Counterpoint: do not overkill bosses, instead make sure you turn Overkill off in the game options menu. Otherwise, if you do any significant amount of side-questing or exploration, you will rapidly outlevel the main quest content, and render all the climactic boss battles completely trivial, which rather spoils the…

Let me provide a counterpoint, which is that adding what you claim are neccessary accessibility features to an old title does not justify releasing it again at a £70 price point, instead of patching them into one of the two previous releases. To say that this version of it needs to exist is to legitimise this…

This game must have prevented layoffs,

Hrm. Wikipedia shows an average internet connection speed of about 182 MB/s download rate in China. Let’s round up to 200, since we can probably assume that our hacker has a better than average connection. At 200 MB/s, it would take a little under 32 hours to download 23 TB, which is not to me entirely implausible.

Sorry, do you single-handedly run Kotaku, then? Or did you post this article outside of the 12 hours you spend running some other website?

Quantic Lab upper management allegedly instituted a “bug quota” policy that required each individual tester to submit no less than 10 bugs per day.

I have zero sympathy for the giant multimillion dollar corporation, and I only hope that they can use this as leverage to make Youtube reform their absurdly abusable copyright strike system.

I think part of the difference between NMS and Anthem is that NMS does something unique, but Anthem was almost painfully generic. Flying power-suits aren’t enough to elevate what was ultimately a bog-standard looter-shooter into something which people could see promise in.

I am fucking sick to death of the excuse that “crunch is inevitable” being used to justify months of ten hour days and six day weeks.

This is the problem I increasingly have with charities which collect for medical research. Finding a cure for cancer, or heart disease, or Alzheimers is great, but until we have better socialised healthcare, all we’re doing is finding ways to prolong the lives of the rich. A cancer cure that costs $11,000 per dose is…

I don’t have a great answer to that either. It’s indisputable that that would be a different set of circumstances, and I’d agree that the moral weight of that crime would be greater than what we have here. But as you say, how one might address that in law is an open question.

You keep repeating that like you think we do not understand this. We do. The problem is that putting someone in jail is a wildly disproportionate punishment for selling ROMs.

“many of the things that make it special”, buddy, if you think that 1) being a platform exclusive and 2) doing neat stuff with the controller are many things that were special about it IDK what to tell you.

Hm. I can see what you mean about the bullet-hell aspect of it, but I found that the satisfaction of that was undercut for me by the fact that I think... Four out of six? of the bosses don’t move. So the “maintaining aim” bit of the gameplay was kind of lacking.

I’m genuinely interested as to why you say that. What about it stands out for you? And what other shooters are you comparing it to, if I may ask? Like I said, I thought it was a perfectly good game, but it really didn’t stand out for me, and I’d love to know what it was that made it so special for you.

I have to disagree. Returnal is a perfectly decent game, but it’s solidly B-tier as far as I’m concerned. IMO if it had come out on PC and wasn’t a platform exclusive, and didn’t do such a good job showcasing the DualSense, it would have disappeared into the general crowd of good-but-not-great shooters with ~85% on…

No, it’s being a poor human. Some of the greatest strengths of the human species are adaptability and growth, and the ability to adjust to changes in circumstances.

Okay, speaking as someone who has no fucking idea what “mooninites” are, looking at that thing in the picture, explain why it would be racist of me to think that was a bomb? Fucking stupid yes, because it’s very clearly just a weird figure made of little lights or something, but why would it be racist?

You know what, never mind.

You know, if outlets like Kotaku stopped reporting on this shit, he would fade into the irrelevance he deserves. I had successfully forgotten he existed until I saw this. :/