why is everything on kotaku framed in such a negative light? “fan begging.” ffs, fromsoftware, like any developer, releases products on their own internally set schedule.

the ps5 has become exponentially more available this holiday season. just saying. i got the god of war ragnarok digital ps5 bundle last week with minimal fuss.

i feel ya man. i, too, was limited by the ps4 until just last week. but i decided it was finally time to change. i know it’s been difficult to find the ps5 but it’s gotten much easier lately, as long as you’re looking for a bundle. i found mine on walmart’s site. 

it was really nothing exceptional. merely serviceable for the most part. 

probably not. you’re basically receiving a gift, which isn’t a purchase via steam.

the best NFS will always be Porsche Unleashed.

well, that’s actually rather unusual, tbh, so i feel like this point could’ve been better contextualized. typically patch notes are the developers way of directly communicating to their users. and that may still be the case here. but obviously shipping an absolute piece of shit game is unusual for nintendo.

it’s kinda weird that you throw around “Nintendo” like they are the developers of the software or the people who would communicate via patch notes. 

i disagree regarding marking sidequests separately. i feel like it’s a philosophical point being made that witcher 3's sidequests are all of a piece with the main campaign. because it makes it feel like it’s really geralt’s life—with him constantly balancing multiple competing demands on his time and loyalty. 

yeah, in this case the game’s strength—its side quests that are as substantial as most game’s main campaigns—also undercuts it for players who simply don’t have that kind of available time and attention span. because the sidequests go on for hours and hours. on the other hand, no one would ever accuse it of being…

the first couple of hours are the most challenging to get over, especially if you’re not familiar with the lore. i’d actually recommend watching the netflix series’ first season to get a taste of the world, to “buy into it.” obviously if the witcher 1 and 2 were available on ps4 or 5 i’d recommend those, but they’re…

i think the issue is that gamefreak is impacted by too many competing interests outside of the world of videogames. the mainline games are all released to align with trading cards, anime, etc. thus nintendo’s typical methodology of never releasing a buggy game is thrown out.

it’s basically an xbox one x slim. 

“MrBeast dethroning the OG King of YouTube makes sense when you think about his content in relation to PewDiePie’s.”

i’m nearly done reading The Passenger (which is great) so I’m really in the mood to read about McCarthy. Thanks for this! (although I disagree on The Counselor, love that movie in all its excess...)

the final scene underscores the tragedy that even those of us with the most noble intentions may be too shortsighted, too sidelined by the mundane, to be able to overcome the horror and injustice in the world. this is why, i think, Bell’s dream “feels flat”—its meaning is inexact. if a person cannot even grasp the…

if you’re incapable of explaining human sexuality to your child then you’re a failure of a parent. there are ways of explaining love without triggering your apparent immature squeamishness. raise your children to be better than yourself. 

i see—i think i bypassed any problems at the time by buying the physical disc. it may actually have been one of the last physical discs i ever bought for a pc game.

when was this? i feel like things must’ve improved in the 14 years since Stalker Clear Sky was released. Great game, though!

counterpoint: before steam it was a pain in the ass to patch your game everytime there was a bug fix. you might take it for granted now that your game just auto-updates, but prior to steam that simply didn’t exist. and you might have to fuss quite a bit with folder and file structure to fix your own game. now…