Konami can make all the pachinko machines and mobile skinner-boxes they like (in my mind, only the former is a good business plan).

I’ve never understood why Japanese companies don’t sell unwanted IPs. If they auctioned off Suikoden (which they clearly will never be making another of), Nintendo would buy it in a second. Hell, Ubisoft might even overbid them.

Since I opened Pandora’s box, may as well live with that lol

Good for them. I found the game deeply disturbing in a way that haunts me to this day and the only articles I ever read at the time were fawning over it.

This stupidity and unfairness of the narrative Twitch wants to avoid is not lost on me. Doesn’t mean it’s not smart to avoid it, anyway.

Yeah, but the media won’t portray it with that type of nuance. You’ll have Nancy Grace telling people twitch is a means for children to access live pornography and that’ll be the narrative CNN runs with. That Reason magazine or maybe Slate will get Twitch’s back and try to set the record straight isn’t enough to…

Normally I’m totally against censorship of any kind (though government censorship is the only true censorship), but to me this is just a wise business decision.

That would be one thing, if you could stealth by like Solid Snake, but no. The game won’t let you proceed until you murder enough people, some of whom have no beef whatsoever with the protagonist.

Well, with nudity and sex, Twitch is possibly inviting increased attention from the US government. Maybe it shouldn’t be that way, but it is what it is.

That escalated quickly.

Honestly, I felt the same way about Uncharted 2, but it never got called out on that. The “good guy’s” throwing some minimum wage security guard off a roof to his death in the first level. Murders 50 people on a train to go have a conversation with a woman who explicitly told him she was joining the “bad guys” because…

an upcoming video game about a dude who goes around and mindlessly slaughters everyone

The trailer tells you what the full plot of the movie is—cop goes undercover to catch posh, European thieves who steal because “Capitalism Is The Real Evil, You Guys.” I’ve seen this dozens—if not hundreds—of times and I’m not even a cinephile.

Dunno, if there’s an issue with any of these posters, to me, it’s that they’re insinuating that “John Conner” is actually a T-X, which is something, if true, I would expect to be a late-movie reveal.

Right. That’s $1 dollar more than they otherwise would have gotten.

Whole thing might just be viral marketing. Dev volunteered that the “discovery rate” on his game was awful. That should change now.

Eh, the last thing Point Break could have been called at the time was “typical.” There weren’t a lot of movies where the villain’s motive was “enlightenment by way of surf zen” at the time, let alone one in which the hero sympathizes with it. Nor were Buddhist philosophical underpinnings something you were likely to…

The flying attack normally gets me when I have to back off to avoid the magic attack. Sometimes she combos the two, which really sucks.

Subtract half-baked Buddhism from surf bums, add cliche anti-capitalist nonsense from dark-haired European accent guy.

Yes. Very difficult to dodge and just getting slightly scratched by the attack one-shot me from full health with 50 vigor (or w/e it’s called) at soul level 110 or so (talking about the chalice dungeon version).