I am a little surprised at Battlefront 2 being labeled as a disappointment. Battlefront was a disappointment two years ago, and most of the staff have opinions about Star Wars that are indifferent at best. I'm not sure what they were expecting, other than maybe a decent story campaign?
The thing about the Apple news is that it's not surprising AT ALL. I saw the headlines and I don't understand why everyone acted like this was a big revelation. Planned obsolescence has been the norm in phones for years in various ways. It's a norm for the industry.
This article is from 2011: https://www.cultofmac.com/77814/is-apple-guilty-of-planned-obsolescence/
The slinky thing makes me cringe every time I think about it. Similarly, I cringe now every time I open the comments to anything that Abby appears in, because I know I will inevitably see some weird, over critical post by her anti-fanboy. It's getting a little creepy and gross.
Remember when "don't read the comments" was a thing for YouTube? Never thought it would become the case for Giant Bomb.
Just noticed that my thread with the bingo card was included! I feel like a real duder!
Anyways, please check out that thread! I made it while bored one day and couldn't really think of any more things to add, but a few other people commented additions to it and someone ended up making it into a PROPER bingo card on a 5×5 grid with a free space and everything, so it was really a group effort.
@convox: Gearbox absolutely engages in microtransactions. Look at all of the DLC available for the Borderlands games, especially the second game. The first game had a few content packs, the third game had a few more, but the list of DLC on the second game is ridiculous.
@humanity: Man, 100% this. It's old and tiresome at this point. Personally, I'm at the point where if it's an act (and I really think most of it is) I think it's actively disrespectful to the audience. This type of comedy that is openly disdainful of its audience's time, intelligence, and willingness to engage is awful.
I find it telling that Abby also said that the game is not her style, she doesn't like the gameplay (a somewhat common criticism of the game), she thinks some of the story elements are heavy-handed (a point that Alex and Vinny both agreed on to a degree), and she doesn't care for the art style. They even agreed to some extent about the character's costume. This is not nearly the same as her comments on Bayonetta, which had a design that she didn't care for without ever playing it.
Yet people latch onto one part of her criticism--a criticism that is shared to some extent by at least two of her male colleagues--and I just cannot imagine why.
Okay Nier fanboys, tell me this, why the anime body pillows don’t suit up in their battle armors they used in Route C from the beginning? Give me reasonable answers, as I won’t accept “it’s because Yoko Taro likes girls”, “I like to gaze at my waifu” or similar perverted answers.
There is no explicit, established in-game reason, at least that I can remember encountering myself. The actual reasons for their outfits, taken from interviews, go as this:
Q13. Is there any reason the YoRHa member’s outfits are based on the gothic lolita style?
The world of Nier Automata is way into the future, where things like appearances and sizes have lost their meaning (just because you stand out doesn’t mean you’re strong). Though there were multiple choices for the YoRHa’s costumes, the individual who came up with project YoRHa chose the color black for a particular reason.
To a question asking why a combat android wears high heels, Yoko Taro answered that the game is set 10,000 years in the future, so when he tried to imagine what it would be like, he thought about how it was 10,000 years ago, and people back then probably would not have been able to imagine what it would be like nowadays. That’s why he decided to think freely and willfully about it. Since a lot of western games feature space marines and that kind of concept, he let his ideas flow freely and came up with a girl wearing heels in the future. Yet, the biggest reason is simply that he just really likes girls.
That reasoning is pretty funny, and I wonder if there's something lost in translation here, because it actually doesn't make sense. In trying to imagine the future, the designer literally imagined that females will wear high heels. His ideas "flowed freely" to a thing that exists and is not even all that unique when it comes to video game action protagonists.
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