It’s funny, because I’ve only actually seen the “5-star” meta click in at the end game a couple of times. Usually (either win or loss), the game is pretty much over just as people are getting to 10.

FFIX always struck me as a kind of “cover band” version of Final Fantasy. It hit all the right notes, but the end result felt like something that lacked the magic of previous entries (perhaps because Sakaguchi was more focused on FFX and the FF movie). Also, you know, all the sexism.

The Rock spent the early part of his movie career making artistically bold choices (albeit with ultimately not so great projects). He’s been pretty open about how much he feels burnt by that portion of his time as a film star.

You can get around blocking sites. But it might be just as simple as throttling internet connections. IE noone gets more thant 5mbs

There is also the distinction between it being a good and important piece of art (it is!) and one that the viewer likes (it’s really alienating!).

EVA is much more like a book where the entire thing is building to a point at the end, one that isn’t really revealed until the finale and post-finale bookend movies. (Which isn’t to say that they make it “good” so much as the whole thing is more like chapters than “episodes” and they don’t really work in a vacuum.)

The trick with Artifact, way way more than the pricing structure, was that, and I can’t stress this enough, IT WASN’T FUN TO PLAY.

It was also the sort of game that sort of made you feel stupid for not having fun with it, so there were a lot of people who were like “I totally respect this, it’s great” and then never…

The general vibe I get from Destiny right now is that the habitual, every-day players are pretty happy, but the more “casual” (“casual” in quotes there because I’m talking about players who have 100-300 hours logged, generally), are dropping off.

The trick is how to structure the “reset” big expansions in the fall to…

As someone who did fire up Wrecking Zone in the first couple of days after release ... boy howdy was that thing half-baked. It really had the air of one of those “tacked on at the last minute multiplayer modes from an N64 game.”

Just to be clear: This is a bug, not part of some sort of marketing plan (as evidenced by the fact that it happens even after you own the DLC in question).

A lot of noise will be made about the business model. And that model wasn’t especially welcoming. But the real reason the game didn’t have any legs was because it wasn’t very fun to play. It was very clever, it gave the impression of being fun, you could see how someone who was 10 thousand exploding brains at CCGs…

This has been up for a couple of days, and I’m surprised that no one has mentioned it here yet: but because this is the final episode, your choices can have more drastic results on how the story ends than in other Walking Dead Seasons. (Because they don’t have to account for them in future releases.)

If you don’t like h…

This is really weird to happen right before their earnings, no? Isn’t this in their quiet period?

I’m a little bit confused by calling “Horizon: Zero Dawn” “bracingly difficult.” On easy and normal you can win by basically just spamming the dodge roll in most fights. It’s got a “story” difficulty where it’s essentially impossible to die. It’s on the same list as Monster Hunter World, Bloodborne and, hell, even God…

Counterpoint: The first Halo games were always primarily “campaign” focused games (despite so much of the conversation being about competitive multiplayer). When Halo 3 was released, over half the people who bought it never connected their 360s to the internet. And the Master Chief collection always generally got…

I feel like at least half the people I know who regularly play games have had this or some variation of this happen to them. It’s such a stupid system, doubled by the fact that it defaults to signing you up with an account that matches the email used for the system level account (which isn’t the same one as my EA…

Not going to lie: like 90% of sneakerhead sneakers look like clown shoes. I’m not sure how these ones look worse. They look better than most!

They are fairly religious, but they also make a point to pay a higher-than-minimum wage/living wage to their employees (from what I understand). So “right-wing” might be a misnomer.

It’s pretty easy to switch crews (it’s like equipping a different sword), and there is a female crew you can get for, I think, 10 ubisoft club points when you start the game.

Ah, I remember Firmware 2.0, which changed so much it actually broke a bunch of games!