since dark souls, every fromsoftware game has sold multiple millions of copies during their opening weeks. these are not niche titles. they’re just more special on account of being good. 

BOTW’s combat is good, but it does a poor job of making tactics feel necessary, or teaching them when they are necessary. there’s almost always a way to just cheese enemies to death. and when there isn’t, the learning curve skyrockets.

a counter-opinion—i loved red dead redemption and, *at the time*, most open world games. but by the time the sequel came out i was pretty much over them. i need something a bit more engaging, and not just an ambient “virtual cinema” experience. FromSoftware makes *games* that feel like *games* and that’s exactly what…

Maudib! Maudib! Maudib!

don’t you kinda hate everything though? 

and now he’s dead, and you’re full of petty spite. clearly the man was quite emotionally tortured. he founded the website—even your absolutism can’t deny him credit for doing so.

remaster and remake need to be understood separately, though. because a remake means that something has been rebuilt from the ground up, with entirely original parts, that resembles, on the surface level, the original thing it’s remaking. see: demon’s souls, the perfect remake. but remakes can also—and maybe should—go…

I have grown to dislike vice city’s flat, empty map and completely derivative plot. At least GTA III had a more vertical city, and like the article says, a sort of dark, immersive mood...that frankly none of the other games do justice to. 

The pc ports of the games from III, VC, SA and IV are not sterling examples of preservation to begin with. We just gotten used to them. 

squid game was satire. they also weren’t selling a sony-branded product or pretending to be sponsored by them.. but again, satire. which is covered under fair use in any case.

Nintendo Switch University 

an OLED is not a “new switch”, technically, and the only people buying it are either the holdouts or the loyalists. In any case the loyalists will buy whatever as they have always done, and the holdouts will feel like they must, once again, hold out for five years after the switch 2 

oh, i also did a no kill run. once you lock into the rhythm of the game, the AI is far, far, too easy to exploit. which was why i got bored.

That’s not an example of price fixing. Price fixing is a conspiratorial, secret, agreement made between two or more competitive corporations to maintain prices at a certain level. The purpose of this is to eliminate competition and control the consumer’s choice. What is being discussed above would be for a seller to…

it accommodated me to the point of boredom. i mastered that game to the point where i felt like i was breaking it. it’s like it was made for kids. 

Same problem with dishonoured. Once you get over the oppressive psychological atmosphere you realize you’re a god tier killing machine in a world that’s designed to not just be exploited, but actively accommodate you. 

ol Bobby was never a looker, but i’ve gotta say that’s the absolutely most disturbing photo of him that i’ve seen to date.

The new temperatures are not outside the range of acceptable temperatures for these kind of components-based on long established engineering standards. Quit the hysterics.

i imagine these could be useful with playing with a gamepad as well. fingers sometimes do get a bit sweaty and slippery on the thumbsticks. i’m not sure i’d buy anything like this, but i do see their utility. ragging on this stuff does seem unfortunately in line with kotaku’s new editorial trend of going negative on…

Sounds like you’re inclined to think poorly of  children