I’ll take “opaque bullshit that Twitch continues to pull with zero transparency or accountability because of their near-unchallenged market leader position” for 400, Alex.

Oh shush, Epic are fine and have one of the best game engines in the business.

Probably referencing that FromSoft games like Dark Souls are heavily influenced by Berserk.

It’s all just a subtle “fuck you” to sorcery users. They only buffed spells that are very situational or ones that no one will use anyway. I mean c’mon, crystal barrage? AKA “if I spit in your face, will you beat me daddy?”

It hasn’t unfortunately. It should be renamed “Popular Music Artists HoF”

Oh, I dunno. I’d fuck a bag of dog food.

Can we start calling these people what they really are: “Anti-Christians”? They do literally the opposite of everything Jesus taught.

Why would a game that came out years ago have a bunch of articles being written about it currently?  That’d be weird.

Instead of criticizing mistakes, people wax poetic and write essays on how every “mistake” is actually designed with a purpose in mind.

No it absolutely is. It’s also part of a larger flaw in design that runs contrary to one of the stated goals.

The game has flaws, this isn’t really one of them. All of these games are designed to let players either find things out on their own or talk about with the community. This type of game design exists in stark contrast to the games that would outright force you into a tutorial, or have glowing arrows point you to every…

It just sounds like you were living up to your name. But I don’t know, maybe I have some super power of intellect and deduction and could figure out that, with an npc telling me to go down a hole at the beginning of the game that maybe, umm, it was a good idea.

I never said you couldn’t miss it. But is not hidden or obscured. All it is missing is the blinking arrow labelled “tutorial this way”. Maybe a little ball with wings should have popped out of your pocket and told you to listen.

I mean, it does march you right to it. It’s right in front of you when the cut scene ends. You have to walk right past it to get to the stairs. There is an NPC you can talk to that says you should go down there. Plus the glowing message on the ground. It’s not fucking hidden in any way.

I mean the only way you “miss it” is if you don’t both to look around which is in and of itself a lesson in these games.

I love this type of baked in tut because you can totally skip it when doing a new build to save time. Really enjoying taking my time and avoiding spoilers for this amazing game. BTW Congrats on the big win! Glad to have Kotaku and it’s writers back!

When I first saw the “If only I had a giant... but hole...” message in front of the little obelisk, I laughed for a solid minute.

disagree. some of these made me chuckle, and it was a welcome break from the increasingly bad news out of the Ukraine. sometimes it’s ok to laugh at something silly.

these are great. i don’t even care if they’re often repetitive, the childish humor in the messages in these games never ceases to make me smile.

My favorite besides these is probably everyone labeling everything as a dog