The achievements granting bonuses was neat, but I’m not sure if I’d lump them in with the RPG elements.

I think 3 is the platonic ideal of Mass Effect.

I think the idea is supposed to be that Snoke is deliberately manipulating Kylo, weakening and corrupting him, but honestly, Kylo is by far his own worst enemy.

Both were wrong. They got the bare facts right (Rey saw that Kylo would kill Snoke which did happen, and Snoke saw that Kylo would kill ‘his greatest enemy’ which also happened), but both totally failed to understand the context of those events, and what they actually meant. Which, as it turns out, was the most…

His legs definitely fall off the throne, which got a good laugh at the theater I saw it in, so I may be misremembering him actually poking them.

Doesn’t Hux poke the lower half of Snoke’s body when Kylo tells him Rey killed Snoke?

The map clearly wasn’t made by Luke, since (I seem to recall), parts of the whole came from Imperial sources. More likely, Luke told someone he was going to some backwater Jedi planet that only he knew the location of and then anyone looking to find him had to reconstruct the map.

Is the Dark Side that reputable a source of information?

Or did Rey believe he was telling the truth because he read her own unspoken beliefs and told them back to her?

Plus he may very well be seeing her own unconscious beliefs about herself and her past and assuming they’re true.

I don’t really buy the line Kylo gave her about her parentage. I think he was being sincere, but since we just came off both Rey and Snoke totally misinterpreting Force visions (Rey assumes Kylo will turn to the Light; Snoke thinks he’ll kill Rey), I think it’s fair to question how accurate Kylo’s interpretation is,…

I don’t know that he’s lying - I feel like he was being honest when he told her that - but I also don’t think he was RIGHT.

Claiming there is no randomness in sports is a genuinely nonsensical thing to claim, and undermines the entirety of your argument.

ABC: Always be closing.

Apollo Justice finally got a 3DS release? Guess what I’m buying when I get home!

The problem with tier lists, and I think this gets to what you’re saying, is that most of their value lies in the higher ends of competitive play. The vast, vast majority of players of any game aren’t in the most rarefied echelons of competition where the most granular differences that determine all but the most…

The most I’ve ever been into a single fighting game was probably MvC 1 and 2, and my fighter de jeur was Dan. Pink gi wearing, autograph throwing, five+ taunt having joke character Dan Hibiki, whom I was nearly undefeated as, since everyone knew he was a joke character not worth picking, thus not worth learning to…

I understand that items DO add randomness to a given match, but isn’t that why many regular sports use series to determine a winner? Play three or so games, and you can be pretty confident that the randomness has evened out to no net advantage for either player.

That... is not okay.

And that’s certainly fine. No one’s saying that you have to like something. I just don’t understand why, when there are SO MANY FRIGGIN’ GAMES, people feel the need to amputate part of a game instead of just playing one that’s already missing the thing they don’t like. If you like racing games but not items, why not…