Nonsense. The genre may not exactly be booming, but it’s got a large and dedicated support on PC. We’ve gotten at least one really great strategy game per year for a long time.

Uh... I think you misunderstood the point of the episode completely. What “USS Callister” is trying to say is that a player casually torturing their Sims for fun is fucking terrifying when examined from the point of view of said Sims. Yes, of course you don’t see anything wrong with torturing Sims, just like how Daly…

That’s what I’d like to know too. I’ve never even heard of a “master key” before.

You should give 3 a shot as well. 2 was actually made by the “B-team” in the studio while the A-team worked on Bloodborne, so it’s generally agreed upon that it’s the worst in the series. I’ve played all 3 of them plus Bloodborne, and I have to say that while none are quite my thing I still had an absolute blast with…

Yeah, the human fights are by far the worst part of the game, you’ll have no argument from me there. The best parts are when you go out to hunt on your own in the open world in order to get the parts you need to afford the best gear in the game. Maybe you should try booting up the game again and just going out into…

The Souls franchise caters to a very particular niche of old-school gamers who grew up with (or enjoy) PC RPGs and roguelikes where the difficulty was high, the secrets were obscure and the story nonexistent. One of my best friends is crazy into it, but he’s the type of guy who takes hours min-maxing his class and…

The advice I can give you is try to play “Horizon” on a higher difficulty. On Easy or Normal you can pretty much blast through almost any enemy thrown your way, so it’s natural you’d feel it’s like anything else out there, since the hunting mechanic is the most unique thing about it. Being forced to utilize a large…

I feel the opposite - I think Uncharted is what modern Tomb Raider games should look like rather than the boring open world Ubisoft wannabe bullshit that they actually are. “Rise of the Tomb Raider” isn’t a bad game by any means, but it’s just so bland and forgettable. I bought it at its PS4 launch and even I forget I…

If it ain’t broke don’t fix it. I think at the time Nintendo genuinely thought that fans expected something radically different from a sequel. Zelda 2, Mario 2 and Metroid 2 are all pretty different from their originals and are largely considered to be the worst games in their respective franchises, while their direct…

Persona 5. I loved 3, it’s one of my favorite games. I thought 4 was okay, but found the story reeeeeeaaaaaally dumb. 5 was supposed to go back to 3's dark roots, have a more involved story than “happy fun time with Persona” (seriously, P4's gotta be the most cheerful, happy and optimistic game about murders ever…

When “Left 4 Dead” came out a reviewer in my country said something along the lines of “If the playable characters were any more politically correct they’d add a small child in a wheelchair as their 5th cast member”. Flash forward to 10 years later when someone is unironically pitching a guy in a wheelchair for a…

You mean just like how you skipped the poor decision to be an Internet troll?

And Kotaku keeps trying to make up controversies where there are none.

If One Piece fans ever needed solid confirmation that Luffy’s not surviving the manga, this is it.

Don’t. It’s a thankless, incredibly difficult job that’s going to inevitably result in days of hard work being thrown down the shitter when your players inevitably decide to do the one idiotic thing you never seriously accounted for because it was just so stupid, like assassinate the NPC they were hired to protect for…

I imagine your continued refusal to debate this in good faith stem from the fact that you realize you were wrong.

Good. I don’t know the reason behind the team terminating their licensing deal, but I’m gonna make a wild guess here and assume that it was because Konami were being cunts to them, which is the only way they know how to behave these days.

Well, my own interpretation is that the phrase stems from the latter half of the 20th century, where it wasn’t uncommon at all for beautiful girls to be in relationships with “bad boys” (leather jackets, greased hair, bikes, etc) whom their fathers would not approve of. So “you’ll be in trouble when she grows up”…

Not really. You have failed to explained how that “trouble” means “your daughter will have sex with a lot of people”. You keep repeating that it does and think that counts for an explanation. It does not. Seems to me like you have no clue what you’re even talking about. Surely you’d be able to actually explain it to…

Perhaps they meant that it’s a sequel in terms of established mechanics (like, it’s to “Origins” what “Syndicate” was to “Unity”) rather than in terms of story?