“compulsion loop" is perhaps the most obscene phrase I've read today. I need a shower. 

I’ve heard an interesting theory that its because its much more difficult to make buzzy content for a serious Wild West game than a tongue-in-cheek Modern Crime game. Its easy to think of what you could add to GTA (new vehicles, big missions in cool locales, additional crazy modes like lightcycles from Tron) than it…

Literally nothing in your comment makes sense.

Just a lazily written snooze. They’re really mailing it in here, though not quite as badly as Boba Fett.

I enjoyed it well enough, though it is certainly the weakest of the Disney+ SW shows thus far.

The whole series just felt very workmanlike. It had the most “made for TV” feel of anything Disney has made in the franchise. And worse, it didn’t really do anything to advance the characters in any really meaningful way. The ending of RotS, and the beginning of New Hope give you everything you really need to fill in…

so what you’re saying is that 24 million is so ... small? ... that it’s easy to lose sight of just how big the gaps have gotten? is that it? are you under the impression that 24 million in 2 weeks, being under projected, minimizes .. or is even germane to the point that making 24 million in 2 weeks is such a massive…

Came expecting games like Death’s Door and Tunic... you know, actual Zelda-likes.

While Sony says they’re not putting first-party titles on there day and date because there’s no reason to, the real reason— and it was mentioned more directly in a quote from another article— is that Sony needs that sales revenue from those exclusives. They cannot afford to put first-party titles on PS Plus day and…

Yeah, this would leave me supremely disappointed... and I’ve never bought the ‘it’s always scarier if you can’t see it’ mentality.  It works in some cases, but if you can just burn it off-screen then it probably wasn’t that scary to begin with.

I understand what they were trying, but it felt like a really week set piece in a convoluted, and frankly unnecessary story beat. Faro being alive amounted to absolutely nothing and seemed like it was dropped in last second. Coupled with not showing Faro or having any meaningful interaction, and it fell flat.

Im sure he saved a lot of time by not answering the phone every time his cousin called.

All I gathered from reading this is “I didn’t understand a lot of what happened”. Most of what you got wrong was explained in the game especially about it being the only planet with an AI capable of doing what they needed. It’s like you skipped over a lot of the story then wonder why some points don’t make sense to…

They all look like the same Bond Villain at different stages of life.

if you can’t put things off in the real world for 1-3 minutes while you log out or warp somewhere, that’s the bigger issue than not being able to pause.

It’s wild that multiple people in this discussion missed key plot points and subtext that outright contradict many of the criticisms. You’d think at least one person would be like “wait, I thought the squiggly AI thing sent the signal and the zeniths were just here for the Gaia kernel to start over elsewhere,…

I’ve followed kotaku for a decade now and stuff like this makes me wonder if that was a good decision. This article is awful and has so many issues for far too many reasons to list succinctly and you should feel bad and embarrassed.

They have no one to blame but themselves. They fucked up Avengers, and people took one look at Guardians and said “no thanks” (myself included).

What’s frustrating is that are simple and efficient technologies that would just completely prevent a lot of these issue. Zero copy binary serialization formats like Cap’n Proto, FlatBuffers, or SBE would provide essentially the same performance characteristics while eliminating a ton of the worst security…

I’ve read all about these NFT metaverse ventures, and I’m yet to understand how this actually has anything at all to do with videogames. How is this in any way fun and/or challenging.