I think I'm getting a similar feeling from Mankind Divided- there's a fair bit of filler content that's only worth doing for the experience points that allow me to carry more guns that I never use. I think they were going after an 'open world' feel but it never quite becomes convincing in the way Fallout or GTA…

I also don't mind a future where every videogame is either Souls or Peaks games.

I’ve started getting properly into Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, which is the finest ventilation traversal and heavy object relocation simulator I’ve played this year. I’m enjoying it thus far, though I wish Jensen would cheer up a bit. One thing that I’ve noticed is that I’m comparing it to Dishono(u)red much more than I…

I wish people would care about their property a bit. I've found you can walk into someone's apartment and loot their house while they're there and they don't even react.

I think that’s a totally valid way of looking at it- and the moment you mention with Ellie responding to Joel’s lie is indeed pretty great- but for me it completely took out the fourth wall.

Continued survival in a world that has gone to hell is a fine theme, and much has been said about the horrors of war zones and…

"Hey, Joel, here’s your choice: we either kill ALL OF HUMANITY or we kill ONE PERSON. Ahhh, but there’s a twist- you really, really like that one person, which means this will be a DIFFICULT AND EMOTIONAL DECISION.”

Utterly contrived. I can suspend my disbelief as far as the zombies being driven by a fungus- I mean,…

I’ve started getting properly into Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, which is to say I’ve yet to leave the starting area in Prague because I’m crawling through every single vent and hacking anything with a keyboard. Like all decent post-humans I’m going for the non-violent hacking and stealth approach, though I’m pretty sure…

Spoiler alert!

And that night, we played Tekken

Well, since sending that jar into the AV Club, I have had more fun with Marmite. They ran a Valentines Day promotion where you could order a custom jar with- supposedly- the name of your loved one on it. So I got my girlfriend a jar, only with something more romantic than her name on it: http://imgur.com/JLMEadU

This comment better be in Keyboard Geniuses on Friday, along with the associated video.

*ahem*

There is, but by God I wish she'd stop humming.

Hoping to put some time into starting the new Deus Ex but I'll probably get stuck on No Man's Sky instead. I keep telling myself I'll just hop a few light years and restock but then I'll get distracted by something or find a particularly fascinating planet or find I can put together a new hyperdrive and then two hours…

MGSV Is a real gem, even if you can directly pinpoint the bit where they ran out of money. It's clearly missing a third region and a third act. I doubt it'd be any less nuts if it had them, but at least it would be nuts on its own terms.

I’d agree with that- I always suspected that Lovecraft shied away from describing anything because he didn’t have the writing chops for it, but even if that were true, the effect of hinting at eldritch, shambling things and letting the reader fill in the blanks is still highly effective.

I’ve had this at the back of my mind for a while now, but isn’t it time to give the Lovecraft stuff a bit of a rest? I enjoyed the stories well enough when I read them when I was 15 or so but it seems to me people are now just using ‘Lovecraftian’ to mean ‘old thing with tentacles in a cave in 1927’.

if it's a semantic distinction then it's a distiction between two meanings, making it meaningful.

Well not quite- NMS has one authoritative universe, whereas Minecraft generates a new one each time you start a new game. Everyone sees the same thing in NMS. Big distinction- without that, NMS would just be yet another roguelike.

If only your cat had a higher marketing budget