I’m playing it right now after avoiding it for years and it’s surprisingly good? That said, the whole “auto cover” mechanic is a bit janky and the pacing is more in line with the very first Mass Effect in terms of being more talky/less actiony. I could see where that might be jarring for people who’ve only played ME2…

A title that makes me think of a urinal that’s finally come home isn’t doing this game any favors.

Sony has never had exclusivity because of any contract. It’s just been market driven. EA and 2K are free to make their own games. 2K had exclusivity for many years (2005ish to 2013ish?), preventing EA from making MLB games, but 2K’s games consistently underperformed both with critics and with audiences. I think 2K…

I would like for the two Fatal Frames and GTA Vice City to be playable. Otherwise, I think most of the OG Xbox stuff I would be interested in (Morrowind, the KOTORs, Jade Empire, Psychonauts, Breakdown, etc.) works.

Not sure if you know this, but most games actually come out for both machines.

Really? What’s the huge leap in innovation between the PS3 and PS5 that prevents me from playing, say, a multiplatform game like Assassin’s Creed on the PS5? Or Metal Gear Solid 4? It’s not like the PS3 had some unique bit of tech like the Wiimote that prevents those games from being played on modern hardware.

Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts for me. It’s way closer in spirit to an actual Lego game than any of the licensed Lego games, and the way it encouraged creativity in solving its various challenges was something I haven’t really seen done since then.

Other outlets: The PS3, Vita and PSP online stores will close this summer, leaving no way to buy or download games for those platforms.

What’s with the bizarre dig on Prey’s story and ending? Without spoiling anything, there is a very late-game chunk of gameplay that is a slog, but the story aspect of it is ... fine. And everything leading up to it is wonderful. And the actual ending of the game? Stunning.

When your controllers get all brown and mushy so you have to make “controller bread” and head to Safeway to get more controllers.

What about a Disney+ show-within-a-movie concept that’s sort of like Pimp My Ride, but with Babu Frik and droids?

I mean they just bought a ton of studios, so maybe they will keep it stocked?

Also hounding someone on their personal stream to add features to the game they work on (even features we can all agree are features they should add), is the sort of entitled fan behavior Kotaku sometimes spotlights as bad, no? (Again, this developer handled it extremely poorly and I’m not condoning his response.)

He is, but I will say that the game has an extremely vocal community of people who ask for the SAME THINGS over and over again in response to any social media post, during streams, etc., at all, and I can see how that might cause someone to lose patience with it over time, particularly if they’re trying to run a…

The consoles have stupid names, but the dude called it by the correct name first and then tried to play it off after like he didn’t know what to call it. And the “people are going to buy the wrong console” thing is overblown. They stopped manufacturing the Xbox One X before the Series X was even out, and the Amazon…

Also the first party titles hitting Game Pass the day of release vs. waaaaay later, if at all. (Granted, people seem to like the Sony first-party stuff way better and even though I don’t for the most part, I’m not going to pretend that my opinion is the norm!)

I had a friend who hated Mass Effect 2 so much, he quit the series. I loved the companions and all their stories and the structure of the game, but I disliked the battles that were basically just huge mostly empty rooms rooms filled with scattered thigh-high crates. All the spaces in that game felt super unnatural and…

Right? I was like why PS5 sequels? Most of these could be multiplatform.

Shortly after a friend and I each got Series Xes at launch (dumb luck, not via scalpers), we booted up Left 4 Dead 2 (an Xbox 360 game) with two friends who were playing on Xbox Ones. And for the most part everything just worked. I thought it was pretty rad. The only thing that was a bit wonky is that the Xbox 360-era…

I have a soft spot for the chapter at the cabin in the woods in Life is Strange 2.