Ethan Gach's discussions

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Ethan Gach
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Senior reporter at Kotaku. Have a gaming industry tip? You can reach me securely at ethangach@protonmail.com.

Yes, I’m looking forward to the breather. And given the state of Anthem and how underwhelmed I’ve been with The Division 2, I won’t have any forever games to eat up all my free time.  Read more

That shirtless dude, also known as the Chief of Coralcola, is indeed one of the top video game magazine images of all time. It’s branded into my brain as well.    Read more

I wish everyone could contribute useful and interesting info in the comments as nicely as you! Read more

I double-checked that and decided an auto-cross bow is still just a bow rather than a gun. Read more

Yea you’ll have to buy the PC version seperate. Cross-buy still just a dream for now.  Read more

One of the strangest things about Anthem to me is that it seems heavily geared toward monetizing the time a core audience spends with the game since it’s otherwise so light on the type of solo/story-based content that might drive less diehard players to try it out. Read more

Javelins being more customizable is certainly something I wanted to see, and also something I think the game would really benefit from in a Year Two situation. Read more

I remember being at PAX East one year just prior to Bioshock Infinite’s release at a panel Ken Levine was on and he let slip some anecdote about how an entire section of the game was reworked from scratch because he didn’t think the aesthetic quite fit or something and it turns out those types of do-overs can really Read more

Agree that all of those are good examples of similar down-scaling. At this point anyone who’s followed E3 for long enough knows to take everything shown with a big grain of salt as if it were straight concept art (which sometimes that is indeed all it is!) Read more

I don’t know the ship on that has probably sailed  Read more

Uh, no. The first email was all the time Stephens deserved. Read more

Pirates of the Enchiridion looks gorgeous, and while I haven’t heard great things about it, it definitely feels worth checking out for the price of free* if your an Adventure Time fan. Read more

It’s true, people don’t talk enough about this.  Read more

Most of the conversations are pretty decent. Zoe, the Javelin technician, is still super boring and flat, but overall the characters definitely come into their own.  Read more

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SOOOO I was going to write that but my *writer sense* was tingling and going “nobody’s will get it and then you’ll have to explain it.”

Unfortunately it’s an always online game. Read more

A BioWare community manager responded on Reddit saying that the studio “is scaling the servers to let more players in gradually to avoid crashing.” Read more