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[Skill Up] Here's how Judas is trying to be more than just 'Bioshock in space' (Hands-on Overview) (www.youtube.com)

submitted 8 months ago by nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 14 points 8 months ago (9 children)

God I wish we could force game journalism to never use to comparison again. It's basically impossible these days to parse the media on any given game without having to know an entire library of previous games first.

In this case, I know Bioshock, but my point still stands. Remember when Palworld came out? It was effectively impossible to find any review/preview/commentary on the game that didn't include something like "Palworld isn't a Pokemon-like, it's actually ARK with cute pals," which is worth exactly fuck all to anyone who isn't familiar with ARK.

Like I know we've been calling games journalism lazy for a long time, but it's gotten to the point where people don't even talk about game features or mechanics, they just list a bunch of other games with similar ideas instead.

Fuck, I might even prefer crappy ChatGPT articles to modern game discourse.

Important caveat: I did not watch the video and am only responding to the headline which clearly got under my skin for some reason, apparently.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Temba, his arms wide.

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I don't get this reference.

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

Ah, I looked it up. I watched TNG growing up with my dad, but it was so distant to be very hazy in my memories.

DS9 was my Trek.

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