That’s just not enough for me, personally, though. I’d actually be OK if they just had specific characters you had to purchase as DLC.  I’m just not a fan of any actual content, even if it’s just side quests, that rely on luck from a gacha pull. I’m also not a fan of random chance when the stakes are real money,…

As someone who still has all the games from my first console, the NES, I get this point of view, but at the same time, the copies we buy today are pretty much garbage versions of the game. Once the servers go offline and you can’t patch the disc copy anymore, the quality of the game dramatically decreases. Companies…

I really love the aesthetics of these games, but I can’t think of many game mechanics that turn me off a game faster than gacha.

There is a tonal disconnect between Adam looking like a normal human and the girls all having anime eyes in that trailer.

Wii Sports was a pack-in for much of the life of the Wii, though, so most people didn’t really go buy a copy.  A better example would probably be Wii Sports Resort, which sold 33 million copies independent of the system itself.

It’s definitely one of the dumber ones as stereotypes go. I’m aware of it, but it’s one of those weird stereotypes that I understand the origin, but it’s still weird to me that it caught on. It’s not like white people don’t eat a bunch of fried chicken and watermelon. Hell, I half live off of watermelons when they’re…

I didn’t realize something happening in the past was grounds to dismiss a suit.  I imagine the backlog of court cases should drop drastically now that we no longer have to consider things that have already happened.

Do Apple users want this?  I hate the walled garden, it’s a major reason I use Android.  It always seemed a pretty big selling point for iOS though.

Nintendo can get away with it, though.  First-party IP often doesn’t dip below $50.  I’m betting this is half off within the first few months.

They could start by eliminating the nonsense tiers.  No one in the history of the earth has successfully mined ore with a wooden pickaxe.  Or, for that matter, punched down a tree with their bare hands.  That disconnect from reality always pulls me out of these games.  I don’t even like it in Minecraft, though I do…

If Aerith has future knowledge, her hesitation makes sense.  As it stands, despite losing her life, she would know that Cloud’s side ultimately wins against Sephiroth.  Changing things by destroying the whispers doesn’t necessarily mean that won’t happen, but it would mean making everything uncertain again.

Seeing as how we’re in the worst timeline, incoming announcement of Bobby Kotick as new President of Activision Blizzard.

I’m pretty meh on open world games these days, and the addition of the live service elements really just drags that down further.  I’d probably check it out if it were on Game Pass, but those factors mean I won’t be buying a copy.

I think that assumes that a lot of people reading Kotaku weren’t already predisposed to avoiding the game, though. It’s a site with a liberal bent, so a lot of people reading it are likely to agree with a lot of their coverage. Telling a bunch of people who probably weren’t going to buy the game not to buy the game…

To be honest, I generally avoid physical games these days unless there’s a good sale on it. I actually prefer when a physical release comes out after the game, with all the patches built in, as part of a CE or something. I’d rather have a future-proofed version than a gimped one.

Yeah, you are immensely overestimating the influence this site would have had on sales in general. The average person isn’t paying the slightest attention to news sites (or blogs, in this case) or JKR in general, and the Harry Potter universe already had a massive fan base. I don’t believe Kotaku would have swung the…

Literally the reason I never bought one.

SE could sell a copy to every person on the planet and somehow still be disappointed at their performance.

It won’t be $70 forever, either.  I don’t expect it to hit $20 anytime soon, but $40-$50 will likely show up over the next year.