Yes. So much this. I was going to ditch it after III (bought on preorder) but got Black Flag on a summer sale. It was even more of this abomination! I was so enraged I didn’t even bother with Unity despite being told there are no ships and the city is beautiful.

I see ships, naval battles and running on trees instead of landmark buildings. I.e. exactly the cancer that killed Assassin’s Creed for me. Not buying this praise, sorry.

Interesting. I never kept a note which studio made which movie but always thought that Pixar were the biggest thing in 3d cartoons. Turns out they aren’t actually behind the most popular ones.

I must say collecting green things that often come with a little puzzle attached is way more fun than breeding chocobos

I dunno, it was one of the most fun parts of the game for me. Especially the ones where you have to match the upper part of “?” with something green and round in the environment.

Arkham Knight is a shit game because between any two meaningful things to do you have to kill a dozen of tanks. It wasn’t even fun the first time, by the 3rd fight it became an unbearable chore.

Guys. 7 animated gifs on front page? Seriously? Good thing I opened Kotaku on my office workstation which has 8-core cpu and 64 gigs of memory. iPad or smartphone would probably have exploded, this one just had the scrolling become a bit less smooth.

It also stopped accepting my credit card for no reason. They started a huge JRPG sale and I put everything I didn’t yet have in my basket, worth about $100(not that much, but I already own most of JRPGs). But I wasn’t able to buy them. Well, their loss, I already have about a dozen games in my queue.

So, you go into special effort to make square watermelons. Some effort is also required for square bread - otherwise it would have been round or flat. And then you make them to look like one another.

Actually, Zelda NOT being a JRPG is rather an exceptional convention than a ‘by definition’. The zelda-like games of the 90s - Beyond Oasis, Alundra, you name it - were classified as JRPGs with hardly any room for doubt. But for Zelda it would seem like there were a secret commandment - “thou shall not call Zelda a…

Nah, that was easy. After a little while it was, in fact, easier than ‘on-foot fighting’ levels - just memorize the obstacles and that’s it. The snakes level and escape from giant rolling things level though. Never got through one of them(don’t remember which one came first).

Ok, I can’t resist this anymore. Why do many seemingly calm sentences in Ashcraft’s articles (usually in the introductory paragraphs) end in exclamation marks? Is this something that happens to your writing style when you live in Japan for a rather long while? Or write for Kotaku - I think I saw something in Fahey’s…

Best news of all E3 so far.

Did it? I thought it was deep in the red IMO

Excuse me, but could you please look it up in the dictionary? Oh well I did it for you:

My predictions: when this fails in sales, someone in Square management will use this example as his leverage to switch to mobile completely. Why would it fail? This is surely a very expensive game to remake so it’ll have a hard time breaking even - even if it does OK by remake standards. And I’m not even sure it will…

I find this comment hilarious. Expecting price matching when it hasn’t been explicitly offered is the very definition of ‘entitled'.

I’m quite sure developers of Age of Decadence aren’t a business ‘first and foremost’, been following Vince for almost 10 years by now.

Now that’s beyond ridiculous. Maybe if it’s some expensive mineral water but they don’t usually sell that in vending machine.

That rent figure is ridiculous. Why would you move away from California and still pay over $2000 per month. Did he rent a palace or something?