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But then the games featured more women and that became an issue somehow

14.04.2025 11:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sometimes it's the same people who complain along the lines of 'Triple A games are all the same' who then mod out or get mad about the tiniest change from the perceived status quo or norm too. Like I remember call of duty being made fun of for always having a game cover that was just Guy With Gun

14.04.2025 11:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Diablo 2 without a doubt.

10.12.2024 23:13 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Entirely possible some outlets do just blame games directly. Not gonna pretend to have read everything that mentions them

10.12.2024 23:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I've seen other articles and most of them just seem to be reporting things he was doing. Like him being a developer on Civilization was something I saw plenty people talk about, an article writing about the thing people found isn't really blaming the thing I think

10.12.2024 23:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Luigi Mangione, who was arrested and charged with murder in the shooting death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, once belonged to a group of Ivy League gamers who played assassins, a member of the group told NBC News. In the game, caled "Among Us," some players are secretly assigned to be killers in space who perform other tasks while trying to avoid suspicion from other players. Alejandro Romero, who attended the University of Pennsylvania with Mangione and was a member of the same Discord group, said he was shocked when news broke on social media that Mangione had been taken into police custody. "I just found it extremely ironic that, you know, we were in this game and there could actually be a true killer among us," he said.

Riiight outside of this cropped screenshot is the reveal that someone who knew him brought it up specifically because he found it ironic. The title of the article also quotes the ironic statement. It's a hook, it's clickbaity, it's a 'look at what his friends said' title, but it doesn't blame games

10.12.2024 23:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The other titles didn't know whether they were action or narrative focused, harming one of the two, action often being bad or bland, but still overpresent. This game chooses to focus action more. It loses a bit of depth (especially wrt factions) for it, I suppose. I'm okay with that personally.

10.12.2024 12:03 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

As someone who has played the whole series, I can understand the criticisms Veilguard has received in comparison to those, though I don't mind the changes myself. It comes together well, and is probably the first dragon age game to feel entirely focused to me.

10.12.2024 12:00 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

Sounds interesting! My specialization was into historical game studies; how games (re)present the past and what that could mean. Consumer engagement is part of that! Currently applying to PhDs while working outside of academia, so removed from research, but we can talk more about this at some point!

03.12.2024 16:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Congrats on the PhD! While I did a master in English Literature, I'm not familiar with the field this PhD thesis is in at all, having moved more towards game studies myself. So I am very curious to learn more about the topic and to see you post more about it in the future :)

03.12.2024 10:52 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Well,

21.09.2023 00:12 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0