I can vouch for this. As someone who has been on Kotaku for more than a decade, I feel it’s time is nearing as corporate wages war against writers, arts, musicians and workers in general. Aftermath is worth subbing for if we want Kotaku to come back with good writers.

I haven’t watched it yet but it would have to be a hell of an episode to make up for the rest of the meandering, wishy-washy season so far.

strictly game news? well, i would say kotaku dot com but...

I don’t remember Wind Waker being "almost universally derided," but Sunshine sure was treated like the black sheep of the Mario games. It's my favorite 3D Mario too.

There’s something to be said about loading up a game and having 99% confidence that it’ll work because it’s a closed ecosystem.

I don’t know that there’s much of a future in playing video games for me if consoles go away... I’ve never enjoyed the experience of playing on PC and any of the streaming services I’ve tried have had too much latency and/or poor picture quality for me to consider using it for any significant length of time.

Wow, how condescending. Is this how you talk to people normally?

Or we can construct criticism in a calm, diplomatic way instead of constantly trying to hurt or one up each other. The devs seems committed to making the game the best user experience possible and sometimes they make a mistake. Breath and explain why you don’t like something without berating them.

Let me guess, you have a bunch of people butt hurt because the toned down an OP weapon that made it faceroll easy? Maybe?

Pretty bold suggesting that someone doesn’t play the game, then say there are 10 difficulties when there are in fact 9.

Yes, the devs are fixing the tuning, and perhaps the higher difficulties are supposed to be difficult; perhaps players had gotten too bold in thinking they could simply walk into the higher…

100% agree. The way Gamers give, uh, “feedback” can read a little hostile sometimes and I can see how a human dev on the receiving end of it might react in a human way. Not to say it’s okay, but I’m inclined to forgive a one-time incident. The community reaction to that patch has been completely insane and out of…

LMAO. I almost have 100 hours. The patch is the first of many tweaks to get the game where they want. The true issue, which was even an issue before this is the spawning at higher difficulties. But sure you know better than the devs so go ahead and keep whining. If people don’t want any messing with the meta than…

The dev totally didn’t say it the right way but he has a point. The fucking whiners about a balance patch in this game are insufferable. Its been out for like two weeks. Its not like they took away some weapon after two years. Of course they are gonna have to fix some shit once the players get their hands on it. 

To be fair, Reload is an 80ish hour-long, well-made full remake of an already classic game, so even though the DLC policies themselves might be greedy, the game itself was a tremendous upgrade over the original and well worth the price.

It isn’t irrelevant, its just very modern. The whole idea of individual rights and personal freedom is something that has only emerged in fits and starts over the last 500 years or so. Collective violence and prejudice is much older and therefore hard to eliminate.

I once got into it with someone years ago in these comments about diversity in sci-fi stories, specifically about an imaginary story about a group of friends that got shipwrecked on an alien planet. They said that if all of the characters were white guys, there didn’t need to be any other explanations on their…

critics insist that SBI is intentionally putting DEI elements into their story and SBI pretty much admits to it

Why are you asking “why is this person gay” in a videogame? It doesn’t need to have anything to do with the fucking plot; there are gay people in real life, sometimes that’s just a person.

No, what SBI said is that companies come to them for an extra polish, as well as consultation for their already existing characters to see if they read properly (this even includes a finnish company like Remedy checking that their white male american character consistently comes across as intended)

Saga being a Black woman is perfectly integrated into the story and even adds to the story during an early investigation scene.