This is ignorant to the current state of the industry. MOST of the most successful games are extremely old. GTAV is still one of the best selling games in its THIRD console generation. Minecraft is unbelievably old and still receiving fresh content, constantly. Fortnite is very old and reinvented all the time. World…

Leads of movies traditionally have less than 12 minutes of screen time through a 2 hour movie, that makes sense.

Maybe recheck your math, Sport, Flash just came out this year.

Everyone who thought Immortal wasn’t just the movie trailer for what they were going to do with 4 was fooling themselves, learn from this.

Canon to what? The Fallout games take place in different locations, not influenced by the progress of the other ones, which makes sense since there’s all kinds of multiple endings and quests that could go 3 or more different ways. They could say “New Vegas is NOT CANON” and that wouldn’t MEAN anything, to anyone. The…

Initial take: Wow this completely missed the point of the show, that’s embarrassing.

It was too soon for TLOU Part 1 and laughably too soon for the Part 2 Remaster. But the purpose wasn’t to release improved games, it was marketing to sell to people who are just watching the shows. Since Part 1 came with a PC port and Part 2 is a relatively cheap upgrade to existing owners, it’s not the worst thing in…

Promoting a film isn’t free, it’s a job that the actors agree to as part of their compensation package. Kind of funny that you’re talking down to someone while not understanding basic facts of life like this.

A depressingly common style of Kotaku article is “This game is horrible for 20 reasons, but I’m a tired adult with no taste, so I had a lot of fun with it!”

I guess today is the day you learn that actors going out and promoting the new movie they’re in (on stuff like talk shows and etc) is also... advertising.

“Whenever you think the plot may progress again, we will do GT again until you learn your lesson.” I mean, theoretically it could be charming and fun, but I just don’t know...

Do you... genuinely not know what the helm of a boat looks like?

Sonic game “difficulty” is generally directly related to being very poorly tested/designed, so the confrontational tone of this article makes zero sense, truly.

The equation isn’t “costs out, price in” and anyone who tries to pretend it is is simply LYING to you. They have projections for how much these things will sell at different price points and the reason they aren’t doing stuff like “Call of Duty costs $200 this year” is because it would then sell way (WAY) fewer copies…

I don’t think it’s fanfiction, considering every successful Bioware game has a lot of DLC. If Andromeda had even managed to do “fine”, it would have gotten DLC. Only flopping as hard as it did prompted abandonment.

You can’t “interact” with any NPCs on the map outside of those on quests? What game did you imagine you played? What kind of “interactions” are you talking about?

People who wanted this... think it through. You want to start an RPG with Level 50 and Firaga and all that? So for progression in the new game, level 50 is just the equivalent of level 1, the lowest possible level of strength you’ll have in the game. And they’ll have to come up with super duper Firaga to give you a…

Because each game will be a complete, satisfying experience? You might as well ask why you play video games at all, because they’re just made up fantasies that don’t carry over to your real life. Seriously... you play them because they’re fun, not because you’re trying to increase your power or something...

That’s because the .hack games weren’t true sequels, they were all expansion packs to the first game in each respective series (.hack and then again in .hack GU), sold at full price.

Microtransactions which are... buying something, not playing something. Your opening sentence is that “playing the game is not voting with your wallet”. Except that it has nothing to do with your wallet, buying into the microtransactions or season passes would be the ‘voting’ part.