In my mind, the word "prick" is a good male counterpart of the "c-word". I'm not really clear on its' vulgarity, but it always seems to drip with a similar venom whenever I hear it used, and it also doubles as a nasty identifier of the male genitalia (read: tiny).

It is a pretty tired trope, but it can be handled pretty well. Joel's daughter gets murdered at the beginning of The Last of Us, but it doesn't really inform much of his actions (since the game takes place 20 years after that event), outside of a general hardening of his character and tempering of his interactions…

The "reality" posed in these sorts of games, though, is pretty much always poorly constructed, mostly because of hardware limitations. There's nowhere near the amount of people and noise that would populate any other festival or fair in the scene described/shown above, so in my mind I'm never immersed enough in the…

Yeah, I wish remakes of these games allowed you to skip cutscenes outright. That's one point in favor of the newer Final Fantasy games; at least you can skip cutscenes.

"The Moon is egg." Please, the wounds from last week's particularly awful Doctor Who episode are still too fresh (still have no idea why AVC gave it an A).

Yeah, the ability of FF7 to know when to not take itself seriously is what sets it apart from most of the rest of the series (FFV not included). However, some of these moments are hilariously mistimed: (spoilers again) The main character's love interest gets murdered by the villain? Let's go snowboarding! OK, now…

I might be playing some more Shadows of Mordor. Over the past few days I've gotten 100% completion, with all of my abilities and upgrades unlocked to boot.

SPOILERS (for a 17 year old game)

You should play Shovel Knight if you haven't, especially if you're in the midst of a Mega Man kick.

Guerrilla gets points docked for not having an updated GeoMod system. Sure, collapsing buildings is great fun (albeit not very physically accurate), but why can't I tunnel through the earth to get to my next objective instead of fighting my way there? They could have done so much with that system, but completely threw…

The amusing thing is that Nier was spun off of the most batshit insane ending of Drakengard, wherein you and your dragon get sent to present-day Earth, with fighter jet dogfights and your dragon getting impaled on the spire of a skyscraper.

Yeah, once you come to terms that it's not a proper Banjo Kazooie game, it's a great game in its own right. However, a lot of that probably depends on how much you like constructing ridiculous Lego vehicles.

I liked it, but I would hardly call it essential. My favorite bit is the fact that you can assemble your own voxel dude/dudette/thing to defeat evil with, or you can just download something that someone else made. I think I spent a good chunk of time saving the world as Santa, a toilet, and a shark (you only see the…

I'd definitely second Deadly Premonition (I haven't played it actually, but watched an amazing Let's Play) and Red Dead Redemption. The former is available on Steam now, so it probably won't disappear into the annals of history like some of these others games. The latter is heavily rumored to be coming to PC as well…

I bet you were one of those people who were deeply affected by Disney declaring the Star Wars extended universe to not be canon. Nice double post, btw.

His loss.

That sounds excruciating. At least the scenery is nice.

I had gotten some glitch that made me invincible one run during that segment of the game, but was only able to get the Womb no damage achievement. However, I thought that Platinum God didn't require you to get those achievements (only picking up all the items). I should really get back into it since the sequel is…

I am the milkman. My milk is delicious.

Well, you could be at Tomb of the Giants very early on in the game (which is a huge troll if you do actually go there that early). Basically you just need to beat the 4 Lord Soul bosses and you'll be at the endgame, so it depends on how many other Lord Souls you've acquired.