I noticed when Kotaku has a strong opinion of something, a lot of their content becomes super slanted to support it. For example, these ‘as told by steam’ are usually funny jabs and silly jokes. I would have expected more of ‘x happened and the physics went ha ha’ and less steam reviews that are just quoting an actual…

It would also be technically very hard to do (or at least a lot of expensive work). The effort of making gravity different in every location is offset by tuning gameplay and physics to a single “vehicle” (the player). Motor-vehicles typically have much more complicated collision and varying size, and would multiply…

Curious how many people hate Starfield simply for being a Bethesda game. Nobody bats an eye when Blizzard, or EA, or Naughty Dog, or Bioware, or almost every other developer on the planet creates derivative content, but Bethesda gets raked over the coals for it. Why is that?

I think it’s important to highlight the negative reviews, especially the ones that give specific reasons instead of just “expected more from Bethesda in 2023" or the like. I also think it’s important to point out (and I think it’s a bit disingenuous that it wasn’t in the article) that despite the number of negative…

Imagine a game. Its soon-to-be hero, of unknown but mutable name and gender, awakens with a start, only to suddenly be thrust into a grand adventure in a larger world. The budding hero doesn’t miss a beat, quickly becoming powerful, joining various factions, and solving mysteries and completing quests across the…

I’m just glad all the stupid “who’s Marrok” theories are dead now. Most of them were completely dumb. He is exactly who I thought he was from the beginning, just another leftover nameless inquisitor.

Gamers complain when the games are different (WHY CANT BIOWARE JUST MAKE ANOTHER DRAGON AGE ORIGINS WITH THE SAME TACTICAL COMBAT? WHY ASSASSINS CREED AN RPG NOW AND WHY AM I NOT IN THE MIDDLE EAST WITH A HOOD AND ROBES) and gamers complain when they’re the same (WHY DOES UBISOFT KEEP MAKING THE SAME ASSASSINS CREED…

I’ve never played FromSoftware games, but just from watching gameplay videos “wildly different” is not a phrase I’d use to describe Bloodborne, Sekiro, and Elden Ring. They look pretty same-y to me. 

Bethesda RPGs will always have similar mechanics.
Final Fantasies will always have similar motifs.
Pokemons will always have similar progress structures.

“In Bethesda RPGs you are almost always the most powerful, [etc] ... Everyone needs your help. ... And weirdly, it seems like everyone in these games knows this and will pester you for all their problems big or small.”

Not sure what the point of this article is. They make great games that people love and clamor for more of, so they are giving their fans what they want. Just like Rock Star with GTA, From Software’s souls-like games, etc.

Yay someone validated your preconceived notions

This seems an odd complaint in a world with 22 Call of Duty games and 40 Madden games.

Bethesda is being lambasted here for putting out simulation RPGs (which nobody else in the industry really does mind you) while Larian is being heralded everywhere as a savior of video games for putting out a CRPG, a style of game that was well established even before Bethesda started making their RPGs almost 30 years…

here they present it less like contradicting factions and more like citizenships (which you can have dual citizenship irl too).

Pledging to multiple ones also lets you act as a double agent if you want, so in this case consequences do exist.

And you cant be multi-theistic. so you can only pick one of the three religions…

a new code base with different gameplay mechanics and RPG systems.

“The game auto-saves but it’s not foll-proof. It’s a Bethesda game, after all.”

He’s not apologizing for asking the question, he’s decently apologizing for the media furor it caused, because all he wanted was an answer, not to become the story. That DeSantis’ team then Streisand-ed the situation is not his fault.

“I did not expect Starfield to have so many useless items lying about that I could pick up and do absolutely nothing with.”

Did you know you can pick up almost everything in real life too? That doesn’t mean you have to.