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In 2020, we should learn from the Great Age of Dumb Hot Takes
How do you sum up a decade of gaming?ย Lists of the “10 Best” (fill in the blank)?ย A long, elaborate write-up of the greatest thing you played?ย Wistfully recalling how it felt to unbox your favorite piece of tech? I suppose those are all viable.ย But when I look back at the past decade,… (Cont.)
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“Repetitive gameplay” is an astonishingly stupid criticism.
Videogame development is a complex beast, done by boffins who ideally understand the intricacies of both modern technology and the psychology of how humans play.ย Gaming, as a pastime and hobby, though, is a simple, reliable experience.ย You press buttons.ย Sometimes you make a gesture.ย It is that perspicuous conceit that has made it geek… (Cont.)
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You had to be there. Almost a decade ago, on a dead-man-walking console, no one was expecting the most fun shooter of modern times. That it was created by a… (Cont.)
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Every time I sit down to write about Tears of the Kingdom, the game either subtly morphs on me, or my opinion shifts from a new discovery. It’s a maddening… (Cont.)
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Once in awhile, a game comes along that provides you with an adventure that you didn’t necessarily want, but needed. It isn’t so much a breath of fresh air, nor… (Cont.)
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It didn’t have to be this way. Not really. Even with dozens of bad decisions that drove the whole enterprise into the ditch, there still could have been something to… (Cont.)
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In Kurt Vonnegut’s “Cat’s Cradle,” the semi-satirical religion of Bokonism hits a bit too close to the bone. Vonnegut invented words to encapsulate terms and situations, much in the way… (Cont.)
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Being mostly a Nintendo gamer, it’s been an odd time, watching the Switch’s success get put into overdrive-on-Pixie-Sticks-and-amphetamines through the pandemic. It’s been a sort of heat-check for Kyoto –… (Cont.)
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Handing out winners and losers for E3 seems like an antiquated idea. But…when Nintendo brings Zelda, an exclusive Atlus JRPG, two Advance War remakes, and one of the great missing… (Cont.)
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It’s easy to take this all for granted. Here we are, in 2021, with arguably the most Japanese videogame series in the industry taking a victory lap on Nintendo hardware… (Cont.)
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You don’t need a yearly retrospective, do you? I’m not here to write one. 2020 has been a malignant, joy-sucking farce for pretty much everyone. It’s been a slog that… (Cont.)
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It doesn’t take rose-colored glasses to see that Final Fantasy VII stands up. (Cont.)
