Every time. That game has the cheesiest Disneyfied ending of any game in the series, and every single time I cry like a spinster at a wedding.

I felt really self-conscious the first time I saw a movie by myself (I think it was Up In The Air) but afterwards I was totally converted. Nowadays I go alone as a norm, and only very occasionally go with friends if it's for a big summer popcorn flick sort of movie.

We're getting one more degree removed here, but I feel the same way about people whose only cultural touchstone is Doctor Who. I love that show a lot, but every now and then you meet the kind of frothing nutcase who never ingests any media except the revived Who, occasionally cleansing their palate with episodes of…

I was coming to the comments to say exactly this. My friends are all great, cultured, smart, well educated people, but I just can't watch anything with them anymore because they're always buried in their fucking electronics. I used to get a lot of enjoyment out of sharing a film or TV series that I loved with my…

That sounds hilariously similar to how I handled the endgame waiting around periods in Persona 4. I unlocked a surprisingly low number of S-Links my first time through that game, so whenever there was time to kill and no interesting S-Links to pursue, I would just chill with Chie the whole time.

Remember a couple of weeks back when there was that Q&A article about which games make you want to play other, specific games? In that thread I said that playing Bravely Default made me want to play Final Fantasy IX. I've been really meaning to finally put my head down and power through to the end of Bravely Default,…

I might be able to, or at least I'll give it a shot.

I especially liked the self-lacerating dig about how the Mohawk language and culture could be considered too "alien" for "normal" audiences. I almost feel like these might have been snuck into the game by a disgruntled Ubisoft employee trying to get fired. They're almost too smart and self-aware to have come out of a…

Yeah, that was great. Those videos are deliciously deliberately critical of the series' past, and accidentally critical of its future.

Thanks for having me, Mr. Wanserski.

The 16-bit console wars are over, the Sega/Nintendo partisan mudslinging has long since passed, but every time I see a Genesis/SNES showdown, I'll always make at least a token effort to rep team Genesis.

Weirdly enough, a major mechanic from Knuckles' Chaotix is about to make a comeback. The whole tether ring system from Chaotix looks to be a central mechanic in the upcoming Sonic Boom multimedia clusterfuck.

Oooh yes, love a top 5. I think my list would be (approximately:)

Man, I have a weird amount of game music on my mp3 player. For a while there I used to worry that someone would steal it and see how much of a pointdexter I am. I think I've had times where I've had more game music than "real" music on my device. Let's see here, I've got:

Yeah, Veep is a great show in its own right, but it's definitely the methadone to The Thick Of It's heroin. Maybe he's trying to show solidarity with his fellow American remakes of British programs.

Hey again all and welcome back to the Big Finish Doctor Who Audio Drama Spectacular! This week we'll be covering:

Part of me hopes this is going to be a "Michael Bay's Ninja Turtles" situation, with the Teletubbies all getting frighteningly human-like lips and eyes.

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I have a pretty long and intimate relationship with the MGS series, and it feels good to be hyped for this game. After the disappointing MGS4 I was ready to put the series behind me for a while, but out of sheer curiosity I picked up Ground Zeroes and loved it to itty bitty pieces, and now I'm ready to welcome the…

Oh yeah, I totally agree that it's appropriate to judge a company based on how they're doing now, rather than how they were doing when I was 17, but I feel like Sony went from being the Sheriff of Nottingham to being Robin Hood in one step, and the dialogue has been less about Sony redeeming itself in the eyes of…