At least now we’re less likely to confuse him and the Bioware guy, since one is working on games still and one isn’t.

This sounds familiar. I’m pretty sure I went through all of this in 2008-2009 when the (numerical) sequel to one of my favorite games of all time, wasn’t really doing it for me.

It’s such a strange off-putting phenomenon when people who genuinely adore a work that is a smart, charming, thoughtful, and positive piece of media, and turn around to be frankly incredibly toxic towards people who don’t like it as much as apparently they are supposed to.

I mean, there’s nothing objective about how people feel about a game and if the editors here didn’t like it that much, then they didn’t like it that much.

Fallout 4 *really, really* needed the sort of “screw all you guys, I’m taking over” option that New Vegas had.

Good to see the Ubisoft blacklist is effective </sarcasm>

Revised order for the reposted version and a couple of years of thinking about Fallout.

Now I’m going to have this in my head all day, so I thought I should share:

This highlights to me what makes Fallout 4 so disappointing. As background, one of the reasons that I adored the first two Fallout games to the extent that I did is how well they mimicked the tabletop roleplaying experience without having to leave your home or coordinate with your friends. You could replicate that…

I think the Xbox One and PS4 entries are missing some mention of the “lack of free multiplayer” as this differentiates them from the other platforms on the list. Certainly there are benefits to a PS+ or Xbox Gold subscription, in the form of free games or discounts, but you still have to pay a subscription fee just to…

No Lord of Destruction? No Throne of Baal? No Old World Blues?

I’m assuming that the DE:HR that’s offered for free is not the director’s cut (which was released on the 360) but the original version with the terrible boss fights? Or are they giving out the superior version?

How could you forget about Crypt of the Necrodancer? This is some of Danny Baranowsky’s best work, and the game ships with two remixes of the original soundtrack (for Melody and Aria’s campaigns).

Fundamentally, it’s not about art it’s about business. Games (particularly games that get physical releases in multiple regions) are not “one person’s artistic vision” they’re collaborative products made by dozens or even hundreds of people all of whom probably see what they’re working on differently. So there’s no…

I voted for Undertale, not because I think it’s legitimately the greatest game of all time, but because I do think it’s better than Ocarina.

It’s really sort of funny that there’s so much fury about Undertale advancing so far when on the other side of the Bracket somehow Super Mario Bros. RPG made it to the final four.

Drew, you were on Chopped, so you should know this. A cookie press is really the only way to make authentic Alsatian spritzgebäck (literally “squirt cookies”); well I guess you could use a piping bag. You can’t get the same results with a cookie cutter because you’re literally making a different cookies. The butter to…

Really, “censorship” is so overused these days that it’s lost pretty much all meaning. If we’re just talking about “somebody selling it changed this piece of media because they thought it would sell better this way” that’s something that is going to happen almost 100% of the time. If you’re upset that something was…

Well, Roger Maxson was a U.S. Army Captain before the Great War, so the BoS Codex was in large part based on procedure for the U.S. Military. However, the point that New Vegas was making that in the intervening 200ish years since Roger Maxson became the first High Elder of the BoS, the operations manual has become…

Okay, this sold me on the Witcher 3. My number 1 complaint about most roleplaying games is that while I love roleplaying, I get bored with combat in video games quickly, particularly when combat it’s based on twitch reflexes more than strategy.