Sigh. It’s been a long week on the internet.
The Starfield review embargo is up and discourse around it has been running wild--just look at the comments on our review. But in the midst of all this chatter, we can't help but think about how much it distracts us from us having meaningful conversations about games and truly enjoying them. Though someone else's opinion on a game can't take away any of the joy you experience while playing it, going into a game with anger, defensiveness, or cynicism can absolutely sour the time you spend with it.
This week on Spot On, Tam and Lucy discuss the damaging impact negative discourse can have and why focusing only on this negativity and feeding into the console wars can take away the excitement of new releases. The two also discuss Baldur’s Gate 3, and how, for a while, that game was swallowed by discourse, to the detriment of the discussion around it.
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