Just wait till the modders figure out a way to romance Withers

Warlocks are NOT necromancers. They are, in fact, one of the WORST picks for necromancy magic in the game (that crown belongs to, unsurprisingly, School of Necromancy Wizards).

Warlocks are not necromancers. They don’t even get Animate Dead.

Well said overall. I’m perfectly fine with people loving FFXVI, more power to them, but this odd assertion that this was a natural turn for the franchise, one seen coming based on previous games evolution over the decades, just doesn’t track.

I am way less annoyed by FFXVI becoming an action game than I am about so many people asserting that Final Fantasy games have always been about reinvention. Maybe that’s true in terms of setting & narrative (and I would argue you’d have to really stretch the idea of what narrative “reinvention” means in an anthology…

As a Dungeon Master since the 1E days, my take is that this is a step in the right direction, but I still feel like they aren’t hearing what being said. Nobody wants a new OGL. The same old OGL we’ve been using this whole time is just fine. Wizards still own the D&D trade dress plus all the lore and stories that come…

Isn’t that kinda Martins while thing. Everyone kind sucks in the world and the actual good people tend to live short violent lives 

Kazuma Kiryu Sakomoto Ryoma has NEVER KILLED A MAN - and he’ll kill anyone who gets in his way on his quest to prove his innocence!

How in the fuck did you get out the greys?

Excuse you, Lanz wants something meteor

There are a lot of virtual tabletops out there. The demand is very much there from a significant portion of the player base (I’d say less than the majority, but still, that’s a lot of people). And the existing ones all suck, to varying degrees, typically because of how much work they are to use.

Someone is eventually…

Extra! Extra! Optional Service of Great Use to Many People Doesn’t Appeal To One Specific Journalist “Blogger”! Mere Existence Met with Suspicion, Doubt! Allegedly Threatens to “Change The Very Hobby Itself”, Somehow!

ffs “grognard blows new way to play game wildly out of proportion”
you say this may divide the hobby like this isnt already the most divisible group of nerds in existence. every change is treated like a god damn existential crisis while completely ignoring that none of the old ways to play are going away or changing.
im…

Please Kotaku, don’t make video posts a thing.

I’m gonna be honest Edelgard makes more and more sense to me as time goes on. I could whine about her methods a few years ago but an entire continent being dominated by a militant theocracy based on a false sense of genetic privilege is, well...

“the Black Eagles, led by Edelgard, who desperately wants to make fascism fashionable”

Oh, man, what to do? Play an “enjoyable” game sick with loot boxes and put out by scumbag company Activision Blizzard. or play a different “enjoyable” game without monetization published by an entirely different company? What should I do with my time? I just don’t know.

So you’re not only saying that you got a pop-up for buying stuff after the tutorial which, fine, is a thing for free phone games we’ve come to accept, but that these pop-ups continued throughout the game? That seems like a quick delete to me. 

Yeah the difficulty gave me anxiety too up to the point where I avoided Stormveil Castle for basically 30 hours because I heard there were super-hard bosses that’d just absolutely shadrach you when you went in. Because of that I was kind of over leveled and actually had a very pleasant time. It was a fun dungeon! I…

So after a month of giving this game shit, I fucking caved and bought it and god damn. Its fun