It’s not even just “anti-SJW”.

LMAO bruh proof you didn’t read that article. My character was not the thumbnail. It’s a tiefling.

Lamenting? I said the CC was pretty good baring some weird specific choices. Beyond that, this article is saying “Wow since everyone’s making characters that look like themselves, maybe we should ensure that everyone has that ability.” Larian’s doing the bashing, not me.

or Yuri Lowenthal if they’re feelin a bit spicy.

Just giving in to the inevitability of your character being voiced by Nolan North or Troy Baker?

This tells me that the ultimate power fantasy still involves being a white man.

What I mean is: if you can offer customization options, great do that. If you can’t, then think harder about the characters you are designing (I mean as NPCs in the world or as the main character players will pilot). Do they all need to be beefy white guys named Chris or can you mix it up a little bit. Players are…

How are the beard options? That’s the part of character creators that usually disappoints me.

Pretty much every district of Japan has raised the AoC on a district by district basis to 18.

I’ll never understand these Twitch lemmings who are so willing to do all this shit because their favorite streamer - who couldn’t give less of as shit about them - gets into a spat with other streamers.

This is an uphill battle that MS can’t win. Only a few japanese people want a Xbox and would rather buy a japanese product anyway. Maybe with game pass they’ll get a few more sales but it’ll still fail overall. 

Of course! Here’s a few! Top one is a side by side of the door and the in game inspiration.

I wouldn’t say it’s comical in the least - the Danelaw is arguably the most noteworthy region in the viking age, where much of the conflict and intrigue of famous Norseborn names like Harald Hardrada, Halfdan Ragnarsson, and Cnut the Great lied. Much of it was owned by them until they were booted out in 1066. Also,…

This was my take as well. I love vikings as much as the next person, but at the same time, playing as them in a videogame as the heroes is a little weird. The dude was trying to place it like, “Obviously the Saxons also live in England and they don’t want you to take that land so they’re going to try to stop you,”…

It’s not so much that as that they’ve thought vikings were a cool subject (which yeah) only much later for someone to note “hold on, we seem to be playing as the colonisers in this one. How are they the hero fighting for freedom,” and no one could give a good answer.

I did love how the pre-show saw the guy really try and humanise colonialisation right before a gameplay section about the Viking Invasion where the gameplay activity is raiding a peaceful monastery.

STICK TO SPROTS

Listen, you patronising cretin. Just because you also happen to buy into her transphobia doesn’t make it a “perfectly valid criticism”. The problem with people like you is that you want to wave the ‘opinion’ card around any time someone tries to call you out on your bullshit. Sometimes it isn’t an opinion: sometimes…

Legitimate question: What’s a good alternative to Kotaku that’s not so full of these non video game related stories?