Kirk Hamilton's discussions

When I was writing this I had a few sentences explaining how much the Three of Coins pack cost, and eventually I just deleted them. Read more

WITH THAT SAID, this also just happened. Hawkmoon was the one exotic I still wanted but didn’t have. That’s my kind of joke, Bungie.

They must’ve been pretty close to one another for Malphur to land both shots post-nerf... Read more

You could be right! I’d still call it the conclusion of this particular story, but I do hope we learn more about the interim period, and find out what happened to Malphur after he got his revenge. Read more

Good call! His description seems on point, anyway. Read more

This is more for vets. If you’re just now getting the game, relax and have fun. Do the story missions, check other stuff out, start leveling up. Try not to get overwhelmed. It’s not a race, even though it sometimes feels like one! Read more

Cool that you can make the Summoner work for you; I wasn’t impressed. And re: Suros, yeah, I’m curious how (or if) that “spin up” alternate perk in the year two version will affect TTK. With the year one version, though, I’m not feeling it. Read more

I didn’t know that - good tip! Read more

“Kotaku” is not trying to “push” anything on anyone, I just think Nolan North is way better! I like that it’s a debate, and that not everyone agrees. I do like needling Dinklebot apologists a little, though. Read more

I DID get killed by that a bit last night. I’ll give it a shot tonight, but man, I just don’t know. Hard to top Red Death. Read more

Fair. Clarified! Read more

Yeah, pretty much. “Okay, sweet. Time to take this adept Summoner I’ve been saving out to play. [Takes a million years to kill a guy. Gets owned by someone with The Last Word] Nope, okay, back to Red Death I go.” Read more

Yeah, that tip should really be “Stop wearing that corny faction class item.” I’ll change it. And I agree, it’s weird how some class items are so much worse than others—why not just make all year one class items the same? Read more

I dunno - he had guns when I went. Maybe you pissed him off or something? Read more

I’m talking about attribute cooldowns, which have been changed across the board. If the year two exotic armor is any indication, year two armor will have much better attribute bonuses, so you can max your cooldowns again. Once that’s the case, year one armor will suck even in Crucible. Read more

True. Still, an improvement is an improvement, even if it’s improving something that can’t be improved all that much. I’m looking forward to hearing him on new material next week - it’ll be interesting to see if Bungie’s writers have upped their Ghost-dialogue writing skills for Taken King. Read more

Right - it works better for me because he sounds more like a robot. Peter Dinklage sounded like a human giving robotic line readings. It’s a fine distinction, but an important one. Read more

Yeah, I can imagine them in the studio doing that line. “Okay, so... this line. This one’s a problem. What can we do with it?” Read more

Line attacks (Fist of Havoc Shockwave and Arc Blade Razor’s Edge) can now no longer penetrate Ward of Dawn Read more

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