That side-quest was not a failure. It inspired a new generation of force wielders to fight the First Order as seen in the final shot of the film.

I don’t think the casino sequence was pure folly. Finn ditched the First Order because he was uncomfortable with murdering innocents, but had yet to be confronted with the broader damage done by the First Order. And the broom kid—he was inspired by Rose and Finn. It also sets up what Rose does for Finn in the climax.

Phrasing it that way makes it seem like the movie behaved as a didactic scold. It completely answered the questions, and did so through the same adventure storytelling the movies have always done. Some folks may have not liked the answers, but that’s more a product of preconceived ideas than any failure of the movie.

I go the other way. The fact that JJ Abrams has issues with The Last Jedi only confirms my feeling that it’s a masterpiece.

I loved The Last Jedi, too. I think Johnson’s ‘interesting choices’ kept the entire movie interesting. I prefer to The Force Awakens which, as many people have said, stuck to the formula. TLJ was far from perfect (the Rose/Finn adventures in the casino weren’t really the best), but it’s also far from disastrous. And…

I loved the subversion of The Last Jedi. I loved the headfake with Snoke. The combined Rey/Kylo fight was great Star Wars choreography. Luke as a burned out hippie who lived to see everything he dedicated himself to be twisted back on itself is a logical outcome that was have real world examples of. Saying Rey’s…

I loved Last Jedi and I wish the actors kept the internecine conversations behind closed doors, where they belong.

Hey folks! Please use the comments to talk about the games you like and the ones you wish got more attention this decade!

Please do not use them to shit on other people’s suggestions or to bitch about the list. Kay, thanks!

1) “Where am I going to work when Spanfeller fucks this all up?”

Yeah I have no idea why it’s so opaque - the process is basically “someone on the staff happens to see your comment and think to un-grey you.” Given that we’re understaffed and reporting/writing/playing games/editing all day, none of us actually have the desire or bandwidth to spend much time looking for commenters to…

Yeah, I’m ribbing a multi-billion-dollar publisher for being misleading in its PR. If you don’t like that, there are plenty of more PR-friendly reporters and websites out there to follow!

I like to think that one of the cool things about Kotaku is that you can come here for more information than you’ll get from a publisher’s press release. This is a good example of that. It’s not necessarily controversial or explosive info — it’s just context that you won’t find anywhere else.

Everything else aside - the use and integration of “Blue Monday” into this trailer was phenomenal. Sound effects for breakbeats, symphonic adaptation - all spot on.  Slays the tired ‘ominous, brooding version of a pop hit’ music, hopefully.

Hell Jared Harris in Season One of The Terror

For saying you’re not defeatist, you’re not really making any suggestions for either recourse (effective or not) or hope, and you’re sure making a lot of noise about it in this thread. Are you sure this is a productive thing to do? I’m not in disagreement with your assessment, but your approach sounds like you…

You don’t know until you try. *shrug*

This take sucks. All it does is play into Republican hands: “See, even the liberals expect this from us”. It didn’t look like Nixon was going to be convicted until public support demanded it, and then he bailed. Letting Republicans off the hook before we even put them on it is defeatism.

The fan response to all this makes a pretty good case that they absolutely did not deserve better.

The sheer number of role-playing possibilities in Disco Elysium is mind-boggling and often overwhelming. You can play as a pinko communist, an apathetic centrist, or a fascist herb.

or a fascist herb.