Microsoft has more than that - they do a lot better than Sony at variety, even if they have yet to have a game reach the heights of Sony’s biggest successes. For example...say what you will about Sea of Thieves, but at least it’s something unique. That goes doubly so for Crackdown 3 - yea it took forever and wasn’t…

She was 15. Good judgement takes time to develop, and not everybody has it by 15, nor should we expect them to. A better question is why the hell were the adults in the house cool with letting a 15 year old girl live alone wirh a bunch of men

Go back to 4chan, then.

Legitimate question: What’s a good alternative to Kotaku that’s not so full of these non video game related stories?

Mounting evidence that it wasn’t schtick?

Said it before, I’ll say it again.

I don’t understand Twitch. It’s like someone opened a garbage store, then one day decided, “I can’t have all this trash lying around here!”

I didn’t know it was even rehashed. I just found out this morning and my enthusiasm for the game has evapourated. 

I’m excited, but still in the “why is this first person” camp. IIRC when the game was first teased/shown off, it was third person. They have the experience from the The Witcher so you would think it’d be the obvious choice. First person melee combat is usually bad. First person stealth is hard to do right, as the…

This is rehashed every time the game is brought up I know but man I really wish there was a third person option for this. I have the same issue with stealth in first person and in general, have an easier time with perception in 3rd. I absolutely love everything I’m seeing about this, and if it even hits 1/100th of the…

I was really looking forward to this until you mentioned hacking and stealth.

The only two games I’ve ever really given up on were Dishonored (for it’s first-person mandatory stealth) and Deus Ex (for its incomprehensible hacking mini-game).

How exactly does hacking work in this?

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Urg, these sexual abuse articles are very resonant to what I’m going through with my own matter of being groomed from the age of 12 to 16 by an uncle’s husband. So to speak, he thrives while I merely survive. My family is supportive but my personal struggles with PTSD and anxiety (especially towards men) have really…

This, exactly. It’s perfectly find to have as lore “Drow splintered off from surface elves, fell under the thrall of Lloth, and in worshipping her have developed a culture that celebrates dominance and brutality as virtues.” As opposed to “Drow are like elves, but they have dark skin and are EVIL BY NATURE, except for…

The notion that entire, sentient races are naturally predisposed to certain levels of intelligence, or moral alignments, is baked into the game. That’s not the same as talking about “good and bad sides”.

I assume you saw SkillUp’s review on YouTube? Great, critical review. The comparisons to G0T season 8 and the new Star Wars trilogy were big red flags that helped convince me to cancel that pre-order.

Yeah, the transphobia is really disturbing and taints any conversation about this game. I feel that people should at least acknowledge the hate and clearly refute it, especially if they disliked the game.

Thank you so much for this- I’ve been on the fence about getting this, even though I’m a devoted fan of the first game. There have been so many transphobic and misleading things coming out since the leaks, and it’s been hard to tell what’s actually real vs what’s just transphobic bullshit.

I think I’ll wait a few days…

And as we know, that delay was SO FUCKING WORTH IT.  God damn I forgot how in love with Remake I am.

What did Jason do?