I’m not one to object to casting actors for parts outside their race (I’ve long wanted Peter Mensah to play Kratos in any God of War movie and had no issue with Gyllenhaal in PoP) as long as it’s plausible either visually or narratively, but Fassbender’s really, really wrong for the part of an Assassin.

The “vibrant colors” are out of sync with the backdrops, the tone of the narrative and, especially, the sound of the game. In the part of the game corresponding to your picture, this song is playing

Depends who does the work. The Tactics Ogre remake was tremendous (though, they had to contract that out to the original project director to get those results) and FF1/2 and 4 were solid.

I think the journalists and reddit are overthinking this. If the content of this game’s stolen, you’ll find out when the other person sues. Until that point, it’s safe to assume the “stolen” aspect of the narrative is allegorical or metaphorical.

The last hour or so is a disappointment, switching out the engaging stealth for some rote and frustrating shooting

Don’t forget Neverwinter Nights Hordes of the Underdark.

The conversation around Steam has distinctly shifted toward, “A cool new game is out? Eh, I’ll just wait until it’s on sale” for all except the biggest new releases.

Hasn’t it? Gundam and many of the Final Fantasies owe more to Star Wars than Star Wars does to Buck Rogers. I assumed that was because it had crossed over into Japanese pop culture.

Out of curiosity, are there any entertainment products in Japan that are geared toward adults (other than booze, gambling or porn)? The last thing I can remember hearing about that might fit that description is Ringu (though I’m also not exactly looking).

Spending might be a little flawed of an ad metric for Star Wars because it’s such a monolith. For example, Jeep and Dodge both have vehicle ads that, themselves, advertise the Force Awakened. It cost those two 8 figures to use the trademark. It cost Disney nothing.

This was the Uncharted Star Wars, no? I think that’s probably an idea that was past it’s time as soon as it crossed anyone’s mind. Even Naughty Dog admits the Uncharted series is something of a novelty that they’ve run out of things to do with.

I don’t think any game’s managed to make me have the same emotional response that losing a powerhouse soldier in ironman XCOM did (though losing a major battle I should have won in CK2 in Ironman mode has come close). Somehow, I doubt that’s what these awards are talking about when they say emotion.

Tauntaun sucks. I’ll be the first to tell you that. Should jump off that thing immediately.

Not that it matters, but if Undertale’s cleaning up the gamefaqs polls, there’s some sort of shenanigans going on. Ignoring the “SJW” angle, indie PC games simply don’t smoke something like Super Mario World in these types of head to heads, no matter what they are and no matter what the subject matter. Gamefaqs is…

Super Empire still somewhat holds up as a platformer. Sidescrollers tend to age pretty gracefully.

Concept of “cultural appropriation” as a form of evil is absolutely insipid. Just a terrible, merit-less idea that disturbingly has way too much traction at universities right now.

criticisms of cultural appropriation

Or perhaps mankind has gone into the stars themselves and faces a larger stage of aliens at war.

No who was not what?

The plot of ID was uncomplicated (this was a strength for that type of movie), self-contained and didn’t leave any loose ends.