Is it OK to wait to get this story in a trade? I like the format better than single issues.

To be fair, Ayers is a mediocre writer that has played a large part in the poor direction the DCU has taken to date.

AA games are still going strong. The last few years, mid sized devs have been making ambitious unique games with generally okay results: The Sinking City, Greedfall, etc.

Are the graphics really bad? Looks great from all the clips and images I’ve seen.

So three swings and three misses for Deck13's Souls-alikes. I think the scientific method puts things to rest.

Ahh so you’re one of those people that doesn’t think objectivity in art exists, huh?

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Oh god, the present has made an ascetic of me. The only thing that feels normal is sitting there being not-in-the-mood with people who don’t call back.

This movie is so meandering, so stuffed with easily excisable scenes whose revelations wick off with the arrival of the next fit-for-the-cutting-room-floor vignette, it’s as though everyone made this all up as they went along. What a strange effect for an adaptation of a legendary Stephen King book to have.

This game owns. There must be hundreds of little jokes tucked into Oldest House, from “Threshold Kids” to the cheery Lost-like instructional videos to the rubber duck ominously placed in a containment cell. And Remedy has the confidence to let you walk right past so much strange, hilarious material.

I have a vague recollection that the description takes up all or nearly all of the chapter.

See also: Games that chastise you for using violence while also giving you no other input option other than violence.

I always viewed it as actually being on a whaling ship. He looks for a ship and enjoys the beginning of the voyage when everything is fresh and new. Then you get out to sea and there’s nothing to do besides talk about whales and dicks and that’s where the book becomes a grind, only to pick up when they see some…

I don’t know if there are better mystery books today than the old masters. Sir Doyle, Dame Christie. There was a reason they were knighted. Amazingly good books. They aren’t nearly as cliche as you would think.

My take on Moby Dick, and other “difficult” works (Infinite Jest, anything by James Joyce, etc), is that they aren’t really meant to be read as books. They are a literary ink blot, something that literary minds can take as a starting point for deep musings about the human condition.

I stand by my oft-repeated opinion that anyone trying to get you to read Moby Dick is upset that they wasted their own time, and just want to watch someone else suffer.

This really doesn’t sound any better than the fake ending on Wikipedia. Not sure I want to see Brad and Leo murder some teenaged girls.

Other than that, I may do a little bit of AC Odyssey, as I am close to finishing up the main story (original, not DLC).

Do we think that Tyrese had to clear this feud with the marketing department?

There has been always been a term for this kind of game: adventure. Adding exploration in there gives it some specificity. But relying on an amalgam of two basically dead series, one of which barely belongs in the genre, is weird.