The most surprising thing here might be that someone did a Godfall cosplay. Also LOL at that Eye of Sauron outfit

Which ones? I’m not good at spotting this stuff, but the shots from the sides really make it look like a few people (especially Ford) is just sitting in a car pretending to drive.

I honestly never liked Ken much as a contestant, but he’s been a great host and the way he’s testing out changes like this is really thoughtful, both in the roll-out and in how he’s allowing viewers to be in the dark if they still want to. Hats off to you, Ken.

I’m an old who has used Discord a bit and can definitely see that 15-year-old-me would’ve been all over that shit. BUT the idea that anyone thinks it--or any other chat-based interface--is a replacement for static information is absolutely insane. That’s like saying improv jazz sessions are a replacement for albums or…

This better not awaken anything in me...

If fighting games were just kitchen appliances fighting each other, I’d be way more into them

Oh it is 4/20, isn’t it? Okay, this post makes A LOT more sense now--I thought it was just a random post about video game merchants selling weed. As someone with a new kid less than a year old, 4/20 is not really something I spent a lot of time thinking about.

I can’t tell if this is a strange post or not. I’m trying to imagine a “Which Video Game Merchants Would Sell Good Booze?” post and having a hard time. Honestly I don’t have anything against people enjoying alcohol or weed (I definitely enjoy both), but the recent glamorization of weed feels both cringe and like…

I’d put the entire BOTW Ganon fight here. The BOTW bosses were pretty terrible to begin with, but just rolling them into one for the final battle felt both lazy and tedious. I would’ve loved a Shadow of the Colossus -style battle where you have to navigate a giant Ganon to reach various weakpoints that require…

Your mistake here was bothering with twitter/reddit/any social media based discussion. Long gone are the days of nuanced discussions on these platforms (well, in twitter’s case those days never came), and every amplified opinion is polarized, intentionally or otherwise, while everything else gets washed away.

*Kendall Roy has left the chat*

Oh high up for sure, I’m not arguing that it’s at the bottom or anything. But #1 is, well... #1. And the ranking here seems to have a recency / crafting bias. Though at the end of the day some ranking on Kotaku really doesn’t matter--I just want some good dungeons in TOTK :(

I’m just here for Darth Clooney.

Wow, BOTW as #1? I feel like the lackluster dungeons and bosses immediately drop BOTW several places down, unless you really enjoy crafting in your games and want to spend an outsized amount of time playing around with sandbox mechanics, which to me... isn’t very Zelda-y. I definitely think there’s a place for it in…

Another argument for why decisive, discrete input mechanisms are superior to fluid ones in the right situations. Kind of insane to lose so much to something as mercurial as a mouse.

Anecdotes like this point to something clearly broken with wealth distribution in this country. There are families working nonstop and still failing to provide and winding up homeless but meanwhile boohoo some rich Hollywood people don’t know what to with all their hundreds of millions and have to break up as a…

Loot shooter? More like a loot cooter, amirite?

This is a strange take. I’m not about to go raising money for the people who were scammed here, but to focus on how much someone “deserves” something just as much or more than focusing on the fraudulent entities and their actions is the kind of slippery slope that allows for all kinds of “rules for thee not for me”…

Sigh, I’m going to miss Lance Reddick. Why is that these sudden headlines always feature a tragically early death of someone who seems to be a genuinely good, involved person in the world instead of some hideous leech feasting on others’ goodwill and humanity?

Agreed. When I think about this waste problem, I don’t think about niche board games featuring cheese enthusiasts growing their dairy farms or whatever, I think about capitalist cash-grabs where decades-old games like Monopoly or Boggle are rebranded with every IP under the sun and shoved on retail shelves all year…