It’s OK to care about multiple things.

Right, because every story is supposed to be about everything and not the specific people actually related to it.
And Kotaku, a games and Japan news website, is supposed to never talk about video game news and if they do, they have to make it about everything and everyone else.

You’re absolutely right. Viewing one person as a person immediately diminishes all other injustices in the world. Truly, justice and goodness are part of a zero sum game.

My main complaint from the first game was all the stealth-focused outfits looked so tame(logically sound) compared to my favorite Carja peacocking numbers. I just wanted to look fabulous while hiding in the reeds.

Another bit of worldbuilding I engage in is my insistence on warm clothing for cold regions. No midriffs…

It’s mostly cosmetics...

The game is really polished for a mobile game. I tried every class, and the controls and skills/spells all seem to work smoothly. Honestly, my 3 hours with the game, I was never bothered by “nagging” microtransactions.

This isn’t that bad considering Diablo 3 at launch was selling yellow rarity items for over two hundred dollars.

99 cents for a beginner pack seems pretty tame by comparison.

I’ll play the unpopular take- this is a solid entry in the Diablo universe. That it’s free (and less naggy then Kotaku implies) is pretty astounding in this day and age. It’s a LOT of fun so far, IMHO.
It looks, feels, and plays like a Diablo title- and I’m honestly a little impressed with how fluid it plays.

I hope they are just straight-up flat polygon Mario 64 trees that rotate as you walk around them.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. New professors, new Pokémon, new open world co-op game play. Blah, blah, blah! SHOW US THE FUCKING TREES ALREADY!!!!

I think it’s “risky” compared to what Game Freak usually does. Pokemon is a very conservative series, especially when it comes to how the gameplay has (or rather, has not) evolved from game to game. When you have such a notable institution that has changed very little over the last 25 years, it probably is seen as…

While I agree with your general point I don’t think it helped much in the toxicity department. I played a pretty big range of shooters and Overwatch has in my experience one of the most toxic communities out there. True, people didn’t know your exact stats but they just used your perceived performance to bash you…

Bro!

Tales from the Borderlands sequel (Hurrrayyyyyy!!!!)... written by different people and starring different characters (...huh).

“New characters”

Is this really the sequel it deserves? I think most people wanted to have the same cast as the previous game and the same writers. This sequel provides neither.

As someone once told me, nobody hates Star Wars like a Star Wars fan. As much as I love SW, it’s no longer fun to talk about it because people are the worst.

I agree completely and couldn’t have said it better. The levity combined with the love of the series is a perfect balance. And in fact, the game has expanded my appreciation for some elements of the sequel films (for example, their expanded takes on Kef Bir [Death Star wreckage planet] or Canto Bight), expanding on…