Kotaku generally has a quality issue. Also they've leaned completely into blogging rather than reporting. So silly stuff like this is more common than ever. 

Still better than the Elden Ring step five steps away from the enemy AIs field and start pelting them with magic and arrows while they walk two steps forward and five steps back constantly 

Not every transition through a tight space is for loading. I’m replaying FF7R and there are quite a few different moves like this with the characters squeezing and ducking through gaps. Yeah, it might partially be to help hide loading times in some areas, but they also create boundaries that enemies can’t follow…

This is a joke post right? Cuz nothing you said makes any sense.

Its a Twitter compressed video. The game looks great in any other trailer or video.

I’ve been playing video games for decades and never once thought about the wall crack mechanism until a previous Kotaku article called attention to how played out it was. Now I cannot ‘NOT’ see them and my brain is sucked out of the immersive experience because of that stupid nit-picky Kotaku article.

Fun Fact! The GoW Ragnarok devs said that they actually didn’t need wall cracks, despite them being all throughout the game. Apparently the cracks are used as gating to ensure that a player stays in a certain area for puzzle elements or landmarks to create a mental map of what zone connects with which.

Neat story, but…

Whats with this site and its need to be snarkey about every little thing? Game looks incredible, i’m sure me and other devs and fans will be studying it for many years to come.

Which is why or how 2k was born and they made some of the best NBA games ever made.

You don’t even need the MLB license, Microsoft! You have ten years to make your own super popular baseball game!

I’m suddenly reminded of the Lightning Returns dog...

Honestly it’s still sort of surreal that we have a video game adaptation that isn’t just passable or decent but honestly great by any standard, not just by video game adaptation standards.

I have to agree. My perspective is as someone who was familiar with the story of the game but never played it, and found Joel quite sympathetic throughout the series. In this episode, he comes off incredibly selfishly, and the fact that that selfishness is tinged with a bit of “what’s best for Ellie” and that we can…

Gonna be honest, this is a pretty wild read that makes me think the division caused by the ending will not be mitigated at all. Because to me, I was thinking during the finale: “Wow Joel comes off even worse here than in the game.” Especially because the show, for the most part, has avoided Joel being depicted as a…

Naw. The entire lynch pin for the second game is “Death of Random Henchman #2 actually matters!” which is undermined by the insane level of violence you end up engaging in along the way.

The real solution to that of course was to tell a story with completely new characters in the world and in the same vein in terms of attempts at prestige storytelling. Further exploring Joel and Ellie’s story forces answers to questions that were best left to be pondered. Also just, yeah, a part of what made TLOU so…

Considering we have real-life rapist Andrew Tate saying these exact things to his victims, let's not pretend it's a massive stretch for a fictional character to express the exact same sentiment. It's about power for them, plain and simple.

This has been all of the dialogue on Reddit/Twitter/even here on certain threads ever since the first person was “bullied” for playing the game on twitch. Whether or not the “bullying” was genuinely cruel or not, astroturfed or not, or even actually present in a quantity or not, every conversation now starts with

“If…

If you read his response and why he feels the term is derogatory and then still feel the need to pretzel logic your way into explaining the ways it’s not derogatory because of your personal experience then you’re apart of the problem.

Now here come all the white people to tell the Japanese guy why he was “wrong” to feel the way he did.