George Dubya wanted to deal with illegal immigration by granting amnesty and citizenship.

“Studio art director Jan-Bart van Beek recently explained to Kotaku that the studio spent many hours watching BBC nature documentaries, which allowed Guerrilla Games to lay out a conceptual framework for Horizon’s visuals.”

The tweaked ending basically just made explicit what was previously implied. I don’t think it really changed much about it aside from giving angry people a pound of flesh.

I just replayed the whole trilogy, and I don’t agree on this at all. Choices did matter. What you do in Mass Effect 1 or 2 will definitely reverberate through 3. Just because the final choice is the same doesn’t negate that.

“I am the very model of Salarian style prejudice.”

If you finished it in a vacuum it probably wasn’t that egregious. I certainly didn’t think so; given that I was high on the adrenaline of the last few sequences. I feel as if everyone’s opinions are colored and enhanced by the echo chamber hate that was going on about it.

The release date ending was premium comedy.

Yeah, the writing on that sub-arc was pretty painful, particularly in comparison to just how solid the rest of the primary narrative line is.

...also, dem Manderville quests. When the absurd is written with purpose, it can be absolute gold.

Not sure I’ve ever seen an LPer with such a shitty opinion.

Come for the Chibi Cowgirl Tifa. Stay for the accurate representation of how annoying it is to try fighting those fucking Cactuars.

They’re not just going to spend 15 minutes talking about the debt, they’re going to spend 15 minutes talking about how terrible the debt is and what an urgent priority it must be to lower it at a time when there is basically no inflation so the US can borrow money basically for free. Now, and for the last several…

This is why I mention that in the post you just read completely.

With a giant hitbox like that, she’d pretty much have to be a tank of some sort. Which could be kind of hilarious, actually.

The iconic LA-Noire-Is-Super-Accurate article: