#hate playing

… but why are they all women? I’ve been playing Jedi: Fallen Order – reluctantly and with much pain – for about 20 hours now. What I’ve discovered so far is that all villains seem to be women. At least the named ones. The imperial soldiers are all men, of course, but the force users seem to be – on the whole – women. Second sister, Ninth sister, the Nightsisters on Dathomir and even Cere, since…

A colleague of mine expresses constant amazement at the fact that I play games I don’t enjoy playing. He keeps asking me why I do this to myself. It is a valid question. Spite. I do it out of spite. No, seriously. Partly I think it is because I get annoyed at players who judge a game, often harshly, before even playing it. You have to at least have spent some time in a game before you can…

… from playing games I really don’t enjoy so far is that this industry is single minded and one eyed (no pun or anything else intended). We’re making games primarily for a male audience but the issue with that is of course that 40% of console players are women at this point. We do what we’ve always done – we play what’s there because we have very little choice in the matter. What is there is…

I’ve been playing God of War (2018) for exactly 20 hours, 30 minutes a day and man is it boring. It’s QTE after QTE, without any real investment in the outcome, except if you fail to press the button fast enough, sometimes you die. I am honestly wondering why this game is so lauded. I don’t get it. The disconnect between the story and the gameplay is full of cognitive dissonance – teaching…