For a while, they did forget about the nostalgia, and did worse with sub-par ports and releases of older titles. I am glad that, for the most part, they are putting more resources into classic style games. Live A Live, Octopath Traveler, Trials of Mana. They are finally getting it.

It’s been a thing in other ARPGs and the previous Diablo games, but there’s a big asterisk attached to those. Leveling has never been this slow before, ever. It’s taken me weeks at this point just to hit level 83 on one character, something I could previously do in a single weekend playing other games. Making players…

It seems like the ideal way to work around this would be kind of what they did for Death Knights in WoW. Once the devs determine what the ideal level is for the season’s new content, they let you start a character 5 or 10 levels below that level. Let them choose point distribution up to that point, give them some base…

It’s not a surprise to anyone who’s played relatively modern ARPGs. Too many people are going into Diablo IV thinking it’s an MMORPG - it’s not, you don’t have a “main” per se and the levelling experience is meant to be the main content.

“So if you also get overly attached to your player character and want to play an…

And of course developers that slash their staff sizes and replace them with AI will pass the savings on to consumers!

Seems like, in order to make a Gollum game good, you should start with when he’s just a normal individual. Do the tutorial there, with him fishing, hunting, maybe. Farming. Interacting with friends and family. And then have the ring sequence as a Quick Time event. Then maybe there’s a battle near his home, and you…

Speaking of slowing down and reading more carefully... Literally the headline?

it’s 20 fucking dollars, 10ish hours long and fun as shit, it’s definitely not overpriced or shovelware

Ah, but you do.  You can just not buy the game until it goes on sale.   Steam is great for that. I wishlist that 80 dollar game, and wait for that sweet sweet 80% discount.  May take a while, but I have more than enough to play till then.   You just need to change your mindset.  Start playing older games, instead of…

We’re not fine with it, just don’t have any choice.

It feels like everything in general is not explained well in this game. I had little trouble figuring out Breath of the Wild and felt like mechanically, everything just slotted together seamlessly like a well tooled machinery. I haven’t gotten that sense in Tears of the Kingdom at all so far, and I have a bad feeling…

Wait... am I supposed to actually go to the castle quest marker already??

I didn’t read any reviews of the game or any of the many Kotaku articles that have already been written, haven’t read or watched any walkthroughs or tutorials, so forgive me when I say: “I’m still in the fucking TUTORIAL area?” I’ve only completed the first two shrines! I was sort of hoping to get a chunk of this game…

lol did Kotaku not get an advance copy?

It’s called “we noticed that these are ok on the battery” and are sharing what they’ve found. Not some conspiracy. 

Couple of details that still kind of crack me up: First of all the reason AEW didn’t turn a profit in the first year of operation because big business brain Tony Khan decided to instead put all that money on video game development because he totally gets it and that is notoriously a business model where new sports…

“Budget.”

Geez, if they think it’s an unplayable mess now, wait until they can actually play it!

I suspect there’s the underlying and unspoken issue of Sanderson’s very public Mormon faith. I could see a journalist who just doesn’t like fundamentalist Christianity struggling to understand why people are attracted to a guy who tries to embody the most bland and personable aspect of it in his public facing persona.…

Didn’t HBO show the bloater during the mini preview at the end of episode 4 last week? Too lazy to check, but I feel like anyone who watched until the end of 4 already got a glimpse of it.