Bullshit. Development costs have not risen. Salaries have risen. Let’s not be children and pretend otherwise, eh?

Or maybe its an understanding that game prices have been static for a very long time now and that development costs keep on going up.

Question for you, why is Nintendo the only one who thinks that games retain their value over time? Like, they believe that the game is worth $50 or whatever it is, even if it’s years after the fact. Meanwhile, despite this game apparently being “worth” $70, it will be $40-50 by the holiday season of later that year.…

The differences you describe are mostly equivalent to setting the engine quality preset from medium to high. It makes it look a lot better, for sure, but it’s still the same game, the same engine, just a different graphics preset. These PS4/PS5 coreleases aren’t doing platform forks, the engines themselves are…

Look, you have to pay for all of the sexual harassment lawsuits somehow.

I’m not a lawyer, but as a counter point, just because something is in a license agreement doesn’t mean it’s legally enforceable.

It’s ridiculous that people are so nonchalant about defending it in my opinion. There’s so many people who buy into the nonsense about “dev costs are higher because the machine is so powerful” - no, dev costs are probably lower because you don’t have to work as hard to optimize around weird bottlenecks, your execution…

This is pretty well my sentiment but if im being honest ive just checked out of new games.

This is all just very silly.

The reason is money.

I’ve had this glitch (?) happen to me a few times. It comes back eventually usually but it’s so annoying.

The comment notifications system though is completely busted. I often am completely unable to find comments people have replied to mine because I’ll click it in my notifications, it loads up the default comments…

There’s few things I dislike more than metacriticism on other folks’ criticism,. It’s self-indulgent, preachy, petty and often incredibly hypocritical. Particularly when it comes from Kotaku, a website which couldn’t resist the clickbait that is Cyberpunk 2077 to prop up its (poor) review of The Ascent and indulged in…

Far Cry has always been in the exploitation genre, Kotaku is just waiting to bite down acting like this is a new thing. It’s tiresome really, either consume the product or don’t give them money. Your journalistic integrity is lost when you act like Ubisoft didn’t become a brand using exploitation from Clancy to Creed,…

So incredibly, heartbreakingly sad...but, at least he spent his remaining time getting to do something he loved and was genuinely passionate about. That’s inspiring.

Godspeed, friend.

What’s wrong with me? Why would I want to click on something that’s essentially CGI? No a pixel of gameplay on display anywhere in that trailer. This isn’t the late 90s or early 2000s where CGI trailers basically sold us the entire game. Gameplay or GTFO.

Let me get one small thing out of the way first. Anyone who fights for better working conditions puts their job at risk. Implying that it’s unreasonable in this instance is absurd.

Impotence is baked into every one of these sorts of Twitch protests, and everyone is aware of that. But the show must go on. Gotta monetize that righteous indignation before someone else does.

Just like those nonsense “don’t pump gas for a day” boycotts, unless you’re willing to boycott for the long-haul (and take your audience with you) then don’t bother. They know you’ll be back tomorrow and ultimately the gesture appears performative over anything else you’re trying to achieve. Commit.

Did you even read his entire comment? Or did you full stop there so you can comment and be a dick?

Yup I feel that way. I’m too old to care about multiplayer, or seasons, or skins and cosmetics. I just want a game where I can chill after a long day of work with my buddies that I don’t have much time to see anymore. Every single game has issues on launch now. Can’t connect because the servers are overloaded, broken…