If we’re talking about the way Batman’s costume falls apart during the course of the game, then we’ve got Prince of Persia Sands of Time doing it a year before Fable in 2003!

Gita, thank you for writing and sharing this. I also discovered Olympic weightlifting as an adult, and my weightlifting journey is also connected to both games and my relationship with my own body. Weightlifting is awesome and transformative in a way that’s hard to describe—you have really captured a lot of similar…

For the record, Fable did it years prior.

I would like to, at this time, bring up Batman: Arkham Asylum as the pioneer for games that let you see your injuries and changes on your character as the game progresses.

Yeah I have no idea why it’s so opaque - the process is basically “someone on the staff happens to see your comment and think to un-grey you.” Given that we’re understaffed and reporting/writing/playing games/editing all day, none of us actually have the desire or bandwidth to spend much time looking for commenters to…

Our parent company is a mess and the comments barely even work these days, so I’ve been checking them less (which is a bummer, because I love engaging with Kotaku readers) - you’re ungreyed now if it helps!

Yeah, I’m ribbing a multi-billion-dollar publisher for being misleading in its PR. If you don’t like that, there are plenty of more PR-friendly reporters and websites out there to follow!

I like to think that one of the cool things about Kotaku is that you can come here for more information than you’ll get from a publisher’s press release. This is a good example of that. It’s not necessarily controversial or explosive info — it’s just context that you won’t find anywhere else.

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I cannot imagine something I would less like to be involved with, consume, or even be aware of. Just reading this article made my day worse.