I kind of like it because it encourages community driven testing and discoveries which results in an actual community forming around the game.

Sparse, cinematic UI is just fine. However, one of the issues I’ve seen come up about the Elden Ring UI is that nothing is explained. And while over-tutorializing things is definitely a problem, assuming that everyone knows exactly what everything means right off the bat is too. In ages past, this kind of thing could…

They never said the army dude was wrong. They said the sheer fact he acts like this is a new thing and the nonsense he spews is bullshit. Which it is. 

So... what you are saying is that because Indonesia’s snipers are supposedly better in jungle environments than the US Army (as opposed to, say, Marine Corp) snipers, their entire land-based military is more capable?

Do they not want a progressive tax rate that taxes every dollar past some amount they deem “reasonable” higher than the first “X”?

The Median income in the world is 7.5k a year. If we are going to draw arbitrary lines about what's excessive then it's easy to argue every single middle class American and European is living super excessively. People love to draw the arbitrary line of excess to be somewhere just above how they currently spend, how…

I mean, I wouldn’t have bought that car, but if I had the money? Yeah, I’d treat myself to a nice car.

Because learning map spawns has always been a core part of getting better as a player in Halo. It’s why having loadouts and weapon killstreaks in Halo 4 was such a controversial move, because it removed one aspect of the skill ceiling from the game, which is learning the maps.

FWIW, I think this kind of positional play that rewards tactical thought from good teams working together is what makes Oddball worth having in the game at all.

I know what you mean. Every article now is either:

The people left are willingly working for Spanfeller what do you expect? This is the TMZ of woke culture game news. I still go here every day like receding back into an abusive relationship.

Ah, there’s the New Kotaku Tone I mentioned a few weeks ago that I got ripped for. 

He’s also wrong about this, full stop. I initialized the download from the Game Pass app on my phone. 

Okay, I was wondering if I really lost track of time that much. The intro section felt really short.

It’d have been better if Infinite’s first couple of corridor-imprisoned hours were any good. But they’re just defyingly dreadful.

I’m just pointing out, it’s not all cosmetics. I think when you artificially extend the life of your game by slowing xp gain, then selling the xp gain later, you’re scummy.

I think this is detrimental to the player, the consumer, who doesn’t pay out for this artificial game extender. I don’t think everything is about…

McKay comes off as the asshole across the board in this one. Sure, it was his right not to cast Ferrell as Jerry Buss. I even think that was the right call, given the total lack of physical resemblance between the two. But yikes McKay shit the bed from there on out.

What you are describing is a dialect. Consistent dialects are a sign of good writing, not bad. You not liking it doesn’t speak to the writing on the game, but your own personal preferences.

“meretricious”

meh, Pixelart in general is nice and all, but mediocre pixelart with 10 frames per second animations doesn’t get better by turning off the light.