Man, what a boring character. A fighting game gave you the chance to vote for "Average, run-of-the-mill Old Man" or a fucking fish, you voted for (basically) goddamn Morrigan?!

Well, Blizzard releases games only slightly slower than Valve, so I guess it would be weirdly appropriate if Blizzard created their own digital storefront for all sorts of PC games? It would probably have a better adoption rate by the community than Origin, at least.

As much as that show was a solid paycheck for years and years, you have to wonder if he tries to forget it as hard as possible, because I'm assuming at this point he'd rather be considered a dramatic actor, not a goofy comedic dad?
Apparently he almost didn't get the part of Walter White because some of the producers…

When does this come out on Steam again? The Steam Store "Coming Soon" section is near useless, as I notice that fairly regularly, games never appear there, and then are suddenly just out. They mentioned the release date of Penny Arcade Episode 4 on the PA website, so obviously it was locked in, yet it had no official…

I think most people would agree that The Dark Knight Rises had a much weaker script than The Dark Knight, and probably even worse than Batman Begins. It was a weird conclusion for the trilogy.

Any time, citizen! Carry on.

*extends arms, flies away into the sky, superhero cape and tights gleaming*

Spoiler alert: Fire Emblem kinda always plays like Fire Emblem, so it was pretty inevitable that they would bring up some character and story stuff. Even then, they do talk around it a lot.

There haven't been a ton of M-rated DS games (GTA: Chinatown Wars being one of the major exceptions, also I think some Shin Megami Tensei RPGs). A lot of DS/3DS owners are kids and teens, so getting rated M actually means limiting your audience even more. Ace Attorney is still kind of obscure, and making it hard for…

Yeah, you have to win a lot of MtG Pro Tours to make 100K or more, but on the other hand, Magic players can have much longer careers than video game players, because they don't age out of the circuit due to reflexes slowing down.

Yeah, as it turns out, most of the guys in the fighting game scene are into it because they just really want to play high-level fighting game opponents as good as they are. There are a few big tournaments each year, but the payouts just aren't at quite the same level.

The not-so-big-secret is that Dota 2 has basically been out for at least a year. All players of it were pretty much getting so many beta invites in their Steam inventory that they couldn't even give them all to personal friends, so you could walk into just about any forum or comments section, ask for a key, and people…

Yeah, it's funny how for the first like 3 or 4 games, it was basically meant to be a stock fantasy world, that just happened to have weird, zany enemies, because unlike most fantasy games of the time, all Nintendo did was rip off elves (Hylians = elves), instead of ripping off the entire D&D Monster Manual (which so…

If the game takes place before LoZ and AoL, it isn't "A Link to the Past", it is "The Past". It didn't exist as some bridge or connection to the past, so much as it literally was the past, relative to the other 2 games that had existed.

The back of the box is often just ad copy written by Nintendo of America, but sure, let's pretend "one line on the back of the box" is absolute canon. My B point still stands.

Yeah, I thought it was fairly obvious it was basically Skyward Sword marketing. Sure, they gave fanboys a huge boner by finally making up a chronology, but the rest of it was pretty Skyward Sword-heavy.

How does the title designate it as a prequel at all? All it does is say it is connected to the previous games. "A Link to" really doesn't imply whether it takes place before or after the past 2 games.

A) Come the fuck on, Nintendo didn't gin up a timeline until they had to put together the Hyrule Historia because fanboys wouldn't shut the fuck up about it. When Link to the Past was coming out, it was incredibly unclear how that game interacted with NES Zelda and Zelda II.

I agree that the English title makes almost no sense. "A Link To The Past" is A) a terrible pun? and B) has no connection to the content of the game. Whose past? What? The game has no time travel, and the backstory isn't super important other than "hey, there were some sages and a Sacred Realm", and there really…

I find myself weirdly content to instead just play Penny Arcade's On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode 4. Which also has monster collecting, but is more in the 10-20 hour range and doesn't even give you the temptation of grinding, compared to the dozens of hours of time sink that is SMT4.

It feels like I'm in the 70s, watching an episode of Lupin III. Except that's impossible, because I wasn't alive in the 70s.