Some of these names are silly, some are dumb, some don’t really make sense, others are too generic

Thank you. The indoctrination theory is refuted by in game evidence. Namely the Prothean VI’s which can detect indoctrination and seem to love to announce it. That would literally mean Shepherd was indoctrinated in the final battle. And the first game explicitly points out that rapid indoctrination results is…

It’s been ten years and I still hate the Indoctrination Theory.

Rational Me: “Bioware isn’t what it used to be, the recent departures were an even more clear sign of that, and given that it appears to be Liara in that trailer it means that there’s going to be a lot of ME3 related branches that are going to be an utter nightmare to tie up. I don’t see a way they can do it without…

He was minor in DA:O, but fans liked him. So he came back as the right hand of Knight Commander Meredith, and fans liked him even more. His role grew through each game, but he was never a party member.

He was forgettable in DA:O. You meat him trapped in a bubble, and he tries to convince you to kill the mages. You can talk him down or fight him. Other than meeting him after clearing the tower he doesn’t really do anything of import.

In DA2, he is in the templar order for the city your in (forget the name). You can…

It’s weird that despite all the cyberware you can get in the game, nothing will let you change from Penis 1 to Penis 2.  You’d think, diagetically, that would be a surgery people would be interested in!

I mean, Luke’s not saying this is a fatal problem with the game or anything, just that it’s amusing that a game where you can swap out body parts doesn’t let you get a haircut.

As someone else said on reddit “I went to google where to change my looks when i decided i wanted different hair, not to google whether it was even possible in the game as it was absolutely expected to be.”

Ah, I see now. The title on the browser tab (at least for me) doesn’t jive with the actual post title.

I can’t wait for the “Get Politics Out Of My Media” brigade to descend on yet another genre with its roots in material analysis.

“It never even mentions it’s an FPS!”

Did... did you not know that it’s an FPS?

Like, I don’t get this obsession with reviews adhering to some tech-spec standard. This (clearly) isn’t a consumer review (nor a review at all, as the piece mentions), and if you WANT some of that stuff, why do you need it here as opposed to…

great write-up! so nice to see such quality and from your individual perspective. mainstream videogames journalism is much more alive and well than i had been thinking recently.

If y’all wanted a pseudo-objective 9/10 “this game really makes you feel like a cyberpunk” review, you can just go to IGN, or Gamespot, or all the other websites that already do that. Criticizing the writer’s impressions article for being about their subjective and personal experiences with the game is missing the…

‘Night City is also covered top to bottom in boobs, from advertisements to poledancers to sex clubs...the sexualization of the world feels juvenile.’ 

Wow. Judging by the comments, people who get mad if you think games aren’t art sure get mad when you review and discuss games like any other art form.

This piece represents why I read Kotaku. Number crunching reviews are a dime a dozen. I want artistic analysis from people with unique perspectives.  

3 outfits gave it a score of 100. JFC. That’s saying it’s a perfect game. Almost no game deserves that. I hate that games reviewing has somehow ended up at anything below 85 is trash to everything is squished together in a 15 point spread. 

They’re running it on a PC, pre-day 1 performance patch, so any performance metrics are gonna be pretty useless. They tried to get a console code and couldn’t. 

See I’m still looking forward to the game but the diversity stuff detailed is exactly what I expected. It’s seemingly an improvement on the source material and comparative games but still not exactly a vast demonstration of escaping tropes.