“Taking other people's work and selling it for his own profit." Isn't that exactly what Nintendo is doing when they sell 35 year old games?

It’s difficult for me to fault individuals for their self-serving behaviors up until they have a decent amount of power. Honestly, the idea that this is some new kind of capitalism that we had the option of not engaging with or being affected by is nonsense. The global financial system is completely enmeshed with…

I expect it’s not unique to say The End from Metal Gear 3 might be my favorite. It just felt so fresh at the time to have such a long encounter.

I think you are probably right, but in the case of the switch, it must be particularly egregious. Basically everyone I know who has had a joy con has experienced it.

Fair enough, but then I’d just argue the same thing: new players aren’t pressing X because it’s X, they’re pressing it because it’s what the game told them to press.

The problem with all of this symbol analysis is that I think it’s all nonsense. Japanese players aren’t pressing O because it’s O, they’re pressing it because it’s what they’re used to.

Yea, it’s always for menus or something incidental. I would expect Sony’s major 1st party, high budget studios to do that. As fun as Astro Bot is (apparently, never tried), I don’t know that I expect them to have the engineering bandwidth to be on the bleeding edge of hardware integration. We’ll see though.

The problem is that we have no idea how they were implemented in that game. If they weren’t using the GPU decompression bus, then the gains won’t really be seen. If they didn’t do a good job of multi threading the asset load, that could also be a problem.

You know the swastika was not invented by Nazis, right? Unfortunately, yes, assholes get to take symbols in the same way that a bad relationship can ruin an apartment. If it makes you feel any better, it goes the other way too.

I don’t know... That’s a difficult question to answer definitively, right? I mean, maybe in this scenario, it would be reasonable to say that it is emotionally abusive, but I’m not sure I agree that any falsehood would cross the line into the consent being invalidated. Would a lie about what you do for a living…

Yea, I hear you on the NPC’s. At first I thought they weren’t as bad as the original, but about half-way through, I repeatedly watched them be way out in the open and not be spotted by enemies, sporadically dash back and forth between cover positions, and more. It’s weird, because the enemies behave fairly…

What difficulty did you play on? I will also point out that this was a very rare instance that I played a game on the hardest difficulty on my first go. It was the way it felt most engaging. 

yea, enemies are really smart and communicate with eachother in really convincing ways. There are some enemies that will periodically check-in with each other, and if someone goes missing, two enemies may go scope out their last known position together.

Yea, I've been seeing this comment a bunch. Tbh, it strikes me as 30-to-40-something year old men who are so used to having protagonists with their exact perspective that they've mistaken it for 'good writing.' Yes, these 19 year old girls often act the part--that means they're convincingly written.

I wouldn’t say this game has “mixed” critical reception. The Evil Within, or Death Stranding have mixed reception. This game is near universally praised with some well-reasoned dissent. Personally, I was very skeptical going in, but so far my thoughts have been mostly positive, and I’m pretty far.

This is a well articulated summary of my feelings in reading the other reviews. Frankly, it’s a little depressing to me that the broad concensus of critics in this medium seem only capable of engaging and lionizing themes surrounding extreme violence in games.

I came here exactly to say this made me think of Hereditary.

Frankly, I’m still bewildered that the Kotaku audience is so impressed by an article that is effectively a big fat hashtag-listeningandlearning bare minimum thing that white people are doing to prove they aren’t complete racists. Honestly, half of conservatives I know are posting this type of shit and they’ll still…

‘You dumb fuck’ is what smart people say always.

Then what are you doing? Blowing off steam?