I've noticed this is especially bad in Japanese games for whatever reason.
It's not explicitly 30+, but I think !retrogaming@lemmy.world is one of the best active gaming communities on the Fediverse with a good mix of links and discussion, and the nature of the content certainly attracts older gamers.
Holy hell. I have some bad GameStop trade-in stories, and that's just from taking in normal trade-ins. I can't even imagine the clusterfuck this would be. I'd be calling in sick.
A small AAA production in 2000, maybe. E33's was only a fraction of a small AAA budget today.
TGA calls it "a game made outside the traditional publisher system," which fits. I'd agree that we're looking at wildly different scales of production in the same category, though.
Yeah, my phone has productivity timers, my note taking app, temperature controls for my home office, not to mention 2FA and other tools I need. I don't see myself leaving it in the kitchen.
That said, reading this did made me think to turn off email push notifications. Fortunately I'm not in a position where I have to reply to emails immediately, so I like the idea of scheduled email time. Honestly don't know why I didn't think of that.
You won't find any questions on the CES about, say, whether the respondent approves of capitalism. So yes, this analysis was likely done with the American Overton window in mind.
If you're still playing it, feel free to message me for tips on the Fediverse or on Discord. I love talking TO.
Difficulty definitely starts picking up chapter 4, so you'll have to start finding creative ways to work within the level cap. Gear crafting is one of them.
A lot of the sports subs' better content is instant reaction. Harder to fake. The only participation I still have on reddit is a similar community for a large video game. It's more like a chatroom than a message board. Small wonder I spend way more time talking on Discord than anywhere these days.
Staff shake-up last year. Phil Savage and Tyler Wilde have really stepped it up and let their writers sound off.
Like any of the major sites though, the news side still has its share of articles generated from one-liners sourced from interviews ran elsewhere.
If I had the money I'd definitely do the same, but for now I do RSS instead of link aggregator communities if I'm being serious about it. Takes some curation, but at the very least it's not being run through a vote algorithm first.
The game does some seriously raw stuff with failed relationships that I still haven't entirely recovered from. I still strongly recommend it, though.
Lately I've been considering a replay as a liberal just to see all the internal commentary on it.
It's also far from the first time Steam's content review process has stirred up controversy--even before Collective Shout--which is ultimately the reason why this is getting so much run in games media right now. At some point Steam has to get their shit together, start hiring people, and revamp their scattershot content review system before they get on the wrong side of an incident by either letting something through that stirs up a shitstorm and Congress gets involved, or pissing off the wrong publisher and having the ESA come down on them.
That said, I don't think this particular game is the horse to back for this effort, so to speak.