I was like, what’s so bad about this guy, then realized I got him mixed up with Naren Shankar who showruns The Expanse. 

If we’re lucky enough, both these games will be as awesome as Starcraft: Ghost. 

I think the commentariat is not what it used to be. And though I like Kotaku enough to read it daily, it’s not what it used to be either - for better or worse I guess.

As someone who’s never played any of the L4D games or B4B, I think there’s an undercurrent of smugness in Walker’s article. I might be reading too much into it, but I wouldn’t say it’s an absurd possibility. 

I didn’t love the original, and I certainly didn’t want this, but the trailer isn’t bad. I’ll give it a shot. 

The stories have never been great, but at least with the first two I found myself engaged enough to ignore plot holes. Personally, I liked  how the first two games had a mystery that was being unravelled throughout the whole game. In Shadow, there wasn’t really a mystery, just a countdown and nothing to drive the plot…

I would have liked it better if Shadow of the Tomb Raider had Lara getting trapped in a subterranean fortress under Capitol Hill where cultists were trying to manifest the Prince of Darkness into the bodies of Congress members. It would be much better than whatever the hell Shadow was. 

Oh god, Shadow. It suffered from being far too close to civilization and the mystery itself felt a little incoherent compared to the much tighter reboot and rise. I was legit excited about diving into a South American world, but Shadow actually managed to make it dull. The whole idea that Trinity exists because the…

Mass Effect had really hyped me up about its ending. Instead, I felt like I had just finished FF7. They could have just cut to Red XIII running up to a jungled Midgar and I would have felt relatively similar. While the “fixed” endings were much better, I always felt like Bioware had sold me on something far more…

I thought the TR reboot had a pretty strong horror element to it: swimming in a pool of blood, navigating giant piles of bones and corpses, cannibal demon samurai, and being wrapped up in a bag for later consumption.

Is it really though? I thought I’d do the anecdotal and cursory look through Google like you and I’m finding people pretty torn between the two. Hell, RT has Aliens over Alien by 1%. But of course, like you said, I’m not really here to say that the original is worse, but simply that the fandom is pretty divided over…

I thought he was saying Ishizuka was more prominent than Hayashibara. 

Over Hayashibara? 

I suppose I’m fairly lucky that my marriage survived the pandemic. For the first year, it was me, her, and my dad who had finally moved in after being away for a decade. It was really really rough. We fought a lot, and there was frustration. However, we’ve always worked well together, and we managed to scrape together…

Roger Federer tore his ACL helping his daughter take a bath. 

As much as I want to watch this dipshit get bodied, I’m not going to contribute to Roundhouse’s asswhup recoupment fund just to see it. Hopefully it’ll end up on Youtube or something later.

All the characters change though. It was one of the few times an FF had dynamic characters. I'm aware that flat characters does not necessarily make a bad story, but I liked seeing how personally tragedy had come to define each of the characters and help them grow by the end. 

I find it odd comparing XIII to VIII in terms of combat. I always thought of it as either a evolution or devolution of XII. I loved it though, nothing like infinitely juggling a boss to death. 

I never liked SM2 when I saw it in theatres. I didn’t like how Doc Ock didn’t have enough tritium to stabilize his fusion reactor, but got more then made a bigger reaction. I guess I could just say “he went crazy,” but it bugged the hell out of me so much at the time because it just didn’t make sense. 

I’d definitely play him if they called him “Harry McPotterson.” Just sayin’