I'm more excited for what the team does next. I'd like to see the ideas developed further in a sequel with greater variety and a more-developed story.

What’s so utterly ridiculous about this is that it all came down around Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor, when that game didn’t NEED such desperate and underhanded marketing in the first place! It was a great game! Monolith ended up making a better “Assassins Creed” game than Ubisoft had in years, and they managed to…

I hear that lazy piece of shit Oda is going to be getting FOUR hours of sleep a night this week instead of two. Get it together and put some effort into it, dude.

My favorite graphics-testing thing to do is to load up the original Deus Ex and set the graphics to software-based rendering only and marvel at how, even if it's completely unplayable, the program manages to pull it off.

I bought Suikoden 1 at your previous article’s reccomendation, Jason, and I WOULD like to put out there for anyone considering following your reccomendations that I’d like to disagree with you on ONE point:

The game can be a LOT more enjoyable and a LOT less tedious if you use a walkthrough. If you want the good…

Jeeze. Went on a bit of a reach for that analogy there.

Oh good, this is exactly what I was looking for! Thank you so much!

Jason, how heavy on “tropey anime garbage" would you say this game contains? Is this a game that I would feel embarassed playing in front of company?

You don’t need to tell me that rape fantasies are common. I get all that. I’m not going to go into my own preferences or tastes, but trust me, I get it. I mean hell, if you couldn’t tell by the beginning of my second paragraph, I’m not particularly steadfast on the belief.

I mean if I’m gonna be totally honest, I…

You bring up an interesting point, and I don’t mean to imply that no art can feature both horror and sexuality.

That being said, you bring up Geiger, but I think we can both acknowledge that the reason you'd pull him out of a hat for this purpose is because there's something particularly cold and objective about his…

I mean, it seems like you’re purposefully pulling the wool over your own eyes, though. Like, on one hand, you say you’re not sure it’s meant to be arousing, but on the other hand, you close your article with

I mean, it seems like you’re purposefully pulling the wool over your own eyes, though. Like, on one hand, you say you’re not sure it’s meant to be arousing, but on the other hand, you close your article asking why it so often involves women and why there’s such a focus on vaginal/birthing imagery. I don’t think it…

I’m never going to tell a person what they can or can’t like, but if one of my friends was like “Hey, I really love this picture of a little girl screaming as a bunch of eyes and maggots erupt out of her feet.” I’d probably feel a wee bit less safe around them.

Ehh, then again, I guess they'd be telling me. Maybe if I…

Not exactly, because it isn’t just the lighthouse. The rules Bioshock Infinite dictates are that the infinite alternate universes are filled with constants and variables. I’m just using the lighthouse because that’s one of the constants brought up.

But in your scenario, what is so special about the lighthouse? It…

(Made a bit longer of a response to another poster, if you wanna check it out.)

Also, I should add that I don’t need the game to explain the SCIENCE of what’s going on. It’s a fantasy setting. But I’m talking about the cohesivceness of the universe.

You can see something similar when you compare Fallout 3 and Fallout:…

What you’re talking about is part of the fantasy steampunk setting and game mechanics, which are entirely seperate from the storytelling of the game itself.

And besides, most of those things HAVE answers. The floating city is held aloft by a combination of propellers and quantum levitation, a technology developed by…

I'm at work so I can't explain it in GREAT detail, but essentially: The game itself brings up the multi-universe theory. Okay. Fair enough. There are infinite universes in which all possible events could possibly happen. That’s an ambitious concept to make a game about.

But then it throws a wrench in this concept by…

The game is fun to play and has some nice character moments, but it is fundamentally flawed in its storytelling because the rules of its universe do not make any kind of logical sense outside of the specific story that it is telling.

The entire concept of "constants and variables" is ludicrous, which would be fine if…

From what we've seen in the previews, it depends. Phi is her usual self, but a lot of the other characters sound more than a bit awkward.

I KNOW I COULDN’T BELIEVE IT EITHER! THIS *FAT* PERSON HAD THE AUDACITY TO DRESS UP LIKE A CHARACTER SHE DOESN’T ACTUALLY LOOK LIKE.

After all, if she was SUCH a fan of The Witcher, she could have just cosplayed one of the female characters that aren’t thin in the game, like... Like, uh....

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