If I had to guess, they are trying to make sure the article they write surpasses the 4,300 word Ubisoft novel that came out yesterday. (It really is 4,300 - I copypasta’ed into Word to check). 

The Saturn is very beloved in Japan.

Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder is actually a pretty big deal. It’s never had any sort of home release.

Yeah, to get the first 3 seasons of SAO plus the movie, it’s like over $650. It’s insane.

Current sets. Aniplex eventually releases non-’limited’ sets that are a lot cheaper than their initial sets. Gurren Lagann had a crazily priced original release. Their ‘recent’ (but still overpriced) $150~$200 releases are actually them compromising to provide for the non-Japanese market. That price is still insane…

I prefer physical media. For games/movies and such. Part of it is some obsessive tendencies involving collecting and organization, part of it is living in an area where I used to lose connection often thanks to a shoddy ISP provider. I’ve since fixed the ISP issue but the paranoia is real.

 I admit I rarely buy most recent releases these days, but I have a collection that extends back to the early days of companies like Animeigo, CPM/USMC, ADVision, Pioneer, Viz et al. Many of these you won’t see digitally, like Urusei Yatsura, Kishin Heidan, the full Gunbuster (not the compiled movie), Maison Ikkoku…

No they won’t. Aniplex pretty much treats their physical media releases as collector’s items since they’re box sets are usually filled with fluff like postcards/artbooks to jack up the price. They’re basically targeting “whales” amongst their audience/market. They make their money back in the long term through…

Because of downloads and streaming? I can see that, but lots of us still want to own physical copies for a number of reasons. We can’t always depend on affordable streaming services to carry everything we like forever, and collectors like to have their own libraries.

Hey Nathan, just wanted to bring up something for your consideration that I remember used to come up on Compete. Use it don’t use it, it’s your call.

In a detailed article like this, if you are not intensley familiar with all the people involved it can get confusing keeping track of everyone. But that is exaccerbated…

It’s using the engineering from Seige Sideswipe

I would gather Gigawatt is a heavily-retooled version of the most recent Sideswipe toy from the Siege line. Though Armada Wheeljack cribbed pretty heavily from G1 Sideswipe, so you’re not too far off.

You asked Ubisoft to abolish the police?

If game sales had stayed static to the 90s- this would be true.

I don’t think they ever say, but I’d agree whatever medical supplies still exist in the game’s world are...probably dicey to put inside oneself, at best.

Just shaved his head.

Uhh...if you rush the main story of FNV and Skyrim while completely ignoring all the optional side quest/stories/interactions those games are probably shorter than TLOU2.

My biggest issue with TLOU 2 is that it’s messaging is so muddled.

I loved it precisely because it made me feel like I’d been punched in the gut for 30 hours.

I could not possibly agree more with this take. THAT sounds like GOTY material, not this pretentious misery. Your game sounds bold and brave and beautiful and capable of evoking fear and uncertainty and wonder in ways this one never could.