Hard for me to get pumped for a Tales game when they cut what is for me and my friends the best feature of the series, multiplayer.

Been playing through some of the earlier Tales games on Steam with a friend (remote play is great!) over the past few months. The combat definitely gets way better as it goes along and I gather they removed co-op on this one because they wanted to overhaul the combat again. But that’s sort of a deal breaker for me, I…

Alternative headlines that did not make the cut because none of them were mine:

Hey Mike, you accidentally wrote 2006 instead of 1996 for the tv series premiere. I’m pretty sure I wasn’t about to graduate high school when I watched that series.

You’re right. More like 1996. I was in elementary school when that show first aired, and I loved the shit out of it. My RatTrap figure was a prized possession.

And in Canada, where I grew up, the show was called Beasties for some reason. They didn’t want to include the word “Wars” for the title of a children’s show, I…

They should rebrand it as the 737 XTREME!

I feel for y’all. The initial move to kinja was bad enough, but it’s become damn near impossible to read your work on mobile.

You need to flag it again, then. They’re belittling your work, and I have totally given up reading Kotaku on my phone, as it is literally 80% ads and 20% content.

We are aware. We load this page more than anyone else.

Yeah. Kotaku writers need to load this site without an adblock before making any comments how any other service does ads.. Or whether it fucking sucks or not.

Eh, the ads aren’t so bad. my wife and i have found that we sometimes get each others ads. if i’m shopping for bikes, she’ll get a bike ad...almost like a ‘hey, by this for the person you’re sending texts back and forth to’.

If only Apple users, both on iOS and MacOS, could easily log into Kinja while using Safari without “Disabling Cross-Site Tracking” as was recommended to me by Kinja Tech Support on Twitter. Because disabling securing settings is always a good recommendation to make. 

I slept on the game for the first couple years, thinking eeeh I’ll try it someday, some day...finally saw a friend playing it and it looked neat enough to give it a shot.  Currently I’m sitting at 1,117 hours played on steam...

and just like (java) Minecraft before it, its an amazing game that can become even MORE complex and give you even MORE to do thanks to robust mod support!

Factorio is one of the best games ever made. Simple as that. Ok, maybe that’s arguable, but it is definitely one of the best management games in gaming history, and that’s a fact.

If that’s not socialism on display I don’t know what is....

“If that’s not socialism on display I don’t know what is....”

This statement from SE tells us less than nothing. I still expect 2023 for Part 2 at the earliest. Streamlined development has never been SquareEnix’s forte even back when they were still Square and Enix.