Dielan It's already been studied. It's called aesthetics. Marvel as an entity has a long history of promoting aesthetically pleasing designs. Concord is an obvious attempt to subvert aesthetics and what you get is, broadly speaking, unappealing and unattractive. It is trying to be contrarian in its design and is very surprised pikachu face when it doesn't attract or appeal to an audience.

      HelsEch I think the metapoint this twitter user is trying to make is that the new marvel game was made by a Chinese developer, which may have had an influence (or lack of influence) on how the characters look. Implying a western studio would have made them all ugly

        I'm not doing a live thread for the game awards tomorrow but if I see any more "leaks" I'll post here so we can laugh later when it doesn't happen

        Here's the first

        Context is that one washed up blogger and blizzard cover up guy Jason Scrier thinks there's two big announcements this year at TGA but won't say what so people are speculating

          Dielan somehow slightly more believable is this HL3 "leak"

            Looks like Mercante finally sued SmashJT

            In the opening statement she referenced Gamergate and unironically cited WIKIPEDIA as a source. You can't make this shit up

            Not saying there isn't a case for this suit in particular but if I was a judge I'd stop reading right there. Embarassing

            I’m very confused by the statement. Even without the Wiki add on. There’s no statement in the statement. If this somehow goes to trial, she’s going to learn a lot about the side she’s “defending” and how they treat people who aren’t 100% spouting their exact rhetoric.

              Getting sick, but I'll be streaming the game awards most likely

              I wonder if a switch 2 reveal will happen at the tgas

              Here's another "leak" from a case manufacturer promo materials

              Dielan I want to say, I don’t fully blame game journos across the board for what’s happened. Yeah, they’re doing bad reporting, but I think it’s a symptom of the larger media changes. We need more, we need it now, and it need to be interesting has been wrecking many legacy media companies.

                  SkoomaDealer yeah I agree with this. This is why journos and bloggers treat youtubers and independent bloggers like they're subhuman. They refused change and got swept away by the tide

                    Yooo IGN doing layoffs again

                    Doing layoffs in December should be a hate crime

                    Remember how I didn't read past the first page in Mercante's lawsuit? Well I heard something online I just had to verify for myself.

                    It would seem one of her legal arguments, is SmashJT would mention (she refers to his actions as harassment) her tweets where she praises and otherwise lusts after Hasan Piker and that got her in trouble at Kotaku for antisemitism.

                    So she actually was fired

                    Oh man, just waits until she learns what harassment actually is.

                    Given Limited Run Games' reputation I was starting to think this would never arrive