Recent content by atavax

One problem is multiplayer games. You never properly review them because the multiplayer population doesn't exist before launch. But people still play and review multiplayer games before launch. And more and more games are incorporating social features into a game that can't really be judged in...

It is so common for games to go over budget. Look at Broken Age and how many point and clicks has Tim Schafer made? Titanfall ran out of money and needed to make the deal to never be released on PS4 to get more money from Microsoft. How many first person shooters has Vince Zampella made? Going...

it isn't difficult to make a game look good with higher FoV, but it requires more work then simply allowing for a higher FoV. They typically feel the need to design new viewmodels for the weapons for different FoVs. Or like in Titanfall they would have to design different cockpits. Its...

i would say that rushed and generic content is a fault of almost every AAA game and is why they rarely appeal to me. also, that being able to use the same animations is not good enough. Its like the controversy over fov in first person shooters. Yes, its very simple for a developer to give...

The complaint as i understand it to be isn't that AC is historically inaccurate by only giving you the option of playing a male, so the point that there was also women is not relevant. The complaint is instead that its exclusionary of women, and well, the game is exclusionary to many groups...

There are 2 main problems i have with the AC controversy. 1. There are plenty of underrepresented groups, and I don't see why women should get a greater focus then others, its discriminatory. 2. Almost everyone here agrees that games are art. That means we should respect their decisions...

So there are no female NPCs in game? The controversy isn't because you can't play as a female?

Or maybe if consumers want companies to speak to candidly consumers can't immediately interpret what they say in the worst way possible. Like when someone says they aren't trying to make social commentary interpreting it as them saying that the inclusion of same sex marriages can only be done...

I still think its a shame that Nintendo got pounced on how they did. It seems like the controversy was more over the removal of a game breaking bug, then it was the lack of gay relationships. That half assed internet nerds jumped on them because one of the things the game breaking bug did was...

I never understood why so few people and corporations are able to admit they fucked up on the internet. Sometimes on a forum someone will catch a mistake i make and try to make a big thing about it, and i'll just be like, you're right, i fucked up, i apologize. Then it doesn't go farther then...

i know what its like to feel excluded in videogames. i like really difficult games. Games that are difficult not because you have to learn the sequences of boss fights but because but that require excellent use of your controls. Most videogames leave me out. Even videogames in genres that used...

To me this situation seems comparable of accusing eastern developers of pedophilia for the sexualization of girls that appear to be about 10 years old in many eastern videogames. First, the lack of homosexuals wasn't inherently hateful, 2nd, their game is perfectly acceptable in the society that...

First, i disagree with his assessment of Nintendo's response. That when Nintendo responded and said they aren't trying to make social commentary. That interpretted them as saying allowing for gay marriage would be social commentary. When in fact i think they meant that when they omited same sex...