I really liked the open-ended narrative from the first game and lead to me making up characters for my dungeons. In that vein, I always thought 1 would make a kick-ass 8 episode Netflix series... each one focusing on a single character (and their past) as they dig through the various dungeons until the survivors come…

Anciently belated reply, but yes I was referring to when her older sibling inhabits her body or whatever it is and she’s wearing Pearl’s clothes. While it may not BE Pearl, there’s still some weird sexualization of it all that genuinely felt uncomfortable.

This was an investor call with the handful of big institutions that control a large amount of shares and can singe handily make a material impact on the stock price. Including those firms that manage all those retirement accounts. Obviously no one is talking about us rank and file retail investors with no real power.

“What? Unhappy is seven letters, not five!”
-me reading the first paragraph, realizing why I don’t do crossword puzzles

I was there during this panel in person. It was so unbearable to be in the room during the devs and the audiences responses. I was 21 at the time and knew that it was some bullshit being said. Up until that point I held game devs on a pedestal, thinking they must be great people to have made this great game.

This was…

In the video she asks the question, people in the crowd cheer and the men on the panel looks chastened. Then men in the audience start booing loudly and you can see the panel become emboldened to start openly making fun of her. There is a lessen here about the fact that the misogyny in the game industry is reinforced…

I worked for Amazon and the anti-union stuff is real. They touted their open-door policy giving employees a direct line to raise concerns to management. Yes, they give you the freedom to go directly to management with an issue and they have the freedom to ignore the crap out of you since you have no real backing. Also…

Corporations are Anti-Human. We need to be able to break up these corporations that abuse human rights and destroy the lives of their employees. We need to end legal bribery where corporations can give large payoffs to politicians. Fuck corporate America. Unionize. 

I bet exactly none of the rotating project leads ever considered making it a single-player story driven game a-la Red Dead but with pirates, and that saddens me

As an outsider looking in at the fighting game community, this is the dumbest thing I’ve heard yet.

The song however, is pretty cool. 

Assassin’s Creed games desperately need to be smaller, not larger.  

Kevin, truly, can fuck himself.

This is the first time I’ve ever felt the urge to reply to a Kotaku article after being a reader for years. This article is incredibly well-written, thoughtful, and vital. Thank you, Ash, for writing it and thank you to Kotaku for publishing it.

Classy move.

I mean, RE lady is an antagonist and FemShep can be gay, right? So...not sure about these examples.

On the Cyberpunk front, there’s a thread of side quests where halfway through I was like “okay this dude absolutely wants to bone” and when we were finally alone in a scenario that could only be described as romantic, I went in for a kiss and he was like “woah there I don’t swing that way”. Which makes perfect sense.…

On the filler content of ffvii remake, I rate it all on a scale of “enjoyed it” to “didn’t mind it”

Oh come on now, “Kingdom Hearts 0.2: Birth By Sleep - A Fragmentary Passage” is clearly worse. Mostly because it commits the cardinal sin of being able to be confused with another game in the series. Plus, zero point two? Really?

Goodbye.

Yeah EGG was obtuse, but after the first couple hours morphed into something amazing.  That ArmorDress fight was one of the coolest "unexpected" moments in a game I can think of.