There’s an indie game called Kraven Manor that does something similar. Not with the blinking, but with looking away and flickering light triggering the mannequin movement. Very harrowing, definitely worth checking out if this unnerves you.

I remember the house door puzzle you’re talking about, and yeah, the game isn’t for everyone. It’s gorgeous and atmospheric, but it felt like the puzzles were sort of awkwardly shoehorned in just so the developers could say the game had them and avoid the “walking simulator” lable. I enjoyed it, but not really enough…

Have fun, scooter.

And you got snide and passive-aggressive and immediately leapt to the conclusion of me saying the game would be “more believable” with children. All I said were some elements, specifically some emotional plot ones, could conceivably be stronger with a younger cast rather than a jaded pack of angst machines. But…

I only barely like wine, which is to say given my druthers I will typically choose any other alcohol first, but through a determined friend I have discovered I like SOME types enough to sip in polite company. Regardless, when I shop, usually because I’ve been asked to bring some, I do so SOLELY based on how much I…

Broad City is fantastic. Started watching it on Hulu a while back with my husband. Some of it is hit and miss with us, but the stuff that lands usually leaves us in complete hysterics.

Back in the days of video store rentals (GET INTO THE WAYBACK MACHINE, KIDS), this new place, a Hollywood Video, opened up in our small rural Canadian town. We actually had several rental stores, though none of them were chains, and we were all pretty faithful to them (most of us had been going to them for literally…

Both statements depend on the talent and creativity of the writer at hand, I suppose. :)

Wow, you didn’t even bother with basic reading comprehension, huh? Did you hurt yourself when you leapt to that wild conclusion so violently?

It’s definitely a neat take, especially if the characters were all turned down to about twelve years old. (Which would make for a great spin on the established source material. I think some aspects of FF7’s plot might almost be made stronger by making everyone younger so you could have the cast react to things more…

“... When his yells and curses had been silenced she told a friend what she had done, then going back to the lake, she sang her death-song and cast herself into the water, hoping thus to rejoin her husband.” ... is... is there any optional “don’t make my poop a downer” filter on this thing?

The WEIRDEST was the guy at GameStop who apparently didn’t like women?? Or our voices? I still don’t know what was going on there. I walk in, he’s ringing up another customer, asks if I need anything, I smile and say nope, but thanks, and as I’m walking towards the Playstation stuff, he sighs audibly and goes, “Ugh, I…

I keep thinking I should say Mass Effect. I got the first one for five bucks many moons ago, the second free as some sort of promotion, and the third for another five bucks later on because I have no impulse control. Before the second Mass Effect came out, I think I actually got all the way to the final battle of the…

Old consoles were SO simple. My husband got me a PS2 a few years back so I could replay all my old RPGs, and after a while, it started marking up the discs. All the places I called wanted fifty bucks to even LOOK at it, and considering it COST fifty to begin with, I wasn’t sold. After a little research, I discovered…

My best friend is a personal trainer. Swap out some of the muscle (because my friend is and always will be a ridiculously tiny Southern belle powered by gangster rap and sugar) and this is what you’d get. You could probably talk her into the costume if it was pink and sparkly. The speech is missing out the part where…

It happens, it’s cool. :) Hopefully I’ll have forgotten whenever I get the console to play this, but at least it doesn’t sound like it’s the whole big reveal I thought it was. No hard feelings.

... aw, man, did you just spoil the plot of this game for me? :( Guess I don’t need to play it.

Um, okay? Didn’t say I wouldn’t play it at some point. Was just pointing out that its own advertising was doing it a disservice and was contrary to the theme they seemed to be trying to sell. But, yeah I guess, meh or whatever dismissive sound you wanna make. :)

I’m sure it’s there for a reason. My point is “WE’RE A SUPER SERIOUS HORROR GAME YOU GUYS” clashes with “HOLOGRAPHIC STRIPPER” being used as a selling point. It’s a jarring switch in tone and makes me doubt that the rest of the game won’t be filled with the same.

A lot of games actually make updates that specifically take advantage of the newest drivers, too. Ark: Survival Evolved for example made a patch specifically to increase performance with the tweaks in a recent NVIDIA driver update. Which isn’t to say that driver updates can’t have the OPPOSITE effect sometimes, but…