Ok, look there are two separate questions here:

Hey she seems to have a pretty great attitude in light of the backlash, good on her.

So, ummm, did y’all pay these idiots $2k by buying a copy to review? Hoping Kotaku was sent a free review copy and the creators didn’t get a cent, but I kind of can’t imagine the people who made this game would do that.

Process wise I know they’re different, I’m absolutely not challenging that. But I’m curious what, in your opinion is the key difference that makes one plagiarism and the other an acceptable learning process. They both involve methods of, as the article derisively stated, “making an approximated casserole out of human…

I mean you could make that pointless comment or you could tell me how it’s different.

“They’re just making an approximated casserole out of human art that has been fed into it, in the vast amount of cases without credit or compensation”

Yeah, I thought that was a cool departure from what could have been just more of the same in Halo 2. It really worked to flesh out the covenant as more than just generic bad guys. I think the only people who had a problem with this choice were the power fantasy players who just wanted to feel like they’re Master Chief…

For how irredeemably jank these Bethesda games feel now, I will never forget sublime feeling of that time I scored an early release copy of Skyrim, tacked 2 extra days of PTO onto my weekend, and marathoned that game for 4 days straight. It was the epitomy of a comforting atmospheric fall hibernation experience.

I love this.

Anyone who thinks GTA looks bad because of the leaked footgae has never been involved in game development.

“They were charged with making a Lord Of The Rings series that appealed to the widest audience possible without alienating die-hard fans.”

Yeah, in the time I played it before I gave up, it felt ok, maybe even good in parts,but “best game ever made” seems out of touch.

Man, I really tried to get into this game. Got to the Adam boss fight, at which point I was already kind of bored with the game, bounced off it a few times and just gave up.

Read the post again, more slowly this time.

Exactly this. It’s a cheap movie ticket for your brain.

Buying a lottery ticket is essentially an imagination enhancer for daydreaming about what it would be like to not have to worry about money anymore. I know I’m not going to win, but creating the infinitesimally small chance every once in a while that I might sure makes it more fun to dream for a bit.

I mean, I haven’t really been motivated to track down either of the new consoles yet because of their almost complete lack of platform exclusive games. This is exactly why they’re important to a console manufacturer, they’re an incentive to either buy one console over the other and/or upgrade from that manufacturers…

I don’t care how it happened, I’m just stoked that it’s happening.

The concept for this sounds great but I’d bet money it’s going to be a copy/paste open world GAAS based generic Ubisoft game in the vein of the last couple Assassins Creeds, which is a shame if true.

“It’s honestly hard to believe you have worked anywhere for 10 years and never come across anyone like this”

“There are a lot of people out there who think racism, particularly this kind of comparing people to animals sort of racism, who absolutely, genuinely, actively look for opportunities to do plausibly deniable racism. They also look for more harmless stuff like innuendo, but if they can think of a way to “do a racism”…