covid ruined more than people realize, misanthropy left the runway to become an airborne transmissible mental illness

what's good is copypasted from souls, and what's new is bad unless you like aimlessly wandering through empty zones. outlets still refer to it as an rpg with average animations, but smarter players know it's a character action game with terrible animations

elden ring is rife with design contradictions fromsoft seems totally unwilling to acknowledge let alone deal with. it makes the japanese industry appear archaic when there are plenty of decent innovations by nintendo studios despite those being marketed for children and manchildren.

that being said, there are aspects of elden ring worth preserving if miyazaki would simply dispossess himself of archaic design conventions and stop using lazy internal production heuretics dressed up as "design" that may be effective on their own but fail under a wholistic dialectical analysis

online games must be understood as virtual third places represented by multimodal online interactive media. roblox understands and so does rockstar, they are both building the foundations of the next plateau of their great pyramid simulacra. these platforms will be the realworld matrices and matrix.

to say nothing of the effects of the free kit subsidy, which i enjoy as an accessibility solution. in both cases we might see players realize what they are actually playing and learn to work with pvx or go back to something worse. regardless of the players, trials will change one way or another

there is much vestigial battle royale pathology inherited like an original sin - total strangers expect you to die for them, for example, which can be interpreted as ignorance as much as deception by those who mistakenly believe they are still playing a zero sum game because they are on a team of 3.

world at war stands in stark contrast with modern warfare which is a cowardly historical sanitation through and through. there was never a good call of duty game, but world at war came close.

black ops was an attempt at establishing a world based on waw as a starting point, because the soviet capture of berlin marked the beginning of the cold war.