They can be annoying but occassionaly one will catch me off guard and I’ll laugh despite myself. The one that really got me was behind the Clergy Beast-dude. I expected the usual ‘finger but hole’ but instead it said “two-hander required”. Stupid, but I laughed anyway.

Seriously though, enough already with the fake…

Patches is one of the best game npcs ever. Firstly, his jerk behaviour, while annoying to the player pretty much reflects the same behaviour of the player. Who here hasn’t exploited bad AI path-finding in Dark Souls to cheese an enemy. It pisses you off when he does it but he’s only doing the same as you, he’s a…

It’s why honest and independent media is so important. We can ‘vote’ with our money by boycotting products, but would anyone be doing that to Activision if the games media hadn’t made it a wide spread issue?

That is just brilliant! But the rats in skinner boxes NEVER care they are in a box. Beautiful touch though.

I get the feeling he’s more frustrated at the ‘hoops’ than the cost. It does sound like they’ve made pointless barriers to people who want to advertise through the Playstation Store directly.

Just no. I’m already mad I pay Sky something like £20 a month for TV, more expensive than any other streaming service, and they have ads on before their streamed shows.

I think of you follow this tenet you laid out, the site will do great. My favourite thing about Kotaku is that many of the articles are like a conversation I’d have about a game, with anybody, not just other gamers.

I don’t recall this storyline at all? It’s been a few years but I repeatedly played ME1-3 and can’t recall this bit?

Meanwhile, murder simulations .b... perfectly fine.

I get the potential risk of exploitation. I also get why the rules are so hazy because one person’s entertainment can be another person’s ‘pornography’ in the sense that they find it offensive. The general rule of any law is determining if ‘harm’ is done. When it…

Sounds like a great first run! You know what is at stake. The thing often forgotten about Mass Effect 2 is that choosing a different ‘class’ drastically changes how you handle firefights. Playing the game as an adept is completely different from the cloaked sniper technician. People focus on the story, which is done…

Somebody made something and clearly wants compensation for that effort. If you use that product without ‘paying’ in someway, then you stole it and are a thief. You can rationalise it as much as you like; “they’re a rich faceless corporation, I’m poor” (except clearly not true, if you own a PC and internet connection,…

Great article! Having 70% turn over in one area/role is not just bad, it’s a critical failing. As the article says it only compounded all the other problems. When these articles started coming out about game crunch becoming untenable I highly suspected it would still happen but actually become more subtle and ‘hidden’…

So much relationship pain seems to come from fear of the unknown, ‘denial’ and a fear of being the bad guy. In the first letter above she clearly wants to move on but is too scared to do it. I get the feeling he does to but nobody wants to be the one to pull the trigger. And it’s such a common story, especially in…

My ex-wife always claimed she never said anything negative about me to her friends. When we ‘drilled-down’ in to what that meant I realised that she was complaining about me to her friends BUT in her mind she wasn’t. She’d says things like “[My name], is great BUT he does blah, blah, blah”. She’d always start with a…

I had an xbox 360 for years but one too many bad experiences has led me to never get an xbox again. The only positives I can give was that it’s networking and setup was much better than PlayStation’s for quite a while. The first Gears of War was quite innovative for it’s time, and Mass Effect of course was exclusive.

I thought Mass Effect 2 did a great job with the Legion question. Commander Shepperd battles against a rogue AI, can’t remember their name exactly, then meets Legion. The AI are just streams of code and the more than inhabit a construct (usually the semi-mechanicse corpses of races they have attacked) the more…

No one seems to have pointed out this show has existed in the UK for the past two years? Netflix obviously bought the rights.

Pointless as far as “social commentary” on social media as the people in the show KNOW they are being watched and KNOW that who they are will eventually be known to whoever they talk to. A major…

I get the impression that Sony realised that ‘competing’ at E3 just wasn’t worth it. While E3 gets a lot of attention, Games media is now big enough that any news from Sony will spread just as far, regardless of where it is released.

If anything, E3 news gets minimised by having to compete with all the other games…

Hmmm, different take but looks like Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw’s Mogworld. NPC character gains sentience.

It would be interesting if done like a Bruce Almighty scenario. You’re Jesus but can you stick to a moral compass? Unintended consquences? Does he heal a blind beggar who then goes on to kill someone in a robbery now his begging income is lost? I’d call it “It ain’t easy being Jesus!”