I care that Ubisoft still has a problem with just admitting their main character is canonically a woman. That kind of nonsense equivocation in this day and age is one of a number of big red flags the company has hanging over its head.

“Here are over 80 examples for you”

First off: I’m not trying to argue in bad faith, and asking a question so that people can think about their answer in relation to the topic at hand isn’t—I think—me trying to move goalposts.

Nobody forced CDPR to go with first person. R* did a bunch of research to determine what players prefer and it was overwhelmingly third person, that’s why first person was added to GTA V much later because it wasn’t a priority for most people save hard core gamers. Seriously, who would say, “I’d love to have 1/2 to 2/3…

Thank you for the effort to answer the question.

Okay, lets look at this list:

Look at the games you’re bringing up and really take a look at why and how they were bad, though—DKN suffered nearly, what? A decade plus of mismanagement plus changing development teams? Kotor II got pushed out before it was “done”, but was still a perfectly serviceable and—to this day is still—held up as one of the…

You can’t just bring up a game that we have seen nothing about as proof that “this happens all the time”. And that’s what I meant to have people think about with my question. That this isn’t the norm, and we need to continue pushing developers and fans alike to understand that.

Lol he put a whole book out chronicling the development of several successful games (that still had rocky productions), what are you talking about.

My brother bought CP2077 for XB1, and I have a Series X. So he played it, and, hilarious graphical errors aside (there were so many of them) he really, really liked it. Played through to the end three times to see all the outcomes.

I love how committed Kotaku is to shouting out Alumni. It makes me both happy, and furious that Jason is still driving the coverage on this website.

Frankly astonished by some of the responses here dismissing this as stuff they “already knew” or that it’s unnecessary. How brainwashed are you that your first response to a report about CDPR treating their people like shit is “eh, I already knew that”? How can it be anything but good that these assholes are getting…

Yeah, pretty much everything he revealed was common sense. Developers crunching on a highly-anticipated AAA game? Check.

Cause if given a choice between rolling that next dice to cast lightning / play one more round of Street Fighter / camp that elusive MMO monster / etc over taking a shower, the decision has already been made for them.

It’s often a sign of a latent mental illness. One thing I noticed back when I was homeless in Seattle was that some folks were absolutely diligent about showing up at the community shower (BIG shout-out to Compass Housing Alliance, a charity in Seattle you should totally donate to if you have money to spare because…

I think most of them just lack self-awareness and for whatever reason, nobody tells them. For some of them, fighting games (or Magic, or whatever) are really the only things they do besides go to school/work, and sometimes we can kind of lose track of how we smell when we smell ourselves all the time. There seems to…

Most of the nerds who fit into that classification tend to have low to no self esteem and can even rebel against basic hygiene due to a shitload of them being massive introverts who only feel ‘ok’ and ‘safe’ around their type who ...shocker, also have little care for hygiene.

DOUBLE SECRET PROBATION

The part that really kills me is that if they had given the game another year, which it needed for bug fixes anyway, it would have gone down a lot smoother if they announced they were scrapping the last-gen versions. Sure, a percentage of preorders who hadn’t upgraded their console yet might be miffed, but I’d bet it…

What if the real Cyberpunk 2077 was the friends we made along the way?