Beware The Frog

Once upon a time I made a blog about video games. And this is what's left of it (mostly tweets).

16 June

Quarantine Circular is mostly good but I don’t need my cinematic interactive stories to include the kind of alphabet-rotation puzzles I have to input into a Javascript console. I would like a better ending that a short text screen, however.

# 2018/06/16 - 23:20 — originally published on @commandergaroo

@haydencd:

Super proud of Bethesda for reiterating their “Fuck Nazis” stance even when it’s likely done them financial harm. The bar is literally on the floor and they walked over it, but kudos.

Also proud of DICE for telling Battlefield’s worst factions to get lost.

Keep it coming.

# 2018/06/16 - 01:03

@haydencd:

There are people who consistently ruin or degrade the lives of developers, journalists, and other community members, and instead of saying “You’re not welcome here” publishers are like “Nah, we’ll undermine the art to cater to those people too. Need the money.”

It’s a choice.

# 2018/06/16 - 00:57

13 June

@RtoVR:

The Glitch Mob & ‘TheWaveVR’ to Launch Interactive VR Version of Latest Album [ow.ly] @theglitchmob @TheWaveVR

# 2018/06/13 - 01:44

12 June

I 💜 Shannon Woodward so much and had no idea she was in TLoU 2 — glad she’s presumably fridged after three scenes so I don’t have to play the game for her sake

# 2018/06/12 - 23:06 — originally published on @commandergaroo

Finally got into custom Beat Saber tracks — ended up playing for 3 hours 45 minutes. My watch’s workout tracking app crashed and everything hurts, but I love this game more and more every day.

# 2018/06/12 - 19:04 — originally published on @commandergaroo

@dhindes:

Let’s not be too quick to celebrate lesbian character representation at E3 until we know for sure they’re not all getting killed off by each game’s end

# 2018/06/12 - 13:34

@ajohnagnello:

Everyone: What lovely bluegrass music.

PlayStation: THERE IS NO HAPPINESS DEATH IS THE REWARD

# 2018/06/12 - 03:13

Sable had me at “no combat, only exploration,” but I hope the final game supports supersampling because the aliasing looks awful on certain shots.

# 2018/06/12 - 01:05 — originally published on @commandergaroo

Stormland looks like a pretty cool game that I’ll never be able to play without getting an hours-long migraine.

# 2018/06/12 - 00:55 — originally published on @commandergaroo

11 June

The fact that I hate Assassin’s Creed’s naval combat is gonna make the decision not to buy Odyssey that much easier.

# 2018/06/11 - 23:58 — originally published on @commandergaroo

Interesting official breakdown of the BG&E 2 trailer

I wish I’d played BG&E 1 for more than a couple of hours and the returning characters had an impact on me.

# 2018/06/11 - 23:56 — originally published on @commandergaroo

@Papapishu:

Hey Video Games, if I wanted to see America driven to the brink of starvation and thirst with neighbor pitted against neighbor in a lawless militia state I’d wait like 4 years.

# 2018/06/11 - 23:34

Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey wouldn’t look like so much of a rehash if Origins had taken place earlier in time and hadn’t included entire Greco-Roman regions to explore. I like Ancient Greece all right (though less than Egypt) but I’ve had my fill already.

# 2018/06/11 - 23:33 — originally published on @commandergaroo

@BrendanSinclair:

Really, really done with games where society collapses into a might-makes-right hellscape where 1/3rd of the people are hyperviolent psychos, 1/3rd exist to be victims, and 1/3rd are good guy hyperviolent psychos.

# 2018/06/11 - 22:36

@transgamerthink:

Might as well mention that The Division plays into a very specific power fantasy of government sanctioned violence and the allure of having a badge in a way that I find really weird.

[giantbomb.com]

# 2018/06/11 - 22:36

“We made the best Assassin’s Creed in ages by taking a year off to polish it up. Let’s follow that up by releasing a simple reskin exactly a year later!”

# 2018/06/11 - 20:00 — originally published on @commandergaroo

Elder Scrolls: Blades on an iPhone basically looks better than vanilla Skyrim. Technology has gone crazy. (You better have an extra battery though.)

# 2018/06/11 - 04:49 — originally published on @commandergaroo

@leighformayor:

EA spent like 10 minutes talking about a game SET in World War 2 and didn’t even mention the word Nazi once. Thank you, Bethesda. Condemning nazism really isn’t that fucking hard hey.

# 2018/06/11 - 04:24

@GameDesignDan:

Ahahaha

“We let people free their slave to make a point, but they missed having a slave, so if they want then they can get a new slave no problem.” [twitter.com]

# 2018/06/11 - 02:48

@Campster:

Anyways Microsoft needed to prove they have exclusives to justify their console and they did so by buying a bunch of devs to force platform constraints so uh

Yay?

# 2018/06/11 - 00:03

10 June

I hope Cyberpunk 2077’s gameplay is more fun than any of the Witchers, because yes I would like to go there thank you.

# 2018/06/10 - 23:43 — originally published on @commandergaroo

I for one enjoy The Division’s fake chatter. Megan and her friends make me imagine a multiplayer game I’d actually want to play.

# 2018/06/10 - 22:58 — originally published on @commandergaroo

As much as I loved Forza Horizon 1 and 2, I can’t see the point of releasing a new one every other year. That’s the third of the series to come out on Xbox One; how much better can it be, really?

# 2018/06/10 - 22:35 — originally published on @commandergaroo

Hahaha oops I criticized From Software’s lighting just before Todd Howard came to introduce the new Fallout hahaha wait a second what’s happening this looks really pretty.

# 2018/06/10 - 22:17 — originally published on @commandergaroo

Can I say that From Software’s art deserves a better-looking engine or will I lose half my followers? The lighting still looks terribly outdated to me.

# 2018/06/10 - 22:13 — originally published on @commandergaroo

6 June

@Vahn16:

given that steam has previously been overwhelmed by nazi groups, a gambling epidemic, and tons of scams, it’s kind of amazing to me that they decided on EVEN LESS MODERATION [steamed.kotaku.com]

# 2018/06/06 - 22:54

@Campster:

There’s no way I think you can look at what happened to, say, Twitter and conclude that “any speech not illegal is welcome here, if you don’t like it just block it!” is a viable or healthy strategy.

# 2018/06/06 - 22:53

Whatever this is, I wish Mizuguchi’s taste in music hadn’t drifted so far away from mine

# 2018/06/06 - 21:18 — originally published on @commandergaroo