If you're making that argument, you should be asking why he's not invoking the early Tomb Raider games, which used ledge grab-&-jump mechanics in the 90s, long before Sands of Time. You might also invoke countless platformers before the 3D era.

I know it won't catch on, but I'm partial to converting the name back to degrees: XBox 57.3

Just Microsoft protecting its proprietary architecture! The question is if they will really be able to leverage it on multi-platform games or not. Seems likely developers won't use it for anything but exclusives.

Whoa there fella. No need to be so vitriolic over such a Modest Proposal!

I like to think of it as a switch from degrees to radians. So Xbox One is actually Xbox π/π (or 1), which when converted to degrees is 56.3 degrees. So it's therefore the Xbox 56.3, which sounds much more ridiculously arbitrary a downgrade than Xbox 1.

There doesn't need to be an eponymous "Steam box," frankly. Steam's Big Picture mode is and should be scaring the bajeezus out of the console market. The last generation of consoles could be (with some slight hyperbole) boiled down to specialized media PCs with closed software architectures. This generation, this…

Most of those are games that are aimed at a subsection of the gaming demographic that *only* plays those games. Aside from Quantum Break, none of the games supposedly targeted at the broader gaming demographic were even named, much less shown.

I wouldn't say those features are making it terribly appealing to ME, either, and I am ostensibly one of the people they're aiming this thing at. (I like to use my game consoles to watch TV shows, for example, but I'm not remotely interested in the Xbox 57.3).

It gets even more confusing when you think of the One as a degree measure in radians. Converting 360 degrees to radians => 2pi. So they basically named it the HALF what they named the last one.

How do you leave your game console on for 6 weeks without remembering it's on? Considering that you're commenting on this site, I would have expected that would be a pretty difficult thing to do as a kid.

Nope, other way around. Parkour is efficient traversal in as direct a line as possible, free-running is traversal with flips and random stuff just for the sake of random stupidly dangerous stunts.

Hachiman is more like Kyon from Haruhi + Oreki from Hyouka with the cynicism dialed up to 11.

I'm not any great fan of EA, but they HAVE midwifed some wonderful games into existence.

Vanilla would probably be pretty darn good. And don't count chocolate out— sushi rice is so good because it's got some salt to it, and chocolate ice cream with bacon in it is delicious.

The beginning of the game takes place in 1912 and she was born in 1893, so she's either 18 or 19, depending on exact dates.

I played through Mass Effect twice on PC— once with a Male Paragon Soldier and once with a Female Renegade Adept. I had a blast and carried those saves with me into ME2. Played through that on the male Shep and played through about a third of it on the FemShep. Then a bug corrupted my save files and an unrelated…

In fact, I thought the Haytham section was one of the most interesting parts of the game. The only things WRONG with it was the 4-hour tutorial aspect and the fact that most of those 4 hours you were preoccupied by the fact that you still weren't playing the main character yet.

This is the product of the weariness of regular users of the site seeing people complaining about off-topic posts (and fringe culture posts) every time they're posted. It's not all that different from the exasperation being expressed by the users making the complaints, except that a lot of those people are…

Lost Odyssey is one of the most affecting games of the last generation. Every time I go back to it, it's not as much for the gameplay (which is interesting but still pretty classical), it's for all those little emotional stories you collect as you play. I've never teared up over any game as much as I have Lost…

It has an LD50 that is 5 times higher than salt. LD50 is the median lethal dose, which essentially is the amount you have to feed to a population of rats for 50% of them to die.