You didn’t say “the Jedi were flawed,” you said they were just as bad as the Sith. You realize those are completely different statements, right? It’s like saying all political parties are equally bad. Some are actually worse than others!

It took me months to finally slog through Andor, and in the end it was not bad. But Jesus Christ it’s overrated. It’s like a perfectly conventional and serviceable episode of Black Mirror, somehow stretched out into 8 or 12 episodes, or whatever it was.

Thank you for pointing out that Luke’s character flaws are a huge part of the OT. Hamill never got enough credit for portraying Luke as a complicated, imperfect hero.

If you think the Jedi are just as bad as the Sith, you have deeply and profoundly missed the point of Star Wars, and you are way dumber than you realize. 

The internet was already a thing in 1999, and a lot of its attention was focused on Jake Lloyd and Ahmed Best at the time. That's why you remember the backlash so well. Jay Leno and Dave Letterman weren't talking about it on TV, Howard Stern wasn't talking about it on the radio. It was one of the founding legends of…

Are we not allowed to hate The Force Awakens? The acting was great (except for Adam Driver, who can definitely act in other contexts), but the concept and script were godawful. 

I lived through the prequel era as an adult, so I know what it's like to rationalize bad Star Wars. Episode 9 was the first thing that ever made me ashamed to be a fan. I haven't watched the movies since.

Sony has already been doing this, haven't they? The PS5 games end up on Windows, and I can't imagine it's much harder to port to XBox from there.

On original IP with big-budget games, there typically is an “auteur” who leads everything. Kojima, Druckmann, Aonuma come to mind. With some studios that person isn’t so famous, but it doesn’t mean they don’t build the game in accordance with his/her vision. (Or in practice “his,” but you know what I mean.) Many…

Maybe it’s just my imagination, but it does feel like Bioshock games have gotten progressively more violent and bloody. The first one involves killing mostly inhuman things until you have to beat a guy to death with a wrench halfway through (my memory is hazy), which is at least done carefully for dramatic effect, but…

I have no idea what you’re referring to, but I’m curious. Can you post a link or a CliffsNotes version?

I read Kotaku fairly often and genuinely didn’t know about this.

I loved the first Jak and Daxter, and replayed it to 100% every couple of years since it came out, but the last time I played it was pretty rough. It could really benefit from a modern update with some quality-of-life improvements.

I figured that might be the case. In the main game you apparently don't get arrows until much later, so presumably that nightmare sequence doesn't happen so early. Seems like they maybe just rushed the demo.

So does Nickelback, except it’s just one song over and over again. 

Was the main point of this commercial to get people excited for Creed?

I tried the Prince of Persia demo on Switch, and it was _really_ unpleasant. Tons of screens with nothing in them except multiple directions to go in (and no signposting on which way is the “main” path and which is the “side” path), then really tedious fighting and an incredibly frustrating platforming bit (where you…

These sequences require the player to run down a series of repeating hallways in search of the right path that gets you to the next step of the game’s story. The problem is that there isn’t any guidance on how to navigate these mazes

I am trying to figure out how you combined 6.2" to 8" and got 100". 

They had remote voting in the House during COVID, and Republicans repealed it as soon as they took over, purely out of spite. Luna voted for the repeal, as they say in the article.