Many years ago, a friend and I signed up for a month to check it out. On our second day, a patch destroyed my hard drive. On the bright side, they did a good job of paying for a new drive and in-home installation.  :) And gave me a free year. But I didn't keep playing after that.

This thing breaks the trope of anime protagonists who scream every line by also having antagonists scream every line. 

My kingdom for a Syndicate remake that doesn’t turn it into an FPS, but keeps it as a real-time team thing. I’d settle for an XCOM style turn-based game, so long as it kept to the spirit of the game.

Cyberpunk did this to an extent. Basically, there are four romance options: a man and a woman who like men and a man and a woman who like women. If you're not what they're looking for, you have no chance. It's reductive and seems odd that the cyberpunk setting is stuck on binaries, but there's an effort there to have…

“You can be a gelatin rabbit surrounded by kink.”

“here’s some bad news for people who live in Belgium or the Netherlands and are excited to play Diablo Immortal”

If video games led to real life behavior, every Sims player would be a serial killer.

I am generally pretty far left, but honestly, mass murderers when we are 100% sure we caught the right guy? I’m fine with his execution happening before June.

I’m probably being over-generous, but I took ““Many small hits in a row to damage stack is important.” to mean that if you’re trying to apply hemorrhage, poison, burn or whatnot, you’re better off with a fast weapon that will apply that quickly. But that’s not actually what he said, so I’m not really sure what he…

I honestly kind of burned out around Volcano Manor. If I want lots of obnoxious pain in the ass crap with tiny instances of satisfaction, I’d spend more time at work.

Gen X players of Baldur’s Gate Dark Alliance would like a word with you.

This article reminded me that I wanted to send in a couple wonky joycons for repair. Per the emails I received, they got them at 7:22am and mailed them back to me at 7:24. As they’d been sitting on a shelf for several months, I know the batteries were completely dead in each. So... not really optimistic that they…

Ascendance is great if you want some low stakes viewing and not just a standard OP potato protagonist.

I do chuckle over the symmetry of:

I am, frankly, not convinced that the plot warrants an easy mode. I tend to switch on easy modes when I have a large backlog of games, but really want to get the story of one.

I am frankly disappointed that inputting THX1138 doesn’t get you anything. 

I play AC to be all stabby stab.

The real question is if I can go to planet Neelgaimon.

Agreed. If the boss doesn't have a big aoe and you keep pressure on them, they rarely attack downed skeletons, so if you just dodge a bit, they'll be back soon.

Funny. The anti-religion agenda is a part I enjoy as authentic world-building. Aloy’s world is full of people that don’t really understand how the world works, so just kind of make up stuff based on their half-informed analysis of things they don’t fully understand. And then base entire governments off of that. And…