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James W @omgmorejames.bsky.social · 14m

Had review code, locked in so hard on its vibe and mechanics, I just can’t get past the structure.

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James W @omgmorejames.bsky.social · 33m

Hey what if we had a little toggle in Roguelikes that just let me play them like a normal game

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dash. @dashiellwood.com · 12h

it's too late - i've already depicted myself as the nonchalant dachshund, and you as the relentless bird

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James W @omgmorejames.bsky.social · 22h

Bro they got the Pathologic collectibles here

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James W @omgmorejames.bsky.social · 1d

Uncharted 5? What’s left to chart???

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James W @omgmorejames.bsky.social · 1d

(it’s not an accident that the person I love most has given me the space, and actively encouraged me to care in inconvenient ways)

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James W @omgmorejames.bsky.social · 1d

Jake has a written piece at the end of the show that ruined me. The sad, inexorable tethering we’ve made of loneliness and principles in games media is, well, sad.

It’s exhausting to care. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t.

Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 1d

the latest CRITICAL ERROR podcast is about what video game reviews are/aren't

but tbh this week's episode is not for me: youtu.be/u8ysh5lKZOg?...

Critical Error Is Not For Me

YouTube video by Critical Error

youtu.be

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James W @omgmorejames.bsky.social · 2d

There’s a pervasive clumsiness to Silent Hill f that I can’t quite place between enthusiastic and woefully misguided, the exact wrong place to land when dealing with the subject matter it chooses to pursue.

Read: www.well-played.com.au/silent-hill-...

It is a fundamentally incorrect read on the part of the game, reeking of a design doc that wants the accolades of adult storytelling without sacrificing the adolescent impulse to have every girl imagined also be equipped with a perfect dodge. Silent Hill f’s closest comparison point being Zach Snyder’s Suckerpunch should have given someone, somewhere pause.

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James W @omgmorejames.bsky.social · 2d

that almost is a loud one

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James W @omgmorejames.bsky.social · 2d

There’s a pervasive clumsiness to Silent Hill f that I can’t quite place between enthusiastic and woefully misguided, the exact wrong place to land when dealing with the subject matter it chooses to pursue.

Read: www.well-played.com.au/silent-hill-...

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James W @omgmorejames.bsky.social · 2d

I think Silent Hill f is the kind of narrative we desperately need in video games.

I think Silent Hill f is also not a very good video game.

Read me spiral about that dissonance!

WellPlayed @wellplayed.bsky.social · 2d

REVIEW // Silent Hill f

Silent Hill f is the step forward Silent Hill needs; it’s a shame it was onto such unstable ground

Read: www.well-played.com.au/silent-hill-...

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James W @omgmorejames.bsky.social · 2d

“Our game is doing well but press aren’t promoting it so I guess those press are ghouls complicit in studio closures” is definitely a take on the situation at hand.

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James W @omgmorejames.bsky.social · 2d

Hell yeah, brother

James W @omgmorejames.bsky.social · 2d

That would have been nice!

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James W @omgmorejames.bsky.social · 2d

You won’t find me at PAX this year

Nicole Kidman walking in the sun and looking absolutely unstoppable. Green three quarter pants, see through floral blouse over a pink bra. She looks as if she’s experiencing fresh air for the first time in years

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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 3d

You would not believe how many stories like this have been popping up over the last ~5 years

Not just full games cancelled—entire characters and plot lines removed or changed, leaving less time for making the *rest of the game better*, to try avoiding a small and malicious contingent of voices.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 3d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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James W @omgmorejames.bsky.social · 3d

I was livid when I realised how good it felt to hit protein macros.

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James W @omgmorejames.bsky.social · 3d

What did I mean by this

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James W @omgmorejames.bsky.social · 3d

Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique in one of those bad X-Men movies saying “you might want to think about changing the name to Mothwoman”

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James W @omgmorejames.bsky.social · 4d

If her twin turns out to be alive and the secret seventh Yōtei I will combust.

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James W @omgmorejames.bsky.social · 4d

Sad Mum Games incoming

James W @omgmorejames.bsky.social · 4d

It’ll just be a teaser for the Galaxy movie. That’s baby Rosalina before she was accidentally blipped into space, it’ll be revealed she lived in the burbs outside of Brooklyn when Mario was a kid or something.

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James W @omgmorejames.bsky.social · 4d

I remember when the lyrics for TPD leaked and I balked at the chocolate bar shit, then it was a highlight of the album for me. Art is emotional context!

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James W @omgmorejames.bsky.social · 4d

There’s a lemon behind that rock!

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James W @omgmorejames.bsky.social · 4d

I truly don’t remember Tsushima struggling with this

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