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game design thoughts
metroid prime 4, 10/10, first GOTY candidate 2026, give them everything. They fucking did it again
December 6, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Dragon Age Origins sucks and Pathfinder Kingmaker was pretty good most of the time. General public sentiment got those two backwards
November 11, 2025 at 1:18 AM
New Katamari is great but it's also representative of how fucked software is now. It's the same low-tier PS2 graphics as usual (not complaining), but it's 30fps with bad pop-in and tight LODs in places. Switch 1 should be a behemoth at rendering a HD PS2 game, and they just can't do it. #gamedev
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
PC widgets have been around for decades and there's still no real use cases beyond the OS builtin weather, calendar, clock, music, etc. It's so dull.
September 15, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Some idiots at sony back in the day really loved ruining their UI with garbage text (8MB) (for PlayStationR2) #gamedev
September 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
If Mario Kart World was just a soundtrack download it’d still be worth $80. Can’t believe there’s 8 hours of this
August 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
My review of Gradius 3: 🖕
August 12, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I think #gpt5 is going be a much bigger deal than the doomers are expecting. This game was generated in one response with a very basic prompt. It's fully playable, has great looking UI, no bugs, and matches the source material very well
#AI
August 10, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Mario Rabbids world 3 has some of the worst writing I’ve ever seen in a Nintendo game. It’s like teenager-written edgy romhack levels of bad
July 27, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Gotta say I like how DK bananza is willing to drop the fps 0.5% of the time so they can do outrageous stuff when it really counts. Not something you see very often.
#gamedev
July 22, 2025 at 12:33 AM
DK is very very good
July 18, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Modern web design is such a shitshow sometimes. This should be a simple image file but 99% of the screen is junk
July 16, 2025 at 12:55 AM
SAO may be janky and shallow compared to the mmos it’s emulating, but it’s lightyears ahead of .hack on the ps2. Very impressive.
#gamedev
July 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
You’re being fired, not “impacted”. Don’t use their PR speak
#gamedev
July 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Gex is the rare kind of game that lowers your happiness instead of increasing it. Maybe the third one will be better (it won't)
June 27, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The tutorial sequence in Unicorn Overlord has enough story beats that Trails would make a 120 hour trilogy from it. But so would Spiderweb so I can’t judge that kind of storytelling too badly
#gamedev
June 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The text isn't centered, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
#gamedev
June 20, 2025 at 7:06 PM
“Room of Requirement: These talents upgrade your potions and plants”

Just call the talent group “Potions and Plants” then. If your game terms need further explanation they weren’t named clearly to begin with. #gamedev
June 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Hilarious how Hogwarts Legacy tries to convince you, in the most reassuring language it can, that the best way to save wild animals from poachers is by kidnapping and/or trafficking them for money
June 13, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Don’t get too excited for 60/120 fps. Upgraded switch 1 games may hit that mark but when crossplatform games are over, devs will go right back to maxing out graphics at 30fps like they always do
June 8, 2025 at 2:42 AM
FF Type-0 is going on my shit list after being lots of fun for most of it. Absolute disasterpiece of an ending. That whole FF13 era really was cursed
June 7, 2025 at 1:51 AM
lol at everyone buying the wrong switch today
June 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Game: Needs to store a high score and one boolean unlock flag for three levels (123456789a, 123456789b, 123456789c)

Developers: 24 MB save file
June 5, 2025 at 1:29 AM
If you trigger a bunch of identical sound effects at once, the soundwaves all stack and can get dangerously loud. Put in safeguards (Hogwarts legacy)
June 4, 2025 at 4:43 AM
This fucking cat in Luigi’s mansion 3. You can never enjoy the big accomplishment moments in this game because they can rug-pull you without warning. Excited for a new area? Nope fuck you, it’s backtracking time again
May 27, 2025 at 7:41 PM