Wow, I didn’t hear about Simone. That’s... yuck. Bodies are so frail.

Man, I love this. What a simply tremendous game. It’s really one in a million. I’m sure this won’t be the last great game to be made, and that it will one day be surpassed, but it’s a testament to its quality that it’s continued to receive so much praise several years after its release.

I grew up in St. Louis. Our rush hour is legendary. Driven there plenty of times, and you’re right, it’s miserable in manual.

Heh, good runs from PA and MGDMT this week.

I’m in favor of fully manual cars. It wouldn’t be a bad idea to have a generation of drivers who actually know what happens when they push all the buttons and levers. Best purchase of my life was a Mazda stick two years ago. I didn’t know how to drive stick, but now I don’t think I can ever go back. I might just still…

I hope the continued success of Heroes shows Nintendo devs that there’s a market for more tactical-RPGs like that. I never got to play it, but Shadows of Valentia seems like a good step away from the “waifu simulator” that the series was in danger of becoming, and more of a step towards quality gameplay and story.…

Whenever I get a troll, it’s more fun to derisively respond ‘k’ than to ignore them. Ignoring them lets them feel victimized, but ‘k’ puts them in their place. Not to mention, it’s a helluva lot of fun...

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What’s wrong with Heroes? I’ve been playing it since launch, and for a mobile Free-to-Play game it’s actually quite generous. They’ve pulled more good moves than they have scummy moves.

Counter-point: Noctis is very emotionally nuanced and displays both strength and vulnerability, just like Joel and Geralt do, just like Kratos does in the most recent GoW. The deeply flawed plot of FFXV shouldn’t take away from that at all. Noctis is a terrific protagonist.

Yes. And there are countless books for thousands of years before that. I’m talking about video games, which very clearly are separate from cinema and literature.

So you’re saying that developers are beginning to learn that protagonists like Joel from The Last of Us, Geralt from the Witcher 3, and Noctis from Final Fantasy XV (flawed but still a good example) were popular?

Oh, wow, the beard. I knew he got older. I expected he would put on a little bit of weight (and he carries it well). I was not expecting that beard.

Ha, I was worried I would sound pretentious! No worries, internet person. You just sound intelligent.

There’s a lot going on in that music. I think it’s torn between these John Williams-esque sweeping movements and triumphant brass, and a more postmodern feeling of unresolved tension. Those are probably all the wrong words, but that’s what’s coming to mind. I really like what he does with both, but it’s hard to…

It’s always relevant. Bless your heart.

That’s actually less money than a billion, because it’s just a million dollars printed on square bills instead of rectangular.

To be fair to Jones, I wouldn’t put Commander a day under 38. 40-something isn’t a bad guess at all.

Haha, I understand why people are upset but this is fucking gold. I loved the game on release. I think and hope that I’ll love it more with all the DLC in place. There’s no fanbase worse than a fantasy fanbase, and no fantasy fanbase worse than a Final Fantasy fanbase (except the Star Wars fanbase; seriously, fuck…