So was Yorkie for the entirety of her life until she met Kelly. I've been alone for a long time. By choice at first, but now it's just kind of the way things are. This episode got me right in the gut.

I hate shots.

Holy crap, I didn't even catch that, and the Stray Observation had me thinking them looking at the "car" on Instagram was a callback to a previous episode I'd somehow missed.

Fuck the club.

Haha, sorry for the inadvertent spoilers then! I enjoyed the ending of that particular story thread, but probably only because I finished it before the end of the main story.

"Tracking down a copy of Twin Snakes" isn't cheap, be warned. It costs as much today as it did brand new nearly 15 years ago.

Might I suggest getting MGSV Ground Zeroes before The Phantom Pain? It's the introduction to the story, and a great cheap way to get your feet wet with the mechanics and see if any of this is ultimately what you're interested in playing.

I think this was a direct response to the backlash that MGS4 received, based pretty much entirely on cutscenes length.

Umm…Paz is dead. It's Venom Snake that's the head case in those missions.

Yep! And her father directed 3 episodes.

Isn't that pretty much off the table at this point? The developer went under, and I believe there is some ongoing contention between them and Rockstar? Rockstar's initial hope was to make them something of a "Rockstar Sydney" type dev studio, but that all fell through during development.

Elizabeth in Bioshock Infinite is, IMO, one of the finest examples of an NPC companion. She's there largely as a plot mechanic, but she sometimes provides helpful info/loot and doesn't require you to constantly babysit her.

Rockstar's PC ports have a pretty spotty track record, though. I'm looking at you, Max Payne 3. Controls are botched on the Mac and for me it won't even launch in Windows. I ended up buying that game 3 goddamn times just to play it to its conclusion.

I loved Red Dead online. It was truly one of the more peaceful online multiplayer communities I've ever participated in. I got the Liars and Cheats DLC pack and usually would just sit around playing Liar's Dice and poker with strangers. It was nice. They were much better than the NPC's in single player, who never…

There were rumors there for a while that the voice actor who played CJ from San Andreas was in the recording booth again. And I think even photos of him with some of the GTAV voice cast? My understanding is that they were (for the first time I believe) bringing a character from the PS2 era into the world of GTAIV/V.

I didn't want to do this to you, but can't resist…you got his first name wrong too.

Red Dead Presupposes

Rumor has it it's set to be a prequel. There was a map that leaked a while back and appears to show a lot of the same locations, with obviously a larger map that expands beyond the territories of Redemption.

To be fair, that's likely because they wanted to distinguish Redemption from Revolver in a way that clearly said to fans of Revolver "this is neither the same kind of game nor the same world." With this one largely speculated to be a prequel, using the numeric sequel indicator makes sense. If it is in fact a prequel…

Zooey Deschanel's parents were also both involved, IIRC. One was an actress and the other a director of an episode or two? Or maybe vice versa?