Today’s semi-wholesome content has brought a smile to my face.

Choosing between Ashley and Kaidan is the first real reminder to the player—dozens of hours into this space fantasy—that Commander Shepard, heroic as they are, is imperfect, that sometimes their victories are pyrrhic, and that consequence (the true currency of Shepard’s saga across the trilogy) will always be there to…

I think Bioware did an infographic a few years ago. Notwithstanding this comment section, they found that based on game data from ME3 (not data self-reported by players), Kaidan had the lowest survival and popularity rate of all the possible squadmates. He was at less than 2%, compared to Ashley’s 5-6%. Based on that,…

I’m calling it now: it’s just going to tell your Discord friends what you’re playing on PlayStation.

Is this some weird cult-like mantra that people must caricaturize/dehumanize/revile anyone that dares hold any opposing opinions whatsoever?

A libertarian is just a fascist who hasn’t met his cult of personality yet.

This quote will never not be relevant:

“they are just pervy, shallow fan service games and have very little substance.”

You just earned the Whataboutism Platinum Trophy!

From my understanding of Yoko Taro, he loves it when people sexualizes his characters. Even more if people make lewds of his characters and send it to him in a zip file. And looking at the character design of Kaine, it checks out.

not so hot on the achievement, and honestly? Not so hot on young guy Nier. I remember at the time a lot of people were upset that they “americanized” the game by adding old man Nier. I like him a lot! It was refreshing to play a JRPG as a tired old man. I felt like it really fit the vibe of the game, being a weary old…

Which in my experience is pretty typical for old men to do, so it gets points for accuracy.

He doesn’t save the world.

Well-spoken. If this were any other game, the criticism would be more justified. But a Yoko Taro game is all about holding a mirror in front of the player and asking him questions like “Do you enjoy killing hundreds of people, video game or not?”. (that was the deal with Drakengard, anyway)

I do not appreciate you denigrating daddy Nier, who is superior to baby Nier.

Turning one of my favorite characters, with a mouth as foul as her heart is big, into an object to gawk at in order to score invisible video game points is childish and offensive.

Pixar the best support a Bay Area company can provide: a buggy AI screening out the most offensive emails, three people getting paid Bay Point dollars for an Emeryville job reading the emails, and a windowless closet with Inside Out playing on a loop when they need moral support.

I’ll go one further and say that DA2, flaws and all, is the best Dragon Age game. Part of that is because the other two are also extremely flawed games, even if people don’t want to admit it or those flaws didn’t bother them for whatever reason. But I feel like everything I love in Bioware games - deep, interesting…

Just adding, never played an mmo before.

The next episode of MBMBAM will be Griffin just weeping quietly for 40 minutes.