Ari Notis's discussions

You won’t walk away feeling despondent about humanity. But there’s just a whole lot of needless plot-device death, including of children. It also takes itself soooo seriously. The main character, Aiden, is some extremely boring modern, cut-rate, techno-noir Batman figure whose only redeeming quality is a really,… Read more

Not true until this gets backwards compatibility:

Just gonna drop Riley’s review here:
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I’m an extreme pro, obvs. I eat MKLeo for breakfast. Read more

Yeah, I think a big asterisk for why she’s so good is her novelty. Once we get a collective understanding of her quirks and intricacies, maybe she’ll come down to earth a bit. But who knows! Read more

THEY’RE TERRIFYING! It’s like watching Age of Ultron through a funhouse mirror. Read more

Hmm... Not sure I’ve heard of any of these DJs. Read more

Yup! Just tap Options during any cinematic. Read more

“Tense” is right. I’m less sure if “good” is, only because it’s such a matter of taste. A ton of game devs/publishers throw this word around, but stealth in TLOU2 is truly dynamic. There’s no stealth meter or red arrows overhead. You won’t, like, hear some audio cue and see all the NPCs go “!!!” You kind of just...… Read more

Cosigned. Read more

Pulling you out of the grays just to tell you how wrong you are. Read more

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Ah, I should’ve clarified: can’t use bricks the same way Joel could in the first game, as a basically guaranteed melee kill. Read more

I need to take a break from this game for a couple days, which is hopefully understandable haha, but am planning on starting a second playthrough this weekend on Hard+. (The NG+ difficulties are all a tad more tough than their vanilla variants.) We’ll likely update this post next week with details about that and some… Read more

Ellie can’t use shivs—or bricks, easily the best weapons from the first game.

But her knife won’t break. Small consolation?
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Science disagrees: https://thebests.kotaku.com/lets-rank-the-assassins-creed-games-worst-to-best-1844019813 Read more

I’m replying to this not to weigh in but to bump this chain to the top of the comments section. Readers, if you’re at all interested in the moral complexities of TLOU, give this tete-a-tete a read! Good stuff. Read more

Oh, whoops! Thanks for flagging. That is...completely my bad. The article is now updated (and I am now marginally more excited about putting this thing on my TV stand). Read more

Sorry to disappoint, but it’s gonna be a while before you get a XBC2 piece out of me—there aren’t enough hours in the year for one writer to tackle two of these monster-sized games back to back! Read more

Yeah, this is spot-on. Reyn is functionally useless; enemies deal out so much damage that even high-HP characters can get wiped in a hit or two. Plus he’s annoying AF. So I’m actually using the exact party (not saying names for spoiler reasons) that you’ve described here for the reasons you’ve described here. Good… Read more