It kinda bothered me too, because I feel that’s been weaponized in a lot of games. There is a fine line between what I consider predatory however and for the most part, Dark Souls just follows in the footsteps of games like the original Metroid and the original Zelda. Those were difficult games and memorization of an…

Used to agree on the Souls games (and it’s style of difficult), but after just sitting down, absent the bandwagon, I really don’t think they are as difficult as most people make them out to be. There is so much misinformation about these games too that the reputation is enough to dissuade people from even trying.

How is not accepting Hollywood’s shallow, quota meeting representations of LGBTQ+ and Black people and demanding something with more substance racist?

A tape library and autoloader aren’t that expensive in the grand scheme of things actually.

45TB, I typoed on the original writing of the comment. Still, incredibly impressive from 45TB to 576TB.

Yeah, TB, sorry, I typoed

Because you are the same people who cry out about whitewashing, but have no problems with blackwashing. It’s virtue signaling.

That being said, this doesn’t surprise me. Companies are well known for this kind of behavior. When value is solely numbers driven, it results in numbers-driven cuts.

Ground Zeroes is part of MGS5, but I never said they didn’t. Him being an egomaniac is something that happened gradually, but he’s been one for a long time.

Tomokazu Fukushima supposedly reigned in some of Kojima’s ego. The last game he worked on was MGS3.

Honestly, the voices and dialogue are so important to the experience that I don’t know if they could rerecord them or change them without seriously angering some of the existing fanbase. I can say that the rerecorded dialogue for Twin Snakes was not an improvement. It felt like it was recorded in a studio whereas the…

You’re visiting a website and Sisi writes for a website that puts money in the pocket of Jim Spanfeller. Do you need Kotaku to live? Neither you nor Sisi is more virtuous than anyone else.

You’re visiting Kotaku. How about Sisi? They work for Kotaku. Both are owned by GMG (G/O), which collects money off your clicks and off the work that Sisi and their peers work on. GMG is run by Jim Spanfeller and you and Sisi are helping to line his pockets. You’re a hypocrite. Why don’t you do better?

Honest question, but everything we pay for has some connection to someone terrible. You’re not being a friend to the LGBTQ+ community by trying to boycott a game or by harassing people who decide to play it or stream it. You’re simply trying to deify yourself as holier than thou.

One of the main reasons is value. Video games today often don’t feel like they are worth the cost in the end. When I played Factorio though, I felt guilty for how little I paid to buy the game considering how many hours I have clocked in on it.

In my opinion the trailer spells out exactly what it is about. Sounds to me like you aren’t the audience then if you’ve only played the games (and ‘a bit’ at that). But don’t worry. I’ll fill in the blanks you’re missing.

The new Suicide Squad was still leagues better than most of the other movies in the DCEU. It sounds like you haven’t heard yet, but Gunn is taking over the DCEU. They’ve appointed him in a creative position very similar to Marvel’s Kevin Feige. And I do feel he has the passion to right the ship, provided everyone…

For me, I think the answer is ‘yes’ to your question. I equate it to being an IT trainer/instructor.

Fahey was a mainstay of my Kotaku browsing for close to 10 years. He seemed like such an ‘everyman’ whereas everyone else tended to have a particular niche. I’d often find myself reading articles and watching videos completely out of my niche just because his charisma and enthusiasm was that magnetic regardless of…

Relatively easy to answer. A website like Plex or Home Depot is attractive for a hacker because you can get millions of users worth of data. The risk to reward ratio is worth the trouble. It’s basically a honey pot and ooh boy is there a lot of honey there with very little risk involved.