Cool, thanks for hyping it to death for the last few months only to bait and switch once we’ve all preordered it. You’re doing the Lord’s work.
Irving Senior
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Agreed 100%!
I hated Demon’s Souls so much that in a moment of rage I ripped it out of my PS3 and snapped the disc into the pieces while screaming. I’ve never played a game so truly contemptuous of the player’s time and efforts. It’s like a bullet hell game but done as “RPG Hell.” I still think that game is hateful garbage. But…
Fear Elderly.
We rushed past these aesthetics and modes of play in a misguided arms race toward "the future." It's only now that we're going back and realizing that there's an entire grammar and toolkit of play and representation that we rushed past inappropriately.
I love getting the episodes one at a time - with the "Veronica Mars" vibe of the game, it's like keeping up with a TV drama from episode to episode. The cliffhangers are actual cliffhangers!
Where's the conspicuously absent Kotaku review of this game!?
That this generation launched without SSD support is going to look as abusrd by the end of this life cycle as it did when the PS2 didn't have native online support by the end of its lifecycle.
The "Souls" games are fucking terrible for this reason. They have so much potential and then waste it all by ratcheting up the difficulty to a comical level that should only appeal to people like high schoolers who have infinite time to invest in learning the exact patterns and twitch reactions. Fuck that series so…
It's pretty obvious that she has Borderline Personality Disorder. This is a frequently insurmountable thing, and BPD people will destroy everything in your life as you try to help them. It's awful - it's almost the equivalent of a terminal (mental) illness.
There's a name for that first situation - Borderline Personality Disorder. It's way more complicated than just "This woman is being awful," it's a completely insidious problem that will completely destroy everything in your life. Don't just run, RUN. It's awful and sad but the rates of people with BPD getting…
This might be the funniest thing I've ever seen.
Professional Networks are everything. I hate networking, happy hours, industry events, etc. and don't have much of a network even though I have a truly great resume for my field and desired jobs. When I was last laid off, I was completely fucked for over a year searching for an equivalent job because I had nobody to…
I love where they're going with it so far. Many things need a lot of work before this gets released - it looks like a last-gen game right now, the audio mixing is super weird and much of the VO sounded rushed and "placeholder." The camera is the toughest enemy in the game so far. On the other hand, it FEELS great,…
In what universe is Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker not on this list?
In any other era, this guy would have been a C or D-lister at best, coming in somewhere behind Jeru the Damaja and Me Phi Me. This is what post-colony collapse music looks like under austerity.
The voiceover largely wrecks this. It sounds like an insecure teenager doing a "beavis and butthead" voice instead of anything you'd hear in a Wes Anderson trailer. Everyone thinks that they can do voiceover but like .01% of people can even sound halfway decent. I used to be the director of a voiceover studio.
I didn't realize that they had changed the name of "The Witness" to this. I've been waiting for this one!
Let this disaster be a referendum on what's wrong with big-budget console games in 2015. Unskippable cutscenes, QTE's, and "how could you betray us, Betrayu?"-level writing are perfectly NOT "next generation." The only thing I can't quibble with is the length - give me a tight, sharp 10-hour experience over a…