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Levi Winslow
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staff writer, kotaku. they/them. beats: esports, creator culture + internet discourse, preservation + sustainability, news. send me tea and tips 🖤

Counterpoint: Instead of spending 30 levels to do this, spend 30 levels speccing into ballistic shotguns like the breach. Substitute the combat skills for shotgun specialization and ballistics, replace martial arts for the more globally useful gymnastics (combat slide, take less fall damage, better zero G control, Read more

Were you a Razorleaf on the wind? Read more

I genuinely wish we'd get another Gundam Musou. Imo the absolute best IP for the genre and an absolute shame we haven't had another one. Read more

Hopefully you get a chance to reconnect with your cousin and play with them again at some point! Read more

Warriors games are great as a one off. It’s the kind of game that scratches an itch no other game does but if you have played one you have really played most of them. so it really just amounts to finding your favorite and whipping it out from time to time. Read more

I used to play DW3 and 4 like it was my job. I fell off after that, and every time I wanted to come back, the games had mixed reviews. One of these days I’m gonna just have to spring for whatever the latest one is.

Hyrule Warriors has been a very good substitute the last few years. Dipped a little into the Dragon Quest Read more

Loved this article, I have more time spent playing Warrior’s co-op than any other games series with my cousin and best friend growing up. Some of the best memories and these games will forever be awesome Read more

‘Internet People Upset That Thing They Made Up Isn’t Real’ Read more

Hopefully it has much better gameplay and UI than Black Desert
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If this has anything close to the writing of the Killer Bean movies I am in Read more

Mercenaries mode with a good partner was a great experience.
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Clearly you should’ve asked her to Smash Brothers in a four way free for all.
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Same.  This was the golden age of “we’re all adults, we can fuck off for a night and play Gears - since we’re too poor to buy anything newer yet” and still have fun.  Freedom, not a lot of disposable income, just playing games.  The silver age was with WAN co-op on zombie CoD 3 years later (and L4D), and those are Read more

and on Christmas Eve morning, Read more

Same feeling, but for me and my buddy it was Resi5. Loved that game.  Read more

Those late PS2/earlier 360 days were great times. Growing up with my closest friends within walking distance meant that most Friday’s after school and weekends were gathering up at each other’s places and gaming and hanging out. Cherish those memories. College with Gears, Smash, Left 4 Dead,SF4  and the like also Read more

I once asked a girl if she’d like to come back to my place to smash Gears. Judging by the drink I got thrown in my face she must have been a Playstation fan.
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Local Co-op / Local Multiplayer is something that can really take a game and make it special, and it’s unfortunate that it gets pushed aside these days for everything else. It’s another casualty of having to chase the highest visual standards because so much power goes into rendering the game, that rendering it from Read more