Sony is within its rights to decide what is and isn’t ok on their platform. It’s the same as when that Hatred game got the boot.

Be real, no one will play the division 2 in a few months, at least a wedding in it.

Wait a few months, they’ll add it to Division 2.

Wait, you are telling me a real life politician is also a cheating shithead in video game spaces. Wow, I’m shocked. We should probably just be happy he didn’t drone bomb an EVE online wedding.

No I know that, but its just a minor concession to help improve streams/sales in China.

That was a smart decision considering the historical bad blood between Japan and China.

Good on them to show this sensitivity for their Chinese readers. Despite what anyone says about faults with censureship or people “hung up” on the past, this gesture is great for Chinese fans. Small things like this matter for mending China-Japan relations.

It does look a bit more like a flower than the Rising Sun flag, but given the connotations associated with that flag, I’m honestly not surprised that they took that precaution.

Some of it is that pressing blood from a rock approach, but some of it is an honest attempt to avoid creep and getting stuck in development hell. If you don’t set a hard enough deadline you can see the tech a project is built on get badly outdated before it can be released.

Because game development is expensive, and most developers don’t have the kind of cash reserves that Nintendo or Blizzard have. That means that their investors require a return on their investment, or the funding dries up. Even a great game can be a bad investment if it costs too much to make, or takes too long.  

I blame executives or shareholders putting pressure on release dates.

I personally disagree. Spec-ops was certainly a bit better than your average “war-shooter” but it was still just that. I barely wanted to finish spec-ops, but I played through binary domain multiple times so I could try out different interactions with my team. I’ll also take shooting apart robots over humans any…

Kudos for finishing up what I believe is a Gem that was overlooked. I was never able to catch a stream but I was happy to see mentions of one of my favorite games.

This is the only take that works, because when the shoe is on the other foot, all hell will breaks loose.

I dunno violence is sometimes the answer.

AAA is a rather vague notion, but I don’t think it has anything to do with boxed-retail (since there’s a lot of shovel-ware that gets boxed retail). It’s mostly about the development and marketing muscle that gets put behind a project - akin to movie blockbusters.

There’s another parallel there, in that both AAA and…

Funny felt his explanation was a lot less forced than your logic. In my simple opinion the reason they never made another Half-Life was that they haven’t found a way to blow away the industry the way they did with the last two major installments. At the current time they feel it is better to sit on their hands than…

I wanted to write an article about story. The article about design would take significantly longer to write, and if you haven’t noticed, I’ve published like 18 things on Kotaku since yesterday morning, and I’m prepping more to go soon.

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Unpopular Opinion: Obsidian is the worst “good” game developer. They have a penchant for overly complicating their games and releasing things in states that’d make Bethesda feel was haphazard.