I do not fully trust critics who are not both lovers and haters. All I want is for you to have some kind of taste, some kind of ethic, and I want you to argue in favor of it, which should inevitably mean that you greatly admire some works in your chosen field and definitely don’t admire others.

man I really enjoy going into new games mostly blind. I don't want to know THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW BEFORE PLAYING insert game here, and I think this is a big reason why remakes basically never do it for me, there's just too much baggage, too much expectation. I know too much. how do i delete memories

instead of all these remakes someone should make a third game in the Stuntman serie-- hold the fort

shocking: I really like the new 007 game

my gamer thoughts on the new gamer show: - star wars xcom and podracing games look rad - the tupac thing is dumb but im not really phased by it (valid if you are) - love VF6s direction, very good vibe - 1666 is a big curiosity - clutch is after my heart - still no news on rockstars agent 2??

All video games are called Aegis of Dream: Storms Remain Age

Turok Evolution (2002)

HUGE day for stuntman sickos (me)

played a bit of mixtape and these kids are so worried about their futures when they clearly should become pro skaters. rename the game to sponsor me tape

Achievements are a silly way to engage with an art form, but denying them to people who choose/need to use accessibility options is, by definition, antithetical to the concept of accessibility. "They're meaningless anyway", yes! So why would it bother you if someone can get them or not?

Played through The Directive 8020 yesterday with friends and I reckon it's the best of all The Dark Pictures games. This series is improving at a snails pace but it is improving, I reckon in about 5-10 games' time they will break the 7/10 barrier and make a 7.5/10 game. stay tuned

I love hopping on here to have a whinge and get thoughts off my chest about video games/this industry but I do truly love video games, there's so many wonderful games coming out, and I don't want to come off like one of those people who thinks modern gaming is DEAD etc. skill issue for those people

It's a tired point but I'll always be floored by how Destiny 2 deleted most of it's content, like I was so keen to get into it with friends during covid until we collectively realised we couldn't play most of the game, which explained why we couldn't decipher the layers of lore or complexity

it's time for my long celebrated tradition of wanting to like a Forza Horizon game again. no franchise makes me feel more like a lab rat

why are Steam store page carousels still the worst. they've been the number 1 culprit of "where's that sound coming from" on my computer for like 15 years now. can gaben hire a web dev or something. sometimes you can hear a trailer but the carousel is showing a screenshot. bloody farcical

I have discovered the Limitless TV show from 2015 that is a sequel to the Limitless movie with Bradley Cooper is surprisngly very good and now I'm wishing a show from 2015 did not get cancelled after 1 season. like wtf surely they can still do season 2 right?? there's still hope no?

mixtape feels like one of the least likely targets of misinformation campaigns and video game culture war ire yet, but that's kind of the point: this can happen to any game now, and indeed, platforms and content creators demand it. nothing will ever be enough to sate the beast

I did my morbid curiosity twitter check for the month and apparently that site thinks I want to see very angry people who REALLY hate Mixtape. like gee wizz I get it. nostalgia bad or whatever thanks for letting me know

I played a PS2 game on a launch PS3 for the first time the other day and my nerdy teenage self was proud of me for making the dream come true. truly a bucket list activity

I debated deleting this barely considered grumpy arse tweet but instead I'm gonna play a Star Fox game for the first time in like 20 odd years and hopefully find out that I'm wrong and that Star Fox is good. Or I'll just reaffirm my grumpy take. I'll report back findings. Stay tuned

more and more I'm disliking these long narrated gameplay reveal presentations, I really don't want to know, just give me like 45 seconds of vibes for a trailer and that's it. keep a bit of mystery I reckon

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there shouldve been a piece of shit dead rising game on psp

Replaying Final Fantasy 15 (hot boyband one). Somewhere between the beach resort aesthetics and hanging out with my boys, I'm just fully taken by this game. And it's so unfinished. The top 2 list of very-unfinished-but-great-vibe games are this and DRIV3R (I have a quota for DRIV3R mentions)

Morbid curiosity got me checking in on the Skate reboot and the "new" island (revamped tutorial island) has a branded skatepark in it that actually flows nicely and feels good to skate. Because of this it's full of players. They're noodling around, placing objects, and it feels very lively

I've been getting back into Counter-Strike and it's tons of fun but wow did I forget how many weird edgelords love Counter-Strike. It's slur city over there. Pre-muting everyone is bliss. are gamers ok?

Xbox Gamepass reducing its prices is interesting, I'm not sure I've ever seen a major subscription service's price go down. I sold my Xbox with the last price increase so I guess they're not pulling me back in 🙃

concerning: I'm having Crime Boss: Rockay City cravings again

Samson is one of the most @minimme.bsky.social coded games in recent memory

I reckon the whole Bloodborne remaster thing fans have been on about for the last x years is in poor taste. you can go outside and trip over a new souls game every week. just play one of those. there are some of us who want a new burnout or motorstorm game. think of us next time. I am not a crackpot

i swear to god if the bloodborne movie isnt at least 60fps im gonna

Why would anyone watch a Bloodborne movie when BLOODBORNE LORE EXPLAINED [4K} [60fps] (04:48:31) is right there?

emulation still offers the greatest equality of access to retro gaming, and retro gaming belongs to The People not collector dorks

I reckon a trap a lot of video essay youtubers fall into (me included I'm sure) is feeling like every argument needs to be extremely robust and evidenced to account for annoying "um actually" style comments. If you give those comments any credence at all you will start writing defensively

It’s so surreal how people talk about critics as if they’re like some strange other species of person, isolated from all forms of culture outside of critique, incapable of being a fan of anything or having fun, and if they don’t like something, it’s because it’s Not For Them

one of my film hot (bad?) takes is that I find Denis Villeneuve movies extremely boring but I've only seen 3 of them, and now if I watch another I'd be going in with a "oh here we go again with another boring denis movie" bad attitude that would not be fair so I just don't. letterboxd would eat me

I've been enjoying Ridge Racer 2 on the PSP and it's crazy how good the game feels and looks, but I've reached a race where you can't win unless you brake check the opponent because they always rubber band and fly past you on the last lap even if you drive perfectly which is really cool game design

New cursed controller to add to the collection. 😵 it’s awful

What the hell lol

investigating the best way to play True Crime: NY (i got really good taste ok) and i'm always amused by how many PC ports back then were complete dogwater. Like it wasn't uncommon for the PC version of a game to be way uglier, buggier, missing heaps of visual effects, crashing a lot etc. very silly

seeing Sora news all over my feed and having to repeatedly remind myself that it's got nothing to do with Kingdom Hearts

i finished Rise of the Ronin and i reckon more open world games should consider implementing good combat

I watched Tron Legacy again since this post and now I love it. It's not even sort of bad, I was wrong, it's just good. I have brute forced myself into loving Tron Legacy. I even like Garrett Hedlund in it. I will not listen to any negative opinions about Tron Legacy. 1 like = 1 Tron Legacy

my feed this morning is mostly people who have not played Crimson Desert being disappointed about it and idk maybe play it first. we're all way too tuned in man

Crimson Dessert? That like red velvet cake or something? 🤣🤣 All the best to you and yours x

I'm 10 hours into Rise of the Ronin and loving it. Really impressed by a lot of its design decisions, and framing Team Ninjas high skill-ceiling combat with an open world paces it in a way that just works and makes me want to learn everything. Honestly kinda shocked by how good this game is so far

What I appreciate about the early 2000s games is how many of them were set in a contemporary setting, working with the then-present day environments I feel like (though I don't have the numbers) today the settings are heavily skewed towards space sci-fi and fantasy

report: I've been playing a lot of Mr Driller. Mr Driller is really good. Play Mr. Driller

dusted off a kickstarter account that hadn't been logged into for 14 years to support this, lovely to see from some cool people in our aussie scene

I once had a youtuber who'd had some success tell me they were a big fan of my work and would love to collab. I said "potentially, do you have an idea in mind?" and they responded almost word for word something like: "hmm ok I'm looking at your channel now and it looks like you do tie-in games so.."