The Cursed Chalice bosses are a bit bullshit because of the mechanic of the chalice dungeon halving your health. It basically turns everything the bosses do into a one shot unless you have 50 vitality, and even then... it might as well be a one shot.

I think some of the later chalice dungeons are harder than DLC. I did all the bosses in the game solo on my way to platinum, and found Cursed Watchdog and Cursed Amygdala significantly harder than anything in the DLC. I actually had a rage outburst at the Pthumerian Elder - he probably took me upwards of 40 attempts…

You can parry through anything Orphan does, and his leaping attacks can be run under (which can be followed up by a quick turn and charged R2 for a visceral, even). His aggressiveness and huge HP count is a definite issue, but like most DS bosses pattern recognition will get you through. TL;DR: circle left.

Laurence…

If ever the choice between quitting out of your game and striking your partner crosses your mind, log the fuck off and never play that game again.

I completely understand being in the moment in a game—being so immersed and inmeshed that having that concentration broken feels like a bucket of cold water.

It’s not an…

Well, I suspect there’d still be quite a bit of work involved (the Switch internal workings is fairly different than the PS3). But it can certainly be done without any sacrifices in terms of performance.

Ah yes, the Infinity Eggs, Thanos and the Easter Bunny, making shit happen.

I...wow.

I’m glad some folks are enjoying this game; everyone has their somewhere they want to be, and that somewhere doesn’t work for other folks—and that’s fine. I enjoy a great many things others think are a waste of time.

This whole kerfuffle, though, comes off as one giant kettle of “we coasted way too hard on a…

My primary issue is that it fundamentally rewrites our understanding of the Force and its functions (I had the same reaction to the “midichlorian” line from the prequels)—and it turns Luke into a navel-gazing coward, which directly contravenes his general character arc in the OT.

Not to mention the scads of MacGuffins…

I could definitely get behind a 1:1 remake with a new graphics engine behind it; the Chrono Break project was looking pretty damned fantastic before it got shut down, for instance.

But yeah, messing with too much of the formula would rob the game of its identity, and we’d end up with an entirely different game that…

Rape is not a crime of passion/desire. It is a crime of violence and control. The entire point—in the rapist’s mind—is to force the victim to bend to their will.

If you go into it thinking, “Well, the other person not being into it/screaming/crying would turn me off, so I don’t know how you’d be able to do it,” you’re…

No, the whining bit was not directed at you, it was at Ethan and Kotaku’s (and the rest of ‘progressives’ for that matter) entire approach to this sort of thing.

It was there, they spotted something potentially wrong and removed it with an apology. As far as I’m concerned they get a thumbs up from me! :)

The linked article is prescient. My folks picked up Final Fantasy IX, along with that god-awful PlayOnline guide—the aged copy of which is sitting in the bookcase to my immediate left at this very moment—for me for Christmas the year it came out.

I still love FF IX, and I play it probably once every couple of years.

...I…

Realized it too late ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The article stub in the “recent articles” bar at the top of the main page still reads “75% of Final Fantasy XV’s DLC Just Got Cancelled.”

It may well be that’s how the article’s heading originally read, but it’d be weird to only have the main page article heading changed, and not the stub.

In either case, baseline…

Its insane that there hasn’t been a new Castlevania game in years when there’s a great show and flourishing genre with “-vania” literally in the title.  Shows what a mess Konami is right now.

That and World’s Strongest are still my two favorite DBZ movies.

If there’s such a thing as wholesome fear, these games keep you on the edge of your seat! From investigating old grave yards deep in the woods at dusk in “Ghost Dogs” to the ghost town full of rattlesnakes in “Shadow Ranch” ( tough barrel racing lessons!) to studying Marie Antoinette in “Royal Tower”, man these games…

It’s certainly not a Day of the Tentacle situation. Most of the games (and all of the more recent ones) have a task list, so your goals are very well defined. In general, the solutions are pretty logical. I would suggest trying a more recent one and give it a whirl. The Ghost of Thornton Hall or the Deadly Device…

Some of the newer ones aren’t as good as the older ones, but the most recent one (Sea of Darkness) isn’t terrible.