I like to think that one of the cool things about Kotaku is that you can come here for more information than you’ll get from a publisher’s press release. This is a good example of that. It’s not necessarily controversial or explosive info — it’s just context that you won’t find anywhere else.

The problem is that this particular metaphor is being applied to a video game.

Yep. The common criticism to this is reflected in our world history: it repeats because we never truly learn. Gen Z is already pointing fingers and summarizing Millenials as the “complicit” generation, meaning they know of the injustice and wrongdoings in the world, but they don’t want their Netflix queue interrupted.

And the funny thing? The same damn thing happened to my boomer generation! My eldest brother (born in 1951) was drafted to go to Vietnam, where he went through Hell and suffered it’s aftereffects for the rest of his life (he died in 2016 at 65 of cancer). He was sent by members of the previous generation.

Life in Aggro has a decent set-up, but a dumb punchline, unnecessarily latching onto a topical meme which will be forgotten in a month or less.

15 years since the HL2: Episode 2.

It’s been 15 fucking years of begging, 15 years of jokes, and memes, and whispers, and “leaked” scripts from Laidlaw that amounted to a whole lot of fuck all.

Now, after FIFTEEN goddamn years we’re finally getting a new Half-Life title, one coming directly from Valve....and it’s a…

This is a smart move by Valve!

VR only?
If so, they can shove it up their asses.

I will not be preordering it. Considering how D3 turned out, I will take a wait and see approach. If it isn’t good, I will continue playing D2 and Grim Dawn for my ARPG fix.

I live in a busy part of Los Angeles, pay for faster than normal internet, and still get hit with periods of time where my internet is either laggy or dropping every few minutes (mostly weeknights). I appreciate this new “run into other random people online” feature, but I would also appreciate the option to not need…

Yes, we are. Single player should *not* require an internet connection.

“Other players crossed my path during my travels, and we were able to help each other out or even participate in world events to defeat unique world bosses.”

And I suppose it’s once again going to require a constant internet connection even for single player?

I wish this game series would see an optional (!) third person perspective and a solid character creation.

You’re right. That sounds crazy.

May I introduce you to Outer Worlds as a nice stop gap

Just play The Outer Worlds, it’s better anyway.

There are suckers who have already signed up for Fallout 1st? They are ruining this for everyone. What we want is a new Fallout game, not keep a broken game alive. 

Lets be honest, they’re monetizing whales to keep the game afloat. They likely don’t have enough revenue coming in as nobody new is coming in, so they need to extract more money from the players they do have. It takes money to keep these live service games afloat and Fallout 76 isn’t making enough to justify the cost…

It’s the luck of the draw. You have to manually re-subscribe with Twitch prime subs, so assuming the majority of his losses were from that then Ninja just wasn’t streaming the days they had a Twitch Prime to burn and itchy fingers found another person to use it on. Lord knows I bounce my Prime sub around to various…