You would think, given the last three years, that people would’ve learned to spell “quarantined” - or that, given the last twenty or thirty, they’d learn to at least look at the spellcheck suggestions before slapping text into a shitty comic.

Gaider tweeted that this alleged cultural shift was a contributing factor to his departure in 2016, a year before EA acquired the studio.

Male Shepard is *allowed* to be gay in Mass Effect 3. Same with all of the Dragon Age protagonists and ME: Andromeda’s, as well as female Shepard (to some extent) in the earlier ME games.

it doesn’t seem like there’s an upper limit to how many stylish hats you can wear, which means your stack of hats can be as tall as you dream.

“[Devs] could say: ‘Oh, my God, you’re always online. If you get on your Steam, and it’s not online, you freak out. If you get on your Xbox, and you can’t get the latest patch, or see what your friends are doing, you freak out. You want to be always online!’ But that response, I think, lacks empathy.”

Yeah, between Tower of Fantasy and Torchlight Frontiers/Torchlight 3, I have very little faith that Perfect World will produce anything passably good out of this, unless design, gameplay/systems, and writing are all being handled by ATLUS themselves. Though, to their credit, it looks like they’re hewing pretty close…

I hear they pair rather well with a bag of Aldi’s nuts.

A PC release isn’t guaranteed to run on low-spec machines; the devs can always shrug and say “buy a better computer”. Currently, Microsoft doesn’t allow for devs to just release for the Series X and tell Series S users to suck it up.

That “custom NVME SSD” in the Series X is a PCIe 4.0 x2 drive, vs the PCIe 4.0 x4 drive in the PS4 - effectively, the Xbox drive has half the bandwidth, and the same theoretical maximum transfer rate as a PCIe 3.0 x4 drive even if it’s more likely to come close to hitting that rate.

Dehya is pretty lightly tanned, and even with that she’s only the fifth playable character (out of about 65 or so through the end of the current patch) that could be construed as non-white in any sense. It’s been a stronger point of contention in the last year or so because the current region draws a lot from Indian…

You have until April 30 to pick up Microsoft’s smaller, leaner Xbox for half-off its retail price

Putting aside that the break system doesn’t even seem to work this way, it’s really not. The Press Turn and One More systems just required you to hit the enemy weak point to gain a free turn (within limits). Persona games let you stun an enemy by using your follow-up to attack the same enemy’s weakness rather than…

Sorry, I think I missed out on how we concluded that Persona 5 invented turn-based RPG combat. Seems like you’d have to ignore 30 years or so of history to conclude “turn-based RPG” is “Persona 5-like”.

Correction: 2/10/23, 2:50 p.m. ET: The headline and text of this story previously misstated the age of the Nintendo Switch. It is soon entering its sixth year.

The biggest problem is nuance. Even if the studio decided to faithfully adapt the main plot (and honestly, even that seems to be a big ask), it’s very easy to fuck up characterization in a character-driven story. I have no doubt, for example, that too much focus would be put on “is Luka gay/trans/etc.” rather than…

It’s been three years now since the Steins;Gate adaptation was announced, and I thank God every day that absolutely nothing’s been heard of it since.

Unlike its predecessor Fire Emblem: Three Houses, players have an unlimited number of opportunities to rewind their ill-fated moves.

It’s pretty clear that Miller’s got dirt on someone important at WB - the only questions are who and what. I can’t really fathom how else they’d land major roles in two different big WB franchises, or (Flash aside) why they’d be kept on the Fantastic Beasts movies if Johnny Depp was too toxic to keep around.

Seriously, if an NPC gives me a quest that’s basically “let me show you the route to the next town over”, I expect a simple escort mission with a bit of dialogue, not a lore-dumping sidestory event chain that’s twice the size of the actual main quest for the region.

Other than load times, I don’t really recall having much in the way of issues with Three Houses, although as far as actual hardware goes I’ve only ever played it on the Lite, so maybe docked mode is different.