It's crazy how necessary piracy has become for this silly industry, just in terms of preservation alone. Imagine how much would be widely inaccessible if not completely lost if piracy wasn't a thing
i watched a Dead Space remake developer video and they were trying to sell how they turned an unbroken gameplay jumpscare into an non-interactive unplayable cutscene and I'm having Mafia Definitive Edition flashbacks oh god
i hopped on the world wide web to read some Sonic Frontiers opinions and felt myself getting annoyed by all the negative hot takes from people who clearly have not played the game. i think this is how sonic fans feel all the time. this is how it begins. i am becoming a sonic fan
when a video game has a certain blend of earnestness and campiness there's always a weird internet backlash to it and the response to the FFX tidus laugh is the pinnacle of this phenomenon i reckon
the new COD gave me Bush Shootout vibes which sent me down a 2000s flash game rabbithole and now I'm realising I played some incredibly edgy shit as a kid lmao. 10 points if you can name all four of these absolute classics
that Bloober Team logo appearing in the Silent Hill trailer is so funny. I felt like I could hear the collective groans worldwide. What a monkey paw moment
emulation and console hacking is cool and piracy is basically the best thing that’s ever happened to game preservation so go hack your consoles it’s fun
there's always 1 fantasy game everyone tirelessly praises online. It was Skyrim, then Witcher 3, then Elden Ring, now BG3. And I wanna say it's sad Elden Ring had such a brief time in the sun. The Witcher 3 got to be this game for like 7 years and it's not even good. send tweet
am I weird for finding the replies/qts that are like "go buy this while it's still available!!" a tad weird? like idk just go pirate it and don't give 2K a little cash injection for delisting a game
NEW: Spec Ops to be delisted entirely from online gaming stores (not just Steam)
A 2K rep tells me: "Spec Ops: The Line will no longer be available on online storefronts, as several partnership licenses related to the game are expiring." 1/2
See I found this part of the doco kinda funny because Half-Life engaged with realism in ways few games did at the time. I mean this is the game that opens with an unskipppable 10 minute train ride on your way into work
Also how great is it that you can just download a ROM of virtually any old game and play it on an emulator. I'll avoid paying $1000 to play Rule of Rose and just launch it in PCSX2 for free. Emulation and piracy is gods work in video games! You wouldn't download a car though
bought cod on disc
installed the game
downloaded 50gb update
started the game
"you need to download a 30gb update"
downloaded that
started the game
"you need to download a 10gb update"
this is a full time job
i am enjoying last years Saints Row game and between this and liking the new sonic i've discovered that i must have shit taste so i bought a copy of balan wonderworld
logging into this website just to say you should play alan wake 2. alan wake 2 is a brilliant game and it makes me sad more games aren't like it. you should log out of twitter and play alan wake 2. thanks. send tweet. (robocop rogue city video soon)
i finally tried out Days Gone and it made me want to sleep. have you ever played a game so dull your body reacts physically? my body was telling me Days Gone is boring. and the writing! my god. send tweet
between The Callisto Protocol, Back 4 Blood and The Outer Worlds i am declaring that there is a new genre called "games from 2008 but again" and can someone make one of these for Far Cry 2 already
woah hey i logged back in to this having 6000 likes lol - just to clarify because i worded this tweet poorly, my mistake, i meant the dev was folded into the actiblizz machine rather than shut down. also subscribe to minimme on youtube aha
this tweet took me back to youtube gaming video essays from like 10 years ago because half of them LOVED to throw out the phrase "bad game design" whenever anything was a bit frustrating or different lol
Actually this is also bad game design, but it's optional and very late in the game. It has become one of the most iconic part of VVVVVVV because of how frustrating it is. So context can make bad game design = good ? GD Platformer make me wanna dissect every video game ever.
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i have had both the ps5 and series x for a while now and so i have an informed opinion on the great console war. the only thing that splits them is the exclusives. therefore they both lose because video games dont seem to come out anymore
I've played a lot of good games lately so I'm thinking of reviewing some absolute video game trash. just some bottom of the barrel, early 2000s, no good budget bin nonsense. that's what I'm in the mood for does anyone have any suggestions
i am SICK and TIRED of seeing the 2009 game The Saboteur be reframed as a "masterpiece" on youtube. it is a mediocre game with a cool art style. I refuse to accept other peoples opinions on this game, and mine is the only correct one. send tweet
the slightly defensive vibe of this post is very funny to me. like "yeah we should've made a better port but fuckin hell you guys have some weird computers"
There's no stories about game reviewers getting paid by publishers in the press but in the influencer/YouTuber world it's alarmingly common. Even I get emails from publishers asking to pay me to review their new game. Yet somehow the wider narrative is youtubers good, critics bad
I still occasionally have people tell me that game critics are paid by publishers for good reviews, and it's just like...do you know how huge it'd be to break that story? To be the site that reveals the cash payouts everyone is taking? And NO ONE has spilled the beans!??
