Complex: Mario as No. 1? No surprise there. Judging from this list, it looks like the mid ’80s-late 90's was the golden age of video game icons. But seriously, Altair? Jak? LEISURE SUIT LARRY? Meanwhile, no Luigi? No Albert Wesker? No one—NO ONE—from Team Fortress 2? That's it, we're calling shenanigans. Leave the lists to us, Guinness, and stick to beer. What? That's not you guys? Ah. Well, tell them to keep it up! Great beer.
From Horse Armor to Mass Layoffs: The Price of Greed in Gaming. Inside the decades-long war on game workers and the players who defend them.
maybe a real enemy is people who use terms like "the real enemy"
there can be more than 1 bad thing, t's not like a kids show with 1 big bad
Executives seem to often have an obsession with perpetual revenue growth. There is always a finite amount of consumers for a product regardless of growth. Additionally, over investment is another serious issue in gaming.
honestly, the "real" enemy of gaming, is ourselves
if nobody bought horse armor, shitty dlc would have died almost overnight
if we stood firm and nobody bought games from companies that were bad with layoffs, it would be solved
we're the idiots supporting awful business practices, we are the ones enouraging it
Greed and greedy people have and always will be the main issue for everything wrong in the world. Everything is a product to be exploited for monetary gain. Even when there are things that could help progress us along for the sake of making our lives easier that thing must be exploited for monetary gains. Anything that tells you otherwise is propaganda to make you complicit.
I've never thought "DEI" (although the way most people use it doesn't match it's real definition) is the problem with games. Good games have continued to be good when they have a diverse cast, and likewise, bad games have continued to be bad. There isn't a credible example I've seen where a diverse cast has been the direct cause of a game being bad.
Matt Miller: "Every subscription to Game Informer now raises funds for St. Jude. We want you to know what that means."
I subscribed to this not knowing about how some of the proceeds go to St. Judes.
Really cool that some of the money goes there.
Even if people don't subscribe to the mag, it might bring people to the charity.
Though Unearthed Arcana's content primarily consists of subclasses and spells, WOTC's latest UA drop is set to shake up Dungeons and Dragons' future.
I finished MGS4 this morning for the first time, immediately changed my avatar, and now realise that Solid Snake is the greatest character of all time.
Seriously, I finished the game, and looked at my other games on the floor. There were games like Uncharted 2, God of War 3, Littlebigplanet 2 and Killzone 2, and just thought "How can you even dare to exist in the same world as MGS"
I mean, those other games are like some of the best games ever, what with Uncharted winning 150+ GOTYs etc, but to think they even come within 1 billion miles of MGS is ridiculous.
MGS4 IS the greatest game of all time.
Um, where are the characters that actually matter in videogames/videogames that actually mattered? Most of the list was common sense, but what? Leisure Suit Larry? People actually liked that game? Simon Belmont and Alucard Tepes from the Castlevania series. Ken, Akuma, Guile, Chun-LI? Come on, guys. I would've added the Big Daddy, too!