That one teaser from way back when looks worse every year. I don’t mean the graphics, I mean the tone—I would hope as a society that we’ve moved past the reflexive belief that grittier, more vulgar, this-ain’t-your-parents-Beyond-Good-And-Evil is an intrinsically worthy endeavour. WE’VE GOT A MONKEY THAT SAYS ‘MOTHERFU…

“If a film isn’t actually good it won’t stick around long.”

Given how often he’s not actually on set and it’s just his body doubles, it’s entirely possible he’s never actually spoken to her.

(You used to be able to hyperlink text but apparently not any more, so here’s a stupid long link about how Bryce Dallas Howard directed an episode of Mando but never had the opportunity…

I mean I said it above, but the dude’s name is Bryce. Nothing good has ever come from a dude named ‘Bryce.’

This article is so bizarre: I expect people named ‘Bryce’ to only be in the news when judges let them off the hook for school sports team sex crimes because they have promising futures.

The only thing over the hill in Odyssey is an identical hill - except it has red guys on it instead of blue guys.

I loved Kassandra and loved the opening few hours of Odyssy... and then i hit me ‘oh, there’s nothing HERE.’ The game world is completely empty, with every place looking like every other place. The game asks you with going and doing the unlockable for every fort on the map with no narrative justification for doing so…

You mean ‘Indistinguishable,’ not ‘Undistinguishable.’

I’ve come to really admire Yoshi P for his work on FFXIV but honestly, every single time he opens his mouth to talk about XVI he says the worst things, or at least says them in the worst ways. My desire to try this game has dropped to zero over the last few months - and I’m not a PC player or anything.

It’s just a troll doing the same weird little troll dance because they’re mad cartoons acknowledge gay people openly now.

I have always detested Scooby and always bounced off every version of Scooby-Doo that I have been told is ‘really good’ because the world’s most exhaustingly stupid talking dog is in it.

No, see, because I grew up with guns safely and I have warm fuzzies about ol’ grandpappy and guns, therefore we can’t just take away the guns because I personally am a good person and what about my needs? If the price of me keeping my warm fuzzy safe relationship with guns is a child gun-death rate found nowhere else i…

Noted TERF Rhonda Rousey would caucus with the Republicans.

Can’t wait for all of these to be unceremoniously cancelled regardless of reception.

I hate Brotherhood, so that’s not a ringing endorsement.

(Okay, okay, it’s fine, but I bail because it takes everything I loved about the original FMA and condenses it down into a rushed little ball so it can go do other stuff, thus ripping what I feel is the emotional heart out of the early story. And I could not give…

Given how histories of this time will likely be framed almost completely by the total inability of the governing class to effect meaningful climate change policy that would have softened the blow that will land on those future historians: no, she will not. I suspect the last twenty years of politicians will, on the…

God, Kotaku needs editors again. Can’t believe this website would let something go to print in which Commander Shepard was referred to as a ‘he.’

I ran into the exact same problem when I finally beat FFX a few months ago. I was so into it, and then I bounced off X-2 hard, despite remembering likng it long ago.

Part of the problem is that the UI is utterly hideous. A simply inexplicable collection of ugly colours and poor layout.

I feel like the new film grasped the scope, scale, and stifling baroque stagnation of the Dune universe, but whiffed every single emotional beat in the novel. every potential moment of human connection is rushed through so quickly to get back to some jaw-dropping visual that you’d be forgiven for not realizing the…

When I worked for a company that did online articles, I would always have to go back and revise them to make sure we were hitting of SEO targets no matter how burdensome it was on the flow and tone of the writing. Mario Maker is fairly anodyne, really - it’s when you get burdensome corporate jargon phrases that you …