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Noodleface, I feel myself forced to play the part of the smug euro player: when you think D&D, are you interested in the co-op tactical fantasy combat or by the multiplayer interactive storytelling? I am asking because D&D is dangerously close to a (bloated and not very good) board game, so if...

These awful games run are neat because even in terrible games there are sometimes good and original ideas here and there that you would never get to see otherwise since the games are borderline unplayable. That and it's often hilarious and impressively played.

I am not sure how some of you have troubles with the sentinels. Maybe I had good endurance and a high stability shield, but for me it was all about teasing them to do a shield slam, move behind them, switch to 2 hand, swing down, swing up and good night (using a well upgraded Black Knight Sword...

I am 100% sure he was credited as a writer in the second episode (with two other people) on top of being credited as creator.

The thing is, in the previous generation, Japan only amounted to about 6% of the global HD consoles market (PS3 + X360). I am not sure why it would change with the current gen.

Wrath of Gods with an xp ring and several damage boosters to get the overkill bonus provided me with a considerable amount of souls in the painted world in a very short amount of time. Apparently some people prefer the endlessly spawning tiny skeletons that are in the tomb of the giants...

Playing without using spoilers, it's pretty likely that you encounter the Great Hollow way before you get that ring since it's in New Lando or something.... That said there are other ways to raise curse defense through armor... and maybe even consumables? I don't think I ever got cursed to death...

The obvious answer is to buy PS4s for their friends!

I am not big fan of Great Hollow / Ash Lake myself. It feels disjointed from the rest of the game, like an alpha level that was not supposed to be in the final game. Maybe it works better if the first time you go there is to conclude the father / daughter knight sub-quest.

I believe you can deal directly with Sony if you have an issue, can't you? @DickTrickle:USA Weekly Video Game Chart, Week Ending 28th Dec 2013 - VGChartz

USA Numbers are about 2 millions PS4 and 1.8 million XB1. That's a 48/52 split between Microsoft and Sony. Previous gen was 62/38.

Many games make unskippable cut-scenes skippable once you saw them once. That or put check points after cut-scenes. A more elegant approach was one found in one of the Prince of Persia (the Ubi reboots of the original, not Ubi's reboot of the reboot). Since time manipulation was a key element of...

There is something a bit depressing about this "I am sometimes tired to play multiplayer FPS on my PC, so for a change of pace I'd like to play some multiplayer FPS on my TV" stance. Why not play something else entirely?

I have not played co-op with a friend, but considering the restrictions (boss must not be dead, level bracket, living host) it should be pretty easy to put a mark down out of the way and just wait until it pops in your buddy's world. At any given time, how many people have all the criteria to...

The critical part is understanding that both the story you tell and the way you tell this story have to be good. A major problem with video game is that many of its stories are not worth being told and most of its stories are not told in a way that make good use of the medium. In this day...

I eat at least a banana a day, so it's just like spending my life on top of a nuclear power plant To make things worse I also eat a lot of tuna So long and thanks for all the fish...

Cuckoobliette.

That's one problem we had with game: we used all the Dune names! Maybe it might be different for those more familiar with Twilight Imperium than Dune (and that's not even sure because the names of the races are not that memorable in TI). Anyway, the final battle of our game was the emperor...

Don't you need the Thief's key to do that straight at the beginning?

@Tuco It's funny because I read the wikipedia entry on Kandinsky yesterday and he had this mystic notion of the avant-garde artist as a prophet. He visualizes it as the artist being able to feel the tip of inverted pyramids that expend in the future. In less poetic terms, the idea is that the...

In that specific case Schumacher was not doing any kind of daredevil extreme skying stunt. By all account he has a strong competitive fiber, but is not an adrenaline junkie. The guy just had a shitty accident doing the same routine thing than thousands of skiers do every week-end.

