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I feel like I'm missing a whole bunch of context here?
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They're intended for dragons but you're the first moving target they've seen in centuries
I had the issue with the cover story being Borderlands before changing the art style.
Edit: this is mostly rhetorical. I kind of enjoy being completely lost, plot-wise.
Only thing I can think of is that the second game has less combat than the first and has more moments of depressing somberness.
Autoprofit asphyxiation
But seriously, with tech at large just shitting itself trying to find the "next big thing" and the games industry being wrapped up in that plus having its own demons to deal with, it really does feel like we're witnessing the last days of the industry as we've known it for the last two decades. I hope whatever comes next is more sustainable, hopefully built on a solid foundation of unions and worker protections.
it was just a very basic-ass 90s video game magazine, they give things scores and write a review blurb and run half the pages as ads or featured articles that are basically ads.
it wasn't a particularly bad magazine but it was not particularly good either, it was mostly a vessel for advertising, as all the dead video game magazines have ever been.
Still means a bunch of people lost their jobs
http://www.audioentropy.com/
more erosion of the print publication industry
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/strategy/paradox-indefinitely-delays-prison-architect-2-just-like-it-did-with-life-by-you-before-it-was-scrapped/
https://x.com/KyleMHilliard/status/1819403288980132298?t=kCVHiVSBuAwZUqNWPjblOQ&s=19 They even put up an episode of their podcast yesterday completely unaware of it:
https://x.com/gameinformer/status/1819103266979868872
However, because the website was also completely shut down today with just the same farewell letter as the main twitter account put out replacing every page, you can't even access it on the website anymore, nor any of their archives or old video series. It's all fucking gone!
https://x.com/MinnMaxShow/status/1819409115606548752 GI did hundreds of hours of video in their Replay and Super Replay series, plus tons of other video features including interviews and previews, along with tons of podcasts and lots of written articles on their site and digital/print magazine.
Andy quit and went to work as a game dev and Jeff is doing his thing on patreon after getting uncermoniously terminated by dipshit executives for the second time in his life, and now Game Informer is outright dead.
You did it, youtube. Congratulations.
Game Publishers helped kill them because people didn't want to just write fluff pieces so they pulled advertising.
That and vulture capitalists buying the best sites and turning them into SEO farms
{Twitter, Everybody's doing it. }{Writing and Story Blog}
Like it says on the description of the very first item you pick up:
Except with Death of Superman, when you unfold the page it goes from Superman in the arms of Lois to collapsed and dead, whereas in this comic when you fold out the page the hero sits up revealing his survival and asks for someone to hand him his pants.
edit: Google is proving useless for looking up parodies from the early to mid-90s.
i wonder how they'll continue to avoid furthering the narrative from darksiders 2010
So who's gonna be the focal character this time. I thought Strife got their turn with that whole RTS Darksiders game.
2 was set immediately after the prologue of 1, when War was imprisoned, but so far none of the Darksider entries have narratively moved past the ending of 1.
Nope, it actually took place before 1.
I don't think that counts as Strife's turn considering War was also playable (it also was not an RTS, it was overhead exploration/combat sort of in a Diablo style). Strife also appears in disguise in 3, so I'd be pretty certain 4 is his turn.
Opinion columns seem like they'd be one of the main things to expect from an enthusiast publication
http://www.audioentropy.com/
Sounds like Gamefan
No spoilers, just a rundown of who has told you what up to the point you're at:
The Crestfallen Warrior, the guy moping around Firelink, tells you there are actually two Bells of Awakening
and then Frampt, the snake guy who wakes up in Firelink after the second bell is rung, tells you that you are the Chosen Undead, and to succeed Lord Gwyn you need to travel to Anor Londo and retrieve the Lordvessel
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But I put more stock in the interviews, the previews of upcoming games, and introspectives into the industry.
But the single best part of those old gaming magazines is when they'd just devout 2-8 pages to just being a mini-guide for a game.
Just some real bonkers-ass shit.
The opening titles use a version of The Marrow Song, for example, which would be most readily recognised by listeners of Round the Horne, a radio show from the sixties
Not only is it very funny in a surreal English way, it's got references that are so Yorkshire they might as well be wearing a flat cap
Ginnels, whippets, the white rose, looking down on Sheffield... not to mention the anti-Thatcher graffiti everywhere
So yes, I'm enjoying it, even though whoever transcribed the subtitles did a rather shaky job
also, when it comes to product reviews
keep in mind that a movie reviewer is guiding you on whether something is worth a couple bucks and 90 minutes. music albums are on a similar-ish scale, books scale up the time required a bit but have a lot of history behind them...
meanwhile a games reviewer is guiding you on whether or not it's worth sixty bucks and dozens of hours
People review appliances and cars, I don't think this is really a thing/ a problem. To elaborate, people review things that are more expensive and require more specialized knowledge than games.
yes, but do people complain about e.g. magazines with car reviews being a thing?
(well, of course they do, people complain about everything)
I presume if you say a really popular car is mid, car freaks will put a bomb threat in your inbox, yeah.