That Archvile reveal made me so excited! I mean, I fucking hate those things in old Doom, but they were so iconic and their sound design was terrifying, so I’m excited they’re bringing them back. Hurrah!

I share your sentiment. I’ll jump back into it and get on a roll. I will try and push through to the end, only to then lose 4 max level characters AND all their trinkets (which you can get back) AND all of their locked positive quirks (which you can’t get back) to a Shambler I totally thought I had in the bag. Then I…

Among the many things that made Doom terrifying to me as an early teen, it was the sound design that really stayed with me after the computer was shut down and I tried to close my eyes and go to sleep. I keep feeling like I could hear pinky demons snorting and rummaging around outside my bedroom door, looking for me,…

Thanks for making the effort to show off the different weapons and movesets. That was the most exciting part to me as I’m not in love with a lot of the visuals (it’s a bit too anime for my tastes, but to each their own). Having depth of gameplay is a huge addition to the plus column for me so that instantly got me…

My wife and I are recently recovering Orthodox Christians (Mormons, to be precise) and our kids are going to be raised as “nones,” so there will be four more in the world in the next 10-15 years.

I just realized that she’s not wearing high-heeled boots, but regular boots. This makes me like her character and Bloodborne even more, which by now I thought impossible. I mean, I like high heels on women as much as the next guy, but time and place, time and place.

Omg, what is that gif from? Love it!

I bought a PS4 for Bloodborne, and while I was at it picked up The Last of Us, Destiny, and Diablo 3. I’ve put about 10 hours into TLOU and Diablo 3 each, about 2 hours into Destiny, and about 300+ into Bloodborne. That game is a freaking masterpiece and just feels so good to play. #Noregrets.

*Spoiler Alert* —— Triss is very much manipulating you too; she’s just doing it flirtily and with a distracting smile rather than openly and unapologetically like Yen. She even admits it in one point (soon after you first meet her in Novigrad) as kind of a throwaway line I quickly dismissed in TW3. But then I realized…

I just finished a replay of 2 and 3. I had like 4-5 runthroughs on 2 but only one on 3 when it first came out. Now, however, I’m amazed at how clunky ME2 feels compared to 3. ME3 just feels amazing to play compared to 2 and I forgot how many great parts there are in 3. I also have a soft spot for ME1 and kind of want…

The book The Gift of Fear is amazing with this. I’m a parent of four small children and this book worked wonders for me in terms of helping me to distinguish the difference between my own manufactured paranoia and overprotectiveness and legitimate, meaningful, protective fear. For example, we had a sex offender move…

Hahaha! Dying!

Lol, I know this comment was from over a year ago, but The Dunwich Horror has lots of parallels with Bloodborne (primarily the interspecies mating of Great Ones with human females to bear unholy spawn). The principle creature of the story is also invisible to human eyes. Anyway, there’s a bunch of cool stuff in there,…

Great article. Grief is such a messy and unpredictable part of life. Being myself a father of four children I often wonder how they will remember me given what a large part of my life video games have always been and likely will continue to be. It has been excited to watch my oldest son play through games I love like…

That Dark Souls 2 cosplay is amazing. Virtual high five!

Thank you for this wonderful response. Funny enough, since I wrote this article back in 2013 I have left the Mormon church, and their stance on LGBT issues was no small part of that decision. It’s interesting, among post-Mormon circles there’s an adage that goes around: In order to leave the church you need two things…

Karma is also a great/terrible way to die in Souls-Borne:

Demon’s Souls. Something about it speaks to me even more than any of the other Souls-Borne series. This video sums it up pretty well:

As a father of four children, a huge help to me at calming the heck down about my children’s safety was reading the book The Gift of Fear and the follow-up Protecting the Gift, by Gavin de Becker. He does a great job of giving proper context to parental fears (i.e. your child is dramatically more likely to die of a…