Exactly. At a certain point, you can set up the gameplay to make beating (or completing. Or finishing. Or whatever term the author finds socially acceptable) a game the equivalent of watching someone else play it on youtube. I see a great example of how difficulty impacts gameplay and the overall experience when I…

“If a game is too hard for someone and they put it away forever, they won’t ever see and experience much of what was developed.”

I think the argument is more “why should I buy an Xbox instead of a cheap gaming desktop if I can play all the Xbox games on the PC instead?” 

Apparently? Literally the only reason I posted the first comment was to highlight that you acting like an asshole means nobody gives a shit about what you write afterwards.

LOL, for someone who lectures on reading comprehension you sure seem to have missed the point of my sarcastic response to you.

Hahahaha, you wrote that whole wall of text above in the hopes that nobody would read it. Sure, whatever you say Professor.

Dude, you’re writing long winded responses in the comments section of a gaming website. Which, by all means, do so. But if you want people to give a shit about all the effort you put into writing it then don’t start off being a total dick. Nobody is going to bother reading all that other stuff you wrote if you lead…

“Also, is this article about the film or about that axe you’re grinding? Sorry, but your over-generalization of the church does not justify this article’s terrible take on the fictional world of The Exorcist.”

Thank you! I’m an atheist as well and I honestly found that claim on the author’s part to be one of the most ludicrously silly criticisms of a movie I’d ever read. I also don’t believe that supernatural girls can crawl out of tv screens to kill people just for watching a VHS tape, but The Ring scared the bejesus out…

Thank you. Reading this article reminded me of the existence of things like Cinemasins and how “plot hole” culture has taken over film analysis for lots of folks. I admit to spending a lot of years with a similar attitude as the author’s- constantly rolling my eyes and finding fault with every shallow observation I…

100%. I hear people complain about the character models and how the graphics look terrible, but to me the game is still gorgeous to look at. The backgrounds are just incredible, and every environment is just oozing detail and charm. 

March 20th, so not even a month and a half. Crazy.

I had the same thought. I bought the set of all the bioshock games when they were on sale a few years back- I’d heard they were classics, so I was super excited to fire it up. I struggled through the first one and was more than happy to not play the sequels. I just found it boring as hell, and frustrating in tons of…

Juneteenth? That’s all I got. He also said FF7R came out over Easter, so I’m not sure he knows what most people think of when you say “national holiday”. June 19th definitely isn’t an actual day off of work or school or anything.

I plowed through 4 of them before giving up a few days ago. Switched over to Dark Souls 3 instead. It was one of those experiences where I could sort of see why it was so groundbreaking 15 years ago, but I felt like the experience just doesn’t hold up anymore. You run around for 10 minutes (slowly; awkwardly;…

By all accounts, the HBO documentary does precisely the opposite. The title is deliberately misleading. 

I’m playing it now on PSNow, which is either the PS2 or PS3 version, and I am NOT enjoying it because of how clumsy and awkward it is. Did you ever get around to playing the PS4 version? I feel like if the controls were a little less annoying I  might actually be really liking it, but I also think I might be thinking…

I’m glad to hear this. I’m playing it now on the PS Now, which I think is either the original PS2 version or maybe the PS3, but the controls are INCREDIBLY frustrating. I haven’t been this annoyed playing a video game in a very long time. I figured I’d play the PSNow version to get a sense of the game, and if I liked…

I don’t think God of War 2018 is on PSNow, is it? I know it was, but they pulled it in January. The only ones I see I listed on the PS Now’s catalog page is the original God of War and it’s sequels. 

Especially if you could justify it to yourself by saying “these scientists don’t know what they’re doing, the “cure” will never work, so she will die for nothing. I’m saving her for a meaningless death!”