I dunno. The only confirmed Pathfinder projects are a computer version of the CCG and an RPG that's supposed to aim for a more mainstream audience. If we're going to see a worthy BG successor, it's gonna be PoE or PoE 2.

Actually, part of what makes this show interesting is that it's exclusively seventies stuff. Porn was a lot more mainstream in the seventies. Look up "Porno-Chic".

Yeah. it's disappointing that Obsidian is doubling down on conventional fantasy (They've got a long-term development deal with Pazio to do single-player Pathfinder games).

I get the sense that they've been trying to do it for ages now, but it runs into the same problem that Mass Effect does: Thedas is a pastiche rather than a coherent setting, so it's hard to make those subjective decisions because you don't have a sense of the stakes. It doesn't help that the characters, at least in…

Bioshock Infinite is a dumb bad game that got a lot of praise because the central relationship is a paternal one and middle aged men mistook relatability for depth.

Don't expect to understand it on the first time through. I don't mean, like don't expect to understand the stat systems or whatever. Those are pretty basic albeit seriously unbalanced in favor of pistols and hand-to-hand.

Morality systems are dumb and bad, for exactly the reason you're highlighting here: It's more interesting when it's ambiguous or you have to make a decision based on limited or possibly faulty information. A morality system is usually interested in explicitly codifying right and wrong, or in Mass Effect, deciding what…

The problem is that there can't be poetic justice for Lady Boyle because there is no one Lady Boyle. There are three of them, who have distinct personalities and histories, only one of whom is financially backing the Lord-Regent, and the game randomizes which one.

A couple years back, Josh Sawyer identified what I think is the big problem with Bioware games. Although he doesn't mention them by name, they're pretty implicitly relevant because he was talking about his work on The Black Hound.

Probably killing Sis in Alpha Protocol. It's a very effective slow burn because her backstory and personality are never actually explored directly apart from a couple scenes you get if you're on her good side and team up with the G-22 Faction, plus you have to know enough about St. George and the Dragon to interpret…

The armor design remains the same. She just has smaller breasts.

The problem is that they weren't sure what they wanted it to be. The initial idea of building the morality system around the good cop vs. the loose cannon who gets results was a good one, because the game is initially presented as a light-hearted, simplistic throwback space opera that was meant to evoke Star Wars and…

Eh— I think it's more the relative novelty of it. Not many games offer morality systems (or as they're increasingly becoming, reputation/relationship systems), and Bioware's games strike a balance that makes them, say, more accessible than Alpha Protocol and less insulting to the player's intelligence than the…

Yeah but it's still a really, really stupid armor design.

You know, that's like the only Homer Simpson quote I could see Trevor Goodchild saying.

It's now set in the very near future, but it's pretty inobtrusive stuff. Tablets with holograms that want to wear your skin. That kinda thing.

I don't think it's meant to hold up though. It's going back to what Sepinwall said about his take on TV criticism. It's more about proviidng a venue and starting point for a divisive and complicated conversation. In that respect, it does much better tan, say, AVClub's attempts at the same.

The quality of The Simpsons can directly be pegged to the quality of its musical numbers. Which means that the best seasons are… Bobs Burgers seasons two and three? What the hell!?

The complaint isn't about Marty being brilliant. It's about Marty becoming the originary point for rock and roll and the civil rights movement.

They mention that stuff on another podcast. IIRC they conclude that Doc probably murdered Marty from the Lone Pines universe by rigging the DeLorean to fly into the sun or explode, in order to try and preserve the timeline.