Tag: Opinion

It is a commonly held belief that fighting game stories are, categorically, bad. Stories are not what people come to fighting games for, the logic goes. They are an optional ...

Motivations in Star Wars aren’t often complicated. Sure, plenty of characters change their minds between the Dark Side of the Force and the Light Side, or between the Sith and ...

Every year, I partake in one particular autumn tradition against my own better judgment: I watch the first episode of American Horror Story, getting all my hopes up, absolutely knowing ...

Bethesda Game Studios is not necessarily well regarded for its expertise at digital gunplay, but after Starfield, that very well may change. Numerous critics, including here at Polygon, have praised ...

Every presidential election is different. Usually this isn’t because of notable changes to American laws, but because of how American society changes, whether in terms of technology, economics, values and ...

It’s apparent early on in Netflix’s live action One Piece that it isn’t a clean adaptation of Eiichiro Oda’s manga series or the anime. While following many of the same ...

The Republican Party may be increasingly divided on support for Ukraine, but it is uniting around the idea of launching military raids into Mexico. Ron DeSantis led the way in ...

As the United Auto Workers braces for a potentially historic strike in September, the union has taken a justifiably hard line in its negotiations with America’s Big Three automakers. The ...

Two things can be true: I am bad at Dark Souls games. I beat Armored Core 6. To be frank, there were a couple of moments when I worried my ...

Baldur’s Gate 3 is full of unique challenges that other RPGs don’t offer, like having to rescue a gnome strapped to a windmill. But for every goofy quest, I run ...