Taylor Rioux

@taylorjrioux.bsky.social

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Pronounced like "Rio", not "Ryu". Father, husband, and gamer. Freelance writer with words at startmenu and GameRant. Owner and EIC of Jetsonplaysgames.com

Hello- looking for someone to help review the metroidvania game that released this year called “Before I Go”. For context, I am part of an annual video game draft with some friends of mine based on average opencritic score. I decided to draft the interesting looking small indie game Before I Go, but it only has 2/3 reviews required for an average critic score. If it does not get an average I get a 0 for this game and likely lose the draft and the loser has to beat the Cory in the house DS game, please save me from that torture and help provide a review for this game, any score would help me greatly
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Comment reads "Need this mf to critique ANY game I make, dude is VERY thorough!"
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"Top Critic Average" shows a score of 65, but the "Critics Recommend" bubble percentage is 28%.
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If you can't read this, it is probably better. I will not subject you to stancil posts. You're dealing with enough.
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Films broken up into Great, Good, Okay, and Awful categories. Great: Gladiator The Departed 2007: No Country for Old Men Moonlight The Shape of Water Everything Everywhere All at Once Parasite Green Book CODA The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King GOOD: Anora Million Dollar Baby The King’s Speech The Artist Argo 12 Years a Slave Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Nomadland Spotlight Oppenheimer One Battle After Another OKAY: A Beautiful Mind Chicago AWFUL: The Hurt Locker Slumdog Millionaire Crash
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GameRant readers haven chosen the best 100 games of all time
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Games shown are: Star ocean: Till the end of time, The witcher 3, Baldur's gate 3, Final fantasy XII, Final Fantasy Tactics, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy XIV, and Tales of Rebirth.
Content roadmap for roadside research includes new things to build, do, and see.
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Most people rejected his message. They hated Kyle because he told them the truth.
Shipped to Cleveland The Clippers traded Harden (personal) to the Cavaliers on Tuesday in exchange for Darius Garland (toe) and a second-round pick, Shams Charania of ESPN reports.
"actually his stuff was very Derivative and not Original" like, you don't have to do this. it is good for us all to sit with the cognitive dissonance that a very bad person can make very good art. it is good for us to work through the moral ramifications of that.
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Vincke continued, saying that Larian did still plan to use generative AI internally with the hope of the technology speeding up development. "Having said that, we continuously try to improve the speed with which we can try things out. The more iterations we can do, the better in general the gameplay is," he said. "We think generative AI can help with this and so we’re trying things out across departments. Our hope is that it can aid us to refine ideas faster, leading to a more focused development cycle, less waste, and ultimately, a higher-quality game." The studio CEO ended his reply by saying that if Larian does use generative AI to make "creative assets" for Divinity, it will be on a model trained on its own internal data.
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"There's a fundamental premise to making art that people are not remembering right now, and it's that it requires artists. People go, 'look what AI can do.' It's like, 'yeah, okay. I see what it's capable of doing. It doesn't matter.' And we don't need to diminish it, we don't need to denigrate it, we don't need to demonise it. We need to just go, 'okay, it's there'.
"What I see happening is that this birth of AI, and this burgeoning industry of it, is actually going to drive people to the authentic. And we're going to see opportunities of, 'I want to go and watch this person sing this song live.' 'I want to see theater'. 'I want to read books'. 'I want to have this first-hand experience as opposed to the gruel that gets distilled to me through a black mirror'. "I think that it's a good thing. It's a revolution."
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It's just ads.
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A spider graph showing genres most played, in order of least to most: vampire, hack and slash, hunting, JRPG, Metroidvania, and Turn-based combat.
Wrap up says I have played only 24 hours of games on the PS5 this year.
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