I watched that just a little bit ago, and I’ve just been hoping for some impressions. I found this article http://www.gamesradar.com/ninja-theory-hellblade-senuas-sacrifice-psychosis-interview/, which was interesting but still lacking.

I really haven’t seen anything in-depth about Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice since the animation tech stuff way back. Any word or impressions floating around?

I would imagine that you’ll still be able to alt-look around, a la Arma 3 style. . . though, I’m not sure if you can even do that now. There’s just so little reason to use first person currently, I’ve never even tried it.

Kind of off topic, but every time I see FFXII, I end up thinking about Rogue Galaxy. There were some weird parallels between the two. Even just the mine section in the above video, and the grid system for skills, etc. I’ve always wondered if other people saw the similarities.

Square’s higher-ups suggested that they just end the game after the first disc, when Fei and his team escape from Solaris.

It’s an especially silly thought when we consider for even like a millisecond that more diverse films have been shown to make more money. http://time.com/money/4237685/movies-diversity-casts-money/

guided by a helpful, disembodied, Atlas-esque voice named January

Someone who is obviously lying.

With that red glow—

This sounds like a glorious return to the open-world style of something like Morrowind, where intelligence was rewarded, not stifled, and it really makes me want to buy a Switch (or Wii U). 

I cannot think of a poet alive, even the most desperate among us, that would accept that invitation. It’s also a bit of a Republican thing. Very few of their inaugurations have had them.

From the Steam page

Thanks to what’s now recognised as an unusually strong El Nino, global temperatures were driven to sufficiently high levels to revive the alarmist narrative

Certainly they can’t capture what the war was actually like, but isn’t their whole motive to supply humanity not to war but to the soldiers themselves? They’re painting portraits of all these people, but they are completely undermined by all the mechanics that they include. I don’t think war and its treatment should…

The Cammy in blue is Nadyasonika. Just wanted to point it out because I didn’t see a tag. She does some great work.

I thought it was pretty brilliant the first time I saw it, but the more I’m exposed to it the more problems I see. Besides the mediocre AI, the hit markers and HUD completely undermine the effects of the carnage. They act as a counter, a score tracker for the lives that you take. They are numbers and signs among blood…

‘In a recent study, over 40 percent of parents agree or strongly agree that vaccines played a part in the development of their children’s autism.’

I always thought a food service that used invasive species as ingredients would be gangbusters. I’m sure they’re out there, but they seem to be flying low. I guess it doesn’t help that most invaders aren’t particularly tasty or are hard to prepare.

Goddammit, of course The Exorcist is leaving in October.

How incomplete is it? Because I love the idea of playing an adventure game that cannot possibly have any resolution or reward. Warcraft Adventures: Lord of Existential Crises.