Michael Walbridge

I have written things and I tend to work in offices. I mostly talk about games.

[Michael Walbridge @Walbridge]

Dislike Fallout 4's character creation? Note the black and lesbian couples on the street. And that in Fallout, 1950s values didn't go away.

[Clive Peedell @cpeedell]

This single paragraph explanation of the financial crisis by Prof Mark Blyth cannot be shared enough. Please RT

[Michael Walbridge @Walbridge]

@eatlivewell @NYBeefCouncil "Meat your beef?"

[The Yearly Awards @YearlyAwards]

The Yearly Awards selected @Walbridge for Best Failure of 2014. Congrats!

[Michael Walbridge @Walbridge]

Call me vain but to this day I'm still proud of this review: http://t.co/6JqzW2QlYK

[Teju Cole @tejucole]

He said, "The privacy of ordinary people is not being violated." Then he whispered, "But friends, you're living a life less ordinary." #SOTU

[Michael Walbridge @Walbridge]

@leighalexander Haven't heard the person say anything to the contrary!

[Michael Walbridge @Walbridge]

That writer went on to the success I sought, yet didn't persist in. Weird that I was like, any sort of authority figure to even one person

[Michael Walbridge @Walbridge]

Fun game writer fact: a current full time games-writer asked me for advice and learned about @leighalexander from me, who was an influence

[Michael Walbridge @Walbridge]

There should be a band named Scut Farkus

[Michael Walbridge @Walbridge]

I played Gone Home tonight. If you thought it was bad or purely about politics you didn't get it at all.

[petermolydeux @PeterMolydeux]

Game where you are a child playing with a super soaker and water bombs but at the end you realize you were actually fighting in Vietnam.

[Michael Walbridge @Walbridge]

@savetherobot Worst part: younger folks will feel jilted without all that bloat, leading to fewer sales. So, AAA is trapped in that cycle.

[Michael Walbridge @Walbridge]

@savetherobot Excessive powerups, hidden achievement objects, and unneeded levels and plots points = telling rather than showing.

[Michael Walbridge @Walbridge]

@savetherobot Like, I played Dishonored and it had a lot of potential but there was so much "game" in my way.

[Michael Walbridge @Walbridge]

@savetherobot You know, all this crap is why I stick to competitive games or indie(ish) games.

[Michael Walbridge @Walbridge]

@mkrpata Knife of Dunwall IMO. Witches is supposed to be good too. Consensus is that it's a good set of DLC.

[Michael Walbridge @Walbridge]

Only on Steam do people you hardly know message you to give you a free game or point out a game on your wishlist is on sale somewhere.

[Evan Lahti @ELahti]

So we're calling it the Gabecube, right?

[Steam Support @Steam_Support]

PSA: If you're getting the "failed to contact key server" with GTAIV (that's IV as in FOUR), we're working on getting more keys . #StayTuned