The Ratchet and Clank games were WAY better than Jak 2 or 3. They were still fun and silly, while Jak 2 was trying to be GTA for some stupid reason.

“Congratulations! You’ve unlocked the ability to give us more money”

Sega would tell you that it doesn’t look off, it looks perfectly on, you’re just not seeing it correctly. I especially like how they’re like “you say it looks like this or that, but it’s not this or that, you need context to understand better because it’s not like anything before.” And then go on to describe something…

THREE DIFFERENT SUBSCRIPTIONS!

I’m going to keep shouting about this until they lock me up. I was really enjoying the game. Then I beat a mission and unlocked A THIRD SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE. THREE. ONE GAME.

Fortnite looks downright humanitarian by comparison.

If we’re trying to be pedantic, you could at least call SMO’s “Kingdoms” instead of levels.

YOU and your team are the ones that decided that this was the very best material to illustrate what the game is supposed to be at an absolutely pivotal moment in the life of the product.

If anyone comes away from that not understanding what the game is supposed to be, that’s a fundamental failure on the part of…

Lol this was my exact reaction. Like, if they have a whole bunch of cool and interesting stuff in there and it’s coming out within 6 months, maybe it’s time to show people?

Look, either the big marketing bonanza you just showed off completely lacked huge parts of the gameplay loop, or it was accurate and your gameplay loop is concerningly thin. Don’t tell us we’ve got it wrong if we’re just reacting to what you’ve provided.

Telling people outside of your apparent ‘target audience’ that they’re stupid isn’t as great of a marketing campaign as all these studios apparently think

This is leaked concept art for Sonic Frontiers

Maybe they could, you know, explain it and help us understand what it is….?

Kotaku has become complete garbage since Schreier left. It was already spiraling before that, likely due to the new(ish) ownership. Journalistic integrity and capitalism, as it turns out, are not particularly compatible. 

Still nicer than publishing “human cost of Fallout76" next to “how i lick diablo immortal ass today”

The corporate overlords forcing you to make these things knows that the whole “pivot to video” was a result of Facebook straight up lying about their numbers, right?

Worse.  Slideshows are bad, but can be read through without sound.  Videos without text can’t, making them worse.

You mean the same Embracer Group you guys have written like 5 or 6 articles about in just the past month?

TBF I don’t think any of the original Rare staff that worked on their classic franchises is still around at the studio at this point, Ship of Theseus and all that.

I personally felt the complete opposite. 

It’s been 16 years since FF has gone full fantasy. The trailer looks great technically, but I’m underwhelmed by the gameplay. It seems to be a mix of hack and slash and Soul-like tactical combat, and just doesn’t look interesting.

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