Under the thrall of Square Enix, Platinum Games has delivered a true masterpiece of awfulness in Babylon’s Fall. This live service trash is really bad. Really, really bad. #BabylonsFall #SquareEnix #PlatinumGames #PS5 #Xbox #PC #Microtransactions #LiveService #JimSterling #JamesStephanieSterling #Jimpressions
Elden Ring has demonstrated that open worlds don’t have to be the sprawling, vapid, alleged sandboxes that have dominated “AAA” games. After playing something so rich, the average open world just doesn’t cut it anymore.
Elden Ring is like Dark Souls, but more. More scale, more options, more accessibility. God damn, it is good! #EldenRing #FromSoftware #PS5 #PC #Xbox #Review #Jimpressions #JimSterling #JamesStephanieSterling
Elden Ring is finally out, and with it has come the same circular discourse about accessibility and difficulty. We’re not playing this time.
Pokémon Legends: Arceus is what the Pokémon series has sorely needed. Quicker, more efficient, and far less of a waste of time. Best Pokémon game, easy!
Horizon: Forbidden West has caused the usual crowd of nerdy whiners a real kerfuffle, because she doesn’t look hot enough for their peeners to enjoy.
Tickets for Commander Sterling’s first UK match: northwrestling.co.uk Yeah, another NFT episode, but I cannot overstate how thorough my disgust for them is, how dangerous they are, and how awful the game industry is being about them.
Galaga Wars+ is on Apple Arcade and it’s absolutely atrocious. A slapdash rerelease of a free-to-play scam, it exposes just how terrible such scams can be once the premium shortcuts are disabled and all you’re left with is the malicious, aggressive grind. It’s proven very valuable. Let’s look at it!
The shriveled corpse of Atari has inflicted a new blight upon the land – NFT loot boxes. They’re NFTs (terrible) that behave like loot boxes (also terrible). God is dead. Let’s grit our teeth and have an excruciating time looking at this horrible blasphemy, shall we?
Microsoft is acquiring Activision Blizzard in one of the biggest power moves this industry has ever seen. I guess we have to talk about that instead of anything I wanted to talk about. God’s sake!
Originally released in 2020 and finally stumbled upon by James Stephanie Sterling in 2022, The Procession to Cavalry has very quickly become one of my favorite games. Seriously, I love this special little adventure game. Funny, ridiculous, and visually creative, I can’t praise it enough.
Game Jolt’s recent decision to ban so-called “p*rn games” leads your old pal James Stephanie Sterling to rant about the treatment of adult content and sex workers overall.
