hey you know what DRM is supposed to stop?
pirates
hey guess who the only people not terribly inconvenienced by DRM are

> like positive and negative charges repelling each other.

Even coming into this article I knew Kotaku wasn’t going to be too thrilled about this news. Hogwarts Legacy got overshadowed by TotK, BG3, Spider-Man 2 and Starfield in the news. But it was still critically acclaimed by critics and sold like candy.

Released in February 2023, Hogwarts Legacy wasn’t a hit with critics and ended up not winning many major awards.

No.  This is not the topic to try to go “but on the other hand”.  THERE IS NO OTHER HAND.  The toxicity needs to stop, end of conversation.

Nintendo is a Japanese company, Japan has different laws regarding copyright, Valve does business in Japan, has Japanese customers, and works with Japanese companies.

Came to comments for the same question.  Author seems to have a bone to pick with the guy.  Comparing the last 3 paragraphs to the actual video is jarring.

So what I am guessing is that they couldn’t make fat peter work on the character rig without engine changes and thats expensive to do so they would either have to rig up a new character rig that could potentially have a different hitbox/physics or make something that works within that character rig instead.

It’s like when a movie gets critically thrashed, so the commercials turns to random Twitter pull quotes ("I LOVE THIS MOVIE! @totallynotastan) and people getting interviewed outside of the free sneak preview they got.

If the only good thing about a game is the cut scenes, it should be a TV show or a movie, not a game.  I say this as someone that really prefers a game have good story/lore, as I want to be invested in what’s happening.  On the other side of the coin, though, if it’s a boring slog to get from one bit of story to the…

“At least before 9 we had a sliver of hope that they knew what they were doing with an overarching story.”

Writers make the story, not the gameplay. We don’t remember the Arkham games for their stories, do we?

“still full of the DNA that infuses the Batman: Arkham series”

Who is “everybody”? I’ve yet to see or hear ANY hands on when it comes to this game.

Kind of off topic, but how crazy is it that a console lasted seven years on the market without a single price drop?  The closest it ever got was bundling in Mario Kart or Smash Brothers.

Regarding the Labor of Love thing, I wouldn’t be surprised if most people didn’t read the criterion for it. Without that context, it just sounds like a game that had a ton of passion and care poured into it. Red Dead Redemption 2 still sells extremely well, especially during sales like these, so there was probably a…

Wait, are you all suggesting that online popularity contests *aren’t* a good means of judging actual merit?

*gasp*

When I saw the Starfield award on Steam I just assumed it was the community mobbing the vote to be an ironic joke. As in Starfield feels like the least innovative game of the year.

I’m pretty much the exact opposite. I feel no compulsion to min/max my settings. As long as I can get the game running smoothly most of the time, I’m happy. I also don’t feel any compulsion to Alt+Tab out of games. Once I’m gaming, I’m fully invested. I actually struggle a lot more with movies and TV shows.

Considering Gabe also answers his own email a lot of the time, I’d believe it.