Red Dead 2 is the best 2012 game I played in 2018. Game-over fail states on missions for not following arbitrary paths to the letter is something I hadn’t seen since, like, Assassin’s Creed Black Flag? RDR2 is a time capsule of dated open world game-design. The long development cycle served them well to cram as much…

I love how by this point all you are saying is “I have no idea of anything I’m talking about and I fully admit to it but dammit, I still wanna have an opinion on it!”

We shut it down? As we always have? Why is that a question, do you live in a world where this is allowed?

Imagine if Ninja started streaming Fortnite in swimming trunks, people would probably change their tune then

I don’t think this has anything to do with that since Microsoft already pays publishers/devs for the amount of downloads a game gets on Gamepass, so they are not exactly losing money on that front.

Do you have no self-control whatsoever that you need options to not exist for you to not use them?

The real news here is that Stadia has enough games to warrant a search bar. Color me surprised. 

If you really think you have never said anything dumb online you are just still too irrelevant for anyone to dig through your history and call you out on it. Also probably too young if you are arrogant enough to truly believe this, or an ex-amish I guess. 

There is actually one more companion you never get to ferry off, Buck, he can be the last person on the ship when it’s your time to pass on and you can have a conversation with him about that.

...Unreal Engine? The most widely used graphics engine in the industry?

The skins are cool tho. I want them.

Exactly, immediately thought Kotaku had lost another one of the OGs. I think we only have two left? Luke and Mike. 

Uhm what world are you living in that medium level or even many high level white collar or engineer jobs are making a million dollars a year?

I mean, if the guy has been live for 10 days straight without ever stopping, that’s the equivalent of 240 work hours, which divided by the average 40 work hour week most people get in the their 9-5 jobs would mean in two weeks he has worked the equivalent of 6 regular work weeks. It’s not really as outrageous as it…

The trend here is that once a streamer is getting sponsors, merch, and a corporate overlord, they should stop accepting money from the little guy.

I don’t buy your premise that this looking like a bad port of a 3DS game is an artistic choice. This isn’t like an indie game that is trying to channel the retro era and thus takes on a pixel aesthetic because those games actually commit to the authenticity of the experience by making it as close to the original as…

It’s still ridiculous to me that they had to throw a public temper tantrum and cancel a game for Google to resolve the issue after a month of back-and-forths. Luckily for them they had something to leverage, but most people facing dumb issues with Google services won’t get covered by a Kotaku to force Google to get…

Guess which one of these came out two years ago.

The answer to the second part of your inquiry is someone that has not played the first 2 Bravely Defaults and seen very little of them (hence not realizing how samey this one is).

Very well-informed comment 👍