“A game about late night driving!”

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“In short, Aiden Pearce is an irredeemable asshole and I’m offended that Ubisoft can’t bother to think of anything other than a menacing, overly aggressive, paper cut-out dudebro straight off the game studio factory line for their protagonists.”

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” The problem at the core of the game is that it suffers from being pulled in what feels like two creative directions at once.”

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“Gunslinger is one of those games that’s probably better than it has any right to be?”

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“This originally started as a »Democratization of games is important«, but it slowly sort of morphed into a bit on the role of critics in a world where curation isn’t happening upfront by companies like Microsoft, Apple, or Valve.”

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“The goal here isn’t to define depression for all people, but to talk about how each of these games dissects the idea in their own way.”

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” It’s amazingly playable, even today – even the terrible parts are still sort of enjoyable in a ‘I’m hitting ghosts with my sword’ kinda way.”

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“What’s new really isn’t as new as we thought.”

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“12 minutes of evaluating Quake without mentioning the guns, multiplayer, level design or enemies.”

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“After all, Stanley’s still in there, still searching in vain for the meaning and the freedom he’ll never find.”

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“When it comes to discussing games the gamer subculture insists politics should be kept out. They attack political critique most boisterously in the context of reviews, but also in most other contexts as well.”

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“Bioshock Infinite (…) puts enemies in your way because it’s a video game and that’s what video games do!”

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