I am always a bit weirded out by how much native English speakers focus on tiny differences on pronouncing vowel sounds (that to me are either indistinguishable or almost entirely down to accent) but then very consistently just take a wild guess at any foreign-looking word even if the language in question is strictly…

One thing I don’t really understand is how does HaloDotAPI work? Like where does it get the information from? Does it scrape some internal halo API? Does it need to store historical data? Unless Autocode has some special access blessed by 343 (doesn’t sound like it), then I have to imagine they could open source the…

Theres no pay to win or anything. You only miss out on cosmetics by not paying for a season pass / in game currency, and a lot of the cosmetics are trivial (name plates / titles). There are some fun costumes but like, who cares?

Bruh on god

Players running around with glowing laser mohawks and shit is so distracting to me in Halo Infinite. It makes it all feel very un-Halo.  

While the whole “knock your opponents off a giant obstacle course suspended in mid-air” is pure Fall Guys

It isn’t even remotely similar to open world games but for some reason a few of the Kotaku folks have decided it is and won’t let it go. It’s pretty weird, honestly.

That is a truly bizarre hill to die on.

Yesssss

probably can’t afford Troy Baker at this point 

but is it really Shin-chan without the dick and butt jokes?

Oh dang! I’m super excited for this now!

You mean you dont enjoy playing Lockout BR’s every match?

Throwing in MAGFest is a low blow -- less than 60 people caught covid out of 10,000 in attendance. Spreader event it is not. 

It’s in the game if you choose it as a response, otherwise you won’t hear it.

When you first leave Sarif industries and Megan’s mother approaches you, it is one of the optional dialogue choices. So, for some people, no it was not in their game.

I burst out laughing at that script excerpt. Funny enough, I can see this working with a serious tone if the delivery of “I never asked for this” turns out differently than how it’s usually delivered in the english dub of the game, because I only laughed due to how the line is delivered in-game anyway.

What a rotten way to die.

It’s not only less interesting to me, it speaks ill of Halsey’s work/planning on the SPARTAN II project to have not foreseen this inevitability...

Fair, but I just saw that as similar to any of the times in the games something would be exploding and Chief would bring out one of his patented “CORTANA, WORK FASTER” lines. It was never panic, but there was definite urgency.