Counterpoint: do not overkill bosses, instead make sure you turn Overkill off in the game options menu. Otherwise, if you do any significant amount of side-questing or exploration, you will rapidly outlevel the main quest content, and render all the climactic boss battles completely trivial, which rather spoils the…

Gems! Craft gems whenever you can. If you haven't found the materials for a certain level of a gem for a long time, check the next level—you can skip levels, and you might have already collected enough for the next one!

A lot of people are convinced they just ran a smoothing filter over the sprites, but that clearly isn’t the case as there’s a ton of added detail. I’m pretty sure they actually remade every single one in a higher definition

Eh, I’ve played too many indie games with the mechanical depth of a puddle and the insight of an Intro to Creative Writing student to feel the whole ‘indies rule, AAAs drool’ is anything more than the gaming of equivalent of a high schooler who just discovered Vonnegut and now fancies themself a dangerous intellectual.

but the game forces you to be a laborer, too.

Why CRT (proper phosphor pixel emulation, not just black scanlines) filters matter:

And then Borderlands 3 takes this one minute scene and makes it Vaughn’s entire personality. Hardly the most egregious example of bad writing in that game, which is why I’m not optimistic about this sequel at all.

Didn’t people like it because the writing was good actually? Seems like having it developed by Gearbox defeats the purpose. Imagine playing through Borderlands 3 but without the shooting and looting and only the cutscenes.

Dragon’s Dogma is an underrated classic.  Of course, I’m partial to any game that allows me to create a harem. 

Nioh 1 or 2.

I think Luke is referring to the obligation to defend copyright, not a moral stance. It’s an all or nothing gambit in the US. You either defend your copyright at all fronts or you allow projects without a license.

That savings never existed. I’m old enough to remember when the early move to digital involved promises that digital versions would provide savings ot the end user because they didn’t need to press discs. It’s just lies. Both PC games and Console were $50 in the PS2 era and $60 from 360 on.

I only tell them the DC if they keep hitting the wall. Especially if there is a bless or inspiration being used. 

I, for one, welcome our new Patricia overlord, and my hope for the future is that per her proclivities for articles, we get a lot more sexy articles trending on Kotaku in the near future. I personally am always fascinated and entertained in extremis when writers illuminate topics that are videogame relevant, but…

Well if there’s one thing the internet seems to love, it’s gatekeeping

One thing to keep in mind is that, as you get older, your time becomes more and more valuable.

Me: My Switch and PS4 backlogs are gross; I’m not buying anymore games until—

This survey has been conducted for 40 years, and it has shown that teenage spending in all categories peaked in the year 2006. Back then, $197 was the yearly average spent on handbags. Designer handbags! Bought by teenagers!

There’s a difference between getting a prosthetic arm to replace a limb, and willingly removing your entire face and parts of your brain to replace that stuff with cybernetic enhancements.

There is a lot of laws that says you are dead wrong on this.