If you really lean into the road trip aspect, the game is beautiful. Being asked to choose a photo at the end of the game is genuinely heartbreaking when you realize what it means. The complicated relationship between Noctis and his father really hits home at the end as well.

I enjoyed this game but it did feel like something was lacking by the time I was finished. This scene didn’t hit as hard for me because something about it didn’t feel earned. It kind of goes from a goofy romp to dead serious without a lot of ramp-up.

Do I really need to elaborate that the vast majority of pirates couldn’t give less of a shit about preservation and are either trying to score a quick buck or are just someone who never grew past the anarchist/nihilist phase?

Yes, preservation.

Meanwhile, PC gaming ditched physical media 15 years ago and everything is just fine.

That’s not even a dig against kotaku or other gaming sites, people like OP honestly dont realize that these of us who pay attention to gaming news and such make up like, a *fraction* of the gaming audience. The overwhelming majority of people who played games just like...see ‘The New Thing' on a walmart shelf and get…

Even coming into this article I knew Kotaku wasn’t going to be too thrilled about this news. Hogwarts Legacy got overshadowed by TotK, BG3, Spider-Man 2 and Starfield in the news. But it was still critically acclaimed by critics and sold like candy.

He also told VGC that it would be an honor if fans of Foamstars and Splatoon eventually created a nickname for the odd genre.

It looks like someone just typed “Splatoon Fortnite ArtStation Shooter” into midjourney and this is what it spat out

I mean, don’t make a game that looks like a Splatoon copy if you don’t like the comparison. There’s no other game like Splatoon so its the bar. Honestly this makes what? The 3rd battle game that went limited free on release? Good luck.

AI art I don’t care. People reacting to it like a stupid child freak out about…

If something uses AI art and it needs someone to expose it, it always massively impacts my experience... Where are we gonna meet tomorrow to smash the looms?

Scene: It’s December 2024, dozens of comments have been misread more than this one.

I play video games daily. Thank god and Satan, I am not a gamer.

Devs: Stop being toxic.

Well yes all the death threats and the like sis crazy out of proportion. And all that needs to stop.

Let’s not lose perspective, we’re talking about luxury entertainment here. Piracy isn’t your only option, your main option is to just not play the game if you don’t like its price or monetisation. I’m saying this both as a former game developer and as someone who pirated a lot in my past: you’re not entitled to take…

Pfft- have you seen Arksnsas lately? Or the lives of some immigrant kids (6-8 hrs overnight cleaning a meatpackimg plant, then off to school (if they’re lucky))?

Still waiting for my Pogs to make me rich!

Every single person who has consumed it has died or will die in the future, it’s poison!

All this, just for deadly dihydrogen monoxide.