Bans & Warnings (Hot) Games

Haze (75251502)

Will still be bad

ShinobiOfTheWind (75246180)

Nah, no one gets to decide that except hardware owners and manufacturers, who actually invest money into the products that they own, make the decision on who they SHOULD play with and against using that hardware. Console owners (who have spent money and bought consoles as their primary choice of getting third party games for an entire generation, and not just as just an exclusive device which they like or a multiplayer game device for people who don't have players on their preferred platform, eg: CoD's, FIFA's, Fighting Games and numerous other games in various genre) ARE the ONLY people who SHOULD speak on which other platforms their consoles SHOULD crossplay with, and it's a resounding YES from the entire console-only community for CONSOLE-ONLY-CROSSPLAY. This cheating issue seems to be incredibly high in certain games on PC, and Warzone is one of them, it's not even that much of a problem if the dev is active enough and their anti-cheat is strong, despite this leak and the code being reverse engineered. Same situation with Battlefield with the recent leak. Both these publishers will be fine, just like Valve are with CSGO. The people on console who use cheats as a way of arguing to avoid PC crossplay are miniscule, even if there might be some on this thread. The vast majority just wants to crossplay only between their own platform, consoles, irrespective of their makers, and it's their (as well as the console manufacturer's prerogative and their right to avoid any other platform as well) absolute right. It's really funny to tell them that they "SHOULDN'T" crossplay between their own consoles if PC doesn't get it. SONY and NTDO currently have a first party rule that every dev should offer the consumer an option to turn crossplay off. Going forward, SONY, MSFT and NTDO should (and most probably WILL very soon due to the community feedback that they're getting) go ahead and make a first party rule that PC should be avoided in ALL games that have ANY form of multiplayer, and most importantly (last, current and future gen console hardware), should crossplay between all the console variants wherever possible. This egregious practice of 3RD party devs exploiting the console playerbase due it's size and sales, and the player injection to PC via "default on full crossplay" and no option to play only with other consoles only via crossplay, is going to be over very soon. Console-only-crossplay is the inevitable future, and there are titles which have started this already.

platocplx (75229785)

This is like the fall of Afghanistan in a damn day lol

GwyndolinCinder (75206946)

I mean the game is deffo not designed for lil babies throwing controllers - so yeah maybe drop it? The enemies do require you to behave differently to others, because you need to be proactive w/ positioning - which is usually the reason we see “omg this Is bullshit posts!!” with similar enemies in other games.

Älg (75227553)

I don't think it is immoral to steal from billion dollar corporations.

Laughing Banana (75136011)

I am sorry, correct me if I'm wrong, but IIRC you've bought and played the game right? Cyberpunk, I mean. I don't understand the dichotomy of saying stuff like this while at the same time supporting the company through buying and/or playing their game anyways?

Peaty Condor (74376870)

So fellas, when are we gonna start supporting Afghan women in here? Anybody able to get their hands on a C-17 yet?

Tokyo_Funk (75140265)

Oh you mean like this Cricket bat used as a weapon? But you say nothing when COD:WW2 has a bat full of nails? COD = Good! Can get away with anything because favouritism! BFV = BAAAAD! Because things in trailer that never made it into the game! Also remember when Troops played Atari games on the Beach in WW2? But that doesn't cater to your narrative does it? Or Virginia Hall who went on missions with a prosthetic leg? Or this woman done up to fight? You a GAF troll? Edit - Yep, you are. Ah right, thanks for this level headed response. Makes some sense.

Masagiwa (74849217)

one of those threads where you just take a quick look and quietly leave

Polyh3dron (75143967)

Concern trolling? I’m just going off of how early everything in that presentation looked and the uniquely glacial development pace almost every single “TRIPLE-A” first party Xbox game seems to have undergone in its modern era. I’d love to be proven wrong here, but even before the challenges of the pandemic we had stuff like the Halo Master Chief Collection taking years to fix, Scalebound’s cancellation and Crackdown 3’s troubled development. So many issues from so many wildly different studios.

KingK (74755371)

I wish Nintendo got even half as much shit as Sony does for their pricing. Returnal being $70 at launch was a huge controversy, even though it's regularly been on sale for $50 in the few months since launch, and will probably be on sales for ~$30-$40 or so within a year. Meanwhile, Nintendo can put out a 10 hour 2D game or port of a 5+ year old game and charge $60, never discounting below $50 even years after release, and barely anyone seems to mind? So many Switch games I'd like to try but will never play because of the price. I'm absolutely getting Dread sometime in the next few months (hopefully as a Christmas gift), but the fact that I can't just wait and get it for $40 in a few months like I can with games from literally every other publisher is annoying as fuck.

