Is no one else tired of peppy, jazzy soundtracks in JRPGs?

It absolutely fits the setting in this case (first RPG I remember hearing jazz pop in was Persona 1), but after feeling beaten over the head with upbeat music in everything from recent Final Fantasies (particularly XIII) to the unnervingly happy battle theme…

This in a nutshell. The company is essentially holding their fantastic game development talent hostage at this point by insisting it be on hardware that will ONLY be used to play their games.

This made me cringe considering how utterly and painfully true it is. The system’s chat platform will cause connectivity issues with its own controller. Ouch, Nintendo. Ouch.

I think open world games speak to someone like me for a couple of reasons. For one, I love getting lost in a fantasy world. Sure, you can argue that things get old after you’ve found your 10th draugr cave, but it’s still something I found due to my own exploration, not because of a scripted event. That’s true…

I think Kirk was just making light of the fact that ZzzzSleep said, “you guys do this” when in fact it’s only and always Kirk making these articles rather than the Kotaku staff at large.

The old tried and true “Focus-Tested White Male Protagonist.”

Oh Kingdom Hearts. Only that series could match dialogue as Care Bears-cheesy as “We’ll defeat darkness with the power...of heart!” with a storyline more convoluted than a decades-running daytime soap opera.

I cannot wait for the day that Nintendo stops holding their great games hostage on sub-par hardware. I say this as someone who once worshiped the Super Nintendo.

A handful, honestly. Kept trying to get into it during its heyday on Adult Swim’s anime block. I think the stylization and character tropes of anime just form an impenetrable wall between me and my ability to relate to the character, no matter how well the show is written.

I grew up on SNES JRPGs, but since those were…

Fair enough. We all have personal standards and they’re all a bit different. There are popular aesthetics or even storytelling styles that make me go “meh” as well. See: Harry Potter or pretty much anything anime.

Me trying to tell you that “you’ll love Horizon once you play it” is no better than the endless parade of…

What aesthetics are you into by comparison?

I can understand how the juxtaposition of prehistorical and far future machine vibes can feel like an “eye full” but it works so incredibly well in the context of the world building that once you’ve accepted the setting, the gameplay, story and characterization suck you…

Pre-order canceled

Are they the Konami of the Dungeons and Dragons license?

Last June, Phil Spencer said that Microsoft’s PC releases will come to Steam as well as the Windows Store. Quantum Break came to Steam in September, five months after its release on the Windows Store. Since then we haven’t heard a peep about future Microsoft releases being released outside of Microsoft’s own PC…

One of my favorite stories of all time. Not just in video games. In any medium.

I’m in your situation with this one. I absolutely ADORE the story and setting of both Souls and Onimusha, yet play games to escape frustration rather than to add to it.

I platinumed Bloodborne after a long, difficult uphill battle but realized that for me, personally, challenge isn’t worth the stress that comes from…

This is a tough situation for Blizzard, because the marketing “buzz” around Overwatch at present is entirely about diversity. By excluding the disabled, they’d be committing PR suicide.

On the other hand, by allowing certain gamers - regardless of reason - to have a competitive edge thanks to an external input,…

It sounds like you’ve gotten used to a higher FPS on the PC version, so playing on consoles would feel more sluggish. The “aiming jerks you around everywhere” is a giveaway. Not much you can do to fix that unless Overwatch’s PC settings allow a 30 FPS cap you can train on to get yourself used to a slower, jankier FPS.

Japan’s obsession with subservient women is creepy as fuck.

The Switch will almost certainly sell better than the WiiU, and enough so for the fanbase to be able to initially say, “Nintendo’s back!”

The truth of the matter is, with third parties still not fully jumping back on board (ports of old games don’t count, people), the system - and Nintendo’s console future with it -…