Maybe they’re part German and that’s actually all one item.

“Pike getting more and more exhausted by the pair”
This part had me belly-laughing throughout the show because his frustration was both comedic but also completely understandable. It also gives an idea of how frustrated the Cerritos command crew gets with these lower-deckers.

I also loved the little genuine smile that…

But the focus on young Uhura, Spock, Chapel, as well as Pike? It just sucked the energy out for me. I get the arcs they’re developing, but I just don’t have any interest in prequel stuff, and that prequel stuff was the main focus of the SNW side of things...

It made me really want to catch up on Lower Decks before Season 4 starts, because I’ve always been charmed by that show’s energy, even though the pilot wasn’t all that great (...to be fair, across all of Trek, I think the only legitimately good first episode has been DS9's Emissary, and even that’s being generous).

Oh, hell yeah. This Nurse Chapel is getting her heart broken to tiny, tiny bits, and both she and us knows that was what was going to happen....

The more physical layers between capital-g Gamers and the air people have to breathe is a good thing.

This whole article is just ad-copy, there no analysis nor criticism. The article doesn’t even adress the question in it’s title.

I feel like most Kotaku writers are doing this now.

what?? every other AAA game is open world and tons and tons of devs go for gigantic spaces that cause games to take sometimes hundreds of hours to explore! this isn’t innovative in the least.  that said, most of ubisofts worlds are fetch collectathons...i mean, how about some quality over quanitity.

But man, there aren’t that many devs out there just putting out games with bottomless pits of content

Ugh, that really isn’t a selling point. It means the maps will be full of pointless filler and chests to fill the space out. It was that tedium that made me give up on AC: Valhalla.

For now.

And when it happens—when Acti goes the way of Bethesda and being a Microsoft only studio—the same people who were saying it will never happen are going to say “well of COURSE this was going to happen, it’s a great financial decision, why would you think it wouldn’t?”

Unfortunately, I’m not petty enough to…

She came back so fast that half of the “fridging” essays were still in rough draft form.

IT IS TIME, Death said.

They think doing this will get them coverage.  It has.  Would never have heard of this game otherwise.

Look, I've had this game on my Steam wishlist for a long, long time. I'm just happy it has a release date.

So they think people are going to be done with BG3 in a week? Or that BG3 won’t still be sucking up all the media attention?

Can we start with mandating labeling caffeine content on the packaging? A lot of things do but it’s hidden around the side somewhere. Maybe on the nutrition label, and with additional labeling required at a specific size on the front of the packaging once it’s over a certain amount per serving.

Or, like, put less caffeine in it.