I’ve always been confused by the assertion that RE5 is racist. It does exactly the same thing with African people that RE4 did for rural Spanish people, and in a lot of ways it did a better job of humanising them. RE4 only reflects on the fact that these were once normal people during the credits sequence, while RE5…

I almost bought a Series S specifically for emulation, but narrowly opted for the Steam Deck - I’m glad I did now!

I made it about halfway through but just couldn’t find anything to enjoy in it. I won’t lie, I’m one of those people who gets annoyed by inconsistencies with the books, but mainly it just didn’t grab me. It didn’t feel like Tolkien: it felt like a pale reflection of Game of Thrones. I imagine that’s the result of the…

While as a UK resident I’m painfully aware of our continued descent into squalor, I’m not sure how approving this merger would be expected to create jobs here, and even if it did, that doesn’t actually address any of the reasons the merger is being investigated in the first place?

As a connoisseur of rain - thanks to living in Britain - I think it looks pretty cool! Thick, almost opaque rain is a distinct raintype that doesn’t get simulated all that often, for fairly obvious reasons, but I appreciate it - it should work well for survival horror, where variable visibility due to the angle, the…

Also Dante & Vergil were brought up in Redgrave City, which is just DMC London. Circumcision isn’t really a thing over here unless it’s specifically part of your religion.

The Two Towers and Return of the King games blew me away as a thirteen/fourteen year-old. The transitions from FMV to gameplay look ridiculous now, but they were genuinely impressive at the time, even my mum who hates games was amazed, haha. The RotK co-op in particular was a treat.

The idea that someone would prefer the new Star Wars ident to the classic brass is completely alien to me.

Interesting seeing Chris Bratt writing directly for Kotaku, given that he’s got much more history with a lot of other outlets. I wonder how that came about!

I fully expect it’s an inclusivity measure - the PAL releases most often included many language options, which the NTSC versions tended to lack.

The Crash Bandicoot video you embedded is actually a counter-example to the point you’re trying to make - it was made to demonstrate that Crash Bandicoot was an excellent PAL port: it ran at the same speed (not framerate) as the NTSC version, at a higher resolution. See the message at the end of the video!

I’ve always been convinced Overwatch’s characters were designed this way, and lo and behold, here’s Blizzard with their handy tool for ranking how ‘racial’ someone is from 0-100. Urgghhhhh.

They tend to release things on PC when they write them off as a franchise (Days Gone) or want to drum up hype in advance of a sequel (HZD, GoW). They’ll probably release Spider-Man 1 on PC when Spider-Man 2 is a bit closer to release.

Headaches like what? I was planning on getting one as soon as the opportunity arrives, but I’m headache-averse

Came down here to say the same thing: referring to medieval atrocities as ‘comedic’ compared to 19th Century atrocities is a remarkably blinkered way to approach this.

Nope, not necessarily, it depends on how you roll. It ended up being a big reveal for me significantly later under different circumstances.

Spoiler Warning should be at the very top, the mention of the hanged man being shot is a huge spoiler.

Right now it still looks like a duller and uglier Monster Hunter Stories, but hopefully they’ll make some strides before release, because this looks like the kind of thing I was hoping Pokémon would become back on the Gamecube, and I’d like to experience that. I like that they’re going for a ukiyo-e aesthetic,…

I played FFIX as a ten-year-old and it’s my favourite thing to this day - the themes of facing mortality and the horrors of war were perfectly digestible to me at that age, so there’s really no need for them to water things down, it’s already tailor-made for that demographic.

Ah, I kind of suspected but didn’t bother to look it up, that’ll teach me