It’s not “inane and pointless”. It’s manifestly obvious that the quality of gaming coverage on this site has cratered in the last two years, and this is an example that’s worth calling out.

Simple review roundups weren’t something Kotaku did much of in the past, unless something about the trend of those other reviews…

It’s also amazing to me that the headline tries to give the impression that the game has a lot of technical issues, when in fact Digital Foundry seems really impressed by what it pulls off, especially compared with past games in the series:

https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2022-xenoblade-chronicles-3-nintendo-sw…

Do you guys now just report on other reviews instead of writing your own? Is that what we’ve come to?

D&D? Wait, are you talking about Dunkin Donuts? Like... Dunk and Donuts?

Little Kitty, Big City is the one I know about (and have wishlisted). That one seems to carry more of an Untitled Goose Game vibe.

Gamers will adapt. Many of them. Some portion will go “Nah, not for me,” just as they have every other time control complexity has increased. Those people don’t adapt, they just drop off, and start thinking maybe gaming isn’t for them anymore.

And to lean into what WhatTheySaid said, your argument could be used to argue against technology that is now standard, like shoulder buttons, L3/R3 buttons, and control sticks.

It’s not “my” issue, it’s the issue of people I know. I don’t have any problem with the controls on my Deck. But show it to enough people and you’ll get a number of “that looks too complicated” comments. It’s fine for the kind of audience the Deck is aiming for, but to call other control schemes obsolete in its wake…

That isn’t what happens with everyone. You’re thinking of yourself and other serious gamers. There are whole generations of people who like games but who feel left behind with each one of the new standards you mention, young and old alike. Talk to enough people and you’ll meet lots of these.

Disagree.

That’s not how that works with these corporate maneuvers.

I don’t think they would’ve added Chris Meledandri to their board of directors if that were the case. For all we know, he helped orchestrate this purchase.

Yeah, I’m honestly tired of these headlines in liberal-leaning publications saying some right-wing loon was “eviscerated”. Even as a figure of speech they’re taking all the meaning out of it.

When I think about that term, I’m thinking about someone having a point made at them from which there is no escape, that sits…

Once and for all:

His first scene in that film was cringey and gave me an awful feeling about what I was about to watch, but it got significantly better after that.

She did the acting. It’s not her fault they decided to cut it. What’s so nuts about her getting paid for work she performed?

I remember this bizarrely funny interview he did on MTV with Thurston Moore where he would ask him a question and his answers were all non sequiturs, like throwing his shoe at the wall or something.

What I’ve heard is that the PC/PS versions aren’t full emulations but partial emulations, as in parts of the game run natively and parts in wrappers. And given how difficult Cell emulation is even on PC it wouldn’t surprise me if SE tried to get the games running natively on Switch and just couldn’t get satisfactory…

I’ve seen suggestions that while the KH ports from PS3 aren’t emulated per se, there may be certain parts of them that are. I have no idea how true this is.

It’s also worth noting that the KH ports aren’t ports of PS2 games, they are ports of the PS3 remasters, which were rebuilt from the ground up because all the PS2 assets were lost.