Or this is going to turn out like Avengers where the intro levels are great to play but the missions that happen later are tedious and boring. 

I don’t preorder except to get Fire Emblem CEs. I was so hyped for Octopath Traveler that I preordered the CE.

Then I played the three hour demo and cancelled my preorder. I couldn’t stand the writing. It just took me completely out of the experience with how poor the writing was especially when they introduced that…

The characters of the first game werent even together, the cutscenes made that aggravatingly obvious. Like when your lead character for that chapter was stabbed and had to be rescued hours later by an NPC.

Octopath Traveler had so much potential and I ended up so disappointed in it

I was actually pretty happy with the trailer, the effects looked good, they are clearly doing a GoTG but D&D which isn’t to say it’s a bad thing (a lot of films that boil down to “X but in Y” actually turn out pretty good) the only thing I’m worried about is that the characters didn’t seem super interesting in the…

“Arguably, we’ve already had the “perfect” D&D movie thanks to Peter Jackson’s adaptations of The Lord Of The Rings in the 2000s—which, if I’m being honest, do chart a bit too close to “action movie” for my taste”

Very cool. I love little mysteries and hidden spookiness like this in games. It’s something that’s been sorely missed in this era of datamining and crowdsourcing secrets. I remember back in the day, the mystique surrounding things like the Ice Key and Eggs in Banjo-Kazooie, “can you actually bring Aerith back from…

KOTOR was a bad game?  How much crack did you smoke before you made that comment?

Who’d have thought that having a development studio where just about everything they’ve done is port related with extremely limited experience with original content handle the “from scratch” remake to one of the most beloved RPGs of all-time would’ve been a bad idea.

Kind of a shame. I was hoping it would be a mix of the Rose story and a story where you actually play as the Lady Count hunting a survivor or something along those lines.

Digital COA might be the first legit use. Essentially it could be used to document the provenance of an item. Of course it would be a pain - but someone couldn’t really bootleg/forge an item and then make a fake blockchain virtual paper trail (Unless they could?)

I actually think this is much better than most implementations of NFTs. It can function as a digital certificate of authenticity, which is actually creating some sort of value rather than creating artificial scarcity.

It does look better. The question is did it really need this? You do have diminishing returns coming into play here. The original, despite being a late gen PS3 game, still looks good, and it’s PS4 remaster even better. 

My favorite part of this whole deal is ND crowing about how this game was made “without crunch.”

I really cannot tell the difference. They’re trying to spin this like it’s on the level of the FFVII Remake, it just isn’t.

aggressively woke

Seriously. This is the kind of game people are always asking for: new, fun, creative. There's another review on this very site that praises it, but they're simultaneously gonna run this article that nitpicks a very small portion of the game? Gotta get more people to look at the ads I guess.

I wouldn’t write it off based on this one review. Every other one I’ve read has been pretty overwhelmingly positive. Kotaku has become notorious for writing negative, condescending, clickbait titles since the scandal a few years back and subsequent staff changes. I only come to scan headlines and see if I’ve missed…

How the fuck are you people able to be cynical even about a game like this? For fuck’s sake.

Heaven forbid a video game be a game. Like wtf is turns into gamey gametown? That’s like saying “Citizen Kane was great but then it descends into filmy filmtown.” Yeah, that’s what it is.

This game and EVE Online tackle space-faring adventures from very different angles, but at least they are “finished” games. I’m not sure what Bethesda’s Starfield will bring, but all these games are still ahead of Star Citizen, which is still in production with varying degrees of updates.