There is in-game voice, but it’s proximity-based. You can only hear players close to you, and if Jason’s nearby he can eavesdrop on your plans. IMO it’s an integral part of the experience and adds a whole new level of depth, but there are definitely some issues to consider.

There actually is a way to kill Jason, but it’s pretty convoluted and requires immaculate teamwork. If you’re not in a group communicating through Discord or another VoiP app (which kind of takes away a lot of the tension) it’s basically never gonna happen in pubs.

He’s one of the last developers where I can play a game and actually get a sense for what the guy behind the game is like. They’re so weird and stupid and uniquely Taro.

The 360 was only such a beast when it came to JRPGs because Microsoft pushed hella hard to get exclusives and help devs in Japan (Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey, bringing FF13 cross-platform, etc.) - it sounds like they’re not really worried about doing the same for the Xbone.

I admire the technical skill that went into it, but yeah, not my thing. My favourite thing about cosplay are the bits of personality that shine through the costume - the imperfections, the little human touches that give me a glimpse of the real person behind the character. This, while slick as hell, has none of that.

I wonder if the Anti-Censorship Weeaboo Brigade© will have any opinions on this.

This is totally just my dumb uninformed Canadian perspective, but I don’t think the youth really care that much. Or at least, not enough to make a political statement by boycotting basically an entire swath of entertainment.

No, I’m pretty sure a Twitch stream of Surge playing in an article about Blasphemous isn’t an intended result.

Unrelated but can somebody please tell your dev people to fix the infinite scrolling? Autoplaying videos are annoying enough as it is, but autoplaying videos from an article I didn’t even click on are worse.

Spec work is terrible and this isn’t progressive, it’s exploitation. FOH with that shit.

If you wouldn’t make the same argument for that shitstain Dylan Roof, or the nightclub shooter, or any number of other murderers, you shouldn’t make it for her.

Seriously, that was pretty classic territorial behaviour. This article is irresponsible and dangerous.

As someone with a truly disgusting amount of time in Dota 2, you’re correct. Those seem to be the original Warcraft 3 models, not Valve’s (lightly) redesigned versions.

Which is a flawed premise, because 99% of people don’t have the breadth and depth of life experience to be able to formulate meaningful critique.

It looks like some of those might be the character models from War 3/DotA AllStars, since that Earthshaker (I’m assuming it’s him anyway?) is straight-up just a Tauren.

No, it really doesn’t. You do realize that depression is literally a chemical/hormonal imbalance, right?

Something about the colour palette really does look like Fallout 4, doesn’t it? Especially that blue jumpsuit.

I mean it shouldn’t be surprising at all, this is the exact same thing that happened with vaping.

Probably fine unless you want to play PvP.

T-minus 5 to hot glue...