The article made it seem it was about something he tweeted :S I'm confused.
Kind of hard to tell what's going on without a translation of whatever it was that was said. He made of people for not being able to pronounce a word properly (when it is ostensibly true)? That can't be the whole story here... Or is it?
Apparently the original version of 2 runs better than the remaster. So I'd just play that instead, TBH.
Darksider's four horsemen don't follow the biblical versions. They simply take inspiration from them. We've known that one of them was a woman as you see a pretty clear silhouette of her shortly after the opening section of Darksiders 1 when it came out in 2010.
Actually we like to think of ourselves as 'horsepeople' *adjusts glasses*
@Darth: I feel really dumb for not making the connection myself. I'm dead sure they naming and fact that she is a woman is actually a clever reference to the phrase now because, of course it is. Seems so obvious.
I've never really liked the 'boob-spolsion' style of female character designs in many eroge. It's a problem in games like Senran Kagura (not an out-and-out erogen mind) where all the body types of the characters are the same so if it doesn't work for you there's nothing to enjoy.
You mean 'woo', not 'woe'.
I'm pretty sure there's people out there that could pull of the latter :P
Videogames are about the regularity and predictability of getting a result based on mastery of their systems. If you take that away from them the player ends up frustrated and the game feels random and fickle.
The writer doesn't complain about EXP payouts from battles being a thing, but you better believe men, women and people from all walks of life would complain if the game decided at its own leisure that 'nah, sorry, no EXP for you. I know you worked for it, but ...
I think everyone's called Nintendo a douche at some point :P
I think you are getting at the thorny issue of invasive data collection. But getting more accurate statistics doesn't require that... it simply requires a more nuanced gathering, and more importantly HONEST reporting of statistical data. IIRC the data used in the ESA was taken by surveying xx no. of households.
I don't buy the ESAs conclusions of their statistics because they cherrypick them instead of just showing me a straight apples to apples comparison. If there...
We will get apples to apples numbers one day... when the gender divide is basically gone, that is (and not a day sooner). This is because the people conducting the research have a vested interest in projecting the results in a particular way (indeed, the body that collects the data is a pro-diversity initiative who use statistical manipulation to narrate a reality that isn't happening).
The evolving relationship with the companion character gives me hope that this won't be a co-op-based ARPG of some sort. Nothing wrong with them, but I don't know enough people IRL to make those games enjoyable.
I've played the game extensively (160 hours, and played/completed it on Hard Mode) and I also have many major criticisms of the game which other (more lenient) reviewers probably won't broach (you know how it is, major game comes out, everyone glosses over obvious criticisms, then comes full circle a few months later), so if anyone wants to know something about it and are open to someone being critical of a game you are looking forward to please ask me anything.
Controversy? Really? This is quite literally the first time I've heard of anything of it...
He made the right choice asking for a big upfront payment. CDPR weren't established then, weren't made up of people with good experience in the industry, and if they had a prototype to show him back then I bet it looked completely crap. For every fantasy writer that's lent their rights to a game franchise very few see a return on it the way The Witcher has.
No one saw The Witcher series' success coming. Not the writer, not any analysts, not even CDPR themsel...
There has been a brown dude being the lead in a notable game, FarCry 4. No one cared though because the game is first-person and you can't really see him.
And since games coverage is mostly knee-jerk reactions to superficial (visual) aspects of games it went completely unappreciated. At the time people were more interested in the furor over Assassin's Creed not having enough diversity, despite the fact that Ubisoft was basically doing something unprecedented that we...
And I know just how to start that conversation: 'Hi, I'm trans.'
...Too soon? :P
'None of them are anywhere near as toxic as the gaming community.'
Have you ever stepped into a tech site and watched the stuff that happens between iPhone and Android users? It's pretty damn creepy.
What defines how toxic a community is comes down to i. how many divisive factors there are (in gaming that's split 4 ways between different platforms, which is more fractured than most) and ii. how closely it is tied to the internet (because g...
Well, the reviewer can only review their experience of the game. And if it is a game-breaking experience they can't, as he said, rate it highly in good conscience.