Just to let you know, Kotaku has been regularly outspoken against war-machine propaganda in video games, so your concern is valid but already answered. Pretty much every military game is reviewed with a critical lens of how it treats the topic of war, conquest, and violence, and especially so with the glorification of…

Hah, fair! I was definitely a sword and shield type that would slowly chip away at everything. One thing I like about the contrasts between the different combat systems in each of their games is that they’re similar yet different enough to make you a better player in each of their other games. Playing Bloodborne and…

Global south solidarity

lol anglosphere scum

Kudos and thank you. 

It’s not whataboutism. You are absolutely right and it is wholly commendable that you, as a US citizen, I assume, are able to perceive it. This kind of clarity is usually reserved to the pawns of third world, group which I am a member of. It is actually mind boggling how the US “left” is willing and desperate to…

Dude, a bit up-thread you tried to justify calling Russia inherently uncivilized by linking to a Wikipedia article. Just admit that you don’t know shit abut history and shut the fuck up. There would have been no “civil war” between North and South Vietnam were it not for American interference.

See also: the overthrow of democratically-elected Mossadegh, for Shah Pahlavi

I dunno, both Vietnam and Iraq were pretty bad. I say this as someone who is very glad the USA is supporting Ukraine.

Yes, I equally don’t buy new CoD or Tom Clancy games. Hell, Activision’s deep connections with warmongers is one of the reasons I avoid all Activision games these days.

you could’ve just left it at “i don’t know how much racism there was in russia in the 50's.” a number of black americans visited the ussr over the years, and their main commentary seemed to be that they were surprised how well they were treated, compared to what they experienced in the u.s.

that isn’t necessarily to…

“Russian Bioshock” doesn’t count as “niche”? Where, in Soviet Union?

As another old hand that started with Demon’s Souls, I have to say that Elden Ring is far more like Dark Souls than Bloodborne is. I think there’s a myriad of reasons that Elden Ring has seen so much more success, encompassing basically everything everyone has said here. Before it came out the GRRM angle was heavily…

It shouldn’t be surprising that game studios owned by people in totalitarian countries where speaking out against the government is a good way to get arrested ... don’t speak out against the government. It’s kind of, tautological.

I’d say the differences between Bloodborne and Dark Souls is more than just the setting. Bloodborne has faster, more aggressive playstyle than Dark Souls which offers a greater variety of builds and is generally slower and more defensive. People refer to the genre as Soulsborne because those were the first two series…

The open world makes it too easy. The reason people found Dark souls hard is because power upgrades were gated behind parts of the game.

That to me for a Souls game is crazy high, meaning either the games aren’t as unforgiving as popular lore has it, or ER in particular is more forgiving.

I quit both Dark Souls 1 and Dark Souls 2 fairly early in the games because I would get hard stuck on a boss and decided that smashing my face into a brick wall wasn’t why I was playing games.

What everybody here has said about the open world and exploration runs true, at least for me. I’m loving Elden Ring because I…

I will always have this stance on single player games and the “old ways”. All these “always online” games do not last. Only ones that do are those that get there first and do gameply well enough like Destiny. The suits notice and then get the copy cats like Avengers and Anthem; look how they turned out.