Castiel

Cats.

Ride or die.

@bigsocrates: Well I was thinking it maybe should be a third party that are responsible for this. So maybe a rating system for accessibility would be the right way to go. Like you mentioned the ESRB.

That way it wouldn't prevent certain smaller developers from publishing their games but they would get a specific accessibility rating. And that would make it easier and more transparent for potential buyers what to expect in terms of accessibility before they buy a game.

So earlier this week I saw Game Maker's Toolkit video about accessibility in the video games of 2020. Video is linked below. I thought it was a really interesting subject and it got me to think about how much of a wild west the video game industry still is. There seems to be very little, if any standard, when it comes to video games. It's up to the individual developer how much time and money they either can, or will, put into accessibility options.

But I can't stop shaking this feeling that if you have paid 60$, or 70$, for a game it should be totally reasonable for you to expect at certain level of accessibility options. One of the games mentioned in this video is an example of a person that had to return a brand new game because he wasn't able to play it because of a certain disability he had. That is so shitty. There is no other way to say this. And I would maybe even go so for as to say that it might not be okay.

I fully realize and understand that it takes time and money to incorporate these options into your game, which is probably why some developers do very little, if anything when it comes to accessibility options in games. Which is also why I'm not including small budget develop teams to begin with.

But a fully priced 60-70$ game? There is no excuse for a game in this price range to not meet a certain level of a minimum standard when it comes to accessibility in video games.

What is your thoughts about this?

@nickm: I get that you're disappointed by the lack of an end of year GOTY run. But ideally this should give the GB crew more time to play more of the games that came out this year, which should make the general discussion more informed and meaningful.

So we will have to see what the result will be of this early next year.

Be careful not to take it too personal.

It was a really strong generation but I will also have to say this, as purely a console gamer (PS4), this was the generation where I really started to be a bit bothered by loading times. I'm still playing games on my base PS4 and some of the loading times on specific games are just too long.

The arrival of new consoles have not made that easier to deal with. I will hopefully be upgrading next year to a PS5. Not having to deal with long loadtimes is almost worth the price of admission alone for me.

This actually seems like a really great match for something I didn't knew I wanted. And it sounds like IOI have free range with the story which is for the best. Licensed games usually works out the best when they are not tied to a set storyline which they have to adhere to.

Interested in seeing what IOI can come up with when it comes to a brand new James Bond game build from the ground up.

And I'm not even a big James Bond fan but a good spy game from IOI? Heck yeah, I'll check that out.

The Witcher 3 is one of my all time favorite single player games and even with that said, part of me hope that if they do this it will not be about Geralt or Ciri. I really like the way The Witcher 3 ended and especially "Blood and Wine" felt like such great goodbye to Geralt.

Let that story be done and move on to something completely new.

Don't make this the Toy Story 4 or TLoU 2 of sequels... meaning well produced on a technical level but not necessary at all from a storytelling perspective.

If anything you should skip that last two ones and just play Arkham Asylum. It's still the best one.

Then play Origins which is the second best game in the Arkham series and definitely better than any of the Rocksteady sequels.

Shame that Rocksteady was butthurt about a game with a superior narrative/setting (Gotham during christmas) than any of their own sequels. It should have been included in the remastered collection.