I do have to wonder if the big difference between EA’s sports titles and EA’s non-sports titles is that the former tend to be bought by people who are not deeply invested in video games and as such don’t have such lofty (perhaps unrealistic) expectations. Like I know a lot of sports-folk and they’re really excited for…

I don’t care about season passes, day 1 DLC, lootboxes, or microtransactions. But I do NOT want to play a Bioware game that requires me to interact with random strangers in order to get through it. I mean, my friends list on Steam and XBL are empty for a reason.

I think it’s because my least favorite part of any game is that introductory period where I develop “fluency” in the game’s systems so I understand what I want to do, how to do it, and can do it without experiencing frustration. This usually takes me like 3-4 hours with a game, unless I was just playing one a lot like…

Are any of these particularly well-suited to making the point that “watching other people play video games is fun”? Personally the extent of “watching other people play video games” I’ve done is watching EVO and the events that lead up to it, and the idea of “watching someone else play a single player video game when…

You know, I kind of like Satoshi Kon’s other two films (Millennium Actress and Tokyo Godfathers) more than Paprika and Perfect Blue, but regardless you should just watch them all. I sort of gave up on anime after Kon died since I couldn’t find anybody else in the medium doing anything as interesting as he was. Hope…

The Protagonist in Fallout 4. If you’re actually interested in letting people play a character of their own devising, please let me just read the protagonist’s lines in the voice in my head. Plus, since you don’t have to pay a voice actor for every line of dialogue, you can have many more of them, so we can avoid the…

Strongly concur on the Mass Effect Trilogy, New Vegas, and Black Flag. I’d also really like to play Saint’s Row 4 on the Switch. New Vegas is my #1 with a bullet, but I half-suspect that Bethesda doesn’t want to really trot that one out because of all the people who strongly prefer it to either of Bethesda Game…

The thing I’ve always wondered is why not make difficulty something that is super-modular. You can give the game a very different feel by, say, turning enemy health down but turning all damage way up. Doesn’t necessarily make the game *easier* but it makes it something that you might like more.

Can someone explain to me why loot boxes in Overwatch aren’t similarly controversial? Or is this just a “frog in hot water” situation where we’re used to that, but Battlefront II is new?

So if I’ve never played Call of Duty and haven’t played Madden since the Sega Genesis, I shouldn’t pass this up? Will six months be enough to finish all of them?

The only thing I wanted to do with Curators is the ability to mute, ignore, etc. any curator that I know I don’t care what they think. There are lots of curators like “Games that aren’t 60fps” or whatever that I simply don’t care about as well as ringleaders for the very worst of “Gamer” behavior that I’d prefer to…

I will not rest (not really) until all of my favorite genres get improbably mashed up with rhythm games. Between this and Necrodancer, now I’m mostly waiting for some kind of rhythm-stealth game.

If you hadn’t said “Lawful Good” in the title, I would have thought “Redeeming D&D’s Worst Alignment” would have been about Chaotic Neutral i.e. “The DM said I can’t be CE so I’ll write CN on my character sheet instead.”

I got “Alive Peeing” which I sort of understand (not that it’s explicit but that it exists.) The open-world Bethesda style game I have enjoyed the most by far is New Vegas, in part because the Hardcore mode really clicked with me. I get that people find “having to eat, drink, and sleep regularly” is tiresome but I…

This probably shows my age, but I sincerely don’t understand why anybody would want to watch someone else play Minecraft. That’s like watching someone else assemble LEGOs; sure maybe they’re better at it than you are but actually playing the thing has to be more fun right? It’s not like the difficulty or complexity…

The vaguely amusing part for me is that “Garbage Human” is just such a gentle insult, that seeing the “I’m un-PC, I don’t care who I offend” crowd getting up in arms about it shows some pretty clear hypocrisy or at least “can dish it out but can’t take it.”

I’m pretty confused about the corner of Youtube that feels that it’s their right or obligation to “debate” everyone that happens to annoy them. To me it seems fairly clear that debate is productive provided two things are true:

On paper it probably looks better than trading prime Kevin Garnett for Al Jefferson, Ryan Gomes, Gerald Green, Johnny Flynn, Wayne Ellington, Theo Ratliff, and Sebastian Telfair at least.

I really don’t like first person shooters (they give me motion sickness), but on the other hand I really hate Nazis. So I’m conflicted as to whether or not I would enjoy this game.

I do not have a 4K TV and it’s practically unthinkable that I will purchase a 4K TV until I move to another place. I literally do not have room for a screen that’s more than about 44" in the living room area, and 4K at that screen size basically makes no sense unless you sit <5 feet from your screen.