I feel like this was the DOA team’s approach to DLC.

Fun fact: he designed Ein/Hayate after himself. You know, the ultra-cool guy who always has some of the best moves, everyone in the cast likes, is best friends with Hayabusa, and has three “younger sisters” (two related, one not) who are all obsessed with him to some degree. Definitely no projection/wish fulfillment…

If you are white, you live long enough to get the chance to give an excuse.

Getting some major Anthem vibes from this report...

It’s a perpetuation of the “we need to be fair and balanced, give both sides a chance to speak, compromise is best” mentality that we’ve been mired in for decades, the idea that both extremes are equally valid without taking context into account. This video from Innuendo Studios has a good breakdown on the phenomenon,…

A priest, a minister and a rabbit walk into a blood bank. The priest says “I think I’m a type A”. The minister says “I think I’m a type B”. The rabbit says “I think I’m a typo.”

A panda ate dinner at a fancy restaurant, but when the waiter brought the check, the panda pulled out a gun and fired at him then started to…

I’m rather fond of puns, yes. Would you like some?

This video is from a VHS the team first created back in ‘98 to accompany their pitch, which Sony loved—but then also blew by asking the developers to abandon Magic Castle and go work on something else, which they weren’t very keen on doing.

Incorrect. The only real acceptable answer is that diversification keeps happening until we stop noticing it. Once it has been normalized and ceases to draw attention, positive or negative, that will be the point of satisfaction.

It was never going to last. Vanilla WoW may have brought a sense of wonder and challenge and spontaneity, but you know what so many of the expansions and patches since then provided? Convenience, and that tops almost everything else. It may not be as satisfying completing a dungeon with a matchmade group as it does…

Maximilian had a really good discussion on the origins of bad online last year, and we’re finally starting to see some companies come around on it; Arc System Works and SNK implementing rollback is a huge step forward and gives hope that Capcom and Bandai Namco will follow suit.

Mass Effect 2 is a prime example of games that are more about the sum of their parts than their strictly linear main story. Yes, on paper, “Sidequests The Game” does sound really boring...but in practice, if those sidequests are really good, the effect is reversed. The meat of ME2 is spending time with your party…

While it’s more empowering than soothing, if you want video game music to help you through 2020 that also came out in 2020, it’s hard to beat Bury The Light; because what quarantine can get you feeling down when you are the storm that is approaching?

Given that “interactive presentation” isn’t really a thing, game is really the only way to define this, but even then only in the loosest sense of the word: it’s pretty much just a Google Image/Video search filtered through an environment you can walk around in. Nifty, and a little bit eerie with the music and empty,…

Don’t have a screenshot, but I got about 30 seconds with Ike when I got knocked off the stage, he followed and tried to be fancy with some juggle combos, but an Aether punished that hard and meteor’d him off the screen.

A fun reminder that Akira Toriyama loves his ridiculous name themes: Bulma and her family are all named after underwear, the Saiyans are all vegetables, the original Piccolo and his minions are all instruments, and I’m sure there are many more that I’m forgetting.

That definitely falls under point 1. Part of analyzing a piece of media is evaluating all of its components separately, then as a complete package. You can pick out, say, the story or the gameplay or music as being really good, but as a complete package, the other aspects drag it down too much. With your Skyrim…

This is a really important topic for any media, and there are a couple vital things to keep in mind:

I think he posted on Reddit at some point a while back that he mostly does this to relax while watching TV or something and has other characters.

Naturally, when you’re trying to be both the liberal party and get bankrolled by rich donors, you have a tendency to do some stupid, contradictory things. The DNC has been trying for decades to make the strategy of “we don’t actually stand for any issues, but we’re not those loonies on the Right, vote for us” work and…