This guy is spectacular. Anybody on the fence about listening, if you have the time - do it. His rundowns on the Dragon Age and Mass Effect franchises were deeply considered, even-handed, and analytically stimulating. He did one comparing Skyrim and Dragon Age side-by-side to see the highs and lows of each as they…

Would these be the same people who think a gaming news/journalism site is “biased” or “unethical” because they publish articles or reviews that differ from the reader’s own opinion?

By your tag I’m guessing this is all sarcasm. I’ll respond not to you but the larger idea.

You’re not supposed to understand it. If you can understand it it isn’t art. Which is why I avoid the fine arts like the plague most times. They go out of their way to noodle around with nonsense, seeming to produce pieces just because they “seem like the kind of stuff you see in galleries.” Gobledeygook, says I! I…

I’m finishing a run through Sid Meier’s Pirates. It was a game I remember reading about while it was in development, but never had the chance to play. Now that I’ve converted to full-on PC gaming, it was on my list of things to get back to. I’ve really enjoyed it and the openness of just sailing around the Caribbean,…

I think it’s important to draw a distinction between people not being interested in “unoriginal” games and people