Recent content by lasati

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    Jimquisition: Corrupt, Censoring, Suicidal Indie Devs

    As an experienced indie developer who is actually making a game (and not a scam), I'm glad these bad actors get called out. So thanks Jim. On the other hand, I paused the video when you said "You do not start shit with a media personality" and that really struck me. Because what do you do...
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    Jimquisition: SimShitty

    Oh, there is going to be another crash. It will happen in a year or two. Only a handful of triple-A studios will be left standing. Bioware, Blizzard, Valve, Bethesda will survive. Parts of Ubisoft will live on (AC and Farcry teams, for example). EA will basically be Bioware + EASports. But I...
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    The Elder Scroll's series.

    "What would you do to improve the combat of the TES games?" Oh god, everything. The TES games have always had awful combat and progression systems, mainly because they were completely broken/unbalanced but not in the way you want single player games to be unbalanced. In Oblivion, the optimal...
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    Connecticut Considers Violent Videogame Tax

    Well, all this will do is kill the M rated game market. Games that are M today will simply drop down to T. ESRB is a self-policing entity, which is designed to warn parents about what to expect from a game. Studios decide to put a given game as M rated for more marketing than anything else...
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    Jimquisition: Breaking the Bones of Business

    I don't see why gamers have a right to dictate a game's business model. The day game studios can DEMAND that players buy their game to keep the bills paid and the developers employed is the day that a given player can DEMAND that a studio caters to what that specific player wants to pay. Note I...
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    Utah Man Jailed For Alleged Wiimote Rape

    Oh, well I kind of assumed from the article that the 26 year old was a relative or family friend, crashing on the couch because he's out of work (something like that)... kid of the family has a sleep-over with his friends... article said they started "taunting" the (drunk) 26 old. Which...
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    Utah Man Jailed For Alleged Wiimote Rape

    So like... if the kid then went to play some MarioKart, would this make him a back-seat driver?