I really like Uncharted. For the principal reason that it is actually set in modern day, ‘realistic’ earth. So few games are. Even nominally earth-bound games like Watch_Dogs and Metal Gear Solid have so many ridiculous elements. Uncharted is unrealistic in combat and stuff, but it feels believable.

I continue to be shocked by how little choice and consequence Fallout 4 has. Is it even an RPG?

The “pls don’t sell this to Gamestop” section of Uncharted, then.

Also, they’re still releasing storyline content for SWTOR. So if all new content had to be canon it wouldn’t work out.

It’s not KOTOR cosplay, it’s SWTOR cosplay.

Honestly, I don’t think there are. I enjoy AAA, narrative heavy, cinematic Western action-adventure and open-world games, preferably with RPG elements, interactivity and side quests.

I love Assassin’s Creed. I know exactly what I’m getting- 20-30 hours of content in a lovingly recreated city, with decent combat, a decent story and some average progression mechanisms. That’s more than one gets from most games these days.

Open worlds were deeply hampered on the OGX/PS2/GC. It was only last generation that they truly became ‘possible’ without serious sacrifices.

While the 360’s launch line up was poor, it’s first 18 months played host to some of the finest games of the last generation. Oblivion, Mass Effect, Bioshock, Gears of War, each was revolutionary in its own way.

Ultimately it’s for their resume. Having a blank space for 8 years with no shipped products, even if you were at a great studio, is a big issue. Many applications require 3+ shipped games for senior roles.

Kotaku hiring a copy editor? MY GAWD.

Exactly. TWAU and TFTB are by FAR the best series they’ve ever done.

High end, proper restaurant food is generally more expensive than America, and in-line with that of wealthier Western European countries like Denmark and Switzerland.

My problem with Bethesda is that they don’t use the money they make to actually innovate at all. Rockstar has built games off the same template for fifteen years too, but each game seems to push the formula forward. GTAV doesn’t rest on its laurels- everything from driving to gunplay to the amazing graphics are…

It does, but given we’ve heard absolutely nothing about the next title a Spring release for Red Dead 3/Bully 2/Agent/Whatever It Is grows ever more unlikely.

I would bet that Rockstar’s next big game is a mid-September 2016 release.

Microsoft wanted it then because otherwise it wouldn’t be the ‘Best Lineup in Xbox History’. Microsoft almost never releases exclusives in Spring for one simple reason- console sales are very very low then.

Because allowing players to play games they already own in your ecosystem should be a clear priority when designing a new platform. Console games are the only medium this applies to. I can play games from 2007 on my new iPhone. I can play games from the 80s on PC. You can bleat about the CELL processor or whatever you…

If Fallout 4 beats The Witcher it will be THEFT, I tell you!

Speaking of lighting, does anyone know how the team at Rockstar did it? Grand Theft Auto V has lighting that feels so real, so lifelike, that it is unlike any other game that I have ever played. On PC, it’s magnificent, but even on 360, the way the morning had that hazy brightness, the afternoon that dull, dazy Los…