There are some genuinely phenomenal moments: the famous bottle scene with Garrus, the curing of the genophage, making peace between Geth and Quarians, that conversation (if you pursued her) between Liarra and Shepard about little blue babies.

But what makes those scenes work is that they are all based on the primacy of …

That would have been fun. But it also would speak to the funny feeling I’m getting that this phase of the MCU has become more fan servicey because they don’t have anything else to lean on. Harry Styles pops up as a character in Eternals why?

Andromeda had the right idea, in spinning off entirely from Shepard’s story to explore other things in the Mass Effect universe. They just went, yknow, literally too far.

And Jessica Chobot living in the Normandy’s Basement doing... space web content for morale????? How we talk about a game being satisfying when it features a major cameo from JESSICA CHOBOT (remmeber her? No? Shock!) and Ashley getting a huge boob job!

ARHJHJJHHJHJHJHJHJHJJHHHJJH MASS EFFECT THREE MAY HAVE SOME GREAT…

Oh, man, and then there’s a full on essay on why Bioware entirely failed to understand the appeal of its own franchise when it made the third game all about Earth, a planet you never visit in the prior two games and have zero investment in.

Yes, as a real human being in real life I care for the real Earth I live on,…

And I forgot that the original cut of the game has all the mass effect relays explode for some reason, a plot point that in the previous game was shown to be an apocalypse-level event that would wipe out an entire solar system and also end interstellar travel, and if I recall Bioware, amongst many, many, many other…

Hard disagree with the entire premise of the article, namely because none of the endings of ME3 are satisfying as they fundamentally ignore the premise of the previous 90+ hours of the game to that point unless you’d been a die-hard renegade who killed everything you came across (aka a brutish dolt of an asshole).

After…

Hard disagree with the entire premise of the article, namely because none of the endings of ME3 are satisfying as they fundamentally ignore the premise of the previous 90+ hours of the game to that point unless you’d been a die-hard renegade who killed everything you came across (aka a brutish dolt of an asshole).

After…

Well, why the infatuation with “Shepard” then?

I’ve been playing Dragon Age Origins (still great), and it really surprises me how little they actually did with Shepard (the character) in Mass Effect vs Dragon Age.

Quite a while back when Bloodborne first came out, I and my male friend played it. We both had wildly different experiences with the story. I told him there was some serious body-horror cringe for me, what with all the “celestial” pregnancies, and everything about Yharnam was borderline emotionally painful for me,…

If you value life so much why were you in favor of kids killing their parents and grand parents by spreading covid? If you value life so much why are you against safe sex and ending the transmission of stds? If you value life so much why are you against making pregnancy safer?

The game is 7 years old. Additionally how would someone trying who hasn’t played the game before know this was an ending or even what they were looking at in that screenshot?

Who would have guessed that a company named “Nordic Empire Games” would develop a game about murdering civil rights protesters?

I’m at the very end of the base game, but not pulling the trigger on ending it because I still haven’t beaten the shark bros, orphan and Ludwig in the extension. I would have never thought the screenshot is from the ending. In fact it was unclear to me what is even going on in the picture

Can’t wait for the handful of crypto dorks to roll in here talking about how Kotaku never says anything nice about NFTs and no one understand their potential except for them and it’s all so unfair because how are they ever going to become fake crypto Pokémon pyramid scheme landlords if people know that it’s just a…

But your comment provided ZERO examples of how it can be used correctly.  You spouted a bunch of analogies, and that’s it.  Like an NFT, nothing of value.  

(whispers) “Buddy, the grift is the use for it”

I can understand you. I don’t have “fun” in a standard way with Souls games, they feel like a challenge I really want to tackle.

I wish I could think the game is that fun and open for experimentation, specially when seeing all these builds, different weapons, armor, skills, but even after playing all FromSoft games, I…