I’d question if it was me, but I’ve run into a lot of other people who feel the same - basically the season limits make me feel compelled to if not run a perfect game, at least set things up to take advantage of time limited things even if they do come around again.

Honestly, I did another run last year, and the main thing I recalled (much like every time I play it somehow) is that I’d forgotten how stressful managing it is. Still waiting on Haunted Chocolatier, I do hope it backs off some on the time management though.

I actually favor action/adventure combat? And honestly this seems like the opposite of ‘risk-averse’. Don’t get me wrong, I get that people who enjoyed the previous combat style would be upset, but from my perspective a move to action/adventure RPG would be nice - although the particular style shown here is too…

Just in the 21st century? Optimist. (to be fair, life has gotten better historically, it just hasn’t gotten better enough to get us out of awful)

That and honestly it feels shoehorned in frequently, as if they felt like everything had to have it. Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against multiplayer in general (I’m an MMO player, that’d be ridiculous), but there are games it suits and ones it doesn’t. You shouldn’t bother including it in everything.

I wouldn’t mind seeing something done about in game currency either, it’s deceptive and teaches kids bad practices (by this I mean specifically paid currency).

Thank you for not making this a slideshow - and on an unrelated side note (well, brought on by the reminder from the phrasing), happy Thanksgiving Kotaku.

For once I actually hope they manage the merger - frankly the current state of Activision-Blizzard is so bad that this is one of the only cases where I genuinely think it might improve things. And honestly if the federal government suddenly wants to enforce anti-trust law there are a lot of better areas to focus…

Good advice, but I’d forgotten how... I can’t even call it broken, nonexistent maybe? The rest of the site is outside of what a mess comments are. Took me a good ten minutes to find a way to even connect another account (ironic that I was using Twitter in the first place, I think it wasn’t letting me do anything but…

‘The power of water is its ability to take any shape’

Legitimately surprised, with the amount of time Blizzard has spent with their lips fixed to Xi’s behind I would not have expected anything like this. I’m honestly curious what went on here, but I’m also actually relieved? Between this and Microsoft buying them it may actually feel ok to buy Blizzard games again.

This ignores that Silents are even more conservative than the rest of that lot however - frankly I think you’re conflating the relative neutrality of people who came of age during Nixon with some sort of outright flip which never happened. The hippy generation was a media/cultural phenomenon, not a political one. The…

To be fair, Gen X breaks down very poorly. The ones who came of age during the Clinton administration actually vote like Millennials, it’s just that the Reagan ones weigh down the rest.

Actually a bit disappointed none of these seem to be the title. I would probably be amused by that.

I circumvented this by being a grump early.

Much like the others, thought for a moment you meant Eidos Montreal. While this is obviously damaging for the people working there, I can’t claim I actually have much reaction to the loss of a mobile games studio as a consumer.

This pretty much, I didn’t really bother with the drama, but I generally raise an eyebrow at nonsense like the company responded with. My benefit of the doubt only extends so far though, and when you use it to do something else bad it tends to pull it towards dubiety.

Honestly, eyeballing it it appears to be more seasonal to me?

That’s interesting, I know how big their AI ecosystem is (to the extent one can credibly argue they effectively are the AI ecosystem for most major purposes), but I hadn’t been aware of their reputation. Honestly it’s crazy how they behave, and I do still think this is at least partially due to the crypto frenzy, but…

On the one hand, I hope this launch forces them to reconsider their anti-consumer policies, on the other I’m aware that many people are going to be buying anyways. Frankly a boycott of this gen would be a good idea if it’d work.