I mean, Daemon x Machina was sufficiently hyped until the gameplay was revealed to be...kind of one-note.

You’ve cracked the code.

“Soul games are hard, but almost never cheap.”

No, they’re really not. Especially once you figure out that ranged attacks basically cripples the AI of every enemy that A) isn’t a boss, or B) does not fight you in some kind of enclosed arena.

Oh, figuring out some of the better ways to break the game is certainly difficult; don’t get me wrong.

My biggest complaint is the crafting, but w/e. DS3 Convergence Mod is prepping me for that particular headache.

Exactly. Everything in the trailer is building off from previous games in the series, so the complaint that “It’s all the same” seems so ludicrous to me.

I’m actually surprised there haven’t been any mods to turn Gwyn into Trump, tbh.

That is absolutely fair! They can be super drags if you don’t really get into the nitty gritty of how to exploit them, imo.

“Rehash of everything FromSoft has already done.”

These games aren’t hard. They can be cheap, they can be unforgiving in terms of player-enemy balance, and they can be frustratingly unintuitive—but going a the magic route and taking things slow always, always, always nullifies 99% of the series so-called “difficulty”

The ungreying has to be done by an author or contributer, I believe. That’s what first got me ungreyed over on Kotaku and also what got me greyed again--an author disagreed with a point I made, and shortly afterward I was back in the land of the greys.

“When it comes to surviving the constant horrors of the decrepit mansion, the Journalist is almost entirely useless (ouch).”

You get a divorce and not be someone who consistently badmouths your partner, y’know. And you can be very much in love with someone who you decide to divorce later on; I know the internet is pretty black and white and lacking in common sense, but these things are not all mutually exclusive.

Don’t worry, this is just yet another article where the old heads at Kotaku scream at clouds because they don’t get why kids love X or Y thing.

“What’s the connect?”

Let me blow your mind even further: there are people out there, right on the cusp of adulthood or otherwise in their late 20s, who absolutely do not know a single thing about torrenting or where to find anything for free online without someone having taught them said skill through a tumblr post or tiktok.

In the context of: “Why might this streamer have been banned from several of the most anti-sex worker platforms that currently exist?”

My dude, there are people who get off on having someone sit on their head and fart on them. There are people who get off on seeing others play with, fondle, and pop balloons. There are people who get off on things like pictures of women with dicks coming out of their nipples that leak shit; people who get off to…

It’s because they gave him the Mark Twain award and then forgot to explain to him and the rest of the world that didn’t give him carte blanche to be an asshole.