Daniel Kaszor
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Daniel Kaszor
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A former journalist and current writer and editor. Used to trick a national newspaper into letting me run a videogames vertical, back when videogames verticals were a thing. Avatar doodled by Chip Zdarsky in 2015.
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GOD DAMNIT!! I forgot that one. You are correct, that is the best one.
I say it every time that the price of videogames is the ~discourse~ but I paid (adjusted for inflation) $200 for Chrono Trigger in 1996, and it was worth it.
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A whole lot of air being used up on the possible moral universe of the nazi tattoo dude when the fact he's just toast from a realpolitik perspective kind of makes the whole thing moot, no?
(Which isn't to say that Halo Infinite didn't do hardcore sweaty team deathmatch really well, it did! Just that sweaty high-skill team deathmatch is a niche)
I would also argue that Halo's signature multiplayer was big-dumb casual team battles with vehicles, and not the sweaty hardcore small-arena team deathmatch that they seemed to narrow in on.
Something like 60% of Halo 3 owners didn't even have Xbox Live (I assume it was higher for Halo 2). Halo online multiplayer was always ~important~, and drove the conversation around them, but it wasn't why normies were buying those games.
That said, no multiplayer is silly
Counterpoint: The moment that the series forgot that it was a campaign game first and a multiplayer game second is when it lost it's mainstream appeal.
Yeah, and I get that he is in the shape of an absolutely ideal Dem candidate for 2025 ... but dude is toast. 10 second rule for a candidate hitting the floor and we're 2 minutes in.
I don't know, the guy who got voted out first on Survivor told me he was a good candidate
A whole lot of air being used up on the possible moral universe of the nazi tattoo dude when the fact he's just toast from a realpolitik perspective kind of makes the whole thing moot, no?
Parasite Eve 2 is kind of a bad sequel, but on its own merits is actually a pretty great little Resident Evil-Like game that does some really great tech tricks with pre-rendered backgrounds on the PS1. (Unlike Third Birthday, which stinks)
Legit this would be AAA-prestige TV
If anybody wants to fund a prestige television show that starts with a bunch of knuckleheads making gaming magazines and websites and ends a few seasons later with a very conservative gaming industry and a side order of fascism, I’ve got some good ideas.
There's a bunch of data on this, and it's more like the top 10%
Could never tell how much it was Kojima wanting these massive systems and we ended up getting the ghosts of what was left when the it had to actually be hammered into something with a release date, or if they were spinning up the systems just for 2-30 min sequences. Probably a bit of both!
The sequence in the video also contains the 30 second section where a crowd of civilians is running around scared during gameplay: something that never happens in the game before or after that, completely bespoke for that 30 second tiny bit of the game.
I was having this conversation with people about TTRPGs the other day "No, you have to understand, the people playing TEMPLE OF ELEMENTAL EVIL in the 80s haaaaated the people playing DRAGONLANCE"
If you are voting in #yeg election today (and probably the #yyc one as well), be ready for some long lines. The fact that voting cards weren't send out has slowed down the overall process considerably. Possible you might be lucky and done in 10 mins but any slowdown is going to cause big delays.
Like, I know this is a dunk on AI or whatnot, but it unfortunately sounds metal as all hell.
you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am
I know it's fashionable to dump on the Skydome/Rogers Centre, but I do sort of love how they looked at the Big O and went "let's do the opposite of all of that" and now almost 40 years later it's still going pretty strong.
Yeah, normal fan account stuff.
Stealth is a fascinating account, like 90% normal fan account stuff, 10% "this person seems genuinely unhinged." Been around FOREVER nipping at the edges of the game journo world.
The early GB ones were for sure "my first JRPG" (at least until the endgame of "collecting them all" when it got a bit more complex), which is part of why I kind of bounced off of them then. Now they are way more on their own separate "pokemon only" track, I think.