Mirage and Visions were awesome. That was when I was all in on MTG, back in high school. Had close to the entire set from those two. After that I started to drift away from it, got briefly back into it with the Tempest arc, and years later with Kamigawa, but really haven’t given it much thought for a long time now.

Unfortunately I don’t have much faith in Bungie’s writing these days. Destiny is an absolute pretentious mess while simultaneously being some of the most cliched crap in years. “So you live in The City, which is watched over by The Traveler, who’s hiding from The Darkness, and later you have to deal with The Witness,…

I think it’s just that they’re aware that a franchise was successful, but that’s the only thing they see. Then they look at what’s successful now, and just tack that onto a once-successful franchise, so you get a deathmatch Legacy of Kain game, or an extraction shooter Marathon game. Executives see only numbers, but…

I haven’t heard of most of these, but a few of them surprise me. I wish they’d put original movies and shows on Blu-ray, but which ones get that seem random.

It really does. It’s very narrative-heavy, philosophical, and complex. Obviously there aren’t cutscenes, the story is almost entirely told through terminals accessed in each level. One reason I’ve never been a huge fan of Halo is that it took the weirdness of Marathon and distilled bits and pieces of its aesthetic…

Waaaait a minute, they’re rebooting Marathon, probably the third- or fourth-best story in all of video games...as a multiplayer shooter? That feels like when somebody decided Legacy of Kain should be a multiplayer thing and made Nosgoth. On one hand, the design work is amazing. On the other, don’t do this to Marathon,…

If True Gamers didn’t complain about stupid shit, they wouldn’t complain at all.

It’s got Ron Perlman as a gorilla, I’ll watch it.

Time to let Ol’ Painless out of the bag.

Yeah, I don’t know. This site’s coverage so far seems to just be determined to spin everything in as negative a light as possible. I don’t know why people are so dead set against a dark medieval FF, that’s not new, and a more action-oriented game is to be expected given Suzuki’s involvement (note that Dragon’s Dogma…

Considering Final Fantasy Tactics and Game of Thrones were both based on the same war, and XVI seems closer in design to FFT than anything in a while, it’s not that surprising or weird.

Yeah, I like a lot of the people involved, and it definitely seems more in keeping with the tone of Vagrant Story and XII. FF Tactics was absolutely dark as fuck, and still maybe my favorite in the entire series even if it’s not a numbered sequel. I’m much more excited about this one than yet another future-tech entry…

There’s really no platform left other than owning the libs.

Oh, my whole family still hates Grogu, we just call him Baby Yoda or Bebe.

Sleazebaggano has held my personal award for worst Star Wars name ever for over 20 years now. I remember a comic somebody did ages ago where George Lucas is watering his garden and thinking “That’s it! ‘Gar Din’hose...’”

Somehow I don’t think old Greg “Body Slam” Gianforte has Montana’s best interests in mind.

Jesus, is that actually what he looks like?

I’d add Battle Royale to the list. I think it was the part where one girl dies of poison, vomiting blood from the mouth, that made my blood curdle, but the whole thing is a well-made movie that I don’t ever want to see again.

I’m sure they’ll be very well-prepared. “Excuse me Mr. Zuckerberg, but does this ‘Chat Gee Pee Tee’ go on the Facebook internet? Computers.”

I think I speak for many when I say the reason I pay $8 a month is so that you wouldn’t choose someone like that to run Twitter.