I just want Lara Croft to have fun again. The new version’s okay but she’s always being emotionally and physically traumatized, and that’s not including all the horrible death scenes. The old Lara cracked wise, she occasionally flirted and sometimes, just sometimes, she explored ancient ruins for the sake of…

People complaining about Quiet always fascinated me.

yes.

Except, you know, not. Of course Romain is giving us the broad strokes, but all of the essential steps to the method are contained within, unlike the joke owl drawing.

Halo is really just an elaborate Rube Goldberg device designed to help you kill people in the most coincidental ways imaginable.

Really? I love the scenery in that movie. I honestly thinks the LoTR trilogy works better when watched at home. I just rewatched it recently and if you allow yourself breaks, it becomes more of a really awesome series than an overblown film. It still remains, to me, one of the most best translations of a fantasy epic…

To be fair, the "scenery porn" was likely an attempt to be as true to the spirit of Tolkien's travelogue as possible.

I didn't want to say it because I'd sound all hipster and whatnot, but I can just reply to this instead!

Aside from some very recent exceptions like Attack on Titan and Knights of Sidonia, anime has been in a bit of a fanservice funk for the last decade or so. It's great seeing Kickstarter find ways for fans of older anime, where eyes were smaller and explosions more numerous, to get the kind of content they've been…

You mean like A Link Between Worlds? Which came out less than a year ago?

so far the remakes come between the new games.

Never played it before, so it's original to me. I'm sure a lot of people can say the same. You don't have to buy it, of course.

Personally, while I don't think our system at Kotaku is perfect, we do appreciate our lively, clever commenters here

Something that always makes me laugh is after Ashitaka shoots off the head of one of the attacking horsemen and the other one just kinda turns around and goes, "Nope, I'm good."

Bungie.

I don't know if you played Xenogears or the Xenosaga trilogy, but they followed the same pattern as Xenoblade in story development. That's Takahashi's style, so it seems: spend 2/3 of the game with introduction/exposition and the last third wiping the floor with other video game story-writers (sans Sakaguchi-san).

I didn't narrow it down to Mononoke but I definitely got a Studio Ghibli vibe.

<hears a know at the door>.."Candy-gram..."

Richard, just watch Samurai Champloo already. It has the most overarching plot you're ever going to see from Shinichiro Watanabe, the animation is almost as good as Bebop and it doesn't leave as much unexplained.