“First, obligatory JKR is a bigot and by playing this game you’re (the general you, not the author here) basically saying you care more about playing a video game than anto-trans bigotry.”

the GBA had LCD gridlines, not scanlines. The art was designed around the gridlines but using scanlines wont create the same effect.

The PS2 games are not emulated Sony’s PS2 emulation iss ass so you could definitely tell if it was. Also, they already have PC Versions of the PS2 games on the Epic Store.

A slippery slope argument is not necessarily fallacious. The poem "first they came..." Is a slippery slope argument.

I sort of agree with content warnings, really on some level everyone does, that's why we have tv and video game age ratings that actually describe the content. But some content warnings have gotten ridiculous. Like I played "We Will (Not) Remain" and there was a CW for loneliness. Cool it's up to you to put whatever…

Relic Sword weapon art makes this 40k souls every 10 seconds

How do you make this list and not mention the literal defining thing about this game, the Erdtree is almost copied and pasted from Berserk (yes, yes, I realize the world tree exists in norse mythology but Elden Rings design is near identical to Berserk)

Also the resistive triggers, rumble, etc.

If a game supports the DualSense you dont need DS4Windows. Steam usually handles playstation controller input natively (meaning you never need DS4Windows if playing through Steam), however for games with Dualsense features the game itself recognizes the controller and its better to turn off steams controller input…

This is false. They have apologized. Multiple times.

Ive read every chapter and been caught up for years. I’m 28 years old and I’ve chewed on it. One Piece is still pretty good, but its not even remotely close to as good as it was in the first 50 episodes first 100 or so chapters. The characters once the adventure opened up started to feel more like 2d charicatures of…

You’re completely overstating 1) the “incomplete” state of unpatched games and 2) the additional content added in patches. Often its pointless and a lot of times its terrible. Finally, bugs are one thing, like I said, a lot of dark souls games balancing patches reduce damage and effectiveness of spells and items due…

I dont “love” physical copies, just responding to your idea that the disc is nothing without the patch. So many people genuinely believe the game is not in the disc because it requires an install. 95% of the time the full game is on the disc. Balancing is not always good. Dark Souls balancing patches are often from…

This is one of the biggest myths I’ve seen in the industry, it’s so easy to prove yourself wrong. Take any disc and disconnect your console from the internet. You’ll see that the full game is on the disc outside of a handful of cases. The day 1 patch is almost always unneeded.

“If the whole premise is owning the game long term then you don’t get to list selling it as a bonus”

Can you sell your digital copy? No? Then you don't own it.

I feel like this article could be more clear that these accusations are not related to Sexual Abuse/Harassment. Why mention “especially” women and give no specific or even general examples?

I feel like the type of person this thing would be meaningful for would literally not even think of platinum-ing a game and wouldn’t learn about this playing the game. They would never encounter this anywhere but on a website like Kotaku, which basically makes this a piece of trivia instead of a meaningful gameplay…

The protagonists of Gears are hispanic aren’t they? Yes I realize they are white latino, but its a bit reductive to call them white. 3 out of 4 of the original gears cast were PoC.

Nah, any game with lots of motion, whether thats sidescrolling, fps movement etc is extremely glaring. Even a game like Witcher 3 with lots of moving foliage and trees blowing in the wind(“...winds howling”) is night and day 30 vs 60.