Been saying this for years. The area I grew up ended up spreading out after I graduated high school and all the businesses went with it. There were still old neighborhoods around but I guess corporate restaurants like Olive Garden didn’t want two in a twenty mile radius. The result was an entire stretch of suburbs…

My daughter’s middle name is Aranéa, from FF15. We chose the name because it is pretty and not because we like the character or anything (though the character is one of the best in that game) but still, video game name in our family and almost no one we know knows the source

I hope people remember at some point what a scumbag company Disney is. I refuse to give them money in any way. That being said, the enemy or your enemy is your friend and I admit, I do enjoy Disney owning DeSantis so hard.

“one of the best games of all time.”

Sadly, that is most online game. FF14, WoW, PoE, LE, etc. Melee damage uptime is just terrible and no one seems to have figured out a good balance. FF14 is close just because everyone has to many mechanics to dance around together. I hate it because thematically I want to be melee, it just feels awful in most MMOs and…

My too-responsible best friend in high school once told me that. At the time the Camry was only making like 250hp I think. His dad had just bought one with a stick shift and my friend was talking about how it was more hp than anyone really needs. I’ve had 180hp manuals and they are still fun, I could see how the…

Honestly, with the skill of most drivers and the lack of paying attention ever (seriously, does anyone NOT text and drive anymore?) I would say anything with over maybe 300hp. I don’t mind super cars being on the road, but just like a heavy vehicle requires a CDL, I think super fast machines should require a special…

I’m not a fan of the Zelda series but this actually looks pretty cool. I’m sure my wife will preorder, i might have to steal it

I read the headline and knew immediately I would comment about FF13 trilogy if you didn’t. Glad you talked high about it. While I hate Hope and Snow and the story is a mess, I think all three are criminally underrated. As you said, the paradigm system was super cool, even if it did get boring at the end (three sabs at…

I actually like durability...in games with repair options. I didn’t play BotW because I don’t like Zelda games but I watched my wife play a crap ton of it. No way I would play a game where you can only swing your club ten times before it shatters. At least it seems like the sequel will have enough crafting to be able…

I honestly wish Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo would all but their own emulators on PC. We’re probably never going to get Xenogears, Xenosaga, or Shadow Hearts remasters, and I don’t want to dig my old consoles out of storage just to play on my plasma which will look terrible compared to old school CRTs. If you aren’t…

That first tweet had to originally have been made for Resonance of Fate 

Oh man, I’ve had Stormlight on my read list for a couple years and now all of a sudden I don’t want to read it :(

“He writes, by one metric, at a sixth-grade reading level.”

How do people even quantify reading level? I read The Count of Monte Cristo and The Hobbit when I was in the sixth grade. A classmate of mine named Amanda read the Hunchback of Notre Dame. I had other friends reading way harder stuff than I was; I was fairly…

I haven’t played Elden Ring yet, but I do plan to. Am I the only person that likes to play the first release version of games? I don’t even want to play an Int build but it’s the principle of the thing. I like the jank. Same reason I replay original pokemon games over the Fire Red like remakes

*points at FF14*

I swear these D4 articles make it seems like no one at Kotaku has ever played an isometric ARPG before. This isn’t Hades or Elden Ring. In D2 the only class that had any movement skill was Sorc with Teleport (eventually everyone started using it via the chest runeword). I don’t think Grim Dawn has any dodge roll type…

I would argue all top down isometric ARPGs are good for turning your brain off, which is why I play them so much. I have 1500+ hours in D3, hundreds in D2, 400 in Grim Dawn, 1300+ in Path of Exile, and 200+ is Last Epoch. My favorite thing about those games is that you can turn on a podcast or audiobook and slay…

I only played Path of Radiance (on an emulator, two years ago) and I absolutely hated it. The graphics were meh, the story was so forgettable that I couldn’t have told you what happened six months after playing it, and it was so easy that battles couldn’t keep my interest at all. Some of my friends say Path of…

RR4 is the only one I played and I think I bought it cheap on a whim from Blockbuster or Gamestop. It was my second car game ever (Twisted Metal being my first) and to this day, still one of my favorites