I agree with the broad strokes here.  However I’m curious to know why would you would expect a story that takes place in 2004 to have post-2020 fashion sensibilities?

Pointing to FF7 as the start of that even in video games is odd. 

Lmao I feel like blaming FF7 for the sexualization of skirts is a bit of a massive reach considering as the miniskirt was sexualized decades before FF7 was even conceived of.

“Games like FFVII recontextualized the skirt as feminine clothing item not only for women to wear, but to be sexualized in.”

This strikes me as an odd blanket statement. Skirts have been sexualized for far longer than their appearance in videogames, and their usage in games is reflective of their usage in reality…

Yea he wakes up in the hospital after they both almost drown, asks to see Ellie, and has a gun drawn on him and is told they gonna slice open Ellie’s brain killing her. Pardon him for not acting rationally

She doesn’t have agency with the fireflies either. They were gonna do the surgery without ever waking her up. That’s why in the game she doesn’t even wake up until shes in the car with Joel driving away. Also in the game if you collect the tapes and listen to the doctors argue they weren’t even 100% sure the…

Oh no a human lied… like every single human in history. Your telling on themselves comment is ridiculous, every single person has told a lie at some point to the advantage of their own personal gains or to hide something that could be perceived as bad.

I don’t really understand the anti-Joel aspect that people have (though didn’t play the game):

1) what certainty do we have that the Fireflies would be able to extract ‘the cure’ from Ellie successfully? What certainty do we have that ‘the cure’ would even work as intended if successfully extracted? Yes, Joel…

Props to Pedro Pascal who nailed the delivery of the iconic line: “You know Ellie, we really are the last of us.” It really adds a lot to Joel’s character and the show/game’s underlying themes.

I never got the sense that this game was intended to be anything more than “virtual theme park for HP fans.” Yeah, quests and mechanics and stuff, but most of the praise I’ve seen is basically “It’s fun being able to fuck around in a 3D Hogwarts.” The Nemesis system would’ve added a layer of strategy onto the game,…

In the real world , this is terrible , and JD should be forced to clean up their mess.

I feel like the Jack Daniels-born clickers would be total bros who would annoyingly yell “Freebird!” at every concert.

Isn’t it sort of...i dunno, *implied* that anything from 2006 is going to be “of it’s time?” I’m not excusing the content of what’s said but like, gaming in the early 00' ain’t exactly the most inclusive hobby.

Guest narrators would be fun too. I’d kill for the Darkest Dungeon Narrator VA, Wayne June, to narrate my triumphs and failures.

“Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer.”

“Continue the onslaught. Destroy. Them. All.”

This seems to be entirely false. The only instance I can find of a screenshot of the asset files in question shows that they’re all labeled “Townsperson_Sirona”

Or one can easily read that subplot as “well-intentioned liberal tries to be a savior but actually has no idea what she’s talking about and doesn’t actually understand the group she is purporting to save.” In fact, I would think that such an obvious interpretation of that would be pretty popular in these circles.

I’ve also put about 15 hours into the game and agree it’s largely fine. A solid B game with A+ art direction and environmental detail work that papers over a lot of the open world errand running and cliche narrative tropes. A fine and- if observed in a vacuum- totally innocuous game.
It’s also worth noting that the…

It’s an amazingly deep and fun game. My 9 year old and 15 year old daughters are having a blast exploring. Even my 43 year old wife, who doesn’t play games at all, loves going around and collecting things, opening up the map, etc. The long and short is, it’s probably one of the best, biggest, most fun, and most…

Its always fun when a guy who's talking about immaturity starts his comment off by calling people "bitches".

Kotaku is losing me more and more every article you all write, im a full fledged liberal that thinks trans rights are human rights. I cant stand coming to this site hardly anymore because its not about games its about politics. In every article. I’m just trying to escape, my life is rough too...