Look up the Evangelion shaving razor adds from Japan. This series in particular received a thorough enema destroying its thematic tone in order to make room for product placement right near the start of its popularity. There’s even commentary in the movies themselves lamenting this fact...

Looks very bad. I will be happy if I can play my Ps1 and PsP games on my Ps4 Pro, but who knows if they’ll ever add the ones I have and love (Mega Man Legends for example).

Gamepass 1st party games release on day 1, it’s only shit if you refuse to subscribe, while buying a bunch of games (aka be dumb).

That position makes no sense. See, when I believe someone is a murderer, I DO hate them. What is this “I believe it’s murder... but I’m chill about it, I dunno. Wish it didn’t happen, shoot. Oh well, no reason to be unpleasant about all these murders I think are happening.”

This “But judge not an anime by the frames (or lack thereof) of its sakuga, but by the content of its subject matter.” is very dumb to me. The content and ideas are from the manga, the only thing the anime is adding is animation. If that animation is shitty looking and cheap, it should not be given anyone’s time, they…

The story of Outriders ends and then the game is like “Now it’s time to grind plotless stupid little missions to get a BIGGER NUMBER! Please do that for months!” That’s what makes it a Gaas.

Arkham is not in the title, the title is “GOTHAM Knights.”

They were never going to make a second Mario Kart for the same console. If this surprises you... I guess you lack object permanence? They’ve sold the series one entry per console for the entire history of it...

Fallout 76 had a popular IP and a familiar gameplay loop to draw people into, once they got the game to baseline workable status, it’s easy to see why there’s a market for that. Babylon’s Fall is a new IP, that isn’t interesting, and wasn’t done well. There are numerous similar games you could play instead of it for a…

The problem with fining him for this is that it just hardens the attitude of everyone who was already critical to where the game developers are actively their enemy. That is a very stupid customer relations move to make.

Under 18 accounts shouldn’t be able to tip for most services because they’re often just using their parents’ money AND they’re more vulnerable to psychological power trips the streamers can pull. The other thing is dumb. Let the parents set their bed time.

100% feel that Square-Enix did creative accounting to rob the developer on this one. The most likely culprit is Gamepass. They probably phrased the deal such that “x number of sales will trigger royalties”, then put the game on Gamepass (which, according to the contract is worth zero sales) AND pocketed all the money…

I agree with most of your points, but do wonder what class you picked that you didn’t feel powers were relevant. The Pyro class gets to explode enemies, fire laser beams, literally melt enemies into pure health for you, etc. I shot only to fill time before setting more people on fire.

Think of a small, but dedicated group who play your game 1000 times more hours than anyone else, who stream it for endless hours, and who will promote it as a very fun game to potential customers, unprompted. Now imagine spending work hours making the game unpopular with that group, in order to make changes that no…

You’re letting bad experiences you’ve had confuse what’s happening with this game. You can’t use the Scorpion or Pelican glitch things in multiplayer, these are purely single player things. How would you ruin someone else’s experience with a glitch that you have to activate on purpose in the single player mode? Come…

Reggie is lying or out of touch, neither of which are okay for the leader to do.

This is a more reasonable comment, I will grant you that straight up. Here is my counterpoint. The theme isn’t actually “NFTs”, it’s “management so bad the cracks in the foundation can be seen from space.” Square-Enix’s talent management has become so poor that they couldn’t succeed with the license to literally the…

You first.

The President of the Company’s New Year’s speech was “We are going all in on NFTs and the blockchain!” Then they sold some assets and said “this money is going towards those things I told you I wanted.” And your take on this is that... Kotaku is stupid? You are illiterate.

Ask the guys who wanted to set up an NFT replacement of Magic the Gathering how well the “don’t ask permission to do NFTs” plan works.