This is Cyberpunk 2077 - PS4 version 1.00. Resolution is literally below 720p and the game takes 20 seconds to load in textures. Inexcusable. Unfathomable. Unplayable.
IDK if this is unpopular but most AAA games have terrible openings. Like they usually make you take baby steps to learn every single tiny thing when they should be getting their hooks in. Makes me never want to boot up new games because they treat you like a 5 year old
if this is true are there any other city based open world crime franchises left outside of GTA and i guess Mafia? because that's kinda wild. GTA clones seem to be a dying breed despite GTA being basically the most hyped game franchise ever which is a bit of a shame
Spec Ops The Line has turned 10 years old which means people are talking about it, and I forgot this game was sort of controversial. Lots of "the story is bad because it doesn't give you a choice" takes which are just so strange to me. Not giving you a choice was the whole point!
whenever one of the directors of Days Gone is in the news it's hilarious. They're like big toddlers blaming everyone around them for anything they possibly can and it's hard not to enjoy the spectacle
people have gone from saying "this looks like a PS2 game" to "this looks like a PS3 game" when trying to say a new game looks old, this marks the true beginning of the new gen
through this tweet i have found out there is a loud group of people who absolutely passionately hate the PS3's UI and that is truly fascinating what did it ever do to you
i just wanna play video games where u commit crimes. video games are for doing crimes imho. none of this sci fi this, fantasy that, or overwatch knockoffs 8 years too late just let me commit crimes sony please. PS i am not a crackpot
anyone got recommendations for mindless games you can play muted late night with a podcast going? im beginning to see skate 3s map when i close my eyes
my youtube feed is full of videos with titles like "modern gaming is dead" and "why AAA gaming sucks" like damn the algorithm really wants me to join this depression session
i went on a reddit about PC gaming and everyone was complaining about how shit PC gaming is rn. then someone lightly suggested console gaming and all the replies were like “PC gaming is flawless, I dont have issues, just plug n play, dont u dare suggest consoles to me again”
danny’s doing gods work uncovering so much high quality gaming footage on the Noclip Archive. So good to come across a 1080p version of that E3 show for my vid, but even outside of videomaking it’s just such a delight for me to trip back in time on the his archive
one of the top videos on r/games today starts with a whole section on Sony's PS3 era and loads of gorgeous, crisp 1080 footage from that conference.
it's cool to see the Noclip Archive influencing the way we view our collective history already.
[link below to the video essay]
yesterday i tried spider-man 2 on PS5 and found it very boring. i keep going into the big sony games hoping to like them and then not liking them at all. why do i keep doing this to myself. what am i missing here. why must i suffer. tldr play alan wake 2
people act like this game killed their dog but i had a pretty fun time with it, it's worth a shot for free if you want something that has real xbox 360 b game energy. ive had worse times with better games
back in 2014 there was another Ghost Recon F2P shooter called Phantoms that was trying to jump on the MOBA train but it failed and shut down in 2 years
I clicked on a video called "Why the PS3 is becoming everyone's favourite console" and it's so fascinating seeing all the comments with pure love for the console. Always weird seeing nostalgia manifest
my latest spyhunter video is approaching half a million views in 5 days and i partly intended it as a crowdpleaser vid. i see how people become slaves to the algorithm because i feel like im riding some sort of social media brain big number high. call me mr beast (but poor)
10 years ago I dropped out of a gamedev degree, and at the time it was considered a volatile career path. The sentiment was "you should consider doing something safer." Now its like oh hey look another 1000 industry folk got laid off today haha why would anyone ever get into this
genuinely enjoying how console wars are still a thing, the world will change but kids fighting about random technical specs they don't fully understand will always be a constant, it takes me back
It's honestly wild how long the big ultra expensive video games take to make now. Like remember how crazy it was that Duke Nukem Forever took 14 years? That was a huge meme but now it's just like, well this game was fun looking forward to maybe getting a sequel in like a decade
i think im gonna do a vid on this game, i have so many thoughts. aiden is a ridiculous protagonist too lmao i can't stop thinking about him. bro is a vigilante who siphons money out of random pedestrian's bank accounts all day