Isn't ranked the whole point? If I want to play without consequences I'd rather it be with friends than random people. Do you even earn anything for playing randoms non-ranked?

He seems like a pretty level-headed and smart guy. I've been following him for a good while now and I haven't seen him do anything particularly mean or trollish.

I tried to get into it but I seem to get creamed consistently. I'm playing smart, supposedly very smart for someone who's new to card games, but the people I play against are brutal with their strategies and the cards they have at their disposal. I only have the basic cards and a few I got from free card packs, as far…

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest he might just be infamous to Kotaku specifically, for calling them out when they attacked the concept of "gamers" and went all-out against Gamergate without really touching on journalistic integrity and the things they were accused of.

I appreciate the technical awesomeness we're managing to pull off now, but I can't help but be disappointed that it's always being used to create more realistic people and places.

Can I be the first to say this really isn't very good pixel art? Sorry to say but it's true. The enemy sprites are clearly heavily referenced from the game's existing sprites whilst the marines aren't and it's very obvious. The marine sprites are stilted and janky. The dead ones look skewed, and the ones standing with…

Servers getting slammed by more people than expected for a product they haven't tried before isn't exactly an uncommon or easily-avoided issue. It's certainly not a terrible enough mistake to warrant avoiding Sony for good.

Let's Plays are really more about the personalities than the games. For instance, I'll watch the Game Grumps play ANYTHING, not because they're playing interesting games or anything I particularly want to see, but because Danny and Arin are just so funny.

Just do like me, and don't play it until it hits 1.0. AFAIK, the stable build (what you played) hasn't changed once in the last year or more. When it came out on early access, that was a quick and dirty patch-job, utilizing a very underwhelming variety of monsters, areas, mechanics, etc to create something that plays…

I think the big issue with its current state is that the stable release is VERY out of date. They threw everything together to make something that resembled a finished game so you could get a good idea of what they were going for, but by no means is the current release on Steam a finished product. They have either…

I can't watch this yet , but can someone who's seen it tell me if this clears up that the term 8-bit does not, in fact, mean "pixelated sprites"? I see the term misused way too often, even on this very site.

Surprisingly, this isn't a very bad game. It's quite rough around the edges but compared to the stuff that people are legitimately putting up on Steam for $20 this is actually polished.

Taking that blue theme all the way. Now that's dedication.

Isn't that the scene in the intro where you see him walking around in the forest and he happens upon the crown? Was that taken out in another version?

LKS was one of the most interesting games I played last gen. Surprising in every possible sense, and a total joy from beginning to end. I expected a pseudo-Pikmin and got about what I expected at first, but rarely have I ever seen a game evolve and change so drastically over the course of the adventure. The shifts,…

I love the style, but here's my issue with all these amazing, stylized multiplayer games we're seeing lately... you are never really going to get to appreciate all the work that's gone into giving the characters so much personality and animating them so well.

I disagree. I don't feel many of her arguments hold water, at least not when the examples she gives so easily fall apart under scrutiny. She complains about things like not getting to know the lives and personalities of random strippers in GTA or Hitman, but if you consider the same about the random male NPCs of the…

"We remove their opportunity to live, learn and build character, all in the name of making sure they don't win the wrong-place-at-the-wrong-time lottery."

It's painful to watch them try to give bullshit reasoning as to why they did this. We ALL know what the purpose of this change was, and it's the same purpose as many (old) digital storefronts using their own cash system - they want you to buy in larger denominations than you need. Because when you do so, they can…

I just think we go overboard with sheltering our kids. If you need to run into the store for 5 minutes to grab some bread and milk, you can leave them in the car with the locks on and AC going and the danger you JUST put them in by simply having them in a car on the road (aka, the likelihood of them being hurt or…