Just goes to show that backwater ignorance isn’t specific to any particular country.

Given that they’re also _driving a race car down a track at maximum speed_ while trying to manage all those controls, I think I’d be requesting a macro feature

Am I the only one who thinks half the characters in this game are *unbearably* annoying?

I read Kotaku enough that I would pay a small monthly fee.

It sounds more like the cost of graphics. This game’s aesthetics - which they made premature promises about in that first demo - look truly next-gen. I’d bet that they explain nearly all of these cuts. For nearly a decade we’ve had sprawling open worlds with roving creatures, emergent scenarios, and side-quests you…

I’m not someone who’s prone to compulsion or addiction, but I’ve had exactly one (lesser) experience like this. I main Pharah in Overwatch, and when I first learned of her Mecha skin, I wanted it so badly. At first I just did a bunch of grinding for boxes, but I eventually spent around $20 on a string of loot boxes…

Those dynamically-lit glossy backgrounds in the dark area really interrupted the illusion

“It has been my great fortune to work with and be mentored by Reggie for four years at Nintendo of America,” Bowser said.

It’s The Witness all over again.

Even setting aside the stock options, how someone could make a million dollars a year and then also consume ten other people’s potential salaries is beyond me.

The important thing is that it’s not pay-to-win, but is anybody else offended to a lesser degree just by how incredibly contrived these systems always are? Why are there multiple types of currency? For god’s sake, why is there a crafting system? It’s just a pointlessly complicated way of unlocking things…

This is why they’re usually treated as separate categories; they’re fascinating in two different ways and take two different kinds of skill.

No kidding. The Switch’s interface is just so... functional. I don’t want my game console to feel like an Android tablet, especially my Nintendo one.

You left out one of the classics:

What a time to be alive.

I’d be curious to know how many of those assets were made by the dev vs commissioned vs purchased in an asset store

Oh dear, that screen-shake is... too much. I don’t normally get motion sick, but I did a bit from watching that trailer.

Jeff Kaplan continuing in is role as our collective Game Dad

More likely it’s a startup that’s having trouble staying afloat, and doesn’t work too hard to prevent false-positives when it comes to detecting cheaters because it means less money that they have to pay out.

I swear, every Kinja website other than Kotaku has become a bottomless vat of vitriol. And I’m not even talking about the comment section. And I don’t even disagree with the actual premise of this article.