While the list definitely skews toward the newer stuff, I’m surprised that there weren’t any mainline Shin Megami Tensei or older Pokemon games that made the list. No Souls games either?

My thoughts exactly, FO4 doesn’t look that much better than New Vegas. I’d much rather see NV redone in Fallout 2's engine. The combat could actually be interesting and it might not crash all the time.

“... in terms of a demographic majority, I don’t know that a nation can exist without one...”

WAIT, but I though Japan only censors stuff for the PC gaijin! It’s almost like different cultures have different sensitivities for what is permissible in mass media!

Ah yes, the classic ‘hire coolies to hold ribald placards’ rag. It brings me fond memories of my own waggish antics during my time in the Bombay Grenadiers. *sips tea*

Except...not really. The West German government has always been full of old SS buddies.

That’s exactly who unmaned death machines SHOULD be used on.

I know what you mean, I play ARMA as well as flight sims and historical wargames. It’s honestly scary how many right wingers and more recently, self-declared fascists, are attracted to these sorts of games. You’d like to think people that are capable of playing games that complex would be more historically…

I wasn’t trying to claim any racing game as exemplar. In fact, I think that racing games have in many ways lagged behind the improvement of actual racing organizations. I think some of this has to do with the fact that most of the major racing games don’t pay for licensed series, thus aren’t required by reality to…

While I agree generally with you, I think you’re being a bit too reductive by conflating NFS with the racing/driving genre as a whole. Yes, NFS is probably (?) the highest selling franchise and is the most sexualized, but it is marketed at a younger (male) audience than other big franchises like Gran Turismo or Forza.…

uhhh....Legend was in a very small minority of 80s fantasy movies. ( one of the few with a decent director and writer) The large majority were trashy Sword n Sorcery types like Conan (obviously), Deathstalker, The Beastmaster, and Barbarian Queen. Not-so-coincidentally this also the same period as Dragonlance and its…

I would have never guessedthat sports games are at the bottom. The franchises the study analyzed (2K, FIFA, NFL) all have at least ~1/3 female viewership on TV.

The country does not necessarily have to be at war; declared or otherwise. And “informal” or undeclared wars are certainly nothing new in US history, the Quasi War is the reason the Logan Act was passed. Article III of the Cons. defines treason as(the only crime defined in it):

Yup. The Parthenon (and other contemporary Hellenic temples) used a ton of little geometric tricks which this diagram does a nice job of summarize. Though AFAIK, entasis only specifically refers to a slight convex bulge near the base of columns which counteracts an optical illusion where truly straight columns appear…

How was anyone ever under the impression that Nintendo was ever significantly more “family-friendly” than its competitors? They were just a bit more selective about what they didn’t export to or censored for the NA/EUR markets. Peach seems like a complete non-issue compared with what they’ve been doing with Samus.…