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Why do reviews focus so much on story, characters, development background, feature lists and everything else besides gameplay. You almost apologized for your in-depth description of the combat in Ryse, but I think that type of thing should be absolutely mandatory in any review, it is the best way to actually give someone an idea of what the game is like.

Multiplayer is such a huge part of gaming, and gaming culture. Do you feel that Kotaku covers it enough, given that you usually ignore it in your reviews and have pulled the plug on your fleeting esports coverage with Alex Mendez?

Good answer. Its true, we are so used to describing movies and books, not to mention real life events, to people that we try so hard to use the same methods to try and describe games.

Wow, lots of anti-kotaku ignorance, kudos to you for addressing it. One point he/she does have, though, and one I havent seen anyone there talk about yet, is about the discussion layout. By my calculation, the new system thats currently in test on kotaku and has been live on Valleywag for a while is 42,564 times worse than what has been running for the past year or so. What are the benefits of the new system in your opinion?