We must always bend the knee to power. 

That’s one reason I found some of the game’s intended emotional beats sort of hollow and unearned. I ended up with one remaining enemy wounded in one section, crawling away and begging for his life, so I was like okay, I’ll spare that guy. He got back up and tried to kill me as soon as I turned my back on him. If you d…

I’ve gotta say, when it comes to recent AAA games that showcase the futility of revenge, I’ve gotta go with Red Dead Redemption 2 over TLOU2.

Here’s the thing. The first game did a really good job of constantly backing Joel and/or Ellie into a corner, where they had no choice other than to fight their way out. The hospital is probably the first time that there’s a real moral choice implied, and even then it was as much on the Fireflies for their shitty…

I think it’s a bit to bleak as it is but that’s just me.

I guess I’m confused about why it’s bad that they gave them rental cars to get to set?  

That kind of meanness to defend the president’s kid?

Okay, but who cares? Their motivations don’t really matter in this case. The game is preserved regardless, and there are thousands of games which ONLY still exist because someone pirated them.

The problem is that Oprah also complained about the problems on set weeks ago (as did other actors), but the story circled right back around to trying to make it Oprah versus Taraji instead of Oprah and Taraji versus the studio even after Oprah and Taraji debunked it over a month ago.

No offense meant to the author of this piece (whose content on Kotaku I have always enjoyed) or anyone worried about an all digital future. I myself would prefer that gamers (and all consumers really) always have a choice between physical and digital for a lot of reasons.

“Hold my chardonnay” - Andy Cohen

That is a choice on the part of the game companies though.

That’s really not relevant or germane to the discussion. It takes nothing away from the fact that, if not for piracy, most games would simply vanish into the ether once they reached the end of their immediate commercial viability.

Pirates saved the entire 16bit generation. 

You’re Obama’s daughter. So if you make a bad film, it will follow you around.”

Please tell me how to get a copy of skies of Arcadia Legends hat isn’t on a 22 year old disk that will eventually age and die for less than 100 dollars, because if you can I’ll gladly delete my pirated copy

Yes, preservation.

Little case study for you:
I own Silent Hill Origins for the PSP, digitally, on PSN.

Refuse to give up the optical drive on my PC, but I can’t tell you the last time I used it. Think I ripped a DVD I own because I couldn’t find it streaming and it was faster than torrenting it from 1 seeder. Also found a copy of DMC4 at a local thrift store in perfect shape last week, figure I’ll try to fart around…

As a PC gamer I adapted to this over a decade ago.  It was clear when this generation of consoles had a disk free version that this was the way it was going to go.  That being said,  Microsoft has really done a good job keeping as much playable as possible with new hardware.  There are purchases I made in the 360 era…