It sure looks like it’s just the myriad planets, but it’d be great to be wrong about that!

Seriously, a game with a gigantic populated hub world that allows for missions to the myriad other planets sounds so much better than just the myriad planets.

Interested in whether they can bring my interest in supporting such a shitty company back to life.

Is her opening cinematic just her shooting the nuts off every ActiBlizz exec with that shotgun? Because yeah that’s literally the only thing that’d make me interested in anything else this company does.

Personally I wouldn’t immediately assume Kotaku is just shilling for ActiBlizz

I honestly don’t know what your issue here is.

Well yeah, because I find them bad. And I don’t “just” argue that they’re bad, I argue why: the resource management of Elden Ring is an aspect of combat that directly affects gameplay, rather than the nebulous and inconvenient “this meter gradually depletes and you have to make sure it doesn’t deplete and no matter…

It works when the whole game is built around it, and more power to folks who for some reason enjoy this, but I can’t wrap my mind around the point of adding it to a game that isn’t designed as a survival game.

Yes, and what I’m saying is that the new survival mechanics added are very often just annoying inconveniences requiring you to constantly mind a meter and just do some menuing to refill it.

The resource management element of Souls games is very much driven by combat; there’s occasional ticking poison meters from the environment and such, but the overwhelming majority of resource-driven gameplay involves moment-to-moment action, rather than how often you should pause and open the menu while you’re just…

If anything, religious folks would take it as proof that higher powers exist and that the ones they believe in are the best ones.

Learning to drive in Virginia, they’d take us out three at a time and we’d tag out. First day of driving the kid in my trio who drove first was bragging about how good he was at driving already and crashed into the instructor’s car pulling out of the parking lot, swear to god.

Survival game mechanics so often are just...inconveniences. Doesn’t make the game remotely more difficult, just gives you homework when you wanna be playing the game.

He told that story for the Batman 75th Anniversary panel at NYCC and it brought down the entire house.

We actually have a leaked image of one of these employees as a child:

I dont understand how we can all know how gambling works and then turn around and be super fine with children being manipulated like this.

If you can’t see how two instances of grossly incompetent sentencing tie into the general problem of punishments that are disproportionate to harm done than I literally don’t know what to tell “your.”

But at least nobody bought a plagiarized copy of Donkey Kong 64, so not a total loss.

That any judge would sentence Turner so lightly or this guy so severely is the problem. Why do you think the fact that two judges made such terrible decisions is a gotcha?

Fun fact: Sam Barsanti taking potshots at James Corden is tonally indistinguishable from James Corden taking potshots at Sam Barsanti.