Please read the bloody article. It only says the game is like GTA in how the open world setting can affect quests or freeplay.

You mean: Elden Ring spirit ashes, kind of like offline pawns!

It may very well be that these loud assholes actually have a weird setup of ideas, that they know the “proper” way to be a human being, and have appointed themselves the Real Official Super-Guardian™ of how to human.

In other words, they do know that these people are human, and they are trying to make sure everyone…

offline pawns, kind of like elden ring spirit ashes

Look, im pretty fucking liberal, but neither shareholder or management are trying to make people angry.  They are doing it, but that isnt anyone’s intention.  Calm the fuck down.

FFS you were not making “Art” when you signed on to Madame Web and you knew it from the beginnning.

We can only hope it was her last chance. Make some room for the talented people.

Are you a child? As someone who spends all their time creating shit (as well as critiquing the creative works of others), the idea that someone who has never and will never create anything that gets put out in front of people to be judged feels entitled to talk shit to people who do is ridiculous.

Yeah, gamer bros like you should go fuck off.

Saw a reddit post last night that accused the developers of Final Fantasy XVI of being “lazy” because they didn’t have as many minigames as FF7 Rebirth.

“a faithful adaptation of Chani is basically just Neytiri”

the regrettable fact is that after the first Dune novel, the books... kinda aren’t great? they have great major plot beats, broadly speaking, but in the moment to moment they fall far short of the original. like, it was clear that Herbert was struggling the move forward with the story, given how clunky and gnarled the…

Part Two has miles of style compared to Part One. But it’s still an austere style.

So does the SciFi Channel miniseries. I mean, it had great design ideas, they just didn’t have the budget necessary to really realize them properly, so in the end they look cheap. But they definitely had a vision there.

paul didn’t turn his back on her. he took the narrow path and forsaw that chani would come to accept it.
chani is the one who turned her back on paul, which is unfortunate because she didn’t in the book

They removed everything we wanted from Black Flag, except ship combat. How could they have misunderstood the fanbase that much?

All I needed to read:

Do you think that the writers actually have any control over Kotaku technical limitations? Or that a game journalist shouldn’t talk about technical issues with the game he’s reviewing? This rationale makes no sense to me.

currently marred by technical issues and server problems

Load times aren’t going to be meaningfully impacted because of the NVME drive, last gen consoles were still using slow as molasses HDD’s despite SSD’s being prevalent in the PC world. But look at FF7 Rebirth and you’re forced to choose between a 60 FPS Vaseline screen or being stuck in one of those dreams where you’re…