Why people defend it, is because a lot of people had a great time with it. I picked the game up after the huge patch and I had a blast. I really enjoyed the game and the narrative and the different worlds. So that's why people defend the game.

Very useful to know this. It can be hard sometimes to find out beforehand.

More in line with other articles on Kotaku on voice actors, should the headline not be something like: gamers outraged because pure white skinned character voiced by someone of colour! Not that I care about anyone’s skin colour, particularly in voice work but equality does mean that it should work both ways.

Sometimes I really wonder what the hell is wrong with Americans.  I know, I know, not everyone is like this. Yet as a nation you do seem to allow these kinds of things to happen over and over again. If any politician would try this in the Netherlands their career would be over immediately. Not even people from the…

Ah yes, the obvious bad parenting reply. That was so predictable as an answer. Just because something is difficult does not mean we are not trying and succeeding. yet the media environment has changed nonetheless and the effects we talk about are not just bad parenting. That is a very simple view of things not helping…

But why should he get less work? I have to admit I kind of agree with these statements. I even see it with my own kids. They are so used to shorter content that it is very difficult to get them eleven remotely interested in anything which takes a bit longer. We try and manage sometimes but it is difficult and it does…

Why? It’s harmless and funny. Better than the midget horse porn with dry heaving cows you are probably getting off on by now after years and years of desensitizing your lust with porn. If anything this person is to be envied.

I have the feeling you did not actually read the whole article and missed lots of the nuance within. Which would exactly make the producers point.

I understand your reasoning but that is absolutely impossible. If you would look at the final processes surrounding bringing a film on film and to the theaters you would see that this would not be a possible outcome of the process. Mistakes in the film sure, accidentally using the wrong version, sure. But multiple…

So did both parties actually agree with sharing these emails with the public? If not I think this article is doing exactly what the company want (as they released them) without checking Anderson. You could have made the same, quite good, points without sharing the literal emails which would have benefitted the article…

Wich line are you talking about? They leaked stuff, reporters who were on no embargo or anything reported on the leak. This is a multi billion dollar company, known for horrible legislation practices, complaining about reporters doing their actual job. And what do you want? Reporters doing independent work or…

Because they are doing proper journalism for once maybe? They don’t own Nintendo anything. They are reporting information about an entertainment product people want to know about. Being blacklisted was a major advantage for Kotaku here. And ask yourself this: what do you want? That the journalists do their own thing…

I agree that you will need marketing to reach the masses, but I sincerely doubt you need this much. I think marketing for games has just grown without much critical evaluations inbetween. So now marketing firms are just doing everything just in case, plus something new they thought of. It would be a very interesting…

Looking at the numbers my main take away is that it is not the development costs which are the problem but the marketing. For many games the marketing expense is way higher then the actual multi year development. It feels to me that that is where the place to save money is. Launching a game without any marketing is…

I think you're right that some secrets should get above the table. But this is not the way, plus leaking like this can be very dangerous to people who are innocent as well. Leaking the wrong documents can definitely lead to people being killed.

Come on Kotaku you can do better than this! Just because someone makes some racist jokes in a private space does not make someone racist. I’m seeing quite a lot of these kinds of articles on Kotaku lately where the author has a very one-sided opinion and then writes a well grounded article around this opinion which…

And to stay in line with their recent shenanigans, they will add microtransactions to the movie as well. Once you are 15 minutes into the film you will get the bonus option to see a better scene on the big screen or you will be forced to momentarily watch the normal scene on a small display embedded in the seat in…

See that is just nonsense and if you would do any research into AI and all the amazing things achieved in the last 30 years you would know this. Art is just a tiny speck in AI research and is definitely not designed to make some sort strange new world. Research does not work that way

The author clearly has already decided for us that AI is evil, regardless of any benefits or good it may do. This is not stealing in the same way as the AI generators do it, they are talented artists using a tool. In any language technology you need to feed the system a corpus of written content to work. Are you…

What a strange article. You are reporting as if this is a problem but is there? Isn’t this exactly what you want with games? They make a great game it sells well and then everyone moves on. The problem is that because of the live services crap and 500 dlc expectations you have come to expect this constant buzz after a…