All things considered, at this point I’d say anything Rocksteady does is a day one purchase for me. 

I’ll be honest, this line

So to be clear, what’s immersion breaking in a historical game ISN’T single soldiers wiping out entire brigades of enemies, surviving RPGs to the face, respawning after death, fighting the same battle over and over, zombies, health packs, being able to pilot any enemy or friendly vehicle you find without any training, …

This is a genuinely cool feature. It’d be great if they’d implement it in older models as well - my mom got my dad an Apple Watch last year, and I’d absolutely be telling him to turn this feature on if he had access to it on his older model. 

No joke though, I’ve long thought that a first-person strategy game where the location of your command post was an actual decision, and you had to dispatch couriers with orders for your units (who, unless they were actually visible to you, would be represented on your map as their last known location) would be…

You should maybe read the link before making yourself look dumb - it’s friggin’ full of ‘So-and-so led an Army/military campaign/conquered a region’. So yeah, female generals all over the place.

The reasons not to do it are many - first of all, it’s NOT as simple as a toggle to change a variable: Should you let players set each culture’s chances individually, toggle between a couple of choices, or what? You’ll need to design UI for it (and depending on how granular you make this ‘simple’ choice, that could be…

And yet I have a feeling that the certain people would be defending ‘Don’t like it don’t play it’ as a totally fine defense, were people complaining about there not being any women Generals in the game.

I must have missed the part where Kotaku or The Concourse called for review bombs or for people at Insomniac to be fired over it.

As C.S. Lewis wrote, “To demand of the loveless and the self-imprisoned that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe: that till they consent to be happy (on their own terms) no one else shall taste joy: that theirs should be the final power; that Hell should be able to veto Heaven… Either the day must come…

Man, it boggles my mind that Bungie hasn’t yet realized that the most important thing isn’t to be able to bring stat rolls forward, but looks. I honestly care far less about being able to wear a piece of Year One armor that I like than being able to LOOK like I’m wearing that Year One armor.

Man, this makes me wonder what the chances any of the Pokémon I put in the Pokémon Bank are still there if I reup, given that I signed up for it two replaced debit cards ago.

I’m fairly certain there was water - if nothing else, one of the cities was a harbor town, wasn’t it?

Romance the stone. 

The Double Quarter Pounder exposes the critical flaw of the regular Quarter Pounder: too much bread for the meat. The regular Quarter Pounder needs to be made smaller and thicker so that it fits on a regular bun, then it’d be perfect. Failing that, a Double has the right ratio, even if I feel guilty for eating that…

The last part, about how good it feels to swing through New York, exactly captures why Mad Max is the only open world game I’ve ever 100%ed. Tearing through the wastes in my personalized battlecar was just so friggin’ FUN. I actually started to regret taking out enemy convoys and outposts because vehicle combat was…

I love it. It’s hilarious and sweet and good natured, and (most of) the main characters are decent people who care about their jobs and want to do good for their community. It’s an idealized vision of the police, but it’s one that feels aspirational rather than whitewashing, at least in my opinion. It’s not blind to…

In one of the Arkham games - I want to say Origins, but it might be City - there’s a possible fight you can have where Batman spots a convict on a rooftop. When you swoop in to check it out, you get jumped by ninjas who’d basically staked the guy out as a sacrificial goat to lure Batman in. Batman beats up the ninjas,…

I don’t know how I feel about a guy proposing to his grandmother though. 

I’m not a huge Punisher fan, but the way the inside of his mind was described in Max Landis’s Shocker: Legit sticks with me: