I’m not against dungeon crawling, but I am against a poor looking first person clunky one. And the fact that there’s zero combat animations was a big downside for me.

Yeah, I agree. Recently my cousin was playing a demo on his Vita and I asked what it was. Turns out it was Dungeon Travelers 2. I saw only some menu screens, which looked pretty fantastic. Crisp and colourful and the art was really nice.

I don’t doubt you’re absolutely correct, but from a consumer standpoint, it sucks. Regardless of Sony’s internal business strategy regarding pricing the Vita, they disappointed a lot of customers and scared away a lot more.

So, I want to know: how do you cope? Does it bother you that there’s a pile of unplayed games sitting beneath your TV? Have you become more selective, or narrowed your gaming taste? And if you do manage to play all these enormous games, how the hell do you manage it?

Clearly, as I was unable to resist at all. It doesn’t help that my cousin and I form a money spending, game buying feedback loop.

Curse you for linking this. I just pre-ordered it.

I can’t add too much to the other replies you’ve received, but depending on how much complexity you and her are willing to tolerate or embrace you could try:

How about just impound the cars and send them to the crusher, by “accident”.

I’m waiting on Ashes: Rise of the Phoenixborn from Plaid Hat. Clumsy title I know, but this one is looking very promising. Elements of CCGs and deck building as well as some dice rolling. Has amazing design and art direction too.

I don’t know if he’s still around but there’s a Kinja-person around somewhere with the handle “Metta Whirled Peas”. One of the best Kinja names.

Who said anything about go karts? I could probably find a car for 1K on craigslist and spend another $700 to make it into a beater rally racer.

You might as well just buy a car, for that price.

All I see is a designer trying to be “edgy” or “future” by putting traditionally women’s shoes and shapes on men.

I say almost exactly the same thing. My g/f gives me funny looks with she here’s me respond with a “I’ma extract errybody, Kaz”

As you complete main missions, it does unfold a story. Some of the side ops also feed into the story. You don’t necessarily experience it in a linear fashion, but it’s there.

MGS games aren’t “real world” games, they’re military-espionage-sci-fi-occult games. It’s fine if that’s not what does it for you, but since MGS on Playstation they’ve had that element, and as tech has improved, Kojima has added more of those elements.

Personally, I stopped reading when you said “disgusting”. I can always tell what kind of player a person is by the terms they use to discuss the game.

I’d take Stokoe’s work too- if he was putting anything out. He seems to have abandoned Orc Stain, which is awesome, and for some reason is doing the snore known as Godzilla in Hell. I mean, the art is great, but what a dud book.

The point is, you want players to self-police themselves. The reality is, they won’t. Just like mere decades ago when it was “ok” to call someone a fag, we had to start making rules about it, shaming people over it and re-educating people that “fag” and “faggot” are pejorative, harmful and cruel.

But I find thinking about my language in game wondering if it violates whatever irritatingly low threshold for in game discourse the admins have established to be exhausting and honestly it makes me just not want to play the game.