My brother is nuts for crazy Japanese games like this and he turned me on to Revengeance one night after a few beers. Looks incredibly hilariously cheesy (your juxtaposition of “Big Issues” vs “Senator Robot Crab” is apt) while also sufficiently challenging on an action level. It’s pretty high on my wishlist but I do…

Just jumping in to say, good luck with breaking out of the funk. I am right now putting off an incredibly important task (my last huge translation task, due Sunday night, which is barely enough time to finish it even on 100% translation power) in order to post here. And in general, I am just burnt out on work and far…

Wow, I played about 5 hours of Dark Souls on PS3 about 5 years ago (struggled along as far as the bit where dragons are burning you to death on a bridge and never spent the time to figure out the “right” way to get past), and I am always amazed at the idea that someday, playing this game could ever be “like your 10th…

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Just jumping in to randomly observe that my dad is a philosophy professor (for 40 years now) and every time a “The Philosophy of X” book comes out— use case: X = The Matrix— we usually end up having a commiseration session about the kind of people who think they are discovering Deep Issues for the first time (use…

“Here’s the level of subtlety you can expect from Detroit [...]: ...David Cage...”

That’s a pretty cool idea, though a bit impractical for couch co-op (the other person would have to go where they couldn’t hear the TV, etc.). Has nothing like this— a narrative twist based on lying about the cooperative relationship— ever been done for online co-op, though? Seems too obvious (at least in hindsight!)…

I guess step one is getting through the radscorpion fight I mentioned without having my Windows 10 PC crash. That’s 4 times now...

(spits Nuka-Cola all over monitor)

I’m hearing a real mix of opinions on this. I think I am just as well staying away from another roguelike, since I love them and all, but they usually just wring me dry before I’m able to make any significant progress beyond banging my head repeatedly against a ridiculously small slice of the whole game.

As for this weekend and beyond, I’ve got lots of work going on as usual, but a few interesting games as well:

What Have You Finished This Week?

On one level, I hear you, but based on my experience of which sites do the autoplay thing, this functionally boils down to “Some huge sites like CNN.com which were already making untold millions got greedy about pushing way too much content on viewers, so you tiny creators who are just scraping by will have to suck it…

I have a tangentially related question about the original Dark Souls, which I have on PS3 for some reason but have never played. Assuming there aren’t many people out there playing it on PS3 at any given time these days, is the lack of an online community a problem? I’ve never really understood how important the…

I got like 90 minutes into Witcher 3 and ditched it just because I didn’t have time for an open-world game at the time... but yeah, another thing was that the combat looked like it was on its way to becoming super complicated really fast. “Easy” difficulty sounds like a pretty good deal to me.

I am really hoping to be able to take part in Mario Kart next Tuesday. Another clueless question— is voice chat involved? Because it’s not really an option for me. But somehow I have the feeling that voice chat is not really a thing for Nintendo online games (e.g. because it inevitably makes games super-toxic really…

Ah, that’s really good to know. So maybe it will actually serve as my introduction to the series.

Cool, I’ve always thought that was really fun that I knew somebody on here that knew and liked the first one! Personally I like the second one even better, but that’s based less on the content per se (BotW is the first Zelda game I have ever played, so I’m not as familiar with all those other games and therefore…

The thing to remember here is that I have never played a Borderlands game (although I have both in my Steam backlog...). I’ve heard lots of good things about them— can’t wait to hear Ashly Burch as Tiny Tina, for one thing— and also about Tales, so there’s that... but mainly, I just grabbed it while I could get it for…

I didn’t finish any games this week, but I finished my 75,000-word translation project (the second Legend of Zelda book from Third Éditions), and it’s a huge weight off my shoulders. Now I can actually get around to spending more time in Breath of the Wild instead of translating someone else’s take on it! And not a…