Things pretty much went downhill starting around 2018 or 2019, particularly after Great Hill Partners took over. Back in the Gawker heydays, Kotaku articles regularly got 100+ comments, somtimes 300-400 comments. It had a Reddit like atmospheres. People knew who the best commenters were.

Well then take a gander at her left winger if the right one bothers you so much. I mean it's a little strange because usually they're a pair but whatever floats your boat.

You are absolutely correct. My apologies. I had rewritten that paragraph a few times and I had missed why it was kept in there. That is absolutely my fault for missing it. So the article has been updated to remove the “disability doesn’t equal impairment” line. I hope it now makes more sense. - Steve

“The astronauts weren’t bored when they went to the moon”

The only shocking thing here is that people are still shocked by EA’s shady business practices.

The reason for Poland’s attitude towards Nazi atrocities in WW2 is because many Poles were also killed in the concentration camps, or otherwise as slave laborers in Germany, and that shared suffering was used by governments since as a means of identity. Saying many Poles were not victims but collaborators and helped…

You understand not only is he correct, he’s speaking a fundamental truth.

Its a niche category not because a lack of demand, but because game makers just don’t inlcude the feature anymore. I still crave playing with my friends on the same room, it was a dissapointment that Diablo IV only had 2 player coop instead of 4 like Diablo 3 did, I just wish more games implemented local co op, but…

Who could have foreseen this outcome? 

You know I bet there’s a good number of people who would love to “just play the game you already paid your money for”, but the developer keeps changing it while they’re playing it. Maybe the developer could stop fucking with the game people already paid for or at least make updates and online play optional.

Lets say for example, someone budgets $50 a month for games. If you are “forced” to play a grind game with every free “gaming time” you have, good chance your monthly $50 goes there. After all, it is what you play the most.

I have a theory that just making a good Diablo game doesn’t come close to moving the needle for Blizzard/Activision anymore. Everything has to be a massive era-defining success. So they aren’t trying to make a game like Diablo 2 or 3, they want this to be some new thing where they marry Diablo to Souls-like and Hades…

Reviews like this one show how good it was for Kotaku to ditch scores all those years ago.

Well written. I’m looking forward to finishing this game sometime in the next few weeks.

It’s not a surprise to anyone who’s played relatively modern ARPGs. Too many people are going into Diablo IV thinking it’s an MMORPG - it’s not, you don’t have a “main” per se and the levelling experience is meant to be the main content.

“So if you also get overly attached to your player character and want to play an…

A world historic demonstration of what happens when you don’t cut your losses. You can mad dog your way through life right up until you can’t.

The Monkey’s Paw segment has one of my favorite Simpsons gags:

But I was saving those oils for when I absolutely needed them which definitely isn’t any time before the ending of the game!

Great comment, thanks for contributing. 

Weapon degradation is such a dead beaten horse

I had never heard much negativity about Life is Strange at all....until literally this article lol.