It is and isn’t. People take comp and team strategy much more seriously the higher you go, and you can’t avoid some salt being thrown your way. For the most part, as long as you’re playing your role on your team, you won’t get grief for specific picks. Explaining my picks (“This is the healer I’m good with,” etc) and…

There is the Black Mesa remaster, although it wasn’t by Valve. I also can’t remember if it’s finished or not yet... but that’s an option for PC.

Wow, this looks... really cool actually. There hasn’t been a good AAA co-op release in a while. I hope they can do something new with this that would make it worthwhile to get with a friend.

It’s a pretty minor thing imo. This game breaks recent Zelda formula pretty hardcore, so I wouldn’t relate this to your other Zelda experiences. It works well because you have to manage how you use your weapons. Between finding big bosses, tackling shrines, or the dungeons, you decide how you use the drops you get…

They’re making money using Nintendo property, it’s not pointless bullying. Sure the name is easy to pass up. But the costumes and Nintendo material being used to advertise and make money without their consent? That’s bad for business.

This is more of a topic for games like Call of Duty: Shinier Old Warfare. We’re getting new IPs, but the old ones will still hang around for a while. I feel like this is a fresh (although rebooted) take on an old IP that takes AAA development in a different direction. Most of X-Box’s other new IPs have flopped,…

True. On Vulkan AMD does well, and on DX11/12 NVidia does. I was just commenting on the charts you decided to provide.

No I think you made his point.... NVidia typically performs better.

Completely agree, the amount of content and updates we’ve gotten from them has been worth the asking price by far. Plus, the levels are amazingly designed! It has been worth the wait letting the episodic nature of this game pan out. I think they may have finally surpassed Blood Money.

Yeah, I kind of agree there. There are many different types of fantasy settings, and the barbarian one is pretty much like that. The game really pulls from that setting and it’s artistic direction really channels it well. At a certain point, we are asking the creators to change what they enjoyed making, as well as…

100 levels for 100 loot boxes now costs 200k less, which equals 20 levels. The math evens out here.

could we please shut the fuck about this on a site about video games? like you said Kotaku is doing decent enough job at not bringing it up. keep it to the sites you mentioned, and actually send an e-mail, or a real action item, to the people that can make the changes you so desperately feel are needed. a comment…

I can’t believe their EA overlords are letting them imply such ridiculous notions.

Exactly! Mark Brown actually has a great Gamemaker’s Toolkit episode on this, which explains what an “immersive sim” is and how it works, and how it lets you define your own stories free from scripted tracks. Hitman does an excellent job of this and Deus Ex is also bringing that formula back. Here’s the episode, I…

I definitely agree there. The pink flowers petals and lighter design give off that vibe. Delphox had a seemingly feminine design too, but this is the first water starter with a less masculine design that I’ve seen.

Whoops, my bad haha. I always get Mudkips’s evolutions messed up in my head. Thanks!

Haters gonna hate. I’m loving the new starter designs, and I think it’s awesome that we’re finally getting a more “feminine” Pokemon starter design, since as a water starter they’ve always end up as burly masculine Pokemon.

There’s a lane outside of the bus for vehicles that exceed it’s height limit.

“Update 2/27/2016: Fallout 4 and Dying Light come off the list, while Dark Souls 3 and Rise of the Tomb Raider make it on.”

Skyrim has a lot of VR mods for that sort of thing at least with cosmetic stuff, and there’s 3rd party software for integrating the head motion and look around into games. It’s a brand new hardware launch, so you’ll probably have to wait for bigger budget titles to start coming out that also support those kinds of…