There was no way to do Alia and it not be ridiculous.  It was my biggest fear going into this as I was like “Oh Christ.. I hope they don’t have a CGI toddler or something.” and thank fucking god they didn’t.  All things considered, I think it was handled as well as it could have been.  

I disagree, there are soooo many examples or terrible remasters and remakes. Games that dont know what things to streamline or improve and what should stay the same after so many years, or simply expecting the nostalgia to do all the work when many elements simply havent aged well

Counterpoint: Thor: Ragnarok is a top-five MCU movie and has the most perfect use of humor in the franchise.

I agree that the vitriol is mostly unwarranted, but the state of the game is far from fine. They've been phoning it in for ages now. And PvP folks have been completely ignored for ages.

It’s not a surprise to anyone who’s played relatively modern ARPGs. Too many people are going into Diablo IV thinking it’s an MMORPG - it’s not, you don’t have a “main” per se and the levelling experience is meant to be the main content.

“So if you also get overly attached to your player character and want to play an…

I am happy for him. It felt like Hollywood forgot about him for a large stretch of the 2000s so I am 100% behind him cashing in now.

Between this and the Flash movie, Keaton’s just going to cash in doing sequels to all his 80s roles. Personally, I’m holding out for Mr. Grandma.

Having played plenty of Armored Core I can say the video looked pretty representative what gameplay is like, just with fancy camera angles instead of being fixed behind the player and the HUD off.

I can accept the premise that Ashley in the 2005 original was little more than a gameplay feature, and her characterization is not deeper than that. It was a fault, but a fault of its time.

I don’t see the problem with her in this remake.  She starts out very much afraid and unconfident, as she should be since she’s an untrained young woman going through a severely traumatic experience.  And then through the small actions she takes she’s able to gain back some of that confidence and sees Leon as someone…

Sounds to me like you’re entitled. People are starving in this world. Go away

Yes! So good! Ape Escape was one of the few that required Dual Analog sticks.

I know the female version of Eivor is the “canon” version, but I felt the male version of Eivor works better in the game. The VA is better and it works better storywise imo as a male. Complete opposite of Odyssey where Kassandra (also canon) is by far the better character in every way. Alexios is downright goofy.

These people should spend more time actually reading books instead of letting rhetoric rile them up. Bradbury, Huxley, Orwell, and Atwood meant their works to be warnings, not prophesies or blueprints.

Remember when Kotaku wasn’t just a video game site? Remember when Kotaku covered anime? Japanese snack foods? Nerd culture in general?

Build your own base... it’s a surprisingly complex and satisfying feature, especially when you find a great location for it. Then use the base to farm money, and get yourself a large capital ship you can fit out as your mobile base, and then a fleet of different small ships to keep at the ready inside it. I found…

See I liked that they didn’t “show” his mutated form. The implied idea he was some horrifying blob of ooze that had been mutating and suffering in pain for 1000 years as a complete contrast to the golden statue he’d built of himself in the lobby was all you needed for a conclusion. You didn’t need to see some William…

I don't think I could have said this any nicer. I think "someone" didn't listen to the data points in the Faro Tomb, or was hoping Faro would be some unknown savior that destroyed the world for some altruistic means so he can be redeemed instead of vilifying him even more. While I didn't enjoy the sudden ending of…

tl;dr the games are a social and political commentary on our current world (something people have demanded games explore for years now) hiding behind a futuristic sci-fi adventure where you shoot robo-dinos using bows and arrows. After the brilliant bittersweet first game that set up the world and now the fantastic…

Really don’t get the criticisms of the story of Forbidden West here as though somehow it’s a sudden leap from Zero Dawn when almost all of it is set up in Zero Dawn (what happened to the Odyssey, what was the signal that turned GAIA into rogue AIs, what is Sylens trying to obtain from HADES), or the idea somehow this…