Yeah, that’s an Ashley Bardhan post for you. Between some decent posting you get things like:

She’s not even technically naked:

I am an adult who grows with mario games. And watching this with my kid and we both can relate together all the things in the movie are really the best feeling as a father.

Considering how much they bashed every aspect of the voice cast, the trailers, etc it is obvious this is just used to drum up clicks to their site. “Hey this movie is going to suck” followed by “Hey this movie wasn’t what we were hoping it was going to be” is exactly the type of logic I find this site dominated by…

Seriously, the trailer makes it very clear that it’s a kids movie. Plus Illumination is involved. They made minions after all

Bruce Campbell’s Narrator VO for the tutorial sections was probably my favourite thing from that era’s Spidey games .

In most of their posts about the show, I’m left with one conclusion about Kotaku and TLOU: They post shitty, inane takes to get people to comment how shitty and inane their takes are. These aren’t the real views of the author, it’s just nonsense to drive engagement.

Having played both P5 and XC2, P5 is a tighter, more polished experience. But yes, they have basically been shitting on XC2 pretending Jason Schreier’s opinion is the most common one. The DLC was honestly the best one I’ve ever played for any RPG and they still couldn’t resist.

Too true. Johnny Depp may not be innocent in the abuse that went on between the two, but Amber Heard was definitely the one dishing it out the most often, and the most extreme.

I genuinely love that your comment, at the time of this posting, has more stars than both GIFs combined

Ah, yeah! I’ve recently realized my own aversion to stress in video games. Anything with a high-risk time crunch are really difficult for me! (Even turn-based ones like in Disco Elysium!) Because of this, I find it infinitely interesting that for some people stress/anxiety actually makes a game more enjoyable for them!

Starred for sharing about your anxiety. I have it to an almost detrimental extreme as well. I take forever playing games. I don’t get stuck, I have pretty good ‘skillz’ but also dread finishing them for some reason.

The author does mention that there is an “Explorer’s Mode” difficulty option that removes the time…

Agreed on all counts. I have no doubt that virtually everyone on here proclaiming Unsighted to be the best Metroidvania of the year has not tried Metroid Dread a single time.

I’m here from the future to tell you Dread does eventually come out in 2021.

Jason would start his reviews discussing how he hates the series.  I asked why they chose him to review it and they never had a reason.  It was always bizarre to me.  We have a whole staff, let’s pick the person who wants the game to be completely different to review to an audience that doesn’t want that.

Been reading Kotaku for quite a few years now, and for a guy who claims to love RPGs...I never saw Jason write a single favorable review for one....methinks he actually hates them

Jason was just being a pissbaby because Takahashi wasn’t interested in doing Xenogears to the letter again. He really couldn’t understand that Takahashi had changed as a creator and that he wasn’t interested in pandering. Not one of Jason’s finest hours

Also want to echo you on this. I love Jason, but his review of XC2 was deeply flawed and really did not provide an honest assessment of what the game was or who would enjoy it. All because of mismatched expectations (did he really think they were going to make Xenogears 2?).