Cross-post from Half-KIA over on Reddit, reposting here for a signal boost:
With Psychonauts 2 having an invincibility toggle, the debate about video game difficulty has resurfaced, with at least one games journalist proving how incompetent she is by saying she refuses to play on anything other than easy mode. Other topics covered this episode include the new lawsuit against Blizzard, updates on the Chris Avellone allegations, Kotaku embarrassing itself in more than a couple ways yet again, a game developer’s very bizarre Twitter thread about making female characters look less feminine, and plenty more.
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Sadly, during that early time frame, reviews were just as bought-and-paid (if not more so) as what we saw with the Dorito Pope. We were just naive enough to not recognize the level of payola and palm-greasing that was going on behind the scenes, what with press junkets for reviews and all the free swag the "reviewers" would score. At least we had a wide swath of review options in the different magazines, so there might be a chance that one of them didn't get paid off when a game was a stinking pile and we'd get a legit review.