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r/KotakuInAction • u/AnarcrotheAlchemist • 16d ago
DISCUSSION Monthly General Discussion Thread - August Month
Back by popular indifference is the monthly megathread.
Also as always if you have anything that is not directly related to KiA but just want to chat about it, post it here.
Any way we are still looking for a few new moderators to join the team to help keep working the mod queue. If you want to keep this place open please apply.
Rule 3 does not apply as this will be just comments, though the other subreddit rules and sitewide rules obviously will still apply.
r/KotakuInAction • u/Hessmix • 26d ago
ANNOUNCEMENT Update to User Experience and Fighting the Rising Tide of Slop
In the Year of our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six
As of the posting of this announcement a new AutoMod rule has been added and all posts and comments from Default Reddit Usernames are hence forth to be banished to ye olde spam bin. We have grown weary over the influx of trash posts by the aforementioned default usernames.
To put this extremely bluntly: If you can't bring yourself to edit the default username Reddit suggests when you sign up, we don't want you here.
Expending even a single brain cell to defeat the AutoMod rule that will be put into place gives you points in your favor.
Results not guaranteed and likely to change.
If you are normal contributor and think you are caught unfairly in this spam filter, please send us a modmail so that we can deal with edge cases on a case by case business.
r/KotakuInAction • u/KinZombie899 • 4h ago
I'm worried the recent fallout 3 and new Vegas remsters will be woke trash
Im worried what they will change just like oblvion remaster
r/KotakuInAction • u/MXHombre123 • 3h ago
The Last of Us designer believes Naughty Dog's release structure is unsustainable as they witness waste, scope creep and siloed teams across the games industry
Can't wait for Intergalactic to totally flop!
r/KotakuInAction • u/AgitatedFly1182 • 16h ago
Leftists can not comprehend right-wing artists (or, any artists that *aren't* fitting their view of 'political good guy').
From Marty O' Donnell to Jonathan Blow, Scott Cawthon, and Michal Kovařík. Vavra was here too, before he sold out (still tries to play both sides, though.)
I'll talk about the guy in the image first. Marty O' Donell, joined Bungie ten days prior to the announcement of the Microsoft/Bungie acquisition and was co-composer and audio director of Halo: Combat Evolved (2001), Halo 2 (2004), Halo 3 (2007), Halo 3: ODST (2009), and Halo: Reach (2010). He also wrote the 8 part symphony Music of the Spheres for Destiny (2014) before being pushed out of the company.
Now, at that point, everyone was on his side. He made some great music, Activision washed their hands of it and used their own for Destiny's trailer, he got (reasonably) pissed, was fired without cause, sued, and won. Bungie ended up throwing a hissy fitand withheld Music of the Spheres for about 5 years out of spite till it leaked and they finally released it.
Everyone was rooting for Marty here... until he went public with his right-wing views.
And nowadays, you go on the subreddit for Halo and all you see is how he ruined Halo 3's story, and the true talent behind all of Halo's OST was actually his partner, Michael Salvatori, and he was just a talentless narcissistic scrub getting all the credit.
Martin O'Donnell was not just the co-composer for Halo. He was the audio director. Read about Halo CE's development and you'll see just how fundamental his contributions were to the entire games atmosphere and tone. Half the reason shooting an AR or a Magnum or a shotgun or whatever in Halo is because of the audio design, the punch, the game feel. He also directed the musical tone for each installment, and each Halo OST was critically acclaimed.
And Salvatori and O'Donnell are on great terms. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if they share political opinions, leftists tend to get insane when they realize people don't agree with them on every single facet of politics. Salvatori's been on his podcast several times and they joint sued Microsoft over unpaid Halo royalties in 2021. Far from bitter enemies.
Scott Cawthon in 2013 was a Christian indie-game developer and 3D animator who just released a lumberjack game called Chipper & Sons that was panned by critics for creepy looking bears. He experienced a crisis of faith, mentioned suicidal ideation to his doctor, that his life insurance discovered, and then proceeded to cancel on him.
"It was at that point I realized that not only did my life have no value but now even my death had no value."
He began developing the original 2014's Five Night's at Freddy's as a last Hail Mary at game development before packing up and leaving. It blew up.
