Do you think people are going to finally agree and say “okay, this article finally convinced me this game sucks” or...

Meh, it doesn’t bother me. I actually turned off the voices in New Pokémon Snap because I didn’t like them lol

I’m really sorry that you have to write up milquetoast commentaries like this as part of being a games journalist. I’d never make it in the field, I just don’t have any motivation to do the super basic, no flourishes type of article writing. Hang in there! <3 

Imagine being the guy who’s single-handedly responsible for Kotaku never again getting Nintendo games to review, and still begging people to pirate Nintendo games in every damn article he writes.

OK, but imagine the Nomad had a Gameboy emulator you could download for it, and that Zack Zwiezen had published an article here telling everyone how much better he thought Metroid 2 was on the emulator, maybe perhaps the same day Metroid 2 came out. And now imagine that Kotaku never got another Nintendo game to review…

people who own steamdecks are the new crossfitters. 

Imagine that it’s 1996 and that the Sega Nomad has been out for several months. One day, you’re flipping through the latest issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly when you come across an article titled: “Sega Nomad’s Greatness Makes It Hard to Go Back to the Game Boy”. An absurd notion to be sure, but it’s very similar to…

It’s really not worth mentioning again. We get it. The Switch is a weaker system than all of the other current systems and runs the new Pokemon like shit, though still significantly better than you would be led to believe if Twitter and Kotaku were your only sources for news.

I keep seeing this and while Pokémon runs poorly at times, it’s in no way shape or form “running like dogshit”.

New device that costs 2-3x the cost of old device is a better device, yawn.

Kotaku’s childish insistence upon poking the pirate bear re: Nintendo is really something to see. We get it, you made decisions in life that led you to a place where you can’t make any money doing your actual job to afford the games unless a publisher sends you review codes so you passive-aggressively link to…

Capitalism depends on legalized coercion to function. That’s how you get warehouses with workers dropping dead and pissing in bottles.

I bought this during a sale years ago on the PS4. I know it’s supposed to be fantastic, and I’ve tried to play it a couple times, but it just never caught my interest. Even after a good 4 or 5 hours, it just seemed so clunky and also overwhelming. Anybody have any tips on how to push through it? I’ll be looking for a…

You really have to see it on iMax. I bought my tickets a month in advance for the best seats in the then world’s largest screen at Darling Harbour, Sydney on January 1st 2010 and it looked *amazing*.

People forget how much Sw/Sh would chug when it tried to render rain.

I’ve sank quite a while into the game thus far and while, yes, the graphics are on a sliding scale of jank and there’s a lot of pop-in (even on Pokemon summary pages and trainer customization screens), background NPCs moving herky-jerky, and load screens and some battle transitions seem to last forever when they pop up…

They didn’t explicitly say pirate it, they just told everybody it runs better on an emulator and also provided information on how to get it. It’s not bootlicking to point out that was an incredibly stupid thing for Kotaku to do, particularly with Nintendo. 

People will apparently never stop lying about this. Kotaku rewrote the article twice, deleted the original, AND apologized for it, but some readers are still doing this “Don’t believe your lying eyes” schtick.

When they published an article telling users to pirate Metroid Dread on launch day. No review copies of any game since then.

I have always been leery of business dealing with China because of their authoritarian regime when it comes online data and am glad Blizzard has chosen to pull out.