As usual, Nerf Now is some completely indecipherable reference that involves a Blizzard or Valve character.

I could see Metzen at the helm of more of a main Marvel series, where he resurrects all the dead characters from the 80s and 90s that he personally likes, and maybe designs an original villain that he loves but nobody else likes, and always sounds insanely positive about the direction of the series but most fans…

On some level, it’s amazing Metzen didn’t end up working in the comic book industry, given the “quality” of his OCs and storyline writing.

The problem with that franchise is that it’s named Diablo. They can’t get away from Diablo, unless it’s an expansion. We keep having to fight that fucking Diablo. Guess who will be the boss in the next one? My money is on Diablo. Never name a game after the boss, especially if you plan on sequels, because then you…

Raimi’s Spider-Man is the only remotely recent superhero movie I can remember having a memorable main theme.

That Double XP comic sure is lazy.

Aw sweet, I can continue shipping Jensen and Malik.

I mean, I appreciate the update, but it’s kinda super crazy to be putting out major Streetpass updates when the 3DS platform is basically gonna be over in about 6 months when the NX comes out.

Haha, yeah, there’s a lot of stuff in Mario 64 that is pretty much baby’s first 3D render, that then never reappeared in future polygonal Mario games, because by the time they got around to Mario Sunshine on the Gamecube, they had enough polygons to work with that they could actually properly recreate more of the…

St. Anger was a super terrible album though. Also I knew plenty of Metallica fans at the time who didn’t like their new direction, it seemed like a pretty common opinion.

Yeah, they keep simplifying the gameplay because at some corporate level they think they have to make all Mario games for kids, but let’s be real, it’s all teenagers and adults playing the Paper Mario/Mario & Luigi games anyways.

Yeah, the problem with that argument is I don’t even know who they’re trying to please.

I talked a lot of shit about Super Paper Mario back when it came out because I much preferred the gameplay of Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door, but at least Super Paper Mario’s heart was in the right place. It has some fun goofs on the Mario universe, and some other clever ideas like one of the areas you go to just…

I think it’s actually too well made. The models in-game have a certain basic shading and reflection happening on them, kinda in line with a Pixar movie, where they’re trying to look cartoony. Even Mercy, who has normalish female proportions, doesn’t look as fancy and detailed as the lighting on this fanart. This…

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You really sounded like matpat there.

I still think it was interesting design in the original Deus Ex that every aug was an either/or situation. When you augment your legs, you can either get super sprint (more useful for pulling off long horizontal jumps to reach alternate paths than outrunning enemies) or you could get very quiet footsteps, but you…

I increasingly think that more games in a longstanding series need to have an alternate difficulty setting for people that played that game “back in the day”. Bioshock Infinite had its weird 1999 mode which was punishingly difficult, and some of the more recent Zeldas have a new game plus where enemies do double or…

Nerd Rage is basically a VG Cats knockoff in the way that it seems to have mean-spirited punchlines/random violence/random sadness in a lot of its jokes.

My biggest disappointment is how stagnant it is. It’s a digital game, and it could have more frequent balance tweaks, like a Dota or Overwatch or something. MtG tried to avoid going back and changing cards unless there was a clear text misprint, or the card is so broken that it is ruining tournaments so they have to…