Yeah the takeaway from this is NOT that single player games are in trouble. There were lots of other potential reasons (aside from quality) why this failed:

Man this game is just not the one any of us fell in love with and I’m glad I stopped playing

Might as well call it “We Can’t Get the Multiplayer Spin-Off Working and Need an Influx of Cash to Make Up For It: The Game”

There is a run button. It’s not fast running, but it’s definitely there.

Sir, you don’t understand. He took MONEY. From RICH people.

This man committed a crime and confessed to it. There’s no debate there, and he served an appropriate amount of time behind bars.

The sad part about this is that in 10 years when Microsoft makes CoD and as many Activision titles as they can exclusive, all the people I would come back here to dance around singing “we told ya so, told ya so!” Wont care because deep down they KNOW that’s exactly what’s going to happen, and they dont care.

What’s wrong with living at home? Wages are shit, and housing prices/rent costs are soaring. Living at home, while not ideal, saves quite a bit of money if everyone pools their resources together.

Horizon is still being called an RPG..? Surprised Midnight Suns and Dying Light 2 aren’t on the list. Or Grounded. 

Yeah, it seems like a bad take to view this at all as a “win” for domestic violence victims. Kotaku has, over the years, continued to “stand by” Amouranth in a way that (at this point) feels almost purely symbolic. Defending and rationalizing their disproportionate coverage of her has become a stand-in for an implicit…

It's not just LGBT people. Hate crimes can happen to anyone who isn't the norm. How about people with disabilities too? 

Yo, hey, fuck you for the jokes about how “oh, it’s all white people, lol how can there be hate crimes”

““I got this wrong, and I take responsibility for that.””

No, Mark, you are making 11,000 other people take responsibility for that. You are taking no responsibility.

This. Lived experience is something of a double-edged sword in some instances.

“Where’s everyone going? The tavern?”

I still don’t get why “spoiler culture has shaped our discussion of our favorite games, shows, and movies” is either bad or up for debate. A large part, one could even say the bulk of fiction (even material that isn’t explicitly a ‘mystery’) is set up to where certain story beats work much better if you don’t know…

At this point, it feels like some AAA titles are more interactive movies than video games. Don’t get me wrong, that scene between Valeria and Alejandro is tense, well scripted, and the graphics are incredible. I would watch this movie, even though I’m not usually a huge fan of the genre. I’m not sure I want to play…

There are still people in the US or EU that live financially closer to someone in Argentina. But because they live in the US, they must pay 20 bucks ‘because of the economy’. And to top it off, you call them ‘scum’ for trying to find a cheaper yet LEGAL way to enjoy something.

Because you had a prophecy that a decade later they would do something like this? Can I have upcoming lotto numbers? 

Imagine someone used to rob banks. Then a new bank claims that they got robbed, they don’t have any proof if the robbery actually happened or who it was, but they blame the same guy because “he used to rob plenty of banks before”. It shouldn’t work like that.

Niemanm is being 100% sketchy, but I still think the…