Aw man, VR is awesome and if they use it right, it’s not something that could just be ripped out and experienced the same. That’s fine if you want to play that way but I’m glad that there are devs and publishers focusing on the experience. (And not like I can play it either, I’m on PSVR. I’m hoping they bring it to…

Wait, you couldn’t play Half Life because of motion sickness, but could play Portal? No disrespect, but your stomach is weird.

You are absolutely exaggerating:

I really don’t understand the whole “this sucks because it’s in VR because I have to buy a new video card” argument. It makes next to no sense.

A million user on Steam and another 4.5 million on PS4. That doesn’t even count Nintendo’s cardboard thing and the Oculust Quest who doesn’t need Steam and people who just don’t use Steam at all. Steam VR users have doubled from 2018 to 2019. As long as they don’t drastically change the support of some headsets and…

Maybe it’s time to start thinking about this differently. This isn’t a Half-Life game that’s VR, it’s a VR game that exists in the Half-Life world. A VR game tends to require the VR part of it to function on even a basic level, and stripping that away leaves a shallow and empty shell, so there’s really nothing to port…

The thing is no one is technically “missing out” on the game. The game isn’t going anywhere. Sure, they’ll miss out on the launch hype and honeymoon period of it all, and yes maybe spoilers might be all over the place. Other than that, one could still end up being able to afford a VR setup in like 3-5 years and still…

VR is the future of gaming, and I expect this game will show people who are on the fence, or immaturely think “VR is stupid” that VR gives an experience that cannot be had with normal video games.

Counterpoint: It’s great that Half-Life: Alyx is VR only, and everyone complaining (with the very small exception of people with disabilities, which is actually an interesting point that I would love to see expanded in a future article) sound like ridiculous, entitled Luddites.

Most folks don’t know this, but right before Yoda lifted that X Wing out of the swamp, he smashed a few snakes to death with his walking stick.

If E3 is Videogame Christmas, TGA is just Videogame Christmas but in December.

This year, with Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding nominated for a number of awards including Game of the Year, viewers are openly wondering whether or not that’s related to The Game Awards producer Geoff Keighley’s very public relationship with Kojima. Keighley says he doesn’t nominate or vote on awards, but there are…

Absolutely. I think it’s really strange that Kotaku along with other blogs and YouTubers keep trying to push this point, but looking at the actual reviews, the game got overwhelmingly good reviews. It was not mixed or split or divided or anything. This narrative holds absolutely no water and everybody is falling for…

That would be like saying that movies nominated for Oscars for which any of the principal cast or crew was friends with someone in the academy or the production staff for the Oscars would be inappropriate. That would be literally impossible. The industry is way too close knit for that. That’s why there’s an academy…

Scores are arbitrary; however, if we’re approaching it from that angle, Death Stranding was very well reviewed. Critical consensus was not split in that regard at all - it stands at an 83 right now on Metacritic.

Is the alleged charge that this man somehow controls the majority of 80 press outlets? How are they claiming he accomplishes this? Why wouldn’t he use this power to better market his friends games, instead of using it to grant mostly nominal ‘awards’?

I still prefer a more accurate name for it:  Game Trailer Showcase Thinly Disguised as an Awards Ceremony.

One of my friends brought up what I thought was a great comparison a few days ago talking about the game:

Personally I would hate to have to score Death Stranding with a number, I just beat it last night and I can see everyone’s point. You gave it a 5/10? I get you, the game is a weird boring self indulgent mess. You gave it a 9/10? Yeah totally, it was a mesmerizing experience unlike anything I’ve ever played. Good…

Appearance of impropriety is irrelevant if there’s no proven impropriety, especially with something as trivial as an advertisement award for a videogame. It’s not like we’re talking about our elected officials or something.