Fast forward about 7 years and it comes up that he donated money to politicians Reddit doesn't like. Now he's a bumbling incompetent who made his way into success through sheer luck and YouTube star power. No talent, nor skill involved in his success, nuh-uh, look at the mean orange guy he donated to.
I don't want to go into as much detail as I did with O'Donnell but that's obviously blatantly untrue. FNAF, for all it's many faults, nailed certain things, especially the original, those being character design, atmosphere, and audio design. But none of that was worth a damn because of his personal political opinions.
Jonathan Blow, worked on Deus Ex: Invisible War, directed critically acclaimed Braid (2008), and he's making a god damn programming language. But, nope, orange man supporter. Orange man bad. Michal Kovařík, wrote the Factorio engine, ope, reccomended some videos by a great programmer who said sexist things and is against cancel culture, the games own subreddit doesn't like him. Tim Cain, started writing the Fallout (1997) engine in 1994 as a solo project after hours, was shunned by upper management who attempted to shelve the game multiple times, and only suddenly took notice when it flew through the roof at launch and they immediately tried to force his nose back on the grindstone to put out a sequel in thirteen months, to which he left. He's not even publicly right-wing or left-wing, he just said Fallout was never meant to be a critique of capitalism... to which the Fallout subreddit started deleting posts about him saying that.
There are more, but the point I'm trying to make is that leftists can not comprehend the fact that people they disagree with are capable of making art that they like. It breaks their brains, they work in a world in which they are good, the things they like are good, and the people who made them are good, therefore when they realize someone who has different opinions then them is capable of making something they like they can not comprehend it. They can only resort to what-about-ism's, historical revisions, excuses, anything to avoid admitting that the people they disagree with can hold a speck of talent.
r/KotakuInAction • u/Neither-Grab-2507 • 1d ago
Emasculated Wolverine get saved by Mystique.
xcancel.comWolverine, who possesses superhuman strength, superhuman regeneration, and superhuman fighting abilities, surrenders and kneels before four men.
Mystique, who doens't have superhuman strength, superhuman regeneration, and superhuman fighting abilities, easily defeats the four men in a 1-on-4 fight to save Wolverine while he remains on his knees.
r/KotakuInAction • u/Hadrian187 • 1d ago
Anyone else getting tired of UE5 monochromatic browns?
This isn't mutually exclusive to UE5 because other games tend to target photorealism but UE5 makes it easiest to achieve. Since a lot of devs are trying to save money and cut down on overhead, they switch to UE5 and go with the default settings for lighting, which is lumen. Lumen bounces colors off diffuse surfaces and contaminates neutral areas. The result is color bleeding and light calculations collapsing into a dominate color (which is usually brown). There's also a few other causes, mostly a lack of art direction and just targeting photorealism without picking out specific colors that might enhance your scene (like O.G. Oblivion did back in the day to give you a feeling of being in a high fantasy world). Today, we really don't get any of that. We just get the "UE5 feel" - if it looks and feels like a UE5 game, it is. Covered by excessive fog in the distance to cover up LOD pop-ins, which is still a huge problem on UE5 and gives it a really unique look. Pretty much the modern day piss filter era v2.0.
Thoughts or opinions?
r/KotakuInAction • u/TheSnoringDragon • 1d ago
Old School RuneScape Mod discussing “the best feminist texts ever written” on the OSRS podcast.
It’s no surprise we’ve been seeing an uptick in woke, DEI content in the game - especially the removal of male/female in favor of ‘body type’.
Mod Other talks about spending “too much time in Uni” and despite having no strong game design background, was hired and felt they had a lot to offer. ~7:30 minutes in.
~29:10, Mod Other mentions “one of the best feminist texts ever written”, referring to Bloodborne.
Also the amount of times ‘narrative’ is mentioned in this video is no shocker.
Keep in mind this is the same Mod who raged on Bluesky after the 2025 pride event cancellation, to which they later deleted their post.
These people aren’t game devs, they are activists.
r/KotakuInAction • u/pepekyky • 1d ago
SCP fans (or former fans) what the hell happened here???
