I mean there is a significant incentive in real life for a self-interested person to maintain the status quo when said status quo benefits them. Obviously I haven’t played the game yet, but what you’ve described doesn’t seem to preclude the ability to take an extreme stance. I’m hoping for a scenario where you can…

I prefer Tetra Master from IX, it’s got a little more depth, but you need to do a little out-of-game research to actually figure it out which is understandably a deal breaker for most people. VIII’s triple triad music is unbeatable though, that’s for sure.

My one Stellaris game stalled out in the mid-game because I got every other race to give me their star-charts and mapped out the entire universe really early. That meant I no longer uncovered new events on exploring and the game just went completely stale, it seems like a huge design oversight.

Hands down Devil May Cry 3. It rescued a franchise on the brink of death by taking everything that worked from the first game, expanding it and perfecting it while also delivering a fantastic story and ambitious cutscene direction for good measure. That team built a masterpiece from a mess, it’s an amazing achievement…

Wait, Jenny Nicholson was friends with him too?

The DMC3 icon is a favourite - however probably the coolest was MGS3, which was the Boss’ gun with a white flower from the final arena, unless you had a completed save, at which point the flower was stained blood red.
That’s not the cool bit though, this is: if you did the Ape Escape side content, the flower turned…

Hahaha I’ve literally just been listening to Pat ranting about the Epic store on the Castle Super Beast podcast, that store is barely even half-baked

Oh my god I gave up on completing the game due to this exact problem and never found out why it kept failing instantly! Now I know.
Interestingly, the one other side effect I noticed from messing around with riot and slow-mo cheats etc was that hot-dog chefs (and hot-dog chefs only) would instantly aggro on sight and…

I noticed it suddenly surged in radio plays late last year, and then it started saturating the internet in winter - I feel like the rights holders must have put it up for cheap or something? I don’t know how the record industry works, but it reminded me of how when the legal restrictions on the Ghostbusters theme…

It’s up for debate, but I don’t think she’s there for being blood-drunk - she’s guarding the gate to the secret of the hunters’ original sin, which she was directly complicit in. As far as I’m aware, she’s a conscious agent in fighting you.

I mean, on one hand yes, because Maria rules, but you also killed her if you got that far, so you can’t really judge!

As a straight dude with zero interest in shipping, I totally concur that Hank was by far the best part of the game for precisely the reasons you say. Every single other Cage character ever has been either terrible, inconsistent, or, at best, bland to the point of invisibility, but Hank (to my surprise) I found…

I enjoy things like this when they’re short, like Veni Vidi Vici in VVVVVV, but losing 20-30 secs over and over could get disheartening.

What’s the challenge of the Path of Pain like compared to, say, the tule tree climb for the true ending in Guacamelee? That was about my limit, patiencewise, I think.

I love that they didn’t walk back that baton pass from Dante to Nero, it makes the games so much richer for me that the characters actually grow. Nero’s gameplay is basically a ‘greatest hits of Dante’.

I hope so! I just figured if Jason has seen it behind closed doors he’d have asked the question.

Platforms? That door-opening animation was straight out of Bloodborne.

Charisma is kind of more important in Eurovision, and you can’t accuse the song of being boring, so as far as I’m concerned it’s a worthy winner. I was rooting for France, but for whatever reason their song didn’t seem to make as much of a dent as I thought it deserved. Ukraine were absolutely underappreciated, and I…

If you’ve got past the Cursed Defiled Amygdala, you’re more than good enough to beat headless guy and Queen Yharnam. You can do it!

Purely out of curiosity, if you weren’t interested in seeing any of the previous movies, what’s piqued your interest in this one?
By way of answer, I’d say no, it’s like hearing a punchline without listening to the setup. The context is what brings it to life.