I really want a Spider-Verse game but one where you get to make your *own* spider, like really go wild with the costume options, and hang out with other, more famous spiders. Shit, they could even lean into the RPG of it all and have you select dialogue and customize your quips and attitude and quip frequency. Make it…

I was definitely very bummed with just how much Alan Wake ended up injecting itself into Control, and I say this as somebody who loved Alan Wake. I don’t mind Bright Falls being an AWE, and I don’t even hate it getting its own DLC, but they really keep making it feel like AW is supposed to overshadow Control and that…

Then the fumblecoin was degalvanized from the shacklebur, which (obviously) led to some juice hodling into the ethersphere. This, quite naturally, led to a destabilization of the projected latency of the hit kitmunch snarfl (a .fitz of a whupf, for you laypersons). This is all why bypto (binary crypto, or Web9) will…

The amount of times I *haven’t* been trapped in quicksand is a lot more than I was expecting.

Ugh, you hit the nail on the head for everything. I remember reading some stuff ages ago that suggested in an alternate world, you’d have two games, one a galactic war against an interstellar threat—a war game—and the other, the frontier justice story about basically being space cowboys/spies/whatever spectres were.

Oh you know I 100% wasn’t actually thinking about the physical need for her to have done so before the end of the trilogy. That’s my bad.

Though maybe if she “survived” the ending somehow she still could, we just never see it.

I definitely get what you mean. Shepard starts as a good little soldier (I mean, they’re a pretty great one at the start, all things considered, but they are still ultimately that—a soldier, which follow orders), and they grow into this interesting character (on the strength of voice performances more than anything…

Does the galaxy of the future still have to cleave to patriarchal surname conventions? And even if so, does FemShep, of all people, give one single fuck? Her kid’s taking her name and dad’s gotta deal with it.

God, yes, THIS. There will NEVER be a way to satisfyingly answer anything in the OT, not without annoying so much of the fanbase who *didn’t* pick x, y, or z option. But the galaxy is great, the races, the overall dynamics. Just... do that. Soft reboot it if you have to, or set it so far in the future as to be a soft…

Cannot agree more with you. There were so many cool moments and even set-pieces in ME3 but even early on it was clear that the thing they had built was too big and ungainly to deliver on any of them. The best of Bioware’s games of this era (Dragon Age and Mass Effect) were the parts that focused on character (I…

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I’ll absolutely take a LoK remake. I feel like it could pretty easily translate to a soulslike formula, but one with a greater focus on story scenes. Conversely, something like Shadow of Mordor would work for Soul Reaver--populate different regions with procedurally-generated vampires, with the fixed brothers at the…

I have an alternate vision (that also surely cobbles largely from one of those “what if the prequels were good” things) along these lines.

I honestly always thought that fan theory was way more interesting than what we got, and would have made an excellent backbone of the conflict for the prequels.

Well that’s what I mean. This has languished in development for so long, been through, what, two reboots—three? Lost a bunch of leaders, like project leads and creative directors. Live service switch turned on partway through, then turned off again. A pandemic.

Good for them!

Yes! That’s the kinda stuff I mean--so out there, so strange. It’s just a shame that even that is just a set dressing, and you can’t really go any deeper to find out more.

I feel that. I’ve restarted a bunch of times and have never gotten to endgame. I burn out, and while there feels like ever more things to do, the actual things you’re doing don’t go deep enough to keep me, personally, going.

When I first tried this game it was like two years after release, and I was blown away by how much of a deeply unsettling cosmic horror vibe there was to it. I was really surprised because I didn’t really remember any reviews or whatever going into that, but I don’t think that undercurrent was something added…

I’m neither Diablo people nor Blizzard people, the only one I ever played was 3 and I thought it was great (I played well after the auction house thing), and then again when it showed up on Switch—and that game felt like it was built for the switch. Portability worked for that style of game way more than being locked…