Seriously. This is the kind of game people are always asking for: new, fun, creative. There's another review on this very site that praises it, but they're simultaneously gonna run this article that nitpicks a very small portion of the game? Gotta get more people to look at the ads I guess.

I wouldn’t write it off based on this one review. Every other one I’ve read has been pretty overwhelmingly positive. Kotaku has become notorious for writing negative, condescending, clickbait titles since the scandal a few years back and subsequent staff changes. I only come to scan headlines and see if I’ve missed…

How the fuck are you people able to be cynical even about a game like this? For fuck’s sake.

Heaven forbid a video game be a game. Like wtf is turns into gamey gametown? That’s like saying “Citizen Kane was great but then it descends into filmy filmtown.” Yeah, that’s what it is.

Very likely they would just steal Unity or Unreal and “rebrand” it. They already have a new law in effect that allows Russians to use software from foreign companies illegally if they’re from a country that has sanctioned Russia. Look to what they’re doing with McDonalds.

I think the $70 price tag is unreasonable. TLOU2 was longer, more ambitious, had a brand new engine, story etc. and came with a free PS5 upgrade for $60.
This is a remake that uses the same engine, same music, same mo-cap, audio, music - and excludes the multiplayer. It should be a $50 title. I am not bent out of shape…

I can easily imagine him as a guest on Pressing Issues, right with Maurice Chavez telling “you’re not a big shot, you’re not even a medium shot!”

People laugh at anything ridiculous.  The vast majority of those things don’t end up starting a world war.  Your anecdote is not evidence. 

“couldn’t keep as an offline/LAN type experience”

He “changed his mind at the last second” but also had a spliced together video of his best times for that exact run available at a moment’s notice for him to pretend to play live?

This is one of those tough nuts to crack, especially with all of the ridiculous information and rage-bait hot takes moving around these days. I get where you’re coming from, but there’s a key difference Swift’s satire.

Yeah, it’s less about anonymity and more about community. Total fuckwads are much more easily able to find other total fuckwads who will support and encourage their total fuckwaddishness (fuckwaddery?) online than they are IRL.

I certainly understand the sentiment, but this type of thing has been tried and, unfortunately, it doesn’t work and only serves to make life more difficult for societies already vulnerable members.

“I think the inherent disconnect between a person and their online identity is what allows the awful behavior all over the internet to thrive.”

Not in my experience. On Facebook I’ve seen so many middle aged and older people spewing truly horrid shit (eg. calling for the execution of migrants or LGBTQ people) with…

There are a lot of websites that use Facebook commenting. Despite FB trying to make people use their wallet names, the comments tended to be the most toxic.

It doesn’t matter, though. Some websites require you to comment through Facebook. Have you seen what absolutely monstrous things people will say, even with their real name attached?

At this point I figure this’ll be buried, but I wanted to point something out:

And we haven’t even touched on how the emblem is the Game Cube’s, swapping its negative-space G for a P. Or how the controller is a Dollar Store Dual Sense with the trackpad fallen off.

It’s gotten to the point where people call them “leaks” whether there’s any reason the believe they actually are. No longer are they rumors or even alleged/supposed leaks. Just leaks. New user with 0 prior credibility? Leak. Someone with 75% miss rate? Leak.

Back when I used to get paid to write about games I got in trouble for educated guesses all the time. “This studio has a BIG REVEAL coming soon.” “Well since all they make and have made for years is this franchise I’m going to say it’s probably this franchise.” Ten second later, pissy PR person emails with “HOW DARE…