And also, it’s free real estate, I guess. Go ahead and steal that shit, because most of your players won’t have ever seen that stuff before.

It’s just a good reminder that there really is a whole audience with no shared reference points for the history of games. It’s funny that people haven’t heard of botkai, but it’s a good takeaway as well. If you’re trying to make a game for players today don’t assume they care about games from 2004

If anything, the big success is the actual Dispatching “numbers go up” mini game. Even with no fail state, that shit was hot. The children are begging for a real dating simulation.

it’s bawdy andcrude and it’s got boobs and balls and I think that distracts from the over the top pop culture references and saccharine sentimentality that gets roasted endlessly in other games. Most of the time, it feels like sitting in a discord call with your friends while you all shoot the shit.

Yes I will boost the clickthrough rate, mission accomplished CRM team, you’ve earned it

Saw a tweet calling these video essays longslop and I didn’t feel anything, I just shrugged my shoulders and said “yeah sure, whatever”

Well, that was when they discovered the Gay Threshold. Past the threshold, the party is too gay, but if they don’t cross it the party isn’t gay enough.

This is me when I tell the cousins why I don’t like a Roblox game. “No dude, I understand the flywheel. I just think it sucks”

I was thinking about this the other day, how conservative final fantasy party composition feels compared to, say, gacha games (which is conservative in the completely opposite way

Kazuma Kiryu and Dan Campbell are my two role models for masculinity.

This is how I felt when I watched Shrek on an airplane last year

A one button racing game? Umm, no thanks. I’ve got all this Auto Modellista to play

Sometimes people use video cards to play games

We do love bezels, don’t we folks

I think about the picture you posted of the creature holding a beer and saying “what’s wrong, afraid you might taste something?” It’s like 4 million gamers played a fun little rpg with good voice acting but acting like they had fired an open shotgun into their mouths

That’s what gets me about the reaction to this game—everyone saying “can you believe a team of 30 people made this?” Yes! I can believe a team of 30 people made this! That is not a problem!