Oh man, a pin pulling ad is sure sign of a terrible game. I just checked, Evony is still there, like an unkillable cockroach.

No, why should they?  It’s good that different writers have different perspectives.  Only dumbfucks think The Site has a Hive Mind that has a Fixed Opinion on any given game because they have agendas they need to uselessly flog at every opportunity.   I appreciate how different writers at Kotaku have different…

I salute your sacrifice.

Afeela bad for that terrible car name.

See, you have to understand that Kotaku has different writers. There is no Kotaku hive mind. So one writer can hate a game (or anime) to death and another can love it to death and there is no hypocrisy. There are very few things that you can say that ‘Kotaku’ has a united front on, other than being generally opposed…

You have ‘NFT’ and ‘Paul Logan’, and that’s all you need to know it’s a giant scam, though thank you for documenting it. But what more did you need, Trump endorsing it?

I can see why Pentiment doesn’t make the top 10 since it doesn’t involve killing things, but it no question had the best writing and the best UI of the year.

It’s ‘solo or co-op’ but honestly you have to be playing co-op to really appreciate it, so that makes it tough since reviewers are usually head down speed run solo.

One of the biggest things for me is seeing how the characters develop over the long time period of the game. Every one is basically a living, breathing, entity with their own needs, wants, and regrets (which is of course TFA). I think the closest thing to it are the Legend of Heroes RPGs, where you can see individual…

Admiring Elmo never seems to survive actual contact with Elmo. I guess he has to say nice things on the way out, but bailing after only a month tells you the truth.

From one Hive of Scum and Villainy to the next!

‘Hmmm, maybe I can do some real good by spending a decade of my life working for Satan from the inside.’

Yeah, I’ve played released games vs. the pirated games with the Denuvo removed and the non-Denuvo version is always better. It kills frame rates when used naively, which is why I said naively. See https://www.altchar.com/game-news/denuvo-hampers-frame-rate-and-loading-times-aHKXG4v7tWoK for example.

No, not at all. I am a fucking whore. I will go wherever the best games are. In the X360/PS3 generation I was a completely X360 fanboy because Sony was completely pathetic and needed its ass kicked. I own a PC, a Switch, a PS5, and an XBone.

Pentiment is awesome. And I can play that on PC, and have been. Grounded is kind of good but not great, and I played that on PC. Starfield will probably be pretty cool if MS actually makes Bethesda not release a fantastically buggy piece of shit at launch like they did with Skyrim. The rest of them are just really…

It’s not totally unnecessary - initial reviews turned me off enough that I decided not to buy it. Now maybe I will.

This is exactly why loot boxes are gambling. Your addicts are complaining that they’re no longer getting their high - because just paying for what you want doesn’t trigger that endorphin rush for them.

I wonder if maybe Denuvo isn’t running ‘properly’ if you don’t go through the launcher.  The game definitely has Denuvo, and Denuvo has been repeatedly shown to tank frame rates and cause stuttering if used naively.

Like you said, this is a two hour game - with basically no replay value.

Look, XBox is the ‘all you can shovel into your giant pie-hole for one low price’ buffet option. It is not the quality option. Except for maybe Forza Horizon (and Flight Sim for some people), all their IPs are old and tired. If you wanted quality games you’d be on Playstation, Switch, or PC (where you can also get…