I for one, would actually prefer all my cartoon platform characters get the chance to spit fire and wild rhymes more often.

Immersion vs Engagement is an idea I'd love to see explored in depth somewhere, but with those E.X. Troopers OST, I think this might come down to that ol' East v West difference in video games. I think Japan isn't quite as influenced by Hollywood scores as American designers (which isn't true in every case obviously,…

Generally, I think for the more cartoony platformers like Mario and Sonic the soundtracks are definitely worse. I was watching some footage for the new Mario Maker and was flabbergasted by how annoying I found the orchestral versions of classic mario themes.

What isn't better than a David Cage game though?

John Mulaney's defining characteristic is his indeed his blandness. Also you're spot on, with no "gumption" or "spit in his scotch" Mulaney is basically a sentient Gap ad that has some shitty and sexist jokes.

I would love to get into magic but I already priced and knowledged myself out of the 'Magic for Dummies', Hearthstone, after the second expansion so I don't know if I could ever find room in my thick skull for all this stuff anyway. I can barely even remember how to play Gin Rummy!

Yeah, I get what they're going for but they just dialed it up to 11 and it drowns out all other ambient noise it seems like. I probably will go down to Sword & Story and save my punishingly difficult days for when I get Bloodborne finally.

I'm a big MGS fan but MGS4 kind of soured me on the story and I can handle the wackiness of the series as much as the next fella, but honest to god, that fucking 'Use a weather balloon to teleport humans and guns back to your base' mechanic is so cringe-inducing.

Looking at 3D platformers now is like looking at pictures of yourself in 7th grade. You know, you were trying and really experiencing some new stuff… but damn, those frosted tips were a bad idea.

I love Halo 2's campaign in every way except for those annoying flying bug guys. I feel like they really don't add anything dynamic to the combat. They're just annoying and hard to hit.

I've been slogging through Witcher 3 at a snail's pace (I started last Sunday and just this morning left the castle at Vesimir… so really slow) and the main reason is that I wanted to play at Blood and Broken bones difficulty but just kept dying in the griffin fight. Part of this is because I haven't found the stuff…

Who do I have to murder to get a pin!?!? Tell me!!!

No, they're really not, I dropped in to try a few and it's just mob after mob of nenemies in tightly confined spaces. I don't need to fight more of those infuriating riot shield guys!

There's all kind of conjecture online but (SPOILERS GUYS) the main theory that I buy is that this has something to do with Scarecrow's Fear Toxin. It either messed up the thugs who would've been there that night and are now hallucinating Bat-demons or Batman changed in some way when he got super injected by scarecrow…

That sounds infuriating, why would anyone watch someone randomly jam the parry button in a stairwell…

Yeah, I'm glad to hear I'm not the only person who went back to Super Mario 64 and didn't find myself enthralled like the old days. I feel like too much of the 3D spaces they made are just huge because they were so enamored with the new space they were able to make, not because it's fun to run across that big of a…

I 92%-ed Arkham Knight finishing every in-game objective except the infuriating Riddler Trophies, so I just hopped on the internet like a cheat and watched the 100% ending on YouTube. Interesting stuff. I'm curious what it means for Rocksteady's next game.

I'm gonna wait til they patch this bad boy up. Rogue-likes have to be tight as spandex tech wise, because if I had ever lost a Gold Temple run in Spelunky to framerate issues or a hard freeze I would probably murder some drywall.

As someone who never finsihed Dear Esther because the autosave didn't register after the first level, I am glad to hear I can skip this game and still keep my "I support art games" badge firmly affixed to my cardigan.

Remember when he gashed Bioshock Infinite wide open while people were still heeping 10 out of 10s on the game? Now a few years down the line the games flaws stand out like road signs and the snark remains supreme.