And you covering this because it’s news or because she’s black?

I don’t really know anything about these people or the situation, nor do I really care to look into it at all lol, but based on what I read up there it sounded consensual? Unless you’re talking about their ages...but I mean, 15 and 20 (which let’s face it, isn’t exactly some huge age gap) is legal in a lot of places,…

On the one hand, I get wanting to create a character who resembles you. On the other hand, some of the origins are kind of set in stone ethnically. You, except for the case of the Dalish elf, mage and Dwarf commoner, have parents. Having more choices would make sense when the lineage of the character is ambiguous, but…

I hate what Kotaku has become. “Let’s revisit this game and see how it holds up!” Then several paragraphs whining the characters aren’t black enough, then some whining that mods you installed didn’t work (why judge the game if you’re going to be modding it in the first place?). By the time it got to actually talking…

I don’t have a stake in this as I don’t intend on playing the game but if gamer had to swallow the “changes” and subject matter in Battlefield V, Why can’t people shut up and swallow them here as well?

“Far right”...

I gave it an honest shake, about 10 hours, then I uninstalled and went back to playing Three Kingdoms. I’m glad Troy exists, it might get better with time, it was also free, but it is so so so boring on both the tactical and strategic level. On the latter level, as the review said, you are constantly spammed with…

“new players no longer need to grind or complete mundane sidequests to get through to more interesting content”

“Finally, the first of the new Unreal trials goes live with a remix of an old A Realm Reborn boss. It’s not very exciting, but it is something new to grind for rewards for, and the end-game grind is key for…

FFXIV has evolved into speedrunning orange-line dodging dungeons, full of players who either don’t chat, or when they do they are able to only speak in anime memespeak. And the story and cutscenes are still badly done, filled with stiff robotic animations that rely on cheap player emotes.

I hate this character selection trend that Ubisoft is doing. The greatest gaming narratives have fleshed out characters. Not cookie cutter one size fits all shit like this. Does anyone really think Horizon would have been a better game if you could pick Aloy or Alon the male version?  I would very much prefer…

This place isn't exactly the New York Times. It is an editorial blog.

They did well when there was no other choice, and I don’t see how the Lineage model of back in the day is preferrable.  It’s just replacing chasing endgame loot with chasing experience points and levels.

Yes, as it turns out, many of Classic’s systems were changed because they weren’t good, and nostalgia changes a lot of memory

Naw, the first problem with GoT was that it didn’t care about its characters’ growth as much as its characters’ “traits.” When someone says, “You could tell from Season 1 how this story would end,” that’s not a compliment. That’s a story without an arc.

I don’t think you understand how development cycles work. Earlier ideas and builds are vital to what a game ultimately becomes; it’s not like they scrapped everything and came up with a brand new idea in 2014. They still built off of what they’d developed before, whether tangibly or intangibly. Lots of games go…

“Always bugs me when people say it’s been in development for 8 years.” It bugs you when people speak accurately about the game?

How’s that kool aid taste?

It’s insulting. All we wanted was a quality closure to books we dedicated decades to waiting. A big FU to fans. Never been treated like this by other authors. It’s abuse of fans

As much as I’m enjoying the action and visuals, the story and gameplay are a little too formulaic for me. I mean I was worried it was gonna be Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, etc... bunch of regions with repeatable content for each region, and in the beginning I thought that wasn’t going to be the case. It was so the case. …

Im not sure japan (not known for its progressivism) taking a world populated entirely with animal pilots only and plopping in a black person in that world as if they are interchangeable is the progressive message you think it is. They’re literally categorizing black people as they do animals.  Correct me if there is …