Will this change how you choose to play Dishonored 2? Can you stick to a fully non-lethal playthrough when killing an NPC who will otherwise do more evil in the game might not cost anything, and might even generate some in-game benefits? In the original Dishonored -- one of my favourite games ever ...

INB4 "smh $60 for an unfinished game, garble garble gaming industry garble garble". If it gets the major (free) updates over the next couple years that I anticipate it will, then $60 will be a steal. I'll eat my hat then if I'm wrong. But not now :p It's not garbling. A decade of enabling exactly t...

Off-topic, but it's sure good to see you around again, Josh.

So, a Noctis successor and little more, apparently. Let me bask in the warm sense of fulfilled expectations and of being right. But what actually is disappointing is that it apparently runs like crap on PC. I'll soon see that for myself. And the reason it's disappointing is that it's fundamentally d...

Almost three years to the initial reveal, this still looks like a Noctis successor to me, and little more than that. Which is good for LT if (and when) it does, eventually, come out: I'll be happy with my neo-Noctis to the extent that it does not encroach on my future neo-Freelancer. :) I have it pr...

It's good to see you back, Hardenberg. Sup? With respect to your quote, I should note that it's possible to take games seriously without sacrificing the need for fun, as well as reconcile a single-player focus with competitive gaming. The players that I have the greatest respect for are those player...

I'm not sure the general "games are becoming more streamlined" line of thought is a good fit for System Shock 1 and 2. My understanding is that System Shock 1 was considered complex at the time because the immediate comparison was with the pumping, run-and-gun action of then-ascendant Doom (with muc...

I've backed this, but am staying far from any pre-release exposure (at least, exposure that involves actually playing anything). That said, the KS campaign has been pretty clear that the remake will involve "improvements, overhauls, and changes": A modern take on System Shock, a faithful reboot; it’...

@richta: You're right that people are absolutely entitled to their rants. You'll note that the forum is absolutely littered with them -- hell, I made one myself. But it's disingenuous to assert that Josh has failed in his duty to the community, when every indication has shown otherwise. His inhuman ...

The only reason you're annoyed with Josh's attitude is because you disagree with it. This is not a case of the developer vanishing into thin air -- by now he has made it abundantly clear that he won't be showing anything until he believes there's something worth showing. Like it or not, that's his s...

I'm a fan and backer. I have yet to play Serpent in the Staglands (I meant to, but then Final Fantasy IX/X came on Steam and ruined my life), but heard only good things about it -- so here's hoping they will reach their goal!

It's not a PS4 exclusive.

TotalBiscuit has a preview of it. A very interesting combat system involving a combination of Action RPG and what seems to be ball games.

I will day-one this, to be sure. Looks much more interesting than Transistor initially did, which was a perfectly fine game by itself.

Polish is a measure of conceit. As games have introduced increasing measures of smoothness, efficiency and convenience, their lack in other games have become bothersome sticking points. This has less to do with games and how people feel towards convenience in general... as people acclimate towards c...

Sarif, I have been one of Josh's recurring critics on this forum and even I can't understand what you're objecting to here. The concerns in the original post you link to were addressed by Josh in the same thread, even though the post didn't really say anything new, while unimpressively quoting the o...

My job is sure, but not my career or livelihood. Technology grows, and we reduce requirements in some areas, and the jobs move to other areas. Unemployment doesn't really change much in countries with strong economies over time. And sure, the lower class will always have less, and it becomes more n...