When it came time to begin work on Episode Three, however, nobody could come up with a unifying idea that possessed the sense of “wonderment, or opening, or expansion” that had come to characterize Half-Life internally.

My wife, our son, and I each have our own copy of the game. When we started today, we wanted to make sure we each had a different starting fruit. My wife got to her island first (just barely!) and got oranges. She was pleased with this result. Moments later, the camera pans over my own island... oranges. With an…

As a victory dance, I shall post my Pikmin one I did today. Thanks for the pick and as ever, well done to everyone who took part for a great week of entries.

It was TOTALLY the bomb in her in Ground Zeroes. I remember laughing my ass off when I first saw that. It like when they stick a mature joke in a cartoon, like they did all the time in Rugrats.

I would be 100% OK with replacing trophies with Spirits if they just had a little paragraph of flavor text, especially since you’re not gonna get a lot of the references unless you’re knowledgeable of the series in question.

“I remember a weird show on Animal Planet suggested that in 200 million years they would evolve to take our place as the smartest animals on the planet.”

Others pointed out that there was something off or uneasy about the figurines as those steps were skipped.

It’s not often that the creator of something is wrong about his own creation.

oof. that’s a lot of broken weapons!

Pretty sure she was just tan etc. As the black characters from the game like Nessa etc. are not washed at all. I think people are digging too much into it honestly. 

Seems like much ado about nothing. There’s barely even a difference.

That last image does all the talking for me. Hair is darker in-game, clothes are darker in-game, skin is darker in-game. Everything is darker in-game.

I must be blind because I’m not seeing a difference. I mean, maybe she’s slightly darker in the official artwork, but she’s far from what I would call a different race so calling it whitewashing doesn’t make much sense to me.

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At the end of the day the whole argument that Ellie should die to the Firefly scientists is an argument that defies both in game and real world logic..

I think the thing about the discussion though is that it ignores one key element, which is that it assumes the Fireflies can do what they claim to be able to in synthesising a cure when in my view on the game it very much foreshadows that the fireflies have no idea what the hell they’re doing and, much like the…

The fact that they remove entire radio stations from the game over time is reason enough to never trust “games as a service” or even digital only (yes I’ve been digital only on PC for 15+ years). If i want to play the original Vice City I only need to pop the disc in my ps2 and fire it up, but the same isn’t possible…

Those Meddling Kids!

The only Sonic that Robotnik needs to get is a Route 44.