Kotaku just shot themselves in the foot. I don’t know how much the rest of you know about Neogaf culture (I’m an expert), but honor and shame are huge parts of it. It’s not like it is on GameFAQs where you can become successful by being an asshole. If you screw someone over on Neogaf, you bring shame to yourself, and…
It shouldn’t matter if people are offended. It’s an April Fools prank with no clear malicious intent. Being offended does not immediately make something wrong. We’re arguing the semantics of the term ‘blackface’ and it’s pretty clear that this really doesn’t fall into that category. They put some makeup on a guy to…
But then this isn’t blackface? This isn’t an attempt to mock black people, notice the lack of comically large lips, the steriotypical curly hair or attempts to use derogatory mannerisms.
Actual Blackface makeup is designed to portay an offencive caricature of african tribespeople.
This is a celebrity who looks like…
Yeah, maybe people are lazy. But some people honestly do like a system that will just play their games. Some people aren't into electronics like PC gamers are. You may need to set up a console nowadays, but there are still FAR many more issues that can pop up with a PC that it may scare people away. I'm a console…
I'm kinda the same way. Like for me, sex scenes in a movie/tv show with a story around them are way hotter than any random clip of porn. The context of the characters and story make it way better, even if it is less explicit.
Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I don't like games with silent protagonists. When I play a game, I'm not looking to be immersed, but to be a tag a long. I suppose I see games as playable books than an active escape.
I never knew racism could come off so half-hearted. Like you're too lazy to not be racist or something.
Race is an arbitrary social construct, it's not a biological concept and can be (and has been) redefined as societies change over time. The phenotypical features we use as a proxy for the concept of "race" are, in a globalised world, only weakly correlated with nationality and culture. As we undo millenia of relative…
Screw that. Old schoolers were always going to get salty once computing power overtook budgets, but the industry standardizing the tech side and becoming less of an engineering-driven tech business and more of a design-driven cultural industry is a positive move.
This panel irritates the hell out of me. They're turning this is into a class war where there doesn't need to be. It also seems to be turning her into this restrained female character and she never was. Ever. She's one of the strongest female leads in a film. The other panel with her and Dadonna is especially…
Is Wolfenstein any good? Worth the $15 or so to own it?
Yeeaaahhh...
It's Bethesda's decision, not Microsoft's, and notice there's also no PS3 version. I also don't understand how Microsoft would discourage anyone from buying Xbox One by not releasing games on 360?
No. They'll move the date because they want more time to polish it so that they can deliver a better product for their fans.
The most major change is the abandonment of a traditional RPG magic system. In past games, your special attacks used TP (Technical Points). TP was restored by consumable items, special equipment, food, or visiting an inn. In Tales of Zestiria, however, your characters recover their TP naturally. By standing still or…
The part of his logic that I think is the absolute worst is that if you are a internet personality, you have to live with the risk of being swatted. It's like saying you have a safe full of money, so you should expect someone to try and rob you.
This is aaaalmost enough to get me to start buying comics. The problem I have is with the unlimited nature of comics- the series could go on for years! I want to hunker down and read something start to finish. If I ever watch TV shows, I wait until they are completely finished and then watch all of them, or, in the…
And although the game has grown, we're not seeing the progress we'd hoped for...
That you refer to folks who understand that "always online" comes with its own set of severe problems (see also Diablo III, Sim City, etc) as "the unwashed masses" tells me that the dirty folk might be onto something. ;)
