I’m one of those who are tied to steam simply because they were the first to get it right. Eventually the stars will align though, if they refuse to change. Increasing quality of competing platforms and failing store curation, greenlight, reviews, and customer support will eventually outweigh its grandfathered favor.

I actually had to look up Euphoria when you mentioned that. I don’t remember being distracted at all by the physics/animations in RDR, which is a good sign that the middleware (and artists) aren’t terrible. I wonder why it’s used in so few games, mainly by Rockstar like you noted. Rockstar certainly has some deep…

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Fantastic news. Hopefully this will spur the creation of better physics engines for licensing. I’ve hated Havok’s floppy ragdoll nonsense for years now.

That boiled piss is so refined you can almost drink it.

This is why I miss the Pete Holmes talk show so much. He just had people on who he wanted to hang out with, and it was always entertaining and felt natural, less like an advertising segment. (maybe that’s why it’s no longer a show...)

Let’s say they’re right, and that handhelds are done. A good response to salvage the Vita generation would be to release something where people could also easily play their games at home on the TV with a real controller. Oh, they did that? Awesome! Now the Vita software market has substantially increased to include…

I know it’s your job to report on all things games despite difficulties, so I appreciate the effort. However, much like youtubers regarding Nintendo, I’m pretty sure as an editor I’d just say, “fuck it” and dismiss coverage of any games with this kind of restriction list.

I thought Amazon was discontinuing the Free App a Day with the deployment of Underground

I thought Amazon was discontinuing the Free App a Day with the deployment of Underground

You’re the second person to recommend Saga to me, and it appears to be relatively inexpensive, will give that a shot.

Thanks, both Sandman and Planetes appear to be right up my alley, I’d not heard of either.

It was, sorry. I’m kind of a jerk. The only ones I’ve read are Bone, Chew, and Fables. All of which were great. I’d appreciate any recommendations, even if they don’t fall into the style of those. Really I think I’d enjoy anything outside of cheesy superhero tropes.

Thanks for the recommendations!

It’s not about knowing what you want to play at all. Imagine Gamestop filled with 95% Wii shovelware. 5% of the games are amazing, but your choices are to either sift through thousands of games to find them, or hope a major media outlet has covered them for you. That’s the Steam platform since Greenlight. And just…

Cool, added section 8 and squirrel girl to the reading list. I love the comic format, but hate superhero nonsense so rarely get into them (aside from Deadpool).

Aside from the knee-jerk “make a better or more interesting game that stands out” which immediately comes to mind, he does make the usual solid complaints vs. PC gaming. Steam in particular is greatly suffering from lack of quality control, leading to app store-like flooding that drowns out decent games. Bundle…

Mine involves my parents as well. Growing up with the NES, my gaming life was dominated by platformers, which didn’t change when I got a PSX... croc, spyro, crash etc. For whatever reason one day my father decided to bring home a surprise gift, and he did his research. Suikoden II. I had not played a real RPG before,…

Platformers are really the single genre where I can forgive collectibles. When the ultimate goal is to input precise strings of commands to reach new places, it makes sense to give seasoned players more challenge by placing collectibles in hard to reach places. This is still part of the core platforming design of the…

Couldn’t agree more. You can call fluff collectathons optional until you’re blue in the face, but they almost always detract from the game by simply existing. You mentioned Red Dead Redemption, which is a huge offender to me. The writing implies a time-sensitive story and driven hero, yet has the option to do…

Goat Simulator is also fully free on Amazon Underground.

Goat Simulator is also fully free on Amazon Underground.