“we got a gaming system to parent our kid and now he’s fat and stupid!” - these terrible parents probably.

you’re hitting on something i think is endemic in the current critical space: that some bloggers don’t come with the same energy when it’s either expected or required. i can’t speak for everyone else of course but whenever i write about a company that has a history of known malpractice i always try to mention that in…

I’m gonna start taking bets. Kotaku took a hard stance shitting on Hogwarts Legacy repeatedly because “JK Rowling bad”.

The plot and characters are so bad. I'm nearing the end and I do not care if a single one lives or dies except insomuch that I need them in the battles.

I tried with Engage, I really did. And I’ve played and completed every single English Fire Emblem since the OG GBA one. But Engage is the most unoriginal game in the series that I can’t find myself engaging(heh) with the game at all.

You are definitely missing some of the best Disney villains out there. I get you’re counting the live action and animated as two separated characters/villains, but you could have just said Maleficent and Cruella once and put on others, like Frollo from the Hunchback of Notre Dame or Ratigan from The Great Mouse…

This is why I never preorder, never buy a game day 1 no matter how much I'm looking forward to it. No franchise is immune to releasing a broken game, and I'd rather not waste my time on a disappointment.

Wow, way to take a couple of sentences out of context and get fake rage baited. For anyone reading this, read his ENTIRE quote. He says:

Congratulations, you just did better journalism than the actual journalist writing this article.

I am not gonna get caught up in this until the game releases but that quote was limited and the full quote makes a bit more sense

I’m the same. I told myself I wouldn’t buy above retail price. Then I was at my parent’s house and saw HSN(the Home Shopping Network) was selling a PS5 plus a year of PlayStation Plus for $850. I jumped on it immediately since I knew it was at least legit. I’m not proud of it, but at least I have one now.

Oh fuck off...

King Games. a la Candy Crush. https://www.king.com/corporate-and-media

Cyberpunk explicitly mimicked a series of flashing lights designed to inflict seizures on epileptic people and didn’t provide any warning about it; that’s just slightly different from “Video games are made of lights that flash” and saying that it isn’t is at best disingenuous (but mostly just a very stupid thing to…

Oh man. The Gameboy Advanced was such a great system. I had the original, but my parents got tired of buying batteries, so they bought me the SP.

“You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”

I told myself the same thing right up until I broke down and bought one off Facebook Marketplace for the bargain price of $850. I’m not proud of it and, admittedly, I feel slightly violated but dammit I have a PS5 at least. 

Counterpoint: No.

As is usual with these sort of things, this probably means they have plans for their own Mario hardcore xxx game.

No, what they are saying is that, with the sheer amount of content in the game, 100% the game in 100 hours is pretty crazy. I'm like 50% through the fist Adventure map(out of 6 or 7) and I'm over 100 hours alone. Even if you don't count A rank mission in Adventure, you still have to beat some maps more than once, so…