I feel sad sometimes that (IMHO) the great age of JRPGs has ended. Western games really have the edge, and, while I love what they bring, I sometimes miss the good ‘ol days. Finally playing Dark Souls has been a great experience to bring back some of that feeling.

Loving your write-ups, btw. Beyond just going down the nostalgia hole, you’re really highlighting what made the greats from this era so special.

Just like Soul Blazer and Illusions of Gaia before it, this was a beautiful, unique game brimming with wisdom, spirit, and respect for all life. I love these games, and there’s never been anything quite like them afterwards.

Shadow of War. DGAF, it’s fun!

Jen’s the shooter right? It seems pretty obvious.

Ditto. I can’t even say how many time my gf and I have rewatched it. Pairs well with Dewey Cox!

You had me at ‘internal ramp’.

Love this guy. Seriously. Iron Bull can suck it, I took ‘ol Dready with me everywhere and spent more time sucking up to him than anyone else in any Bioware game. And y’know what? The moment I fired the game up and saw that egghead coming out of nowhere I thought “Oh shit, this guy is definitely the Dread Wolf…

Fair statement, tho I think we can all say the expectations of the fanbase are also creating issues. R&M is great but it’s no American Dad. (Come at me, internet)

Heck yeah! Waiting to see if Frostfall gets fixed on consoles somehow, but concerned it won’t. Also, Tarshana is working on a big quest mod and Immersive Creatures might come out some day soonish. So, the waiting is killing me, but I’ve gone six years without going any further than the horn of Juergen Windcaller, so…

I don’t know! The Dark Souls 3 DLC is annoyingly hard, and the Skyrim CC update borked Frostfall (an interesting story, btw, surprised it hasn’t been covered here). Waiting for Black Friday for either Shadow of War or Fallout. So I got nothing! Maybe replay me some Witcher.

Any protips on putting together a Steven Seagal costume, cuz I’m kinda obsessed now...

Tolkien would absolutely hate and condemn it, if for nothing else than it’s a video game. He’d condemn the movies too, and complain constantly about this ‘rap’ all the kids seem to be listening to.

People seem to be lukewarm in many ways on this game, but this article is as good an endorsement as I need. Uruk are frequently secretly fond of each other.

In a very off-the-mainline dimension somewhere, John Carpenter is president, and Donald Trump has dedicated his senior years to playing video games. That’s also the dimension where mankind is at war with giant psychic spiders, so you win some, you lose some.

How many guys do we know who do this? Three on my count, with one who does it EXACTLY like Cartman.

Also, c’mon man, dogs!?

Lotta people I’ve know say the ‘hate’ rap. I don’t feel one way or the other, but in the *white* suburban culture I grew up in, at least around the friends I had, that statement would mark you as best profoundly uncool and at worst telling people to pull their pants up.

Hot take: People who like things that are popular are not superior to the rest of humanity because they like popular things.

I felt the map janitor thing too hard in Syndicate, which was a good game but underwhelming. Origins seems to be a new, ‘Witcher-based’ type of AC, so I’m down.