I picked it up again this weekend because of all the news coverage. I don’t think I got past my first winter when a Dwarven Were-Zebra invaded my fort. I goofed my entrance, so I was doomed from the start, but I valiantly tried to create a last minute militia to deal with the threat.

See, this is the problem. Everyone is looking at the collections of KH1 Final Mix, Kh2 Final Mix, etc, and seeing “See, those had tons of endgame content” when most of that content was added in Final mix. The original games barely had any.

Now, I agree that the lack of a Sephiroth fight and a battle arena are sore…

Those salaries seem... ridiculously low.  $14,000 equivalent USD for the starting salary for a relatively skilled field?  Major oof.

Like, send an urgent memo to Nintendo. “Please, Kotaku has just ONE question for Reggie before he retires! It’s SUPER IMPORTANT” and just play it up. Finally, you get him on the phone.

Reggie: *wearily* “All right, Stephen, let’s get this over with...”
Stephen: *silent for like 30 seconds* “Mo--”
Reggie: *click*

I dunno, man. I considered this a cute little series that I might check out one day, but then Crunchyroll posted the aforementioned sibling-loss clip to Facebook and it damn near broke me.  I’m pretty wary of this show now.

That video was like a monkey’s paw, because I saw that trailer in the Toy Story world and immediately went “Man, I’d play this game.”

Then we got that ending (no spoilers), and I hoped the secret ending would help ease my pain. Instead I got... Yozora.  Should’ve been more careful throwing wishes out into the universe.

Pfft, slacker.  I took off Wed-Fri last week so I could beat the game without getting spoiled.

Wait?  They axed parkour too?  Why even tie it into the Titanfall universe at that point?

I agree with you in spirit, I would posit a slight correction. Goku cares that no harm comes to people, especially his loved ones. It’s been shown over and over again that he’s concerned for the well being of others, in the general sense. He’s just... really... REALLY bad at gauging when a situation is going to spill…

There’s a line I never thought I’d read in a Kotaku article.

I don’t think it’s as cut and dry as that. I have a 10 year old car. Insurance would probably pay out, what, $3000 for it if I’m lucky? Unless I’m *really* lucky, I don’t think $3,000 is going to get me a used car of the same quality as the car I’ve taken care of for the past 10 years.

So then I’m looking at buying a…

On the plus side, at least we know the epilogue and secret movie won’t leak early!

This might be elistist of me, but I’ve never understood the hand wringing about console patches requiring Internet. To paraphrase John Oliver, “It’s 2019!” Everyone should expect to have to have Internet to play digitial media.

See, I think it’s more due to the sheer number of abilities the blue mage can get, and then they choose a subset of. It feels like they wanted to be more true to the concept of Blue Mages than they wanted to ‘slot it’ into an MMO and make it just another class.

They made an unusual choice, and I think it’s…

I think they’re facing the crunch on both sides of things. You’re right of course that anywhere else in the world they wouldn’t have the freedom to take years upon years of making, scrapping, remaking, etc games. Titan, Diablo III, Overwatch... those are all stories of a game company that is so perfectionist that it…

I’m not familiar with FFXI, so I can’t say, but it sounds like they’re going to directly have an array of Boss abilities that they can copy and hit the boss with, and that’s likely why they’re not going to be as balanced for raiding as say a Red Mage is.

You either have to nerf the way the abilities interact with Raid…

Without getting into spoilers, I’m really hyped for the Main Story Quest. Things have been heating up, and it’s really looking like this is going to be a pretty dark turn for the WoL and the Scions.  

I think the running theory is that they’ll never be capped at the current level cap, and that they’re going to just be a ‘for funsies’ content. They’re just inherently unbalanced. Which is fine, MMOs need to do things aside from the end game treadmills, and that’s exactly what this is.

Because two people living together have lower living costs than a single person living alone. SIGNIFICANTLY lower.

Personally, I’m mad the Amazing Bag Man suit isn’t in the game.

(No, extra suits are awesome and cool but I don’t really care which ones we get.)

I think you have a point, and it really is the crux of the issue of esports vs traditional sports. When you have these leagues attached to certain games, what happens when the games age out?

I’m not enough an esport historian to say that this is the first time this has happened, but it’s got to be one of the highest…