“throwing his weight around in a town council meeting where he helped kill an affordable housing initiative”

I’m not gonna care either way. I never preorder games and I made an exception for this one. I’m sure it’s going to be great. But it would strike me as weird if FS made that as the intro to their big new IP. 

There’s a sub reddit for whinging about Kotaku too you might want to check out

If it does, it’s gonna be on the people who are over-hyped and not the game itself. I couldn't help myself and watched a bit of the Elden Ring stream on Twitch a few nights ago (someone got an early copy and streamed it for a few hours till Twitch took it down). From what I've seen of it, the game absolutely delivers.

The bootlickers always reveal themselves.

It’s also important to note that some of the ROMs exist now only because of piracy. Nintendo lost many of the originals precisely due to their reluctance to archive anything and their attempts to restrict anyone else from doing so either. Much of the Satellaview archive is gone forever because Nintendo didn’t keep the…

Remember, its always, ALWAYS, good to pirate Nintendo games. They don’t want to sell them and they don’t respect them, why should I. So always jailbreak their shit and load it up with games they can’t take away. If they want to pretend those games didn't exist you can do your part so they are preserved somewhere.

It seems like if you have levels and a skill tree you can call yourself an RPG these days. But IMO the term RPG has always been a bit loosely defined when it comes to video games.

Yeah, as far as I’m concerned, the only thing a game needs to be an “RPG” is the ability to steadily increase the abilities of your character as the game goes on. Does this ignore the literal interpretation of the genre name? Sure, but it’s the only thing that comes close to encompassing all the games that have been…

Calm down it's ok to poke fun at things you like.

I think one of the graces of Dark Souls is that you don’t have to dig into the story unless you want to. Nobody’s holding a gun to your head expecting you to dive down the wiki wormhole.

After playing through “It Takes Two” and constantly having godawful cutscenes and terrible constant dialogue shoved down my throat for extended periods in between short segments of fantastic gameplay, I welcome the Fromsoft approach of being almost pure gameplay with the story being something that you don’t have to…

So this is just Dark Souls all over again. Got it, I can skip it, I hate having to do deep wiki and youtube/reddit dives to maybe kind of understand the story if I squint hard enough

Basically, yes. DS3's intro was the same way; a brief introduction each Lord of Cinder, who are the games required bosses.

Wouldn’t that just make the jokes more well-rounded?

It was just a top-shelf joke they couldn’t quite grasp.

Let’s be honest here:

Short men everywhere will not stand for th...oh, they are standing. Sorry, I couldn’t tell. I thought they were sitting upright. My bad.

I mean, there are tons of ways the joke could’ve worked, because mocking people for something they can’t control has been historically done to women, so toughen it up a bit, men, but to go straight to human rights? that’s just mean

was Miranda only by appearance level headed because the other 3 were so off the wall?