The essential problem when you’re selling food is that you can’t prove that it tastes better in an ad. The ad has to get you to buy it first before you can make up your mind about the product. So: cheap tricks and mashing the nostalgia button it is!

Is that the mission that takes you into the Jungle? I saw a clip of that online and admit I got twitchy. As much as I love that this game is set in Seattle, that they’re using real locations, and saying they’re commenting on the city’s social problems, I’m also not feeling great about running shooty-kicky-punchy-bitey…

Ahhh, and I just bought it for $55. Ah well. Not a massive difference. It’s tremendous fun, and worth it either way.

Ahhh, and I just bought it for $55. Ah well. Not a massive difference. It’s tremendous fun, and worth it either way.

Yeah, and to be fair, she was doing some SERIOUS damage. Still hilarious, though.

All I can hear in my head right now is the Q&A before the Critical Role live show earlier this year, where everyone was talking up the ridiculous powers they got to use at level 20...and Laura, who played the ranger, sardonically putting in, “I can shoot TWO arrows!”

If you’re overlooking a beautiful lake at your cottage, take the opportunity for at least a few minutes to put the Switch down and LOOK AT THE LAKE. I mean, seriously, please, in those circumstances, enjoy the ACTUAL gorgeous scenery that is RIGHT THERE, in the highest resolution you’re ever gonna get.

Makes sense. (Meanwhile, the mental image that flashed into my head was Prompto making an effort to calm down, be methodical, and plan his moves out strategically, until Noctis just charges in, warps everywhere in sight, and STABS EVERYTHING, leaving Prompto to let out a big, exasperated, “Dude, why do I bother?”)

The fact that they prioritized bringing Chris Hardwick back but didn’t bring Troy Baker back, and there’s still been no sign of any of Tales’ female characters in the footage I’ve seen (one of whom was, small detail, the other lead character), tells me...kind of a lot.

You’re all fired.

And this is why I still have my PS3.

I’m going to be spending this whole game going “nobody looks like themselves and they sound like a Critical Role episode and WHAT IS HAPPENING,” aren’t I. ;)

I platinumed FFXV without ever figuring out the Wait system. Every time I tried I got annoyed at it. At least button mashing was obviously serving me okay. This is not an endorsement of the combat system, however.

Yeah. As much as I wanted to play this — I’m one of the weirdos around these parts who never actually played the original, so this seemed like a great way to finally jump in — if the first thing you show me is a tedious multi-stage boss and a timed battle, two of my least favorite things in gaming, my enthusiasm is…

Oh, good. This is one a ton of my friends were hoping for, and I might well be swayed by it too. :)

Fun copy editing fact: adverbs modifying adjectives don’t take a hyphen. But you’re right: that IS both exquisitely detailed and insanely priced.

Meanwhile, remember when Halo was first announced?

It’s easily my favorite thing Telltale ever made.

“If I purchase a car, so long as I have parts and fuel, I have a car.”

Where I stopped reading this time: “if I used still used”

How does one have a heroic tail, exactly? Paint it with red, white, and blue stripes and add some spangles?