The Auto-Potion strategy feels exploitative for precisely the reason you mentioned - that you would need to know in advance that auto-potion was going to be necessary. If I recall, I nixed that strategy because the potions necessary to withstand Wiegraf's attacks would have been buttfuck expensive, which would…

I'm concerned about the perceptions of others when they have the potential to have a concrete impact on me. But I'm not going to let some random kid from the internet tell me that I should be more secure in my gamerhood. I do think that's a great attitude - when you're 19.

Wiegraf himself should have been on the list of annoying things. Every strategy I've seen to beat him constitutes, in my personal opinion, exploiting poorly designed game mechanics.

Forgetting button mappings is one thing, also annoying. I think what they're getting at here is when you're playing an RPG, and the mystical old guru tells you that you need to head northwest to the beach, where the water creature Motatu will be waiting for you that you can ride East, then South to the Glimmering…

I think it's great that you feel comfortable playing a 3DS in public. I guess I shouldn't call it embarrassment - for me ultimately it would undermine other people's impressions of me. Which are not important, unless of course these are colleagues, managers, clients, etc.

Did it occur to you that maybe I'm embarrassed to play consoles in public because of my age, my profession, or the people that I associate with? If anything, your reaction suggests you're a little bit hypersensitive about the notion that dedicated portable consoles might not be suitable for all people in all walks of…

Vote for "Returning to an RPG months later and having no idea what you're doing"

Or they created a platform for adults that doesn't do any of the things adults need it to do. You can get away with that, before smartphones were popular or when you have a very low price point. But when you're selling new hardware at a substantial premium to the competition, you should be able to say "this does…

I don't understand why they wanted to license IP for an MMO of this scale to begin with. They take all the risk associated with the massive up-front costs and then pay a massive royalty on what could end up being their largest revenue stream, a HUGE hit on profitability. Unless it was uniquely structured, the…

Reminds me of the biological research that gamers accomplished through a "puzzle game" in astounding time. I just don't know how they pull this off without revealing sensitive information about these weapons to enemies.

This article is a lie - the real Kotaku has already been shut down by SOPA. Once the bill is passed, the site will officially change its name to Koticku and will consist entirely of rants by Bobby himself about "those fucking kids" who pirate Activision games.

I'm going to wait until it's a phone.

What about the Mudcats of Tamriel?

You'd think Ubisoft was on a mission to piss off gamers.

@Raven Riley

Yes, consoles also have glitches. The fact that you even think that's a point baffles me a little. There is a clear trade-off, all other things being equal, between the variance in builds of a device and the consistency of the experience between different devices. I didn't say consoles were perfect; I said the…

As a matter of argumentation, pointing out two counterexamples to my point about compatibility does not mean it goes "out the window." The sheer number of PC GPU's in existence, and the variance in their specs and features, self-evidently results in compatibility issues between games. Developers cannot test every…

Sounds like you've got a moronic mindset of your own about consoles.

Love the title

Love the title