Ravenprose said:

I was thinking along the same lines this week too. Would I be better off not following the industry as closely as I do? Probably. I started learning who these executives were and the artists with my first gaming magazine subscription to EGM in 1992. I remember reading interviews with Miyamoto, Yu Suzuki, Yuki Naka, Howard Lincoln and Sega's Tom kolinski. I can't blame the internet for my expanded hobbyist knowledge because I had that before I even had the internet. That knowledge is simply a byproduct of the passion we have for games; most of us just want to know everything about them we can. The good and the bad, often to our own detriment.

robio said:

I wonder what it is that makes us want to know so much of the business side and inner workings of video game development? Is there a weird satisfaction or some sort of serotonin trigger? I'm oddly the same way with pro wrestling, despite the fact I don't even watch pro wrestling. But I read all the behind the scenes news. I know tons of the big names, what they're doing behind the scenes, their contract status, and yet I probably couldn't pick them out of a lineup.


Brains are stupid...

As I drove through Australia for 6 hours today I wondered what reaction my post would get and sort of regretted it, hoping it did not come off as holier-than-thou, especially because I'm one of the pigs covered in muck I'm talking about.

You guys are spot on and I agree with your sentiments and experiences.

Robio, I did reflect on how the ven diagram for wrestling fans and video game fans are broadly overlapped and I've observed (because I am not into wrestling) how most of the wrestling discourse is about what happens OUTSIDE of the ring, not the actual events.  The ration seems like 90% outside the ring.

And, as I've discussed before my not being a wreslting fan is purely due to lack of exposure, not a choice I've consciously made. When I arrived in the States in 1989 I was not aware of it at all, and sort of always felt left out of understanding the zeitgeist.

Ravenprose said:

aspro said:

How fucking hard is it, just make a 2000's era FPS drenched in nostalgia? (Angry Aspro is here apparently)

Perfect Dark reboot is in ‘a very rough state’“It doesn’t sound like it’s really come together in any way.”

Perfect Dark should be an easy game to make these days. MS buys up lots of IPs, but doesn't seem to know what to do with them once they have them.

It totally should. And when in doubt lean into the cheese. It's not like people will be paying for it (it will be on Gamepass). Even if it was a four hour tribute type thing, just shit it out and it's another thing they can put on the banners to promote Gamepass.