What now, you piece of filth?

Good point! I’d prefer it without the vitriol, but it is what it is. I shouldn’t have used the word “always”. I should have used “often” instead. I prefer that the game industry take risks (Paper Mario, Breath of the Wild, Okami, Shadow of the Colossus) than to just re-release the same damn game every year (Call of…

Taking risks on ideas has always produced terrific games. The Witcher series was an enormous risk, and actually since CDPR goes all in on whatever game they develop, they’re literally risking their company with every game. FFXV was a risk, and while it didn’t match up with what we were promised I think its ambition…

Missouri, checking in! I can confirm this phenomenon extends south to the lower Ozarks.

Terrific! I’ll be looking out for some early reviews (and some funds) and then I’ll definitely be adding this to my list. I love games like Witcher or Dragon Age where you can hop in at any point and still get a full game.

Thanks for the advice! I’ll wait for some reviews (and some funds, haha) and then I’ll definitely be adding this to my list.

And this song plays in the background? I can’t help it; it fits that description so perfectly. Thanks for the (avante-garde-esque minimalism) recap!

Does this game stand alone, or do we need to know the stories and characters of the previous games? I’m a sucker for everything you’re talking about and this game looks awesome, but I have no interest in playing the previous however-many games.

Yeah, this. Anime is an art form, but it’s one that painfully needs to grow (back) up. Current trends are... not promising. Course, I haven’t kept up with anime for a few years, so maybe I’m wrong. But I usually give the “most popular” anime a try, and I’m usually turned off by it in about two episodes. Even Your Lie…

Oh, oh no. What if that J.J. Abrams movie is secretly the next Cloverfield movie? And what if it’s a Half-Life crossover? What if Half-Life 3 is the next Cloverfield experience? Ahhhhhhhh!

I don’t think Aragorn is so cut and dry. (My phrasing was not very clear or precise, and I’ll try to amend that here. That was my bad though.)

I think he gained something insofar as he was different and the different wasn’t bad. Whereas with the other characters Jackson cut and didn’t replace, we have Aragorn’s confidence and dry humor cut and replaced with the uncertainty surrounding his role as Isildur’s heir and the returning king. It isn’t Aragorn; it…

Yeah, you very clearly missed the point of the books if you think they’re “more concerned with the topography of Middle Earth and Tom [sic] Bombadill” and not, you know, with creating an epic mythology for Britain built from years of study as a philologist, or about themes like hope in the face of overwhelming evil,…

Yeah, the bros are incredible. One of the best parts of the game. Makes me think of the ka-tet from Dark Tower or the hansa from the Witcher saga.

Oof, first edition really was rough. I remember being heartbroken that I didn’t have the statline to be a ranger.

Yup. This is especially fun for old-timers who have the game systems min-maxxed to hell and back. Break yourself out of the comfort zone and do something eminently idiotic for once. A good DM will reward idiocy 9 times out of 10.

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Eh, I’m reading some Pratchett. Couldn’t think of a better insult at the time. I know how awful I would feel if I were called a communist.

No problem. Thanks for the apology, ya damn communist.

Yup, and you can’t be a liberal without a superiority complex that feeds your bullying addiction. :)