Playing Forspoken right now, I’m in Chapter 7 and honestly it’s not bad. It’s not going to break into my GOTY Top 10, but I’ve played plenty worse games than this. And to be quite honest, Twitter poisoned the well that most people saying “game’s bad” haven’t played a minute of it, they’ve just seen the same three…

It’s probably a blessing Quidditch isn’t in the game. The accompanying quest where you would have to inspect the genitals of the players would have been really awkward

Employer: “we are perfectly allowed to remove ones’ ability to feed and shelter themselves and their families for any reason, at any time, and alter their entire lives, but if the people we inflict this upon use No-No Words in reaction to this, that’s just simply not tolerable”

And yet you’ll still get nerds on Twitter going “Fuckin’ Lazy Devs” if they get so much as a hint of a reused animation.

I always thought JRPG was just shorthand for "Kill God with the power of Friendship"

I love that I have 350+ hours in the game and still had absolutely no fucking clue about 90% of the story/people/events explained in the article. Is that what the Egg Hand Thing was in the Blood Place, with the Angry Blood Guy you get access to with the PVP Quest Badge from Strange Mask Man?

Bro is speed-running the Alt-right pipeline right now.

For the uninitiated, this is more evidence to consider that—when push comes to shove—Capitalism will always side with the regressive/Right regeimes when it comes to business.

I mean...it’s about both?  I think more words were devoted to the change in presentation than the 'ad' part, so I read that as a secondary/minor quibble but it sure seems to be hanging a lot of people up.

I think the main thrust of the commentary is more the difference between the eyes closed/imagination version, versus a fully functional game cabinet, but maybe I just didn’t get hung up on the right paragraph.

I enjoyed the ‘eyes closed’ version in the game, and the way that was done in Part 2 with Joel and Ellie in the Lunar Lander was a nice callback, especially since it seems like a lot of people skipped out on the first game’s DLC.

I can see how it might not have had the same impact for the TV show.

There is a very large “Western Game Devs hate pretty women!!” conspiracy theory among the reactionary nutjob crowd. Nicole in the Dead Space remake was accused of being like, 130 years old, and they’re currently raging at Guardians of the Galaxy because a promo poster doesn’t show Nebula’s boobies enough.

That comment from the studio reads like Adam West from family guy at a town hall.

Really calls into question the people who scream that only fans of X things should be the ones reviewing Y game. Seems like that tends to colour perspectives a bit more to the positive end on what would otherwise have been “Yet Another Open World Game, Hope You Like Bandit Camps!”

It could be Dina—and I feel it probably is—but the scene itself isnt that stand out-ish. It’s classic ‘kids in and isolated community curious about new visitor they dont see often’ scene. Like...village kids playing with/following around the foreigner that just showed up.   It's most likely Dina because it was a…

Kotaku Reviews are labeled Reviews.

This was labeled ‘Commentary’ right at the top. If you click in the “reviews” section in the header on the main page, you won’t find this article in there.   It’s....it’s pretty clear

Bro, it’s thusfar the largest release of 2023. Pretending it doesn’t exist is the opposite of what a games site should be doing. of course they’re going to give impressions on—and maybe review later once they’ve beaten—like they would do any other major release.

Like a caveman pounding the table shouting  “Does game GRAPHICS?!  How Good!?  What number!?”  

“but I wish they would see the value of the games crit ecosystem as not so much an extension of their own PR efforts to be gamed for positive buzz, but as a place that lifts up the medium of games as a whole by taking them seriously.”

I was hoping that at least the Kotaku Commentariat down here would be on board with…

A creative talent assosicated with a popular video game facing some form of consequences for the harm their real life words and deeds have? And the community is okay with that and not arguing at all?