Also Dante & Vergil were brought up in Redgrave City, which is just DMC London. Circumcision isn’t really a thing over here unless it’s specifically part of your religion.

The Two Towers and Return of the King games blew me away as a thirteen/fourteen year-old. The transitions from FMV to gameplay look ridiculous now, but they were genuinely impressive at the time, even my mum who hates games was amazed, haha. The RotK co-op in particular was a treat.

The idea that someone would prefer the new Star Wars ident to the classic brass is completely alien to me.

Interesting seeing Chris Bratt writing directly for Kotaku, given that he’s got much more history with a lot of other outlets. I wonder how that came about!

I fully expect it’s an inclusivity measure - the PAL releases most often included many language options, which the NTSC versions tended to lack.

The Crash Bandicoot video you embedded is actually a counter-example to the point you’re trying to make - it was made to demonstrate that Crash Bandicoot was an excellent PAL port: it ran at the same speed (not framerate) as the NTSC version, at a higher resolution. See the message at the end of the video!

I’ve always been convinced Overwatch’s characters were designed this way, and lo and behold, here’s Blizzard with their handy tool for ranking how ‘racial’ someone is from 0-100. Urgghhhhh.

They tend to release things on PC when they write them off as a franchise (Days Gone) or want to drum up hype in advance of a sequel (HZD, GoW). They’ll probably release Spider-Man 1 on PC when Spider-Man 2 is a bit closer to release.

Headaches like what? I was planning on getting one as soon as the opportunity arrives, but I’m headache-averse

Came down here to say the same thing: referring to medieval atrocities as ‘comedic’ compared to 19th Century atrocities is a remarkably blinkered way to approach this.

Nope, not necessarily, it depends on how you roll. It ended up being a big reveal for me significantly later under different circumstances.

Spoiler Warning should be at the very top, the mention of the hanged man being shot is a huge spoiler.

Right now it still looks like a duller and uglier Monster Hunter Stories, but hopefully they’ll make some strides before release, because this looks like the kind of thing I was hoping Pokémon would become back on the Gamecube, and I’d like to experience that. I like that they’re going for a ukiyo-e aesthetic,…

I played FFIX as a ten-year-old and it’s my favourite thing to this day - the themes of facing mortality and the horrors of war were perfectly digestible to me at that age, so there’s really no need for them to water things down, it’s already tailor-made for that demographic.

Ah, I kind of suspected but didn’t bother to look it up, that’ll teach me

M4 Pt.2 rocks and is pretty beloved by the community - so much so that there was a lot of disappointment when Faunts didn’t return for the ME2 credits, and Bioware brought them back for the ME3 credits!
I was super hyped by it the first time I finished Mass Effect, it puts me in mind of 80s action movies like Point…

PLEEEEAAAASE. It’s the only way to play as the aliens in ME, which is crazy, because that’s what we all really want.

I’m convinced that all these people who hate the Mako so much are just too incompetent to drive it properly. There, I said it.

It instantly reminded me of ‘I find the most erotic part of a woman is the boobies’, a line which was supposed to be too ridiculous for anyone but a cartoon idiot philanderer to say

I dropped Hollow Knight for a couple years 2/3 complete, and came back to it recently to 100% it no problem. On the other hand, I did exactly the same thing with Horizon Zero Dawn and it was quite a struggle to figure out the mechanics again. Not enough to stop me completing it, but enough to make me confused as to…