You’d rather hang out with Kojima and listen to him drone on about whales? Also, that’s about the most cliched and uninspired insult, so, I’d imagine you’re not particularly fun to be around at parties either, bruh.

Konami is a shitty place to work, but Kojima’s narcissism knows no bounds.

Lie detectors are pseudo-science and aren’t even a little accurate. Here’s a breakdown in fun, YouTube entertainment form:

This is pretty classic victim blaming.

I don’t see your point.

Japanese companies are so crazy about this stuff. When you work at a Japanese company - particularly in the games/entertainment industry - you have to sign mountains of paperwork promising you’ll never, ever say anything about the company or what it’s working on outside of the office. You even have to carefully manage…

I’m just curious: How was Harambe a “brave hero,” in your eyes? Is dragging a four year-old human boy by his leg along concrete and through water heroic and something to be celebrated?

I know all too well what it’s like to work at a developer with a very popular game experiencing server overload and other technical difficulties. Let’s just say we were encouraged to conceal our company IDs when we left the office for lunch, as a precaution due to the hundreds of death threats we received.

Competitive level debates aside, I’ve always found that Hearthstone’s reliance on RNG has hurt it as a game on the whole. A handful of cards that rely on random number generation and luck are fine, since you’re taking a risk as the person playing the card... But it seems like Hearthstone has become basically all about…

Supposedly, that’s the case. It apparently has a lot to do with class systems of the past and RP suddenly coming into vogue as an upper-class way of speaking. That phenomenon may have something to do with why people in England have such varied accents from region to region (listen to a person from Manchester speak…

Fighting bears I’m fine with, but fart jokes are just too low brow (and an annoying hallmark of Japanese humor). The idea of a bear fighting in a tournament of the world’s best martial artists is great absurdist humor, but there’s no creativity or even real effort in then having that bear fart on his opponents.…

I’d really love to see an (optional) animated Doom Guy face at the bottom of the screen more than anything.

I think this may be one of the few cases in journalism in which you don’t actually need to use the term “alleged.”

Yeah, it seems like they were aiming way above their means and ended up with a title that seemed less polished than it should have been. Design choices aside (why the dashing mechanics when this was billed as a spiritual Mega Man successor?) they could have gone for a game that literally felt like a Mega Man game…

Isn’t running on the freeway illegal?

“I’ll keep coming” just sounds like some weird, wonky amateur translation to me. I did a quick search to see if there was an original Japanese but it looks like this is NA only or at least written purposefully in English from the beginning. Still, Kojima being a bit of a narcissist, I imagine the line is referring to…

Probably making light of a murder victim by referencing a TV show is not the best tack to take?

Awful parenting is super common here in Japan. I’ve seen four year olds running unattended across four-lane highways at rush hour, saw another unattended infant get hit by a bicyclist, and it’s not at all uncommon to see very young children walking wide-eyed and disoriented with no parents in sight.

Fahey’s actually got a pretty good point when it comes to material like this. It seems like fairly bad business to do a lukewarm localization of such niche stuff, especially if NIS is taking resources from more mainstream releases to do it.

The best video game movie would be one that, rather than focus on the self-serious in-game world, focuses instead on the players. Basically a fictionalized version of The King of Kong.