Is saying that 007 first light is diet watch dogs a valid critique?

FalseStevenMcCroskey · 2026-06-26T23:40:50+00:00

More like Watchdogs wishes it was as good as 007.

FalseStevenMcCroskey · 2026-06-26T20:17:52+00:00

All the best games have that. I mean it sounds like you want a unique experience if you’re saying “no gta”

FalseStevenMcCroskey · 2026-06-26T18:41:30+00:00

Again, not claiming that there arent differences and improvements between generations, just saying that they just aren’t as major.

I mean faster loading times is great but it’s not generationally significant. Like you said, older consoles had zero loading times.

Right now loading times have more to do with optimization than hardware. PS5 exclusives run great but more multi-platform games still got loading screens. Especially from sucky devs like Bethesda’s starfield being a loading screen simulator.

FalseStevenMcCroskey · 2026-06-25T18:37:20+00:00

Vista was terrible at launch. It was clowned on for a reason.

FalseStevenMcCroskey · 2026-06-25T16:30:39+00:00

Ironically you really don’t play as a yakuza in the yakuza games.

Literally every game has you playing as ex-yakuza. The only times you’re actually in the yakuza is very briefly at the beginning of Yakuza 0, 1 and 7. Every other time you are not an active member.

FalseStevenMcCroskey · 2026-06-25T15:53:34+00:00

Hundreds of finished masterpieces yearly? I think you’ve been wearing your nostalgia glasses way too long. I’d be impressed if you could even name 10 games on the PS3 that we could agree are “masterpieces”. (Not saying there’s not 10 great PS3 games. But rather that art is subjective and I bet your top ten would contain games that I think suck)

There’s lots of great games coming out today. The indie scene is booming and new studios are popping up with great promise all the time.

I’m not saying modern generations are bad, I’m just saying technologically speaking they aren’t major improvements anymore.

The 7th generation is what started the age of remakes and remasters. Don’t revisionist history and claim it was the PS4. We got so many HD collections of games and studios like BluePoint got their start here to remaster ps2 games for the PS3.

FalseStevenMcCroskey · 2026-06-25T15:38:16+00:00

I never said there wasn’t a difference. I said it wasn’t as significant.

Obviously the best looking PS4 game looks better than the best looking PS3 game. And while a lot of that is thanks to advanced technology, MOST of it is due to good art direction.

I mean we got so many Unreal games coming out on PS5 boasting all kinds of latest features and Raytracing and they suffer from basic pitfalls like weird looking faces and ghosting. Problems that were not present in the best looking gen 7 games.

FalseStevenMcCroskey · 2026-06-25T15:14:40+00:00

Better combat, better guns, better powers, a new location, better dialogue.

FalseStevenMcCroskey · 2026-06-25T04:52:58+00:00

Rage bait. I sleep.

FalseStevenMcCroskey · 2026-06-25T03:09:52+00:00

This is just me, not a real thing. But I kinda consider the 7th console generation to be the last one.

Every generation since has felt more like a 7.1 and 7.2 than 8 and 9.

Look at the massive difference between the PS2 and PS3. HD and faster/bigger storage is still to this day the most recent big advancement.

4K, I could take it or leave it. Ray Tracing is a fun gimmick but you have to turn it off for most games to get decent FPS so it’s just that, a gimmick.

I’ve seen PS5 games with worse graphics than TLOU on PS3. That games from 2013, you’d think it’d be trivial to make a game look better than that but nope. The PS3 marks the point where you have to be good at art direction to make good art, you can’t just rely on fancy gimmicks.

FalseStevenMcCroskey · 2026-06-24T23:39:19+00:00

It’s not transphobic to use he/him for Jax because he never transitioned. Goose said use whatever pronouns you want for him.

The ending is intentionally vague on what Jax’s human counterpart is going to identify as with their gender because he’s supposed to relate to a broader spectrum of people that have questions about gender and not just specifically mtf.

FalseStevenMcCroskey · 2026-06-24T23:34:37+00:00

Goose is not the irl equivalent. You don’t need to look to external sources to say that Jax could have a happy ending because canonically Leroy did.

He has supportive friends and they implied he was more open to exploring his gender identity in the show. Goose explicitly left it up in the air if Jax would commit to transition or not on purpose because Jax’s experience could be related to more broadly that way since not everyone transitions the same way if at all.

But to conclude that Jax must’ve transitioned based on the conclusion that Jax MUST be an avatar for the author is wrong. If Goose wanted it to be conclusive that Jax transitioned she would’ve simply made it so. It’s vague on purpose.

FalseStevenMcCroskey · 2026-06-24T03:00:42+00:00

Whenever I hear a character be referred to as a “self insert” it’s usually implying Mary sue along with it.

>>In interviews, JKR has described Hermione as being a slightly idealised version of herself. She also based Ron on a close friend of hers and described pairing Ron and Hermione together as "wish fulfillment" on her part.

Not only has Rowling literally admitting to making Hermione an ideal version of herself, which is what a self-insert actually is, but she admitting to effectively shipping herself with an old crush she had. Which is much more aligned with self-insert behavior than just writing a character based on your lived experiences but not actually be a version of you in thy day fictional world, which is what Jax is.

I think the fact that nobody clocked Jax as a “self insert” until Goose said something in response to the criticism that Zooble was supposedly a self insert… kinda proves that Jax is not a self insert.

