Mike Richards

Slightly amazed there was never a first-person, Metroid Prime style Castlevania where you use the Wiimote to swing the whip Regardless of how well that would actually work, how did Konami look at the Wii and think "Ah yes, 3D arena fighter, obviously"

ABBOTT: Japanese developers today have unique names, like FromSoftware COSTELLO: From what ABBOTT: FromSoftware COSTELLO: I thought you said it was from Japan ABBOTT: It is COSTELLO: But what's the name of the developer ABBOTT: FromSoftware COSTELLO: The Software's From Japan, though ABBOTT: Yes

A new 3D Castlevania shouldn't just be Legally Distinct Bloodborne. However, consider A: Soulslikes already inherit a lot of DNA from Symphony of the Night B: At this rate it's the closest we'll get to an actual Bloodborne 2

It always comes back to this for me; if AI was so good, such a disclosure would be a selling point. If AI was everything these slop jockeys said it was, they should be proud to let people know their game was AI made. But the proof is in the pudding, and they can't stand that people don't want it.

100%ed Belmont's Curse! I'm not the world's biggest Castlevania expert so I can't say much about how it stacks up against the rest of the series. But I know I had a damn good time with it. I'm glad the Belmonts are back (The Isaac fight can get fucked though 😆)

I'm so happy to see how well this is doing. These books, and the whole series, really deserve it Also those translation notes are really neat. Love that they have the English version and the D'ni script

I was wondering if he's always been like this or if the money and AI got to him. Guess that answers that

One more for the afternoon crowd. Two of the last lines of dialogue I wrote on the last BioWare game I shipped.

This shit is Hollywood accounting. It's fake. You don't have to buy the notion that games are simply Too Expensive To Make because The Graphics Are Too Good or whatever, it's not real.

People want to blame graphical fidelity, scope expectations, etc etc etc for ballooning budgets and schedules when DA:V, a game with stylized visuals and constrained content expectations, "cost" however the fuck many hundreds of millions to come out because they made three games and shipped one

Disappointed to learn that RSA encryption doesn't stand for Really Secure Algorithm

"AI has ruined search engines, so I'm just gonna use AI instead" sure is an argument You can't really call AI "a technofascist, anti-human and anti-art project" and then try to rationalize using it anyways. Eventually you have to pick being part of the problem or the solution

Doubled the goal in about ten minutes People love Myst

xbox's new marketing campaign of "fuck you, eat your slop" seems to be going great

[metroid] a wish she wrote about when she was a kid

Very strange to see people post about the new Castlevania having no contact damage (good change) and come to the conclusion that it’s “frictionless game design” because “enemies can’t be annoying”. Because like. Bestie. The enemies in this game can be more annoying than you can possibly imagine

I love how immediately Tim takes this personally. This is spectacularly bad messaging and he volunteered it out of nowhere, for no reason. It's gotta be getting to him. He knows we don't want his crap "Your employees are liking my post" Ouch. Keep it coming

Few things are more rewarding than those brief, beautiful moments when executives are forced to live in the world they helped make

"You're in a vibe coded port, Max." "The truth was a burning green crack through my brain. Illegible tangled code. Bugs that would never be fixed. Resources wasted for a goal that made no sense." "I was in a vibe coded slop port. Funny as hell, it was the most horrible thing I could think of."

Friction is important, difficulty isn't intently bad, we shouldn't always sand off a game's rough edges, etc But the Medusa heads in Symphony of the Night sucked. The clock tower sucked. I'm glad they changed them in Belmont's Curse and I'm not sorry

Ok yeah Belmont's Curse rocks. Nice to see Castlevania back

democrats will throw you under the bus and then get mad at you for not being on the bus

Well here's some good news to start the day off! Control Resonant is easily my game of the year and Remedy deserves nothing but success

"Update and Shut Down doesn't actually shut down" is my favorite stupid Microsoft thing. If it was any other company I'd almost be convinced they're doing a bit If you *need* to do a restart, why have the option at all? Just own it! Having it and then not doing it just makes you look incompetent

I hope Remedy can get the publishing rights to Alan Wake 2 and get it out of the vibe coded slop prison

Epic Games really going "I hate this part" and screaming as they pull a pizza out of the oven without oven mitts

Folks if you start up your autopilot system FIRST in Galactic Racer it will handle the rest of the systems for you at the start of the race. This game fucking gets it.

Utterly in love with the rainy, dreary atmosphere of Silver Pines The game and I disagree on a couple points of survival horror design (I've never been a fan of limited items for saving), but it's worth it. Beautiful work so far

I went through a bit of a rail shooter kick earlier this year while getting over one of the *worst* flus I've ever had, and finally experiencing Rez Infinite almost made the whole thing worth it. What a masterpiece. I couldn't put it down

Max Payne 3 is one of the most conflicting games I've ever played It's probably one of Rockstar's best outings, but all it ends up doing is driving home that even at their best Rockstar can't really live up to Remedy for me It's... fun. It's good enough. But that's all

the stupid thing was: the consumer games press DID have unethical marketing mouthpiece relationships with the industry. the e3 / spike tv / actiblizz / doritogate conglomerate and the payola-dominated masculine corporate culture had a stranglehold on what got made and how it could be discussed --