Really slight critique here, but I lost track of the parties as I read this article. Knowing nothing about the individuals involved (but having read both Kotaku and IGN’s review of this game, which intrigued me as a sim fan), I got lost in the names. You refer to the author of the IGN article by, at varying points,…

Exactly. Outside of challenge mode, I basically run pulse, heal, and survivor link, and just mow everything down with a high end MP5. Taking cover just slows me down!

After Bullet King and reaching DZ rank 50, I’m in the same boat. Decked out in high end gear, practically immune to enemies outside of hard mode, and rocking high end versions of my favorite guns. Me and a buddy farmed Lincoln Tunnel on challenge mode as a 2 man group, mostly for the challenge versus the loot.

Can somebody identify the music in the first part of the first video? I THINK it’s from a Stanley Kubrick movie....?

Great review, Kirk. I appreciate that you paid attention to the tone and setting (which any reviewer should but people will complain about nonetheless...), and managed to tie that to the mechanics in the sense that the former limits the possibilities for the latter. It was somewhat jarring to me and my buddy in our…

I appreciate your NSFW writing when it has a purpose (your article on the violent nature of the video game hentai business and the various opinions of those making such stuff was great journalism). This, though, is just screen grabs from a crappy porn video with Skyrim characters. Not sure where this was supposed to…

Probably would have aided the speedrunning portion of the discussion if one of you had actually watched AGDQ...

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: The Diablo team over at Blizzard is amazing at supporting this game. For a non-subscription offering, with no micro transactions or DLC (and in fact they killed the micro transaction auction house for the good of the game), just an incredible level of support and every patch…

That was the joke.

Too bad his medic died in that helicopter accident! That guy would have known how to fix this.

Did you / kotaku ever post of review of the DLC?

Glad MGS2 is getting a lot of recognition these days. The importance of the game can’t be overstated. Certainly it was prescient for predicting the ways we would be challenged by authenticity in a digital age. But, more importantly, it was a AAA launch title that was decidedly post-modern in spirit! It created the…

You’ll love MGS5, it’s also terrible!

The whole game was a training exercise, with Raiden / the player as an unwilling participant in a Snake-trainer, modeled after the scenarios in MGS1. It was the first big budget post-modern video game. And it was fantastic.

Somebody read the star wars ring theory website recently?? It will be interesting to see if Abrams goes overboard with the call backs like he did for Into Darkness.

Sounds like Diablo 2 open! If you let people play offline, which surely console players wanted (and I would have too, but I play on PC), then you get hackers. Having a million paragon is obviously not ideal, but there are no ladders or leaderboards on console so it doesn’t really cause any damage.

The “boss fights” are nothing like the other MGS games. No clever tactics to implement, no alternative ways to win. Just shoot the enemy with a rocket.

If there was an investigative reporting award, the article on Destiny’s troubled development would be a winner.

Look there’s no reason to be so aggressive about it. I’m not asking you to adopt my critiques and opinions of the game. If you want to discuss them, great, but do so by affirming your own views and supporting them.

Perhaps my ability to comprehend your reading would be more to your liking if you were better at writing it. Are you omitting chapters to continue the phantom limb metaphor? If so, nicely done.