T w e n t y S i d e d
I may shake my fist at the clueless corporate behemoth of EA, but the truth is I’ve come to depend on them. If their upper management was hospitalized and began getting the mental help they so desperately need, the company might end up in the hands of reasonable human beings and I’d be out of a job. I make fun of stupid, and nobody does stupid like EA.
Bethesda’s Launcher is Everything You Expect
From the company that brought us Fallout 76 comes a storefront / Steam competitor. It's a work of perfect awfulness. This is a monument to un-usability and anti-features.
Batman: Arkham City
A look back at one of my favorite games. The gameplay was stellar, but the underlying story was clumsy and oddly constructed.
Wolfenstein II
This is a massive step down in story, gameplay, and art design when compared to the 2014 soft reboot. Yet critics rated this one much higher. What's going on here?
I Was Wrong About Borderlands 3
I really thought one thing, but then something else. There's a bunch more to it, but you'll have to read the article.
The Disappointment Engine
No Man's Sky is a game seemingly engineered to create a cycle of anticipation and disappointment.