Vault-Tec has always been portrayed as cartoonishly evil in the games. Every vault you discover has some horrifically (and sometimes humorously) bad experiment that V-T signed off on as potentially scientifically or socially redeeming, even though anyone sane would have said “this will end badly”.

You’re over on Reddit having a meltdown about Transformers One as well, huh?

Yeah, as a lifelong fan of shitty horror and Ebert, it was really Siskel that had the moral panic about 80s horror movies. Don’t get me wrong, they both hosted their special episode about the evils of slasher movies, but Ebert seemed much more willing to judge the movies individually while Siskel lumped them all…

This blows my mind. To me, going for a good hike is one of the best things you could do with your time, dodging rocks, and climbing trees is so much better than the bland sterility of a gym and treadmill. Unfortunately for me, I currently live at the bottom of an ancient lakebed and it’s about as flat as you can get,…

I’ve been thinking on it because although we enjoyed Kimmel’s swipe back, we were like “don’t give Trump any oxygen man!” but after thinking about it more.... his crimes are honestly so steep that I kinda think paying zero attention to him is actually being more humane than needed here. It’s kinda like how people…

Stern really has matured over the years, and everyone seems to judge him still based on how he was in the 80s and 90s.  I mean i get first impressions and what not.  Also, good.  Liberals, progressives, anyone not part of the rightwing/white supremacy alliance that has formed needs to push back.  How is woke a dirty…

I hate that this game is tied to sub quests, I wish it was entirely optional. I said I wouldn’t play it at all but found rank 1 and 2 to be pretty easy, rank 3 in Junon and I’m getting wiped a dozen times over before I decide fuck this and move on.

Right there with you - the only thing that’s frustrating is that you can’t save mid-run. So basically once you start exploring a specific region you’re in it until the next autosave when you either return to your garage, or continue to the next region in your run. So if you like to be able to play for ten minutes and…

...Boy Kills World looks to have some John Wick in its DNA...

I’ve been saying this since I rolled credits on Remake.

Y’all are cold blooded. I felt sorry for him. He’s a romantic and a racist, poor baby. The rose petals got me, I must admit. 

That threw me off too. I was wondering what Matthew Vaughn had to do with Deadpool 3 when Shawn Levy is directing.

That’s Kotaku for ya.

Pretty much all writing regarding the MCU is straight-up clickbait ever since the Scorcese thing. It’s so depressingly cynical.

Agreed, but his games are just as limiting as movies. Just because we can control a character between cutscenes doesn’t make his games any more freeform than a movie or show. He has the same limiting aspect that Rockstar has with their games, but god damn he needs to just make a proper immersive sim.

This seems like the most obvious way to handle it. There’s no way you do the entire story of both sides in ones season without feeling rushed, especially when you add in the final sections in CA.

I’ll think about that, thank you! My wife really enjoyed watching the first season of the show with me, so if I don’t get to the second game before then, I may still watch the next season of the show--which may or may not push me to want to play the game, too.

I may someday play it. I sort of want to, but am also afraid to. The near-universal descriptions of it as one of the most grim and violent stories around did not help me over the hump, unfortunately. Bad enough I have to see Joel come to that—hours of unrelenting darkness afterward doesn’t sound like a very good time.…

Logically and morally, Joel is no different from most of the people in his world. He “deserves” to die like most of them do. The difference is, if you played that first game, you walked a mile (or a few hundred) in his shoes—felt his loss, lived through his pain, and clung to the last scrap of love he could find. It…

There’s absolutely a “Giraffe moment” in part 2, with the natural history museum and the rocket launch.