That's a little "too" dark for my tastes personally.

You don't think "fun" and "well-made" are positive enough attributes to warrant the term "good game"? That's just bizarre.

This article isn't so much anti-Dark Souls series as it is anti-game, period. His primary objection to Dark Souls 2 is not that the Souls games have a unique problem, but that gamey-ness is always a problem and since there's more "game" in this package than in a normal $60 purchase, it's the worst thing ever.

I put 300 hours into Dark Souls. I'm about 50 into Dark Souls II. I like Dark Souls II better. It has become my favorite game. I'm not going to bother explaining why, because all of those reasons are extremely subjective.

It's often argued the Dark Souls II teaches players, but one rarely hears about what is being taught. In its exploded plot we are told about love, guilt, greed, sex, war, chauvinism, hatred, and many other safely fictive themes, but we aren't taught anything about them, nor are they presented in a way in which players…

It's one of the most fair and measured games I've ever come across, and deeply intellectual at that.

The Souls games are basic fantasy only on a very superficial level, there's actually a ton of wacky, grotesque enemy designs, intricate armors and whimsical, dream-like environments.

This sincerely makes me think that you either haven't played it at all, or very sparingly. Generic weapon and armor design? Are you kidding me? The amount of variety in the weapons and gear is ludicrous....

Kotaku's writers are constantly guilty of clickbaiting on a massive scale. And laziness, and just kind of lying outright.

Dark Souls II is not just about the constant trial and error and boss mechanics.

That's what happens when you don't grab your gear.

Great, now make him look like a Diablo III character instead of a WoW character.

Based on their website it seems like they also spend a lot of time taking credit for the cancellation of TV shows that they find to be immoral as well. It is funny that a group so worried about what is wholesome spends so much time, apparently, plopping their kids in front of the TV.

You're absolutely right - same with Guinness - but doesn't it warm your heart and bring a tear to your eye that accepting gay people is so mainstream now that it's more commercially viable to embrace gay couples than speak out against them or even to ignore the issue entirely? Even ten years ago it would have been…

This was a brutal, cold-calculated decision by Kraft Foods that it will make more money (most important) and get less crap by siding with the liberal side, and will turn the ad into free marketing (like this article). This decision was researched and debated, at multiple corporate levels, not by what is "right," but…

That's the joke. The entire "controversy" has completely bypassed the issue Colbert and his writers were ridiculing in the first place: How in 2014, a team can still be called the Redskins. It's satirizing how we're so numb to the fact that Redskins is a long-defined racial slur but gooks and other words instantly set…

I just don't see how they ever came up with the stupid idea taht you need this tons of dialogue and boss cameos, and these weak jokes, to appeal to 8 year olds and douchebags while completely killing off all atmosphere in the game.

I persoally wouldn't call skyrim's art style bad. I stared playing it without fast travel the first time I got it and some of the places you see are amazingly beautiful when walking around. The reach has to be my favourite. I found myself on a watchtower over a 100ft cliff dividing Autumn and Winter and couuld see…

"Good art direction sells even bad games like Brutal Legend."

This is why Art Direction is so much more important than shaders and and other rendering tech.