I came to the KOTOR party super late because I never really cared for the gameplay and only ended up playing it on my phone on work breaks, so while I enjoyed it, I never quite understood the love for it, though that’s also probably because I knew the story going in. I’d just come off of Mass Effect a few years…

You realize he didn’t say the word itself, right? He said the Spanish equivalent, which is a slur *in Spanish*. C’mon, now.

It’s criminal we have to use a mod to do it.

I know it’s probably an unpopular opinion, but I hope they overhaul the gameplay. It’s part of the reason it took me more than a decade to get into it :/

This makes me wonder about the guides I remember seeing when I was growing up. I know I had one for Super Mario 64 that was specifically billed as an unauthorized one; Nintendo’s always been pretty litigious with their properties, which makes me wonder how that guide even got published back then.

It is! Originally, when fusing demons, you had to back out of the fusion menu completely to force the game to randomize what skills the demon would inherit. Now you can choose from the parent demon skills (save for whatever is uninheritable), though it’s an extra button press that’s a little clunky.

I kind of regard it in a similar fashion to DmC, if I’m honest. It’s one of those pieces where it *could* be satire, but it could also be played straight, and it’s a little hard to tell at times. If it’s part-homage and part-satire/parody, then I think it’s legitimately enjoyable, if uneven. If it’s played straight...…

I had a lot of fun with Before the Storm, even with the contradictions of canon and some narrative problems here and there. The post-credits, though, made me really wary of Deck Nine’s work after that. Would you say they’ve done a better job at emotional beats and gut punches that feel earned instead of unnecessarily…

Yup, he was. If I recall correctly, he’s the reason Galaxy’s Edge came out so wonky; the cantina was supposed to have a dinner show of some form, the app that you can play with throughout the land and shows your score from the Millennium Falcon ride was supposed to also impact how employees react to you, there were…

Fun fact, in case anyone sees this, source code just wasn’t really seen as important in Japan for a long time; it’s why it took so long for a lot of the Final Fantasy games to get remastered, as well as why Kingdom Hearts’s HD remasters had to be done practically from scratch.

Not completely, no. The original release in Japan had some bugs (mostly some framerate drops and occasional lag in menus), and it didn’t include manual skill inheritance. ATLUS put out a patch two months later or so (Oct 2020) to fix the bugs and include skill inheritance, then put out another one in March 2021 for a…

You’re right that we still have to deal with this sort of sentiment and with all the misinformation and disinformation and hatred. It scares the shit out of me because I don’t know how we can truly combat it, and it shows just how easily people—even those that were seemingly kind-hearted, generous humans—can fall into…

imo—and I played it back in 2011 or so—it’s because it has some cool ideas, uses a relatively cliched premise for intriguing gameplay (the flashlight mechanic, as clunky as it could be at times), and crosses into entertaining mess. Taken entirely straight, I don’t think the game does a good job of accomplishing what…

I haven’t played this game since I was a junior in college, nearly 10 years ago, but man, it’s so much fun. It’s a bit of a mess, from the utterly mundane lines in menacing voices to the silly surrealness it apes from Twin Peaks and the way it kind of feels like a typical Guy In Your MFA thing while also legitimately…

From what I understand, the marketing for Boyfriend Dungeon didn’t really hint at the actual narrative; all it showed off was “date your weapons!” and the dungeon-crawling gameplay. With the bright colors and emphasis on the goofy concept, I’d guess that the people making the most noise about this went in expecting…

I mean, that’s not the same thing. Difficulty is different for everyone, which is where the talk of accessibility comes in; someone who physically has a hard time with quick reactions and specific repeated motions is going to have a MUCH harder time than what we think of as a “typical” gamer. Giving them options to…

I can see in my notifications that someone responded to me, but their comment isn’t in Pending and the notification doesn’t show the whole thing. Hopefully it was an actual response and not just some dickwad. Thanks, Kinja.

Just one opinion, but when we talk about accessibility, it’s not about changing the length of the game. It’s about making sure people are actually *able* to play the game and experience it, even if that looks a bit different than how the next person does it. There’s a difference between “I cannot beat this game…

Ooh, thank you for the info!

Especially when part of the problem is how sometimes, like with the pro- and anti- fandom areas that the Boyfriend Dungeon stuff is happening in, both sides tend to want to flatten out the nuance. It goes from being about the Real Topic to slinging insults and threats and harassment at any form of disagreement, with…