You put me on the spot here, but I guess I got what I deserved! As a foreword, I'll say that I chose this video because I found Arese's really stunning especially when you consider the complexity of the music he turns into visuals, but I am not a huge fan such extremely aggressive 'noise'...

If by 'easy' you mean deep down a portion of the game infested my skeletons that respawn if not killed by a holy weapon (when you did not kill their handler) that you will reach maybe a dozen hours into a first play through. I suspect that even with a full guide it's almost impossible for a...

I would say a key element is historical relevance. Maybe I can make something that looks like a painting Pollock would have made, but I am just imitating him 60 years later, while he refined a technique and made it his own and produced his works in a specific context. He was part of an...

There are three parts in your post, let me address all three. 1) The gamut in abstract art is about as large as the gamut in music (and I'll pretend you were not dissing Steve Reich). For every hyper 'noisy' Jackson Pollock painting, there is an intense monochrome by Yves Klein or the...

I have not checked the documentary (yet), but I hope the author - a Cambridge PhD in Philosophy specialist of aesthetics - had nothing to do with the abstract/description on Vimeo because even with my minor art history knowledge I can see the factual errors in it (most notably discarding the...

I personally used a very basic and low skill build in Dark Souls: I played a Cleric and made sure to build up Endurance (for stamina and equipment load - always good to stay under 50% for mobility) and tried to find early a shield with 100% physical and decent stability without being too heavy...

There are several problems with your statement. First, it is based on the idea the quality of an artwork is proportional to the difficulty of its craftsmanship. This notion died almost a century ago. But even if you think this notion should not have died, you picked a bad comparison and a bad...

Great ending for what will remain a great show. More: an important show. The writing really is phenomenal, because it manages to give an extreme feeling of reality to the fiction by shedding or hiding most of the usual devices (to the point you almost forget it is a fiction - see below for an...

The article you linked is very interesting but you misrepresented its content. A summary would rather be something like: The CIA overtly and then covertly inflated the visibility of a number of american artists (among which were abstract expressionists) that they feel were representative of the...

We played a game ofRex: Final Days of an Empirethe other day, which is a re-skinning in the Twilight Imperium universe of the classicDuneboard game. The meat of the game is different factions trying to control a number of key zones on a map through movement and combat. Nothing very special here...

Kotaku reader's GOTY (NB: N?2 was probably an honest submission, but pranksters jumped on it - it's an erotic visual novel, so, even if it is very good, it's unlikely enough Kotaku reader played it to make it rank so high):

Kotaku reader's GOTY (NB: N?2 was probably an honest submission, but prankster jumped on it - it's an erotic visual novel, so, even if it is very good, it's unlikely enough Kotaku reader played it to make it rank so high): EDIT: Wrong thread... so I put the big image in spoilers...

It's the devil's advocate's day for me as I don't care much about abstract painting and I am ready to recognize there is an important social component to the success of some artists BUT, as an exercise of the mind, consider this: Probably all of you enjoy some music that has no lyrics. So you...

This thread would be better with pictures of the works of Araysar's friend.

What I remember of that thread was Astro saying mass destruction was out of place in a Superman movie. That's three occurrences of spectacular destruction in movies, but in The Avenger the perception was it was a cherry on top of a movie that had other qualities, in Superman it was attacked...

Kotaku's GOTY isThe Last of Us. Details bellow. They obviously like GTAV more than the people at Giant Bomb! EDIT: FORBIN!!!

To be fair, they are not bitching about the presence of spectacular elements, they are bitching about the fact that these spectacular elements are enough for some people to enjoy Gravity. I'll not defend Superman, but The Avengers also had effective comedy elements and very clever writing...

Having playedGone Homeyesterday, I would say that it is a very good idea for a game and an original subject matter, but I have not been overly impressed by the execution of this idea. At its core, it's a very basic first person adventure game (which surprised me as for some reason people...

Considering the price of the subscription vs the price of the games he wants to tag for download, he is losing time but saving a lot of money.