Terminalz (45272876)

That's why i don't like politics mixed with creative works, even though it is something that in a lot of cases seems inevitable. Blow clearly has a different approach to controversial things that don't fit my narrative, but he created Braid, which i enjoyed, and The Witness, which totally blew my mind off. So i'd like for him to keep dropping games like these two. I don't care about his views in politics, gender, etc. I just want to play good games, and he delivers. But, in this situation, he can do whathever he wants, if he doesn't want to go to events/conferences, that's his call, and we have no saying in the matter. But i have to give him that coercing authors in this called "cancel movements" is not the best approach.

Nanashrew (73871512)

Okay, I read over the mod post. So here a question? What will you do about Morrigan? Saying "if you post in support of us, you won't get banned" is a pretty big indictment here. And would explain the influx of trolls these last couple of days.

Alkez (75160167)

Ngl, there was a point where I thought there might actually be a few posters here who were paid by Mihoyo to talk positively about them, because they were unnatural adamant about defending the company during some of their most questionable decisions LOL. I dubbed them "The Mihoyo Defence Force" .

PoisedTurtoise (75156816)

Dude is not a gender based term, been unisex for a long time. I have no interset in discussing your gender identity. I'm discussing the FGC and your no fun allowed judgement of it.

Kaitos (75163377)

doomsday (75107916)

Aren't we all?

nikos (74816586)

This thread does not align with that recent age poll. Lots of people in here have clearly never lost anybody close to them. Childish behavior.

Vexii (75092805)

It’s… Like, very much reworked up to modern standards though? Sure they’ve used some base assets to assist with the translation to current gen but it’s not like they’ve just slapped the old games onto the new consoles. Use your brain.

Haunted (75094080)

When is he going to make another game? Blow its a fucking brilliant puzzle designer, one of the best. :lol true

PoisedTurtoise (74901726)

It's okay, I respectfully disagree. You can be a sociopath and not feel explicit suffering but it isn't gonna be a fulfilling life imo... All modern studies I know of show that once you make enough to not struggle in America about 70k, it is a lot easier to be happy. That does not mean someone who is making 70k and has super good moral principles, a loving wife, does charity, goes to the beach, etc.....isn't probably a lot happier then someone like our recent president who idk if I'm allowed to bring up (?), who spent his days eating poorly, tweeting private citizens hatefully, no exercise, concerned about every word spoken of him, frustrated, grumpy, etc... I don't personally find it right within my own belief system to celebrate the death of people even if I do think certain things should be remembered, but I don't mind that some people do. Even if certain problematic actors on a global scale came to their passing I'd think "R.I.P. thank god the world can move on now".... Just think it'd be nice if people weren't getting upset about others simply saying R.I.P and tryna just say hey, everyones got different beliefs, if they aren't fighting the battle at this time it isn't a personal attack.... In my eyes if someone is laughing at the suffering of LGBT they likely are frustrated by the success and growth as well. I admitted that I dont believe in the reincarnation aspect of Bhuddism that they use to make karma equal, but karma is still karma. He negatively impacted more lives then he could suffer as one man, but now he is dead, his conscious, ego, and all are gone. No one can really punish him anymore, I think he punished himself and others in his life, but now he is resting. Super not here to tell people what is right and wrong and accept that is personal, just tryna communicate why not everyone who is saying R.I.P. is some apologist, don't think it is appropriate to police the tone of those comments either. That's all. The original post I was responding to was about a guy saying he hopes everyone saying R.I.P. means Rest in Piss and I think it's like cmon, let people say Rest in Peace without taking it personally you know? Gonna be my last comment in this thread 100% but yeah, R.I.P. isn't apologists, it's okay that's all I wanted to say. Some people just have different beliefs. Pretty sure everyone is on the same side here as far as the asterisk stating he was a terrible human that will forever be next to his works.

Wave (75054987)

Will microsoft please buy dice already or can dice just employ me to manage the next battlefield -next gen only -medium sized maps with 64 player count -no jets just chopper -destruction to next level following on from bc2 -tighter gunplay and better hit registration due to medium scale -class based and no specialist crap -no focus on tornados and rocket launches

LinkStrikesBack (75077466)

Oh I see what this is, you're just quite bad at the game. Sorry, but this is one of the most sublimely controlling metroidvanias on the market and "stringing 3 double jumps" together is very easy. The timing is you have to press the jump button again once Samus starts moving downwards, not before. Not once did I miss it during the entire game.

Rei dos Vermes (75064377)

Well, I couldn't agree more with him on this particular subject. Cancel culture is cancer.

Grizza (75061725)

Dude have Asperger's or something?

Res-bot (45360413)

This Jonathan Blow guy has been putting his bigoted views into his games for ages. Take this puzzle solution in the Witness: It's basically advocating racial segregation. Separating blacks and whites. It even becomes one of the 'core rules' in progressing through the puzzles in the game. Ingraining historical and systemic abuse against a certain people into some sort of abstract puzzle to be solved. Devious shocking and typical of Blow.