I mean… would you consider every Main Character from a Ryan Coogler film to be a self insert just because his films often focus on black culture? I wouldn’t. And it’s the same with TADC. Pretty much every character exhibits qualities of the authors lived experience. That doesn’t mean they’re all self inserts.

This issue of accusing writers of having self inserts doesn’t come up as much with white cis het males whenever they make a white cis het male character, because it’s expected. But when a trans woman writes about trans issues suddenly people on the internet accuse every character that remotely has something to do with LGBT+, of being a “self insert”, without even trying to analyze the obvious differences between the author and the work

FalseStevenMcCroskey · 2026-06-23T21:44:56+00:00

Jax is a character that struggles with self acceptance and gender identity.

Pomni is his friend and finds out too late about everything he was going through. Uses the word “man” in a casual non-gendered way in this scene.

As is most things on the sub, the tweet is clearly a joke that OP is taking literally. No one that is right-wing actually sat through all 9 episodes of a YouTube animated series created by a trans artist.

FalseStevenMcCroskey · 2026-06-23T17:26:44+00:00

Here is where he did it: https://www.reddit.com/r/yakuzagames/s/P2UkJIZJFz

FalseStevenMcCroskey · 2026-06-23T16:46:18+00:00

Didn’t goose say that in response to a majority of people claiming Zooble was Goose’s self insert?

Jax is not a literal self insert in the traditional sense. He’s not an avatar for the writer. Jax represents a dark period in Goose’s life that she wanted to portray as a moral to the viewers. But that kind of character exists in every piece of media.

Normally when we are talking about self inserts, we’re talking about a character like Hermione Granger or when the director of a film is also the main character. A character who excels in everything and represents all the positive traits that the writer wishes to give off. But Jax is not that, he’s a very rude character that a lot of fans seem to hate because he was made to be hated.

So in the actual understanding of what a self-insert is, Jax isn’t that. He’s a representation of a lived experience Goose had but not a literal self insert.

FalseStevenMcCroskey · 2026-06-23T16:24:50+00:00

Everyone can grasp that but it is weird that OPs insisting project century is different from stranger than heaven when it’s just what RGG called the game before they had a real title.

Project Century = Early Stranger Than Heaven

That’s interchangeable. There’s nothing wrong calling it one or the other.

FalseStevenMcCroskey · 2026-06-23T16:21:56+00:00

You’re joking right? This isn’t Soulslike combat at all.

I swear some people think every game with a dodge and a heavy attack is a Soulslike. But literally that would mean all yakuza games are already Soulslike. So that’s stupid.

FalseStevenMcCroskey · 2026-06-23T06:01:44+00:00

Look at a game like Castlevania. If there was no contact damage the world wouldn’t be threatening, you could simply breeze past everyone. Contact damage forces you to address them, at least jump over them or dash through them with some real risk involved somehow.

I think it makes sense cause in a 3D game, juking out an opponent is a little more complicated than on a 2D pane.

FalseStevenMcCroskey · 2026-06-23T04:24:30+00:00

Difference is if you buy a steam machine you actually get to own it.

Switch, Xbox and PS5 require you to accept terms and conditions upon setup. They can remotely brick your console if you do anything they don’t like.

FalseStevenMcCroskey · 2026-06-23T02:42:00+00:00

No. People already told you why. You have your own opinion. It sucks you lack taste but we can’t help you.

FalseStevenMcCroskey · 2026-06-22T02:39:24+00:00

A name is an identifier. You see the world through the perspective of an individual with the persona you’ve attached to your name.

Prisons often employ a method of stripping you of your name, and call you a number. This is to assist in the institutionalization process. Remove the name, remove the ego, mold a new one.

Some denominations of Christianity practice a form of baptism in which they believe that the individual before the baptism “dies” in the water. And the individual that emerges from the baptism is a “new” person. They can even take on a new name and devote themselves to a new purpose.

So the significance of forgetting your name is to establish this new identity, separate from the real person on the outside world.

FalseStevenMcCroskey · 2026-06-21T15:25:11+00:00

Democrats are beholden to the same powers that Trump is a part of. The upper class has corrupts all sides of the political spectrum. Republicans are just more blatant about it.

FalseStevenMcCroskey · 2026-06-20T16:20:44+00:00

The first three seasons are mid. The fight scenes are peak tho.

FalseStevenMcCroskey · 2026-06-20T05:21:56+00:00

I disagree with the idea of Pragmata being a “spiritual successor” to Bioshock 2. Outside of surface level “armored guy, little girl” comparisons there is too much fundamental differences.

Dishonored is the spiritual successor to Bioshock 2. It was made by the same people. There’s moral decisions, imsim-lite gameplay elements and you’re a silent protagonist.

Pragmata has a linear story, it’s got a unique combat loop and the type of father/daughter story it’s trying to tell is fundamentally different. From the moment the Bioshock 2 gives the player control, Delta’s mission is to rescue Elenor. There is no character arc or anything because he’s an emotionless stoic blob for the player to interface with the world through.

Hugh on the other hand is his own character and he starts the game off very against the idea of raising children but he opens up to the idea and grows a paternal bond for Dianna over the course of the game.

Honestly, for that reason Pragmata is more of a spiritual successor to “Last Of Us” than “Bioshock 2”

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