About the LGBTQ part: she was working at EA when she transitioned, and she recounted acceptance and support for trans people was codified in her workplace, in a time when transitioning often meant discrimination, rejection and even job loss.

People don’t always remember that EA were the “good guys” before they made bank with Sims and CoD.

Her hour long speech about how 3DO Doom came to be is legendary. If you don’t have the time to listen to it in its entirety, I recommend StopSkeletonsFromFighting’s summary.

I put these links separately from the main post because, although many people remember her for this story, she was a legend who worked on many other games and deserves to be remembered for other, much greater accomplishments.

Do we know who was to blame for that? Last I heard, the publisher and the developers were pointing fingers at each other.

Is that still the only modern day gameplay segment of the entire franchise?

Kind of wild that they never revisited the idea.

Oh, absolutely. Which is why I avoid popular social media: you just end up drowning in AI/botted content.

I love how so many people on Reddit are acting like this is a complete shock. That site has been a cesspool of bots and targeted ads for years now, people still believed they were having real conversations with humans? I’d be surprised if legit content was higher than 50%.

If you like Max Payne, I also recommend Stranglehold. It’s a canonical sequel to John Woo’s Hard Boiled, and it’s a lot of fun, albeit on the short side.

That’s a nostalgic pic.

I wore an eye patch and checked the player-facing content.

The feats are for the most part very niche and unremarkable. There was, like, one pair of Origin and General Feats that was actually good, and one pair that was just slightly subpar but still looked fun and that I could see myself using. The rest is pure trash designed as a content filler to make it seem like the book has more content than it actually does.

As for the subclasses, they are fine.
Winter Ranger is solid, but doesn’t offer much variety over the standard Ranger kit - you are still expected to cast Hunter’s Mark and hit the target with your weapons, except that your attacks can now be flavoured as being very cold to touch.
Banneret is a solid improvement over the original iteration, but the pesky “once per short rest” limitation on its first feature really hampers what would otherwise be a fun class to play.
Bladesinger still is for the most part a standard wizard, but unfathomably tanky. There is no point in entering melee with this class, you just pop Bladesong and enjoy having an AC higher than the Paladin in heavy armor and Concentration saves so high you will never lose concentration on anything ever again.
Spellfire sorcerer seems fun, curiously lacks many fire-themed abilities you would expect from a class with this name. Perhaps even more curiously, its 3rd level feature allows you to deal either Fire or Radiant damage, but Spellfire Adept, the feature designed to work in tandem with it, only works with Radiant damage. That’s consistent with the general lack of polish the vast majority of 5e24 content has had since its conception.
Scion Rogue is like the Assassin, but slightly more sinister. It’s solid, it’s just that I don’t feel it does enough to distinguish itself. Which is, again, a problem 5e24 has and that will only get worse as there’s just not enough room to concoct different playstyles and interesting abilities. Everything’s just a variation of “you get short range teleport”, “you get extra skill proficiencies” (or expertise of they feel spicy), “you get to deal a different damage type”, “you deal an extra dX damage”, “you have advantage on some specific roll”.

I love GoG, but I wish it stopped getting games so late that, by the time they release on it, I’ve already bought them on two competing platforms.

Aside from that, this is a solid release. RE1make is one of the best horror games ever made: I was scared shitless even on my third playthrough. Highly recommended if you want a good game for Halloween night.

I signed this petition. I’ve also signed other petitions over the years, I regularly donate to WWF and do other activities that I deem worthy of my time and money.

Caring about games preservation doesn’t mean that I only care about games preservation.

Also, why is it that games preservation is a first world problem, but “stop putting ads everywhere” isn’t? Where do you draw the line?

When we introduced Sigil, we imagined a powerful 3D virtual tabletop where you could share maps, minis, and environments with your friends and fellow players. While that vision inspired thousands of players and creators, we couldn’t sustain the level of ongoing development support that Sigil—or our community—deserved. That’s on us.

Maybe next time don’t rush a product out of the door and then fire two thirds of the dev team?

Journalism at large is dangerously close to dying. People favour free click- and rage-bait headlines on Facebook over quality journalism. The latter can’t compete because quality costs money, while cheap quality articles oversaturate the market. AI only exacerbated the issue.

I suppose it depends heavily on nostalgia.

I have no attachment to Nintendo brands nor Mario Kart in particular. My sister bought a Mario Kart Wii game a few years back and I didn’t care much for it. Having grown up with CTR on PS1, and Spyro and Crash as platformers, I immensely enjoyed the remake.

I like how the kart handles, and the turbo mechanic is a lot of fun and has a lot of depth. But I suppose that MK fans have other things they enjoy from their franchise.

The main problem is that DnD5e cannot be played as a survival/exploration game, because too many features ignore or bypass those kind of challenges: spellcasters being able to cast light, conjure food and water, and create safe havens for a few spell slots, any expert class adding abnormally high bonuses to skill checks because of the poor math behind expertise, etc…
Even if you were to play it the way the designers intended and got a 2014 Ranger in your party, all of its features are basically a bunch of “ignore any kind of survival/exploration challenge as long as you’re in your favourite terrain”, which again incentivize the DM to look elsewhere to challenge their party.
The complete lack of DM support for that kind of content (food, encumbrance, travel speed, etc) further exasperates the issue, as most DM just don’t care to waste time homebrewing all of that stuff.

Most of those features went unused, which made the 2014 Ranger feel useless or less capable than other classes of equal level; consequently, WotC’s fix has been to remove them and simply substitute them with spell-like effects: instead of specializing in hunting down specific kind of creatures with Favourite Enemy, you cast Hunter’s Mark; instead of camouflage, you gain a few uses of magical Invisibility.
The 2024 Ranger is not bad, it’s just boring. Subclasses do a lot of heavy lifting to add flavour and variety into the build, but they only go so far.

Any resemblance to actual persons, events or other game systems is purely coincidental.

Nintendo can’t catch a breath, huh. This is what, the third big data breach in the last five or so years?

I’ve never played them myself, but I’ve seen some mods that completely overhaul the game.

That being said, I would recommend playing the vanilla experience first, with an HD mod if you’d like.

Freelancer is still the best of its genre, IMO.

It’s abandonware, so you can download it for free, and the community has released a ton of mods over the years.

4e has seen a resurgence among a huge segment of the playerbase that is unsatisfied with 5e’s shallowness.

Although I reckon the vast majority of those have never actually played 4e, and only like the romanticization/nostalgic idea of how 4e played. Happens all the time with the gaming community, both tabletop and videogames.