I kinda feel like over-focusing on the reviewer’s ‘experience’ takes away from what a reader can really gain, however. Obviously all reviews are mostly subjective, however Kotaku’s feel less and less like an informative assessment of a game’s content and quality, and more like a singular person’s diary/school essay. I…

yeah that’s what I find annoying about them at times, it’s almost as if the actual game itself is immaterial and they seem like they’d rather be talking about anything else.

We paid to experience the story that we love.

dull spinoffs like the games that extended the FF7 lore, like Crisis Core?

I get the point you’re making, given that Toriyama is a director and Nomura has a larger role than he did in the original, but there are a lot of people from the original still involved. Kitase producing, Nojima writing; I’m not ready to write it off

helmed by the people behind Kingdom Hearts and FF13.

The latter is an inevitability for a ton of fans no matter what; I think no matter how well it’s done it’ll be divisive. I mean, it already has been. I’m personally glad they took a risk and are trying something interesting even if it ends up being poorly received.

“The launch experience our players deserve” is code for maximizing their revenue during launch — and they deserve to. Who cares about physical copies? Me, for one. I’d prefer a disc over download. The retailers care. Stakeholders care. The bottom line cares. They don't deserve to lose revenue because some impatient…

Be careful, a fall from such a high horse could kill you.

God you’re fucking entitled.

Wouldn’t you if you were just hanging on in the face of big box competition, sites like Amazon, and digital sales? I don’t get this response from you at all. Why wouldn’t a mom and pop look froward to the release of a big game that might bring shoppers in their door? 

So basically you’re saying it’s fine for other people to have to wait but YOU shouldn’t have to.

“Oh god the humanity.”

Says the kid who’s clearly upset that he’s gotta wait a little longer to play a video game.

It’s not a matter of just releasing digital. There are thousands of games every year that never see physical. It’s about effectively telling the retailers “Hey guys, fuck you, we gonna launch digital, while you wait on your physical copies to get there and if that fucks with your money, that’s not our problem.”

Ah. I see that you did think over your post...for what it’s worth. So what you are telling everyone is you are just extremely stupid then. Look at what happened to Sega when they fucked over the retailers, braintrust.

We will likely be done with the first big wave by September, but projections are that we’ll continue to deal with Covid-19 until a vaccine becomes available or until the virus exhausts itself out. For what it’s worth, at work we’re planning contingency plans out to spring 2021 in response to WHO and CDC models.

Try to be a little less selfish. Just a little less, especially in a time like this. Not everyone’s situation is the same or possibly as privileged as yours.

And it would not surprise me at all if Sony might be wary releasing a game about a post-apocalyptic world where a virus completely decimates society during a time where we’re apparently not even close to “how bad this is going to get.”

lol, it has nothing to do with completeness.

So some PlayStation trolls brag about exclusives and you think the best course of action is to stoop to their level and make yourself look like an ass?