It’s so tough. This is why I dropped Hearthstone. My current squeeze is Duelyst, and I’m close to the point where I want to drop cash. But there are a few decks I feel good about running in a vanilla state. Moreso in this game since there’s a certain strategy element to it. At least right now.

A one year development timeframe, sub-$1 million budget, and the involvement of a popular fantasy author? Yeah... There's no way this is getting completed. The ragtag developers doing their own thing is impressive, and I appreciate the confidence, but there's a reason why devs have insane crunches, delays, and massive…

This has to be due to server space, right? Nintendo is terrible about online still, and this just screams to me a leniently worded policy so they can wipe whatever they want from the servers so there’s still room for new content.

Kirk, any thoughts on if this will impact the almighty page view? I’m hugely in favor of the change because I find Kotaku’s reviewers to be top-notch, but I’m sure there will be some blowback to not having any kind of conclusion.

Yeah, this is great. Unsubstantiated rumors on 4chan mean nothing. Trusted sources? That’s a whole different ballpark. Plus, the year skip is sorely needed. I used to look forward to Assassin’s Creed every year. With actual time to polish the game and make it great, I might be interested again!

Lots of good questions, most of them I asked myself. I’m curious if, with Rey’s “force awakening” we’re getting that kind of fantasy, wizards have a bunch of power built up for the first time they use it but then have to train, explanation.

My problem with the movie is, even though I loved it, it’s too close to A New Hope. All of the same story beats almost exactly. And I get why they went that route, but there will be a fair amount of detractors claiming it’s only good because it’s just like episode IV.

Out of all the changes they made, the one that felt the most off to me was the age of the Chatwins.

Awe, Damn, you got pictures without getting yelled at? Lucky S.O.B.! I drive past there every day to work and we only stopped in on the last day of filming, so all the best stuff was already gone. My girlfriend went to take a pic of the Texas congress sign on the door and some production assistant freaked out.

I love the narrative that “becoming aware of other beliefs and systems and choosing to acknowledge them” is equivalent to “WAR”.

Yup. This is basically as far as you can go, micro-transaction wise, without crossing the line that all Destiny players agree would be game-suicide. I’m mostly ok with these transactions, but I feel like this is an Activision-mandated move that Bungie had to agree to to adjust their content strategy. I’m mostly…

From what I saw, there’s very little story. The prologue was Fable-y but very very rough. I don’t want to make a judgement call on it yet, since it was a beta, and a rough one at that, but I would hazard that the story is more framing for the MOBA elements than anything else.

If the beta is indicative of the final product, I'm not sure how successful this will be. I played for an hour or two one night and it just felt like a super watered down MOBA. I'm sure more stuff is being added, but unlocking/buying characters shouldn't feel like the entire game.

This type of program is going to have wild success due to people who vote in primaries. By all means, if your main goal is to have an elected representative who shares your faith, go for it. It’s a shame that that’s a thing that matters to voters. I’d think policy and the ability to think for oneself would be better…

I love all the early politicking surrounding the primary states. I fully believe that the states that are first are way too homogenous to play such an important role in the presidential process, but I also love all the drama. I love that Hill-dog just can’t get certain states behind her. I love that no-chance…

Yeah, lots of miscommunication on this one. Not to mention people scoring the guaranteed rewards by using this exploit so no one is really sure if it actually drops.

Same here. Destiny-free life is great. And you know what else? I hopped on and raided for the first time in like 2 months last week to do the Warpriest challenge. And it was actually super chill and fun and not stressful. The loot was fun, the team was fun, there was no time stress madness.

Jason, just cut some of that content and then release it as an “event” later.

New company president = new legal direction? I wouldn’t be surprised.

Not me, but a buddy in High School.