All of this goes to show what a smashing good deal buying digital games directly from the big game companies when they go on sale really is. It also demonstrates why buying shares of GameStop makes you a member of a religion and not an investor.

I still remember years ago when Kotaku was attacking Gamestop for bad business practices. Then covid happened and they doubled down with their anti-worker and often illegal violations of lockdown rules. Then when everyone had just accepted that Gamestop deserved to die, the meme stock rush happened — then put a ton of…

He didn’t say they were lying about the incident *being* an error. He is asking for more clarification on the *nature* of the error. Probably something like: Was this a new feature being tested that got leaked? How did it come about that timely, live advertisements are tied to in-game button presses? What about…

Pretty much. Fortnite is the biggest offender, but you didn’t mention it for some reason? The thought of shooting at a cartoon Banana while cosplaying as Alan Wake seems so discordant. Or Chun-Li sniping Ellen Ripley? It’s obnoxious and diminishes the original properties. Shoehorning in the cameos into MK11 actively…

The real question is: does she actually talk like that all the time? “It makes my brain kaboom” sounds like toddler talk.

Those matches can be frustrating, but that’s not the same as being stressful.

The pressure for perfect/optimal play is a lot higher when a single death is the difference between your team winning or losing, as opposed to a steamroll match where a single death is just padding the other team’s lead. 

More that it’s easy to look at creator faced brands like this and question them directly why they’re leveraging the parasocial relationship they’ve built with their communities to do something which appears to be intended to take as much advantage as they can of said community.

It is not inflation though, the pandemic excuse for companies being supply constrained and the shortages has ended a good while ago. Prices should have gone down but greedy companies have kept the prices up anyway as much as possible.

The entire subculture of streaming is hot garbage.

I can’t help but feel this is the dumbest story I’ve read about all week.

This is genuinely pathetic. The Part One remaster was barely justifiable so soon after the release of the PS4 remaster, but at least that was actually updating it for a new platform. Part Two is already one of the best looking games on the PS5; asking people to pay another $70 (because you fucking know it’s not gonna…

I too would like to see a return of Set Gear in D4 but there would have to be strict caveats. For example:

Too little too late. They’d have to do a dozen things to fix the game to bring me back. I posted this awhile ago on a different post but it got no traction so I’ll post it again.

This. I don’t think I’ve even heard that they fixed all the basic problems and omissions yet. Honestly I will (unfortunately) probably pick it up when they release a new class - but until then I’m avoiding it, since I don’t want to be annoyed by their unwillingness to finish the game before releasing it.

Not likely! If they wanted this game to eat my life for more than two weeks they should have had it fixed before releasing it. I understand it’s a lot better now, but I’ve moved on. 

I’ve played every From Software soulsborne to completion, they’re quite literally my favorite kind of game. I stopped playing Lies of P after the church boss fight, the experience wasn’t clicking with me. A large part of that was that the attack timing, speed, enemy placement, and aiming of the red enemy attacks, just…

The guy you want to be mad at is Jim Spanfeller and private equity firm Great Hill Partners

I’m pretty sure that wasn’t willingly put there by Zack.

If you’re coming out with a live-service game at this point you’re basically showing up for the California Gold Rush in 1855. You just sold everything you had and moved across the country for nothing.

Yeah, but the huge problem with your claims are that the movement, responsiveness, balance, etc. of Lies of P is very sub-par compared to the Souls games. So a lot of the difficulty feels purely artificial. Aping Dark Souls or Bloodborne is one thing, doing it well is another.