Uh, spoilers, I guess?

Well, that’s the thing: once any kind of multiverse and/or branching timeline situation is uncorked, that’s that. Sure, some people will feel like nothing matters, but other people will understand that you can tell a meaningful story in World A and then tell another meaningful story in World B.

In the first game, Sobek’s choice was portrayed as easy. She knew  that fuckin’ Faro’s gray goo was the end of her round of human civilization. There was zero hope. Far Zenith was portrayed as a last-ditch backup plan with little hope of success, and its failure only hammered that point home.

He’s a research-and-recall savant, but you’re absolutely right that there’s a spark missing. A lot of times, that extensive research also results in agonizingly long buildups to questions that fail to justify them.

Jinx was next-level. So far, I’m not seeing that same caliber, here

The Foundation books were all about the big ideas and big-ass plot twists. That’s not something that holds up well on a re-reading unless you’ve forgotten most of them.

You can accuse Batman’s writers of rigging the game, but it’s been well-integrated into the Batman/Wayne mythos that Wayne tries to help the city just like his father did, but playing by the rules doesn’t work. Of course, you can argue that Batman’s antics don’t, either, which then transitions into a discussion of why…

Many quick robot enemies have dart-dashes that make melee a huge chore as well. It’s just an awful experience all around. That could be the anti-melee gimmick that forces you to use traps or ranged instead, even if you’ve built out your melee character... or, you know, that could make them a priority for stealth…

I agree 100%. HZD was something special that was executed very well — and yet, tragically, in a way that doomed future entries to unfavorable comparisons.

It stands to reason that a game that’s critiquing and deconstructing virtue-signaling-slash-murder-hoboing in other CRPGs is fully dedicated to playthroughs where you murder-hobo a lot less and get stuff done in dialogue scenes instead (though maybe some murder in said scenes, just for a treat.) As a bonus, you’re…

You just need to ask yourself how much more impressive a given hero’s rolodex is than his own shit, and Wilson’s got a big problem there.

I never got around to reading the book(s), and I was having trouble buying into the suspension-of-disbelief contract in the very first episode. “Everything is wrong... sent from my smartphone, which still works just fine... so I guess I’ll kill myself then.”

It’s not weird at all, because games are manipulative time-wasters in a way that classic novels simply aren’t. Even chintzy fantasy series that accumulate a dozen entries are just feeding the fans the cotton candy that they want to eat. Video games are carving out a unique niche where they’re insisting that you spend…

Stardew Valley / Streets Of Rogue crossover. I didn’t enjoy SoR’s puerile and nihilistic sense of humor, but man, it had some pretty neat ideas for low-rez procedurally generated chaos.

I think it’s interesting to contemplate whether Garland’s British-ness is an important consideration, here. Britain has been remarkably resistant to fully committing to any ideology or government type. They clipped the monarchy’s nuts, but not completely, and didn’t get rid of it. They clipped the House of Lords’…

I think it’s fairly rare for anybody of any importance to fancy themselves the bad guy in their own story — maybe a few angry teenagers here and there, and the occasional serial killer. Thus, I don’t think it’s uniquely or unduly scary that American Nazis fall into an ever-so-common mold.

She’s right about this, but I have to admit that there are easily half a dozen killer titles for a sequel that each hint at a new setup for hijinks and hilarity.

Uh... Randall Park is one of the most famous impostors in television history. It’s fifty-fifty that at some point his character in this show will claim that his real name is Jim.

Oh boy, time to hate the other side’s Two Minutes Hate for two minutes!

Unfortunately, sometimes you actually do need a real legal and political education to understand things.