You just said a lot of nothing. Kotaku should be called out for every disingenuous, sensationalist, flaming article they post. They devalue any cause they pretend to rally behind because they are disingenuous and if people dug into what Kotaku really is like the blog author here, how could anyone take what they say seriously? #6.1

*SPOILER* Kessler is Cole and in his timeline he developed his powers naturally over time. Kessler travelled back in time after The Beast destroyed everything to force Cole's powers out sooner than they naturally would have so that he'd be stronger than Kessler and better able to fight The Beast. The Ray Sphere absorbs the neurological energy of any life within its blast radius and transfers that energy to the Conduit, thereby activating their dormant Conduit gene and the powers assoc... #2.1.2

What I'm curious about though is, considering that Cole was probably the most powerful conduit in the world at the time, could it be possible that he DIDN'T in fact die since we are being led to believe that the RFI wasn't as powerful as we thought? Wouldn't it be cool for Cole to make a sudden appearance at the end of Second Son as a cliffhanger? We wouldn't even have to play as Cole in a 4th game, just have him as a story device.

I'm just a fan of Co... #1.1.3

Awww go on, you're making me blush. Lol.

Thanks for the compliment. I try to do well by my material so that people either enjoy, or can relate to, what I'm writing about. I'll do my best not to disappoint in the future. #1.1

I KNEW IT! I knew that Kraptaku's 3 stars had to do with some kind of an arrangement with the owners of this site. Just like those Spam blog posts from dealzone.com

It must be nice for the owners of this site to go against the sites own rules and guidelines. Frickin' sad. We're told our voices are what run the site, and yet when we come together to say "we don't like this site's submissions on N4G" and vote them down, the owners of the site say &... #2.1.1

Oh yay, another article to bring down.

"For starters, the online pass encourages buying new."

No it doesn't. What it actually does is either encourage piracy (so the individual literally only pays $10 for a $60 game) or encourage no actual purchase. When people feel ripped off, they tend to not like it and avoid it altogether.

"Would you rather your money go to the people responsible for the game, or your friend, or Gamesto... #2

@coolbeans: If you mean that you went through their list and posted all of them in the comment section so as to not make others suffer through 10 pages of list items, then the only reason you were marked for Spam is because the author of said list complained about it and not because you were actually spamming. In that instance you were treated unfairly though I'm sure someone will make the claim that the author was treated unfairly.

No one likes those lists. #3.2.4

No, it's not Spam. Spam is things like trying to sell things in the comment section. And besides, I never said that I don't comment on the article before saying "Kraptaku voted down."

And finally, what would you gain in helping Kotaku here by attempting to mark my comments as Spam? #3.2.2

You're definitely not the only one. Every Kotaku article I come across, you can see pretty much the same comment from me.

"Kraptaku voted down."

And it doesn't matter what the article is. The amount of sensationalist garbage they post severely outweighs any legitimate articles they post.

It's quite ironic that Kotaku gets to remain here and HHG was booted for doing what Kotaku does all the time. #3.2

Excellent blog. Kotaku have been terrible for years and years now. The one thing I would really hope is that we all come together and vote them down on EVERY article regardless of what it says so that we take away one avenue for them to get clicks. I really don't know how Kotaku has 3 stars here when they post such garbage.

Also, Kotaku had 3 panellists at the 2012 Spike VGAs. 3. 3 Kotaku site staff had a vote on which games would win VGA awards. That's more than any... #4

Considering the man is responsible for probably the most memorable music in the entire JRPG genre, there is good reason to be fans. He's not the only great composer though. You have Motoi Sakuraba, Masashi Hamauzu did some of my favourite FFX tracks, Yoko Shimomura was excellent in KH and Somnus. #3.1.6

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There's uh... already a 3rd game. It's Lightning Returns. -_-' #4.2.1

"Memorable doesn't equal to quality."

For the Final Fantasy series it does. The soundtracks of the older games were so loved and memorable that people can have whole discussions about one track alone. FFVIII's Eyes on Me was so loved it was played in Japanese stores. FFXIII tried to replicate some themes reminiscent of FFX but failed to and the result is FFXIII contains the least memorable soundtrack of the entire series (with FF3 being the exception).

9d ago by DragonKnight | View comment

No it wasn't. Snow's Theme and the O'erba theme are the only two memorable tracks/good tracks in FFXIII. The Old FF games have music done by Uematsu, thus automatically superior. #3.1

I can definitely see where you're coming from, but I tried to make it clear that little mistakes in grammar and spelling being reported really comes off as just petty and/or an abuse of the ability to report someone. Like I said, grammar that's all over the place, repeated spelling errors, or a blog that is generally difficult to understand because of very poor structure or something along those lines should definitely be reported because it's sloppy.

But, these a... #4.1

"The art of journalism was killed with the birth of the blog."

I actually kind of agree with that. #3.1

"Original content is stressed with blogs, you know."

Only in the sense that articles can't be copy/pasted as blogs. Blogs are inherently original by principle as they are opinion pieces.

"Not even remotely unique arguments that we see made every day by users."

Irrelevant. The blog was written to be that particular user's reasons, thus in that sense it is unique. Just because they appear to be echoed sentiments does... #1.1.2

I think they're using that as an excuse and that's not the actual reason we get a new character. #2.1

Actually, I am not aware if you've won a user blog contest or not but, when you do the message is a thanks for making N4G a part of your daily life. It's a reward, not a payment. Anyone can win, but not everyone does, so in that sense that throws your argument out of the window. I understand your point though. #2.1

Hey, I'm not perfect myself. One time instead of reporting a blog, I tried helping the author out by making a comment about his mistakes and it was pretty much an a**hole move to make. I'm just saying that, just because it's featured on the main page, we should all remember that these are blogs. It's not like mods or anything have to review the blog before it's featured, it's a system put in place that is self-governing thus much easier to work in. This actually remove... #1.2.1