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“There is no reform for extremists like Solas or the Iron Bull—not unless they’re willing to leave a crucial piece of their personhood behind.”

Since it has been pointed out in the discussion several times already why this article is pretty misguided, I want to make another claim. Demands of the Qun is a bafflingly bad storyline, but for very different reasons than claimed here. However, it is very dismissive of those other races as it pretty much posits that…

....or maybe that’s the point of the game and Gen Z needs to stop acting like the world is perfect and that everybody else has to be.

“Dragon Age has never had any respect for non-humans who think that their culture is worth protecting.”

It feels a bit strange to describe the Qunari (who are a culture containing multiple species - we’ve seen elf, human, and I think even dwarf adherents of the Qun, rather than a race), as a race, and particularly as a “marginalized”, given the incredible and increasing power of their culture and military. Calling Iron…

Oh, I see, you must have been living under a rock for the last 6 years and not kept up with any kind of news or politics in order to be able to say that with a straight face

Just 100% agreed. No notes.

Surely Par Vollen would respect the military acumen of one of their most talented officers. If the Iron Bull thinks that his mercenary group was worth more than a ship, surely there is some room for negotiation.

Regarding Iron Bull, I think the problem isn’t Iron Bull or “Demands of the Qun” so much as it is a more general issue with how the Qunari have been portrayed.

Sometimes even the absolute best of a particular genre is sometimes godawful for me. I hated Skyrim from the moment I started it since I found the setting and characters repulsive. The best JRPG of all time, whatever one thinks it is, will turn me off the same way. Shadow of the Colossus was another one I absolutely…

This is coming from someone who loved the Adventure style and generally prefers it to the Boost style (and would personally rank SA1 and SA2 over any boost game), but this is an unfair characterization of Unleashed, Colors, and Generations, all of which did have a sizable amount of platforming in them. If you just held…

Yeah, I agree with this so much. As someone who dislikes open world games, rogue-likes, Souls-likes, and any type of shooters, I have bounced hard off of a lot of games that most people call some of the greatest of all time, and I have tried most of these genres (technically not rogue-likes and souls-likes, but I hate…

It is though, no question

How did far cry 4 make the list over, say, link to the past? as the list says, “any game where you can hang-glide over a waterfall is fine by me”. and you know what? they’re right! that ruled! and if that makes it one of their favourite games of all time, then it deserves a spot on their list.

It is honestly comical how you are now completely unable to get through a video game review or article without making some sort of political statement on gender identity, race, sexuality, politics, etc. Why, and I truly am curious, are you unable to just review games? Is there a mandate at Kotaku saying you have to…

paywalled

My “best of all time” list would contain shit like Dynamite Headdy and Space Station Silicon Valley while also containing very few of the last decade’s “Game of the Year” candidates.

I’m ready for him to retire. The more I learn about him the less I like him. I won’t deny he’s a huge reason the game industry is as big as it is today and he’s done lots of good work, but he’s also made a lot of series worse and kept a lot of potentially great games from being made.

Well it didn’t happen then either. He started in 1977, when he was 24. The author had a typo/mistake.