The thing is that Anthem was already such an undercooked idea that any effort to save it was going to require them to do exactly all of this anyway, since its problems emerge from how little time was invested into really thinking through all of its various systems. Despite having a 5 year development cycle, they…

Because of some arbitrary notion of “challenge” in a game series that has always, since day one, been piss-easy, since it’s designed to be completable by kids as young as 8.

This is actually such a bizarre complaint. Like back in the late 90s we made fun of the fact that all they seemed to ever say was their name instead of just random animal sounds like any animal should make, and now some folks are mad that the absolutely nonsensical “all pokemon do is say their name” isn’t a thing…

So OW2 is just what Overwatch as both a game and a live service should’ve been from the start (aka a pvp-focused game with a solid pve campaign and a live service offering consistently updated seasonal content), but billed as a sequel so it can be sold once again at retail price.

They’re not, but you’re entitled to your wrong opinion!

Not being controversial, but I actually think the microtransaction restrictions are fine.

It has characters who are straight and gay, characters who are gendered ambiguously, characters on the goddamn spectrum.

Why do folks keep citing a literal 4-legged robot as some kind of African and/or black representation, like who are these 4-legged robots in real life identifying as black women that y’all are apparently good friends with?

The reason is they didn’t want to. Pretending they had a good reason beyond that is insulting and pretending they had a story-related reason for it in a game as devoid of meaningful storytelling as Overwatch is especially insulting.

Yeah, and in turn we’re allowed to critique their choices, voice our critiques and choose for ourselves as consumers whether we want to buy the product they’re trying to sell based on those choices or not. That’s how this works. Sorry if you got confused!

I will say that citing Borderlands 3 was unfair because that game does atleast have a story it intends to tell that is distinct from the first two, which alongside new characters, locales and guns and modes atleast somewhat justifies its existence as a sequel. There remains no good reason to call whatever this is…

OW made the weird decision of being about a superhero team that disbanded needing to get back together, but made all of it’s story-related content in the 3 years since it came out about what all happened prior to and leading up to the disbanding of the team, with only some very vague allusions to what occured…

Confused why this is a sequel instead of an expansion. Especially since it doesn’t drastically update the core elements of the gameplay like you’d imagine a sequel would. OW’s firstly been a pvp game with light story. There’s barely any update to pvp save for things we already would get like new characters/maps/gamemod…

I think my problem with this game, after putting like 60 hours into it, is that “looter shooter” and “realistic cover-based shooter” just don’t work together for me. The value of loot, to me, is getting some new toy to play with. But a gun is a gun is a gun in this game, the only real differences being under-the-hood…

So I guess one frustration I’m trying to work through is how outlets like Kotaku can muster up this kind of no-nonsense reporting approach to foreign authoritarian regimes and gaming companies making bank off of their markets and thus being willing to kowtow to their whims, but when companies that make war games like C…

First, “That’s how the real world works” isn’t an argument, it’s a stance taken by folks who mistake posturing for thinking. You’re talking about copyright law, not gravity. Second, I already know that corporations who lobby to revamp copyright law every few decades to maintain their grip on other actual people’s…

That “entitlement” is the entire reason a lot of old generation games even are playable now and many have served as better archivists for these long-forgotten games than the companies that own them. And then a company like Nintendo comes in after decades of neglecting those properties despite clear demand, shuts those…

Role queue is a bit of an odd experience. On the one hand, you’re gauranteed to have 2 healers and tanks every game now, which is great. On the other:creative team composition has basically been destroyed because you can never mix up the ratios of tanks to dps to support. It’s also revealed how limited tank and…

Every console review I saw of Control looked like a lagging, frame-skipping mess, even while reviews were positive. I feel like games should state upfront if they’re not optimized for a specific platform. I’d be pissed if I bought some well-received game only to find out that it can’t play on the base platform as it…

The “Ogay” joke isn’t offensive as much as it is just a good indicator about why I wouldn’t want to buy this game: I’m no longer 12 years-old. But more power to them I guess. We need more games for kids who think uninspired gay jokes are edgy. Gotta give ‘em something to be ashamed of having liked when they become…