HebrewHammer (45256883)

What did Jonathan Blow do?

Ronin | Rin | (75054735)

"unable to implement this time." ~ Port this game to PS (and Xbox) and all will be forgiven, Capcom :D I pray that this will become a must in their future titles. Cross play, cross save, and all platforms please. Also... I don’t mind the paid DLC, but not when what we can earn in the game is so sparse. Give us something other than too many stickers please. Iceborne spoiled me too much.

Iwao (75009207)

I knew the most harmless interview Jim Ryan has ever done would have a controvertial quote. That said, I’m sure he should have had the data by now to know this simply not true.

Vylder (75049686)

Aren't the results a bit predictable now that Nintendo ERA is gone?

Bungie (74822952)

“I’d love to see a world where hundreds of millions of people can enjoy our games” Put Bloodborne on Steam then

starfoxxxy (75000306)

Weird how everyone agreed at the time that the interview Jim gave was good until now. Now its the guy is a PR nightmare. And I’m not just talking about the ME comment

Cerulean_skylark (75044652)

I'll buy it, hands down. But i am REALLY REALLY REALLY praying for like... a wider console release later on down the road. (I will probably also end up emulating my purchased copy). being forced to play incredible games with great art direction on a switch is a real monkey's paw.

The Living Tribunal (74795865)

This feels like a chinese knockoff of Battlefield. I just saw like 6 Falcks, killing each other. What the fuck.

Super Mega Man (74726988)

Demonstrably false. The fact that many heavily Asian coded characters you see them as “white” because they’re light skinned says a lot about the way you see the world.

lostconst (74768679)

Why does Era get so worked up over Joel Osteen and other televangelists? It takes years of discipline and charisma to lead a church. Not everyone can do it. And he provides a free (really, there's no cost!) service to millions. In fact, according to a Washington Post article, Osteen often stays long after a sermon is finished and talks to the people individually. He's a people person. And if those people want to donate to someone who provides them a free service, so what? Let them spend their money their own way. Sure, he sometimes thanks contributors and bestows them special statuses, but he doesn't force anyone to contribute. /s edit: I’m wrong.

StrikeVillain (74758710)

Don’t we already have an OT for professional wrestling on this forum?

Akainu (74984310)

I’m sorry but this is a stupid question. Why did you make this thread?

Dyle (75011910)

May (74982921)

Finally a good Kotaku article. Very rare. And if Nintendo does not want these sorts of articles to be written they should maybe consider making a current-gen console. But who am I kidding.. it's Nintendo.

Grips (74982399)

There should be an article like this everytime a main Switch game comes out until Nintendo announces a "Pro"version, kudos to Kotaku for once.

NeuroCloud (61832590)

I re-read the above sections and noticed something that wasn’t addressed in the OP. There is a lack of primary, humanoid darker-skinned characters in Smash. Why is this the case? The is evidence for Japanese-centrism. Academic papers support the connection of Japanese paleness as a Japanese cultural bias, so in the absence of darker-skinned Japanese characters, it cannot be said that paleness is unrelated to Japanese-centrism. I support diversity in all situations, but I don’t support imposing Western values on other cultures. I really don’t know what to do about this issue. Does anyone know how to reconcile these two seemingly opposing concepts?

Dizastah (74977281)

This place really doesn't like Jim Ryan I see...

BadWolf (74979492)

Oh look, Jimbo says something silly again. Some will get needlessly overly heated and a bunch of sites will get some clicks out of it. And then everyone will move on.

Ludi_Ludere (74970549)

Twist your words? Are you reading or just making things up so you can skip answering the question? You said you didn't like option A, so I asked would you rather option B or do you think there is another option? Seems simple or is that difficult? But sure don't answer if you can't think of something.

Line (74983734)

Nah. Middle Eastern players do what they can to play games, and historically that includes a lot of bootlegs, romhacks and piracy. Is it just as bad as the evil Metroid Dread pirates or not? Do we need to go deeper in how and when it is justified? Maybe based on your revenue or something? My question is: when is piracy morally acceptable? Because we have two threads next to one another that end up in complete contradiction. When are we supposed to defend the corporations and when do we do defend the players?

Acquiescence (74982285)

Another Jim Ryan interview, another clanger of a soundbite that people will quote and refer to years later. I think it's time for the dude to cease partaking in interviews and PR full stop. I knew in my heart of hearts that the moment the Media Create community left this site, the level of corporate defending here would rise.

modiz (74976882)

This has happened enough times by now to see that Jim Ryan often exaggerates his words to pass his point. He is one of those that have worked at PlayStation in expanding EME regions for decades and he has seen a lot of data on how it has been growing as part of that. Thats where this comment has come from.

Alexander_Wand (74673306)

black inkling?

Nazo (62249937)

Gardevoir’s ass