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That’s because “get woke, go broke” isn’t an observation of an actual pattern; it’s an incantation. It gets chanted with the intent that...

Yup. Graphics don't matter to much. I still play retro games. You can also have good looking neo retro games as well.

Well, no accounting for taste I suppose 😅

Agreed. The first DA game isn't good either ;)

Yeah, graphical fidelity is my lowest priority when it comes to what sells me on a game. Nice to have, but never going to be the factor...

Absolutely. The fact that publishers don’t seem to understand (or maybe don’t want to accept) is that you can’t analyze your way into a...

I think part of what the article is saying is that a lot of publishers believe that the audience for a "tactical RPG" in limited. That...

Agreed! At its best, Veilguard is a really great cinematic action-adventure game. And at its worst, it’s a very well-polished but...

And you know what? I'd argue that Veilguard is STILL quite good, particularly once you get past the first 10 hours. Certainly it doesn't...

Depends on who you ask. Even as someone who ranked Inquisition last before Veilguard came out, I think it was over-hated within...

Well, lack of time was definitely not the problem with Veilguard. The problem was terrible mismanagement. The game started out with the...

Absolutely. By "worse", I of course mean: I liked less. And it's precisely for the observation you mentioned - straying further from the...

I’m kinda between 3 and 4. A deck of many things always causes a lot of chaos when introduced to a campaign, and certainly has the...

Each entry has certainly strayed further from the tactical RPG design of the original. Whether that makes them worse is a matter of...

DA2 is well worth playing. It still catches a lot of residual flak from its initial reception, which was harmed in part by the cut...