Been playing Transistor. As someone who thought Bastion was overrated, I have to say..

The “Chainsaw Monday” reference got me a-googlin’, and I just finished Ken Williams’ sad message to Sierra employees about all the things that happened to the company, and now I’m bummed. Better things should have happened for those crazy Williams’s!!

Makoto is definitely my fave in Persona waifus full stop

Tell him it’s better for the equipment to stay away from dust and run the fan occasionally, which would be easily done by storing it at your house....

Did he take the entire thing apart and put it away? Seems strange.. even in the periods where I’m playing some non-VR game for awhile, the stuff just sits there, I don’t have to disassemble it or anything.

I’m copying myself, but my other comment was well after the discussion was over, so..

One thing I wish Thimbleweed hadn’t mimicked perfectly from its source material is the terrible voice acting. I had to turn it off, and I’m rarely affected by voice acting! Although, it may just be the nature of the genre, having people spout adventure game dialogue.. the last adventure game I recall playing was Deponi…

Loved Revengeance. Like most Platinum games, I struggled through the first two levels or so, sucking mightily, but once the gameplay systems ‘clicked’ I started over and loved every second of it. My only nitpick, and it is small, is that when I went back to try and S-Rank every scene on Hard(because of how much I…

Great article. NMH is definitely a piece of work that can spawn some very.. ahem.. spirited discussions, because it deals with some problematic stuff with enough of a wink to claim satire, but at the same time purposefully blurring lines as part of its interest in involving the player in the question of what the lines…

I’m inclined to agree about killer7. It’s the kind of thing that really engages me, although it’s also the kind of thing that I would hesitate to recommend to anyone. It’s just such a weird, unique experience — in both good ways and bad ways — that I think I’m kind of amazed I enjoy it, and don’t know why, and that…

I mean, there is *some* correlation between talent and pay in Hollywood, but it’s still much more of a popularity contest. This might be wrong in the sense that in a perfect world, talent would correlate perfectly with popularity.. but not in the sense that the current popularity-based pay scale is skewed incorrectly…

I guess we’re in the same boat, because all of those statements apply to me!

I do have the DLC (my Switch came with BotW with a season pass), but have been holding off til I explore everywhere first. I actually may go ahead and tackle it before tackling the Yiga clan.. seems like a good time for it. I have gotten all the DLC armor and such while exploring.. I love the Korok mask, as it makes…

DDLC is definitely a special creature. I think it and Hatoful Boyfriend will both appeal to people who aren’t usually VN fans (which I include myself in). Ultimately I liked HB better, but DDLC is free and doesn’t take nearly as long to get to the really good stuff.

This looks a lot like SpaceChem... (googles).... A NEW SPACECHEM?!?

I really loved SpaceChem, even though I never finished it. I got burnt out spending 3-4 hours on some of the last few puzzles, they were brutally tough, and if I have that sort of mindspace to spare these days, I need to spend it on work!

That said, I’m…

A couple of the middle levels in that game are among the best I’ve seen. Really clever.

The way I enjoy the games the most is to just power through and kill stuff the first time, treating it as a ‘recon’ mission to learn the layout and possible strategies. Then a second ghost run using that knowledge is quite fun. But…

Finally, I will be able to take my beloved Mutant League Champs to the championship that eludes me in the Gameological FF League! I thought this was my year, but alas, I defeated by the dreaded “having a better team” strategy and relegated to second place!

Woulda been nice to have that stuff in SFV back in the day, although my main interest was whupping up on my friend who has now moved onto Injustice 2 and a place whose internet is not solid enough to play him in it.

I tried out Yume Nikki after the article this week, and.. I think without being there for all the…

Valiant Hearts is such an overlooked gem. I kinda wish it was a smash success, because it’s the kind of ‘edutainment’ I could really learn a lot from. I know so much about WW1 thanks to wiki holes spawned by that game!

I’ve still been mainlining Skyrim VR, and I’m around the point where I got tired of the 2D version (bout 30 hours in). I do still think the characters and dialogue are dull, and the combat is pretty basic. But, dammit, when a dragon swoops in over a mountain range and I’m watching it fly over my head and land behind…