Your boss names for the Souls games are consistently some of the funniest / most accurate descriptions of the bosses I’ve seen. Mecha-Shiva Princes is such a perfect reference. Thank you for the laugh.

Just go out and kill a few beasts. It’s for your own good!

Playing Bloodborne again, for some reason.

How I imagined Nathan while he was eating this:

Damn, that is excellent. Well done. Please do use my approval as proof for Mrs. Bassbeast that this is a necessary purchase.

Thank you for all your time, your writing, and your editing. You will be missed, but you leave the site in good hands. As you say, the rest of the staff is a cut above the rest. You had a good eye for picking new talent. Take care, and good luck.

I never played them, so this looks like a great opportunity to finally dive in. So much for reducing my backlog.

Yeah, I didn’t even know about that issue until about 3/4 of the way through the game, by which point I had just happened to level it up enough. Probably would’ve made for a smoother experience if I had known about it.

Palpable? Basically, it’s when a feeling is so intense as to seem like a physical object. In From Software’s other games, the difficulty was often lessened by finding co-op help. But in Sekiro, since there’s no multiplayer, there’s simply no way to make the hard parts easy. It definitely makes the experience of…

As a kid, I had a gym teacher who, when we were running, would joke that we were like “molasses in January”. When I finished Bloodborne and moved to DS2, that was all I could think of.

DS2 didn’t click with me at first. It definitely took a bunch of leveling up before I got comfortable about 10 hours in. It’s a minor miracle I stuck with it that long. DS3 definitely benefitted from incorporating bloodborne’s engine - the first two are fun, but I always felt like I was moving my character through…

I remember those giants, not to mention the electric demon gargoyle things. For a little while, I tried fighting them every time I died to the archers, but it just became too much. DS1 was my first From Software game, and I recall this being the point where I realized that running by the enemies can be a valid…

I think those damn archers are one of the worst parts of the game. Once you get by them, the rest of Anor Londo... well, it’ll still suck, but at least you’ll enjoy yourself more.

I’m going to try finishing Sekiro. I’m at the last boss. So far, each main boss in the game has taken me between 1 and 3 hours to beat. Isshin may take me a bit longer, though... Wish me luck.

I specifically remember bragging about the hard drive to a friend in school. As I recall, he was jealous.

Lol, that sounds awful. No, my dad was (is) a computer programmer, and my mom was, for a time, a computer artist, doing medical illustration for textbooks in 3d studio. So they were both computer savvy. That’s probably why they were so comfortable with my gaming, because they were maxing out their daily screen time…

Similar to you, Alexandra, my parents were almost completely hands-off. I say almost, because in my memory I can’t remember any limitations, but I know that can’t be right. So there had to be something I’m just not remembering. But my mom and dad had games on our DOS based computer, and they got me an SNES for…

Sonic 3d Blast was pretty much the last sonic game I played until Mania, so I can’t remark one way or the other on most of the games in this list. I will say, however, that I think Sonic 1 on Genesis should be lower down on the list. Sure, Sega took the parts that worked and ran with them (pun unironically and unashame…

I won’t be playing anything. Well, I’ll make a bit of progress with my son in Mario Odyssey, but for myself? I need a moment. I just finished the Demon’s Souls remake on Tuesday night, and wanted to take a little time to consider my next game. But Wednesday really threw me for a loop. More than I would’ve expected…

Looking back on his work, I remember some of it. I didn’t quite realize how long I’ve been reading this site. What awful news. I’m sorry for your loss.