Exactly. To the vultures of Wall Street, anything other than quarter-over-quarter growth is FAILURE.

Dear Kotaku, if you are not going to include accessibility options in your videos (i.e. subtitles) can you, at the very least, provide a transcript? I’d ask this any time of the year but it feels especially egregious that this didn’t occur to anyone this week.

I think the $70 price tag is unreasonable. TLOU2 was longer, more ambitious, had a brand new engine, story etc. and came with a free PS5 upgrade for $60.
This is a remake that uses the same engine, same music, same mo-cap, audio, music - and excludes the multiplayer. It should be a $50 title. I am not bent out of shape…

Kudos to the organizers to have the balls to let their creators describe their thoughts without muzzeling them on behalf of their sponsors.

This is a good exercise in cherry picked data.

Yeah the little snip it of the image doesn’t cut it. Check out the zoomable image:

BTW, the area of sky this photo covers is roughly equal to a grain of sand held at arm’s length. Go to nasa.gov too see the full size pic. Also, the distortion is gravitational lensing.

They did include IU as well, but opted to use mg for a more intuitive comparison for general readers!

““Realistically, there are probably a bunch of people at the company who shouldn’t be here,” he said, looking directly into a mirror.

Seriously, they had damn near everything they needed to make this a home run game for them. As you said, Black Flag minus the Assassin/Templar fluff. Tune the controls, update the game engine. Bam. I was really looking forward to it, right up until they said it was multiplayer only.

Didn’t even need the MP part. Just make it a more open experience, a la Sid Meier’s Pirates!, and we’d all have been happy.

Wait what? This is going to be a live service game?

It’s so strange that this game took so long. They already had such a solid foundation with Black Flag. They just had to come up with some semblance of a story and tack on a multiplayer feature that would probably only have a niche following in the first place. I am wondering what other features they decided to build…

When your only defence of a bill is “Yes on paper it’s horrific, but they won’t actually enforce it!”, you’re in a pretty shit situation, frankly.

Sorry you didn’t type that in French. Your opinion is worthless.

Obviously subjective, but I think of the 3D Zeldas, I’d have TP as the weakest outside of the N64 games. (And even then, MM at least has an awesome tone)

big disagree. a lot of the npcs look terrible and most of the environments are blandly brown-and-bloom, like some many games from that era.

I loath blind bag with the fury of a thousand suns. There have been so many collectibles I would have loved to get over the years, but I patently refused to buy them because they were blind bagged.  It’s essentially gambling in my eyes.

In terms of gameplay only, it does feel like something that would be a $10 mobile game. Maybe even f2p if they turned the mansion cosmetics into a microtransaction den. It’s the music/story that really bring it up and even that wouldn’t make me buy it above $20, and I really liked the game enough to get it on both PC…

Its owned by Disney now so...it's a small galaxy after all?