You know, considering how awful and intrusive Kotaku’s ads are on mobile, I think it’s kind of hilarious to see you calling out what is fairly benign (albeit also still pretty crappy) compared to your own site’s ads, which are massive and page engulfing.

Honstely? That’s the smartest thing he could’ve done.
When your passion develops into a big company like that and you’re still interested in doing what actually IS your passion, let someone else do the paperwork and administrative tasks.

Eh the problem with this game isn’t it’s unfinished or buggy.  It’s just lame.  6 more months wasn’t going to turn this into a blockbuster.  Arkane tried something new and failed.  Happens sometimes.

I mean, should we get a refund for every movie we see that sucked, and the studio knew it sucked? It’s not like it outright doesn’t function, I have 6 hours in it, and it’s not a lot more glitchy than most AAA games at launch, it’s just a bad game. These days, people are nuts to spend 70 bucks on a game without…

exactly that, though I find his reviews to be pretty brilliantly crafted, he can do an 8 or 9 minute review and humorously it one way or the other.  I enjoy his videos because I dont have to watch some long dumb intro or have the reviewer spend the first 10 minutes explaining why they felt the need to review something…

Bigmode is a publisher, not a developer.

Way to misinterpret the message of the video (there is no ethical consumption in a capitalism society) while also dismissing the sexual and physical abusers Dunkey highlighted in said video.

So I will throw in here that that Steam post from the tweet in the article is almost certainly parody and not genuine, though it is mocking genuine arguments that are present on the Steam Forums they seem to have witnessed.

This spin of this article is so weird.

Yeah Kotaku is trying really hard to convince that this is going to be a a gamer cultural touchstone movie that somehow is going to legitimize all of our childhoods spent playing videogames. If it’s not treated with the importance and gravitas it deserves it will be a major insult to gaming culture as a whole...

Also, out of all the characters, Donkey Kong has had the least consistent “voice” in the games. He’s the one who should be the most open to vocal interpretation.

Yeah, Seth says “I dont do voices, you’ll get a DK that sounds like me”
Producers: You’re hired!

I don’t think he was ‘making demands’. He said ‘This is how I do my voice. If this is good for you, then cool.’ Blame the producers, if anyone. Seth was just upfront about how is performance would be and they still hired him despite that warning.

I don’t think it was ever about which deserved it more, tbh. It was which game did they think would sell, and sell potentially multiple games in a series.

So, I guess it’s safe to say Twitch will actively get worse with nobody there who could hold off all the horrible ideas Amazon has.

A lot of the issues that people claimed to have with FF13 (the abandoment of illusion of choice, limited exploration, etc...) had their roots in FFX.  It just came to a head with XIII dialing it up to 11.

You’re likely underestimating just how major a change it is to add an open world and mount to the Dark Souls formula. With Dark Souls games while players are able to choose where they’re going, most of the level design is fairly linear. So when players come across an obstacle, you don’t have much choice except beating…

I think it’s a lot more approachable than the other games for the majority of people. If you hit a difficultly spike in Dark Souls you have to go back and farm previous areas to level up, that can feel very grindy. In elden ring you can go explore and find lower level areas to discover and level up a little more…

Why not? MS will handle the IP’s and the people working there a lot better than the current activision leaders ever will.

I wonder if something came out about George Lucas saying something similar, if people would still respond the same way about all of Star Wars (even if he still got royalties). Harry Potter (like Star Wars) are both a bit beyond their original creators at this point.