interesting choice with Karen Fukuhara being credited from suicide squad; i think more people now know her from the boys. didnt realize she was in the dub, now Im really curious to catch it when it hits max. 

have to assume keeping PC on last gen is to keep people on older machines from falling out of the playerbase. Seems like such a massively popular game they likely dont want to lose that chunk of audience (and revenue)

also of note was the weird cloth behind kojima that was gone when jordan peele came out. some speculated it was in reference to ghost lisa.

Id be so curious to understand how western games are being welcome for sexual content, but Japanese games are regularly criticized for the same.

You know, in other industries, sometimes there are [determining factors]. I think in the film industry there’s like, ‘The budget can’t be above this amount of dollars [if it’s an independent film].’”

Sounds like its time for VGA to set up standards too then. its way too arbitrary every year. 

doesnt someone get stabbed in the flashback at the Mako reactor too? could be that. 

no snarky headline? a litany of negative points with a conclusion its a good gift for gamers?

Kotaku your bias is showing

not all games are made by publicly traded companies 

im not saying i like it, nor am in favor of it. just pointing out that gaming is a business beholden to all the ugliness of late stage capitalism.

a skin whipped up in a few weeks tells me you’re likely an indie dev and not AAA. Because “a few weeks” might be right for first art pass, but ignores all of the QA, animation tests, certification. most premium skins are more months than weeks of work accross many people.

Corporate greed is a funny way of shifting…

inflation. its less the skins are expensive and more that games have not risen in prices relative to everything else in the world so this is how companies keep up.

Sonic 1 on the genesis cost 78 dollars in 1991 which is 181 dollars in 2023.

PS1 games cost 40 dollars in 1995, which is 82 dollars in 2023 money

like someone else said, thats not on Biden. Bidens job is to make sure the country as whole is doing well, hence the look at GDP, the deficit, overall job growth, etc. all those metrics are up and better than theyve been.

That is not to diminsh the issues you bring up, there is a real issue with income inequality. A…

nah, you dont suck. too many people have been playing mario for decades and dont realize that experience builds skill.

These games are hard for anyone thats never played a mario game before or a platformer before, but they make the difficulty accessible so everyone can make it to the end.

But for whatever reason…

i dont get the jab at bidenomics? record GDP growth and improved economics markers is a bad thing? Plus this is a global price change, so how does “bidenomics” lead to a price increase in europe? 

umm, weird that its framed as not too difficult. the main line is very chill, but all the special worlds are obscene. At least one so far took me probably 40-50 lives? And i havent gotten to it yet, but ive heard the finale special stage is just insanely difficult. Did you play the 5 star difficulty courses?

This is…

odd, seems like the take here is “if you could release it early, why not do it for everyone”.

Dont get what the issue with a 3 day window for people who want to spend for a digital deluxe. Have we reached that level of entitlement where any value added concept that isnt available for everyone is a bad thing? 

i find it odd that the style of combat is described as simple, but something like elden ring which is roll, stab ankle, repeat is described as complex.

Different flavors of combat, but the preferentialism in the press for FROM games is super real these days. 

damn article reminded of shadow complex and now im sad well likely never get another one

here they present it less like contradicting factions and more like citizenships (which you can have dual citizenship irl too).

Pledging to multiple ones also lets you act as a double agent if you want, so in this case consequences do exist.

And you cant be multi-theistic. so you can only pick one of the three religions…

you can join one of the religions by picking it as a trait. closes you off to joining the others, curious to see how it impacts gameplay.