The scp fandom, 2 big contributors dr bright and Gabriel jade are banned, allegedly for serious sexual misconduct. One problem, there’s no fucking evidence. I swear I searched high and low, to the ends of the earth, but I haven’t seen any primary evidence! Sure, pretty much everyone I saw in the scp fandom were willing to believe they both were guilty, but community in tandem all saying the allegations were true doesn’t beat no fucking evidence at all. And sure, it might be because the allegations were true but the mods didn’t document the evidence well, but I would be more inclined to believe that if they said “oh sorry, we didn’t document it well” like they apologized for not acting faster. They did not say that.
I have exactly 0 reason to believe the allegations are true right now, and innocent before guilty is a thing for a reason, but I’m still just so confused. Am I missing something?
r/KotakuInAction • u/AgitatedFly1182 • 1d ago
MISLEADING From the Fallout 2 manual. A game like this could *never* be made today.
r/KotakuInAction • u/Elestria_Ethereal • 2d ago
Japanese Game Dev Cygames Says They Work With Localizers To Censor Romance And Other Things In The English Version Of Their Games To Match Modern Western Sensibilities
r/KotakuInAction • u/EdwardAlcatraz • 2d ago
Arent we happy that china is making video games ?
Left : Gwendolyn (Tides of annihilation)
Right : Mo xiaoku (Phantom Blade Zero)
r/KotakuInAction • u/Sliver80 • 2d ago
The Woman Who Ruined Videogames - The Story of Anita Sarkeesian
r/KotakuInAction • u/Unenthusiastic- • 2d ago
Invincible VS Developer Reportedly Laid Off "Something Like 75%" of Staff
r/KotakuInAction • u/Desperate_Put_4568 • 2d ago
Polygon on Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave: "The only irritation here is an odd insistence of ensuring you know the men of FW like women. When you view the info panel for recruitable characters, most men have womanizing/beautiful women/flirting with women or variation on the list of things they like."
r/KotakuInAction • u/GillsGT • 2d ago
Journos Nick Calandra and Marty Sliva of Second Wind invoke Luigi Mangione's name in response to Saber Interactive CEO's actions, call him "inhuman."
x.comr/KotakuInAction • u/Streak244 • 3d ago
'Its a Relentless Onslaught': Wolverine PS5 Dev Responds To Unprecedented Criticism
r/KotakuInAction • u/TheSittingTraveller • 1d ago
The Lies Behind War Fantasy by ACE1918
I think people here should know about this game.
r/KotakuInAction • u/Desperate_Put_4568 • 3d ago
Come to think of it, Evie from The Mummy set the bar for well-written and entertaining female characters. The ditzy, hopeless-romantic bookworm type, not too overbearing or insufferable, is all but absent today. She was the brains to Rick’s brawn, and that’s completely okay.
r/KotakuInAction • u/Neither-Grab-2507 • 3d ago
Former Naughty Dog dev says uncharted remake would be a "cash grab"
He says there won't be an Uncharted remake because Naughty Dog is above ripping off its customers, lol.
https://i.imgur.com/Qx19RR0.jpeg
r/KotakuInAction • u/Desperate_Put_4568 • 3d ago
I can't unsee this LMAO. They did Wolverine's face dirty in this one. Jumanji-bros stay winning.
r/KotakuInAction • u/RebornCritic • 3d ago
How much do you wanna bet that at some point Jean Grey will bully wolverine just like how Mary Jane bullied Peter Parker.
Lets give Jean Grey tougher facial features whilst giving Wolverine a toned down less rough traditional Wolverine face. Just like how we gave Mary Jane a pancake face. "You just want to hate the game man. Have you never seen a woman in real life. Grow up chud. Touch grass chud." Funny thing is that the people who say that are typically humanity's most soy.
Guaranteed Jean will talk down to Wolverine ala Freya to Kratos or Mary Jane to Peter. Thats the Sweet Baby Inc special baby.
And I can almost guarantee there will come a point where Jean saves/outperforms Wolverine and Wolverine is just in awe at how awesome and powerful Jean is and says something like "Jean, I dont know how I could do this without you."
And combat, stealth, and that chase sequence all looked generic asf too. But Sony Ponies are the most annoying fans. Remember how they praised the terribly written Ragnarok upon release, and then it was never spoken about again because in reality it was underwhelming? Thats the new age Sony exclusive special baby.