I feel like Destiny 2 runs solely on Stockholm Syndrome these days.

Almost every game has a tutorial. But most games don’t have tutorials that last 20 goddamn hours (and can be skipped if you pay money.)

I see you skipped the part where they outlined all this can be skipped if you pay $40, literally demonstrating it is nothing but F2P grind bullshit.

The objective was just weird to begin with. They’ve never demanded that people do the Master-level activity for weekly story progression. Not sure what they were thinking here.

I’m not a regular CoD player, but I have played in the past. Any action game that requires you to stare at a minimap is lame. It always sucks to feel like “oh I didn’t know that guy was there cause I wasn’t staring up at the corner of the screen”.

It is clear that there’s a higher catering to casual players with Infinity Ward’s games, and also clear that they believe casual players enjoying the game is more important than the hardcore player experience.

Lightfall’s Deluxe Edition jacking up the price by $20 over Witch Queen’s Deluxe Edition is pretty shitty. Your pointedly misleading title is worse, Adrian, and speaks to wider issues proliferating on Kotaku and throughout journalism as a whole.

Good lord this may actually be the most historically inaccurate statement of all time.

Yes, there were no problems after the Monarchy was overthrown Please don’t google the Napoleonic Wars. Whole country was on vacation for the early 1800s. Nothing to see here.

You could have written this without being vile. Nobody comes here for political opinions. Report on the games, and the news. Don’t put snarky comments in for your own self-satisfaction. Regardless of the huge number of flaws around them, a number of people are saddened by a loss and you writing like this is vile. It…

I enjoyed Ghost of Tsushima, but it had just as many tiresome mechanics as a typical Ubisoft game.

Ghost of Tsushima was almost entirely rural sandbox, with only small sequences in populated areas. I would expect AC:Japan to be primarily in Edo or Kyoto, with emphasis on the parkour and architectural exploration the series’ earlier games were known for and not another Valhalla-styled sprawl.

The jobs that require you to do crazy tedious work also don’t have great retention. I love video games and I would NEVER do it!

I agree with you that automated testing is already in place, hard disagree that any tedious maual testing is already automated. It is not. Better recognition of lots of tedious testing, particularly in gaming, would not just be a good thing, it would make the lives of many QA people better.

I definitly think this is being blown out of proportion. The fact is the QA testing is a lot of long tedious work and any way to reduce the need for human beings to do tedious work is a good thing. The important thing is that every automation brings about new positions that are more fulfilling. If an AI can spend the…

Coming from a Reach fan (and Infinite fan), the DMR’s problem is that everyone had a DMR at Spawn, meaning all the RNG issues were all about 2 players, both playing completely optimally, having to choose to roll a die to hope to get a headshot, or wait a beat and get an almost guaranteed headshot.

The DMR will almost…

“In the year since it’s been publicly playable, the multiplayer shooter Halo Infinite hasn’t received a single new weapon.”

It either is or isn’t legal for a company of such-and-such size to wield this level of control over software

Extra! Extra! Optional Service of Great Use to Many People Doesn’t Appeal To One Specific Journalist “Blogger”! Mere Existence Met with Suspicion, Doubt! Allegedly Threatens to “Change The Very Hobby Itself”, Somehow!

ffs “grognard blows new way to play game wildly out of proportion”
you say this may divide the hobby like this isnt already the most divisible group of nerds in existence. every change is treated like a god damn existential crisis while completely ignoring that none of the old ways to play are going away or changing.
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Well, many things.