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Patrick Klepek
patrickklepek
Senior reporter at Kotaku, streaming Mario deaths at youtube.com/patrickklepek

It was playable when it launched, but the frame rate was all over the place. On my GTX 970, it was moooostly 30FPS unless you were roaming around in the batmobile, so I mostly avoided that (I didn’t care for the mechanic, anyway). It’s better, but don’t expect a magically good version of the game. Read more

I’m simply trying to do my best to convey the story, but I’ll definitely keep this in mind. Thanks! Read more

I also wish it had a screen saver mode, where the game would just pilot itself...I wanted something like that for Proteus, too. Read more

This is all fluff around the game. It’s otherwise a pretty simple, well-made roguelike. Read more

Well, presumably once they community figures it out, you can just follow the steps, no? Read more

I’m not sure they look at that way, necessarily. It’s more than they know people will pay $50 for multiplayer. Read more

Do you happen to like found footage films, though? If the gimmick doesn’t work for you, then you’re not really gonna did the rest of the movie. Read more

I’m with you on the sentiment, but these games are doing nothing for me. Read more

If it had been super weird at the start, however, I’m not sure it would have sucked as many people in. The simplicity is what drew me to it. Read more

I’m pointing out how games work in 2015. You may be technically right—Atlus can do whatever it wants with its work, within the scope of fair use—but that doesn’t mean we can’t call it out and call it stupid. Because it is. Read more

That’s a fine (if unorthodox) stance for a company to take, the problem is the lack of transparency on what IS allowed and what ISN’T allowed. We live in a world in which players are going to be streaming your game. As a modern video game developer, you need to outline your personal policies. Read more

Definite truth to that. Trying to figure out what the tone and mood of a community is, versus the anger usually reserved for forum topics, is tough. In this case, I think I’ve spent enough time observing the community’s behavior to say this is legitimate... Read more

Thanks for the heads up, though. Been working furiously on that this morning! Read more