seven or fifteen or however long they go at cannes
how are you, as the person being applauded, not absolutely mortified/begging people to stop
how are the people clapping not bored out their minds by like minute two
‘FURIOSA’ received a 7-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival.
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W...WHAT?!
Microsoft Closes Redfall Developer Arkane Austin, HiFi Rush Developer Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda
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NEW VIDEO! The games of 2023 clearly didn't do for me what they did for other people, but I still managed to talk for 45 minutes about my favourites of the year that was. Feartie authors, big mechs and playable dogs abound!
Vid below. Enjoy!
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Review code came in late for Spider-Man 2 so my full video review will either be out tomorrow or Wednesday, but I beat the game, nearly got the platinum, and it's good! Real good even! I have a few issues with it tho, that I'll try and outline in this (long) thread.
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This is going to be the funniest movie ever made
It’s official: we’ve partnered with Kojima Productions on the live-action feature film adaptation of Hideo Kojima’s acclaimed video game, DEATH STRANDING.
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If you're sensitive to spoilers, avoid that new Shadow of the Erdtree launch trailer like the plague. Things in there I didn't see until I was about 40 hours in.
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Dunno who the streamer is but I almost spat my drink out laughing at this
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The impulse and frustration here is understandable for sure. It really has to be said though (and it has been said by a lot of people) that focusing on the numbers is only ever going to lead to a shifting goalpost situation. There's never a point where it all just feels... fine.
people need to realize that it feels great when your art gets attention and it motivates you to draw more
it sucks when your art that you spent so much time and love on gets ignored
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As someone whose nephew just managed to spend over 200 quid on fuckin Fortnite purchases, I implore you parents out there to monitor your kids while they're playing. Scary thing is it could have been so much worse.
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It's wild that different people can look at one thing and come to totally different conclusions.
Lotta people looking at Armored Core 6 footage thinking "the devs of Elden Ring made something this bland?"
Meanwhile I'm thinking "AN AC GAME HAS TREES AND SUNSETS THIS IS INSANE"
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ichiban kasuga is the best character in all of video games
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Honestly Sam Lake could come on stage and announce that he's going to boot you in the baws and everyone would say "aye fair play mate"
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Does anyone actually believe that Wukong is game of the year?
I enjoy a lot about it. Looks great. What it does with the Journey to the West stuff is really interesting. As a game though? It's fine. Pretty basic action fare. Difficult to get truly excited about.
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Might be the best thumbnail of the last several years
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The thing that shocks me most about Baldur's Gate 3, despite its overwhelming, mind-bending complexity, is just how effortless it all feels. Like you just did the most game-breaking thing possible and BG goes "no sweat, here's 30000 lines of main-quest-level dialogue in response"
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Ichiban Kasuga really is the most likeable protagonist in a video game, huh
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you don't need to engage with the bad takes
you can just leave the bad takes alone
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"Modern Warfare 2 asked a lot of interesting questions in its campaign"
I guaranfuckingtee you, it did not
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NEW VIDEO! It is very difficult to say anything new about MGS2 twenty years on so, instead, here is a personal love letter to what is maybe my favourite game of all time. Hope you enjoy it!
YT link:
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OH HEY I MADE A NEW VIDEO
Helldivers 2 obviously takes a lot of visual/tonal cues from Paul Verhoeven's seminal film Starship Troopers. What's more impressive though, is how the game captures the heart of Verhoeven's satire through its chaotic mechanics.
Let's talk about it!
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Man, having MachineGames make an Indiana Jones game is genius. They just have to reskin Wolfenstein
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While the industry is a hellscape right now, sometimes I remember that the game HUMANITY exists and it makes me feel better about things. Truly, what a game man
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Don't know if this is anything, but it's kind of odd to me that the Avatar franchise is pushed as the absolute bleeding edge of tech in films, while this just looks like... a game. Any AAA game.
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Mafia: Definitive Edition is very, very good and I made a big ol' video about it
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Watching Top Gun Maverick with the parents. Motion smoothing is firmly ON. The remote is ages away. Save me
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"middle-earth enterprises & friends" whit the actual fuck is this pish
Embracer is splitting into three companies:
-Asmodee Group
-Coffee Stain & Friends
-Middle-earth Enterprises & Friend
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The fuckin panic I had when I saw this and thought "SURPRISE RELEASE... TWO DAYS AGO"
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Cheers son's crying. Nice one
Activision reportedly rejected a pitch for Tony Hawk’s 3 + 4, preferring Vicarious Visions to work as a Call of Duty support studio, it’s claimed.
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As someone who just recently dug into the entire series, I cannot adequately express how absurdly excited I am for this game. Foaming at the mouth.
ARMORED CORE VI FIRES OF RUBICON — Gameplay Trailer (game is releasing on August 25th)
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This job is weird—it can feel like if you're not playing something specifically for a video, it's a waste of time.
That said, I dunno that I have a vid in me on Alan Wake 2, yet it's still just felt so nice to have this sprawling, deeply episodic thing to spend so much time with
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