Do you think From Software “didn’t realize” that you would like the game more that way? They made a choice to create the kind of game they wanted to - it’s a little condescending to say that they just haven’t ‘realized’ how you want to play the game.

I love how the message here is “You are enjoying it wrong.” I mean - I didn’t like Elden Ring because of its difficulty, but I fully understand that there are people out there who enjoy the difficulty and enjoy it more because it’s non-optional. Why would I try to tell them they’re enjoying it wrong, and that Easy…

I keep thinking back to this and being disappointed that it didn’t do better - I was one of the ones that it worked fine for, and while it wasn’t perfect, it was in parts the most cyberpunk game of many that have passed by these last few years, and one of the prettiest open-world games - I stopped and looked at the…

The real fun is in watching the sanctimonious bottom feeder jerkoffs who follow the people actually trying to explain themselves.

When you lose your byzantine reddit argument and end up taking it to Kotaku out of frustration

All you know about that character is that he's a soldier, and you decided that it was right to call him a fascist, and the reviewer who has played the game doesn't understand that soldier = fascist? Way to be exactly the kind of person they were referring to...

Very good review, though unfortunately it makes me uninterested in the game. Just one question - “Exocolonist is a choose-your-own-adventure game with some exploration elements. Every month, you choose what kind of activity that you’ll be spending Stress points in.” That doesn’t sound like CYA, that sounds like a manag…

What’s the part in the Kotaku style guide that says games have to be called GotY contenders, even if they’re so buggy you can’t get past the first boss? I mean sure, every game is a GotY contender, but really...

We love a boss, don’t we folks? We really love ‘em, we really do. Love it when they fire folks, yessir, nothing like it. They tell me- you know, they tell me they love to be fired - they come up to me, big grown men with beautiful faces, and you know what they say? Thank you.

I thought you Americans called anybody who looks like that and is named Vitellaro ‘Italians’?

The absurdist in me hoped that the package would be full of 70-year old Pokemon cards

...no it doesn’t. It means joy at someone else’s misfortune. Schade - bad luck, misfortune, Freude - joy.

“Barbara Jones, founder and CEO of Outshine Talent, a talent management agency that works with influencers, told Gizmodo in an email that the situation elicited a “huge eye roll” from her.” That is probably the most useless sentence I’ve read today. Why on earth would we need to hear from some influencer PR grifter…

The reason it was even brought up in the article is that Kotaku first proudly declared that Kimberley was the first black woman in street fighter, and then the author spent an unexpected amount of effort to try to defend that statement.

Wow! The first black character in a video game!

Intense Bangs VII review when though?

Every article needs a Rising Super quote for quality purposes.

Do people make this insane argument outside of gaming? “I don’t get why they spent a million dollars to make 100 million dollars; they could have spent a million dollars to make 1.1 million dollars!” That’s not how corporations work, that’s not even how people work.

No you didn’t. For you to make that argument, you’d have to also show how many reviews a typical game gets. If the average game gets as many reviews per download as D:I (in a similar time since release) but on average ends up with a 3 or higher ranking, that’s a relevant difference.

You say that like it’s not completely reasonable. If an IP has represented a specific game experience, then seeing the next chance at more of that game experience turn into something worse will be frustrating. There’s no need to complain about the existence of gacha games when they’re doing their own thing, but if the…