It was poorly received by many fans.

X was the last good single-player FF. Give me atb, give me FULL control of every member of the party. Don’t try to make it actiony. FF shouldn’t try to be DMC.

I agree. I wonder if productions times have something to do with that - they take so long to develop that maybe they feel behind the trend instead of ahead of it. 

A large part of it is expectations. The sheer incompatibility of your childhood memories vs modern game design. Add too many new things and people complain that it’s not what they remember, but too many new things and people complain that the game feels old and unplayable. When it comes to old, established series like…

Glory to mankind.

If it wasn’t for half-life and it’s available editor tools, i probably never would have been working in the CGI industry for almost 15 years.
Getting used to 3D workflow as a teen, messing about with scripts and animation timing. I built maps for myself to play in CounterStrike with ai that I had to use a pathing tool…

Free-to-play games are INFINITELY good. Finally some recognition for Diablo Immortal /s

I will find it baffling if the latest version of The Show doesn’t come Day 1 to PS+ but it will be there on Game Pass.

The difference is that Microsoft putting a game on GamePass isn’t actively preventing said game from appearing on a competing service or platform. ;)

I remember you guys got so excited about the Nemesis system and I found it...meh. I didn’t really understand why it was intriguing to fight Norg the Abuser 8 times and then his successor Blorg the Accuser 7 times after that when they were basically the same enemy but one had green warts and the other red. I kept being…

There’s also a new mysterious NPC who is supposed to help you advance Varre’s questline without wading into multiplayer at all, though in typical FromSoftware fashion no word on where to find this useful fellow.

Yeah, no mention of damage control anywhere in this article.

Why is this...how is...I...

I guess I’m kind of blown away by people seeing almost entirely a collection of last-gen games as a win. I currently have both Gamepass and PS+ (the middle one), and while PS+ has been “worth it” for Stray and Demon’s Souls Remastered, I don’t really know what I’ll play after that. That’s not entirely true, I would…

The “shooty bits” were fine. The game was fun. It wasn’t a cat sim, and saying the team had no idea what to do with the idea they had is weirdly dismissive. My 6 year old was engaged from start to finish (watching me play). As for the “awful” ending, here’s how that conversation went:

If “weird bummer” is too much detail for you, then maybe the internet is not where you should be spending your time lol

I have both consoles and I kind of hope it does go exclusive, mostly for the drama.

I think what he meant is that most players don’t really care about the political undertones (or overtones) in games. The fact that Wildlands takes place specifically in Bolivia is irrelevant to most players. You could replace Bolivia with [imaginary country inspired by any south american country] and nobody would bat…

They said they play them “more to have fun than to delve into...” those kinds of issues, not that don’t exist. Also if he’s such a “fucking idiot” (wonderful, classy community at kotaku as always), please show me where the American government is currently militarily interfering with SA politics? The last time that…

Yeah....slow news day.