The Quest is an absolute marvel. I can hop on it and play whenever I want, wherever I want, with at most about a minute of setup. Yesterday I had multiple friends over, and we were swapping the headset to each other constantly, which takes maybe 30 seconds because of strapping on the controllers and adjust the top…

Looks like neither the image link came through, or the hyperlink I added to my comment via an edit. Thanks, Kinja! Here is the picture I tried to post.

Huh, I thought the general consensus online was the wig was actually shockingly impressive. I do agree that the women look better, but I think the wig looks pretty damn good, particularly in the close up shot he posted on IG:

I’ve played Apex longer than any other Battle Royale so far, and these new additions/changes look like just enough to freshen things up without introducing entirely new mechanics to learn that completely change the meta. Bravo!

Yeah the confusion over Twitch perplexes me as well. Imagine if there was a service where basketball fans could join a chat and interact with their favorite players live whenever they are on the bench during the game. Basketball fans would trip over themselves to access that. It’s such a simple concept, and I don’t…

Yeah my wife and I watched the first 4 episodes of Evangelion last night. The first episode was extremely weak, but by the 4th we were interested enough to decide to watch the rest. I can definitely see why people wouldn’t make it past those the first few episodes though.

Dunno if the people you’re asking either haven’t actually watched the show, or “watched” it while scrolling through IG, but “advertising” is literally just the setting that all the good stuff is built around. Although the advertising stuff IS actually really interesting, it’s just one of dozens of factors that drive…

Every show I’ve ever watched to completion interested me in the first season. That doesn’t mean it can’t get better after that, but you can’t expect someone to sit through multiple seasons of something they don’t enjoy to get to the “good stuff.” Breaking Bad is a weird example, because it was almost immediately…

They had been working on the show for a decade, and wanted to move on to different projects (specifically, Star Wars). I don’t blame them one bit. I don’t think they needed more time, I think they could have done more with more time, because of course they could have. Any show, when given infinite time, could…

We all greatly preferred the second half to the first half (which although enjoyable, was quite slow and drawn out). Honestly, I wish they would have taken half of the slow fan-service from the first half and used it so the second half didn’t feel as rushed! But yeah to each their own. The insane hate for season 8 is…

For a 10-episode show, I don’t think that’s too much at all. For a show with 20+ episodes? Sure, I get that.

I thought season 8 was brilliant. In fact, so did the entire 15+ people I watched the season with. All the outrage over Dany’s “out-of-character” decision is completely unfounded, as has been shown by quite a few journalists, including those here at Gawker. For me, the ending of GoT ranks up there with Breaking Bad…

To me the best example of this has been Black Mirror. I don’t care what people say, and the relevance of the political commentary therein, the first episode is not that great in comparison to the rest of the show. In fact, the first episode is a huge turn off to many people who I’ve told to give the show a try. When I…

Sure, but with a TV show the ends don’t really justify the means if the means aren’t enjoyable, you know? You can’t expect someone to sit through dozens of episodes they don’t enjoy to then potentially enjoy everything coming together. With a movie it’s different since we’re only talking a couple hours of commitment,…

To me, if a show doesn’t capture your attention/imagination in the first season, there’s no reason to continue. Yes, there are absolutely shows like Mad Men that arguably have their best episodes 3-4 seasons in, but you shouldn’t have to watch that far to know if you like it. That’s insane. Recently with Game of…

Great interview, and the bit at the end about your hair was amazing haha. Out of curiosity, do you do interviews like this any differently as someone who speaks Japanese (unless I’m mistaken)? Obviously you’re asking questions in English for the American audience, but I’m curious if you clarify anything in Japanese,…

You’re confusing “greed” with “smart business.” If players didn’t spend money on premium currency and micro-transactions, studios and publishers would have abandoned them years ago. If “free-to-play” games didn’t make dramatically more money than games that cost money up front, no one would be investing in those. The…

Holy shit.

Goodbye productivity today.

Eh even the hot takes on the specific studios/publishers you mentioned are generally not right. Companies are in the video game business to make money, and video games get more and more expensive while remaining at the $60 price point for over a decade. Yeah, no one is “greedy.” They’re just a business catering to a…