I dont think any of these collector editions can count as a game.  they were hundreds to begin with and are now slightly more expensive.  

Ugh, can we stop taking inflated buy it now prices and pretending that they’re the actual value of an item as opposed to an impatient idiot tax?

“Only the cool people disagree with me” is a helluva way to start your argument.

I saw one reply that referred to him as “A billionaire from the version of Steam you’re forced to use in Hell.”

Being a 53 year old adult who’s still mad about getting picked on in high school is just sad.  

For a man of this status and influence making such sweeping and inaccurate allegations is wild. they’re conspiratorial. 

For VI in particular the SNES version has a ton of translation errors. I think the GBA version is the definitive version. I dunno why the pixel remaster had to make some new questionable changes.

Translations and bugs would be the reason.

I’m going to go ahead and disagree with your suggestion that these aren’t the definitive versions. With the notable exceptions of III and IV, I absolutely consider these to be the definitive versions. I didn’t care for basically any of the additional content tacked on to the the various re-releases (Yeah, cool, FFV…

I will also add that this franchise in general isn't one you point to for deep complex characters or award winning writing.  I mean Chris Redfield is best known for punching a boulder during a fight with discount Matrix Man.  In the original RE4 Leon is just quips and a haircut.  I adore Lady Dimitrescu in RE8 but…

Did the author of this article just want them to completely rewrite the character or something? I thought they handled it very well with what they had, and Ashley’s character is infinitely more interesting than in the original. You can see and hear her progression throughout the game. By the end she’s seen some shit.…

Nothing will ever top “The Playstation 5 is a bad console because COVID is happening.”

It really is. This article is so outrageously misguided and just flat out wrong. What the hell could they have been thinking?

I can accept the premise that Ashley in the 2005 original was little more than a gameplay feature, and her characterization is not deeper than that. It was a fault, but a fault of its time.

This is maybe one of the top five worst takes ever posted on Kotaku.

Jesus. Do you really want Ashley to constantly blabber to you, just so you can “learn who she really is”? Holy fuck, this is a hardcore survival action horror game, who gives a fuck about Ashley’s personality??? Imagine they had added tons of scenes of interactions with Ashley, that you would have to go through again…

Every character in this game is about as deep as a thimble. The narrative is simply a driver for the game to go to different environments and situations. There is nothing in the game beyond “We must win.” That being said, because this is a video game, there are many other elements that can delight the player besides…

she even expresses interest in becoming a government agent! That’s vastly more personality than OG Ashley ever had.

I don’t see the problem with her in this remake.  She starts out very much afraid and unconfident, as she should be since she’s an untrained young woman going through a severely traumatic experience.  And then through the small actions she takes she’s able to gain back some of that confidence and sees Leon as someone…

Everything about Hogwarts as a school feels contrived to manufacture drama rather than actually provide an education (we have a stupid points system to provide cheap tension over which house gets a trophy! We have a sport designed so the main character can win it automatically by doing one thing! We have a tournament w…