Probably the biggest problem with being a game critic is you never hear what other people think of you

Absolutely nuts that anyone could look at this and be like, yeah that's a series we should essentially let lie dead/dormant/fallow for 20 years and counting

I reckon about once a month I think about how stupid it is that the PSVR2 doesn't play PSVR1 games

made a public Patreon post about some games I've been playing and where I've been/what my plans are www.patreon.com/posts/148273...

if you'll allow me to do this bsky wholesome self love thing here for a sec, I reckon I'm pretty alright at reviewing video games

It's fucked up that no game has ever affirmed your identity as a wheelman

out of desperation I tried the Pro Team multiplayer mode where people make teams with card packs and I only matched against people with maxed out amazing teams and they seemed to love to showboat while they slaughter my super weak starting squad. Here lies my AFL26 online career died as it lived

The AFL26 online is so low population that most of the time you match against the all time number 1 player on the leaderboards who has 900+ wins and about 50 losses and let me tell you it is not a fun experience playing that guy

Fully aware I'm preaching to the choir here but I just went on twitter out of morbid curiosity and good lord has it gone down the shitter. It's more or less a feed of people you should block lol. Or people quoting people you should block

I'm currently infatuated by video game novelisations/spin-off novels (high class reading). Like what's going on in the two Perfect Dark novels? Or the Runescape novels? I've always known about these but I must know more so I've acquired a bunch to read. more to come

I only knew of Vince Zampella through his work which massively shaped my taste in games. Allied Assault was an eye-opener for what was possible in video games for me, and his CoD games were so refined that their formula is evergreen 20 odd years on. What awful news to wake up to.

at least i managed to salvage my thoughts on the new skate

went to sell my xbox and when backing things up I discovered that almost every screenshot i've ever taken on it has been auto-deleted by microsoft after 90 days :) fuck this company man

DRIV3R was where gaming peaked

currently debating whether I give Expedition 33 another try as someone who found the combat boring. I could just mod out the combat but that feels shameful? I should be shamed for that, right? do I just cut my losses and not try play it again? this tweet is about as melodramatic as Expedition 33

Avatar 3 is good fun. I don't think it hits Avatar 1 magic for me (an Avatar 1 sicko), but it's a great time in its own way. I'm especially glad it focused way less on that annoying group of kids from 2. And it'll always be nice that Avatar is uncompromising in it's wholesome messaging and visuals

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i get the reasons but it will always bother me that Game of the Year awards happen around now and not in march or something

walton Goggins for playstation 2

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I randomly got hooked on the Mario Tennis Gameboy Advance game because it turns out it's a really charming light RPG where the tennis matches are like instanced battles, and no Mario characters even turn up until 3+ hours into it. Truly fascinating stuff from Nintendo here I tell ya

after reading some video game related discussion online (I do not recommend doing this) I'd like to say that a lot of video game enjoyers really need to expand their horizons into also enoying other formats of art and media. like read a book. at least pop a movie on. anything

niche post but I've been playing Session again because Skate does not spark joy and I still have such a mixed reaction to it. The ethos of it is so cool but then it can't really handle sharp changes of angles on the ground, gaining speed never feels right, and the presentation is so lifeless

as a Wicked part 1 enjoyer I did not enjoy Wicked part 2 at all. It gave me It: Chapter 2 vibes. Game of Thrones final seasons vibes, even. No good

once I got a bit excited by thinking I was chatting to someone who'd actually played the 2001 budget game goat Deadly Dozen until they said "I watched some gameplay and I'm sorry but I can tell it's bad" and I lost a part of me that day that I'll never get back

COD sales are down and as a COD sicko I'm kinda glad. I quite liked last year's Black Ops 6 but I got my fix of it's ADHD redbull gimmicky movement tech and I now just want COD to feel normal again. Hopefully these sales force another WW2/MW19 style course correction. I'm predicting they will.

Rockstar can eat my ass but I've been playing a bit of Vice City lately and it's delightful. I'd played bits of it before, but I played way more of 3 and San Andreas, so now I'm giving Vice City a solid go and it might be my favourite of the three. Its distilled in a simple fun way without any bloat

this 5 minute video highlights some severe conflicts of interest from the head of one of Australia's bigger video game press outlets, and it was put together for TV by our national broadcaster which is a pretty amusing way to be called out

Really great and relatable talk from old mate Jim here about why creative's should make they want to make. Don't let an algorithm decide what you do, don't let an audience decide what you do, don't let "industry advice" decide what you do, just make shit you think is cool and fun to make

i have been informed me liking The Order 1886 is "youtuber revisionism" and that is dead accurate. im a part of a secret cabal of youtubers working hard daily to rewrite history on bad video games. the main case ive been assigned is Driv3r and i've been working it for years. fighting the good fight

almost finished The Order 1886 and it's definitely won me over but I totally get why someone would hate this game lol. So many QTEs I think especially after playing Skate it's nice to play a game that is so confident in itself and its aesthetic, and I love the ambition even if it goes unrealised

they should make lockpicking minigames illegal and retroactively replace all of them in already released games with simple progress bars. P.S. i am not a crackpot

I started playing The Order 1886 and I'm really enjoying how self-serious to a fault it is. It's quite a silly game on paper being a steampunk victorian werewolf game, but it's compelling in just how hard it commits to turning that into something stylish and melodramatic

they should do a shot for shot remake of Halo with Vince Vaughn playing John Halo

It's less "look how far we've come" and more "look what we lost." 15~ people made a game with a singular vibe and control innovations that changed the industry and now a production anywhere between 10x-20x the size exists solely to reanimate its corpse as one of the last few commercial safe bets.

I think a fundamental problem here, and why people are bouncing off, is that the new, too sleek, too polished visuals don't take me back to the original, or even look how I pictured them in my mind's eye. They severe me from that and remind me that it's 2025. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUvS...

video game remake strips away a lot of charm and replaces it with visual noise and quixel megascans, more to come

mildly fascinated by The Order 1886 not being in the playstation plus subscription library. Knack 2 isn't on there either. Like genuinely what's the rationale for this. I'm also still fascinated by the fact that there even is a Knack 2. Why no Order 1887??? send

Deus Ex Human Revolution was set in 2027, when the fuck is everything gonna turn yellow

delighted by how many people linked me the Scarface game popping up on steam but it seems like it was a no-name company falsely listing it before they secured the rights, and it's already been taken down. that game is a licensing nightmare and i'd be very surprised if we actually see a re-release

@minimme.bsky.social is for the children

very amused by how wildly toxic comment sections about the new Skate game are

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I saw a screening of Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie last night and I reckon it's the best movie of 2025, for the handful of people who know what I'm talking about right now you should find a way to watch it ASAP. This is a public service announcement. Thank

I don't use my PS5 much but when I do I'm always in awe of how bad the user experience is

Hey hey, quick reminder that I'm gonna be at PAX for tomorrow only if anyone wants to say hi or lose to me at footy bash thanks

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i've been looking for a game to play and I lost interest in Hollow Knight so I booted Dustborn and found myself enjoying the first hour of it which makes me think my taste was cosmically designed to annoy strangers on the internet. I'm not trying to be contrarian but even I find me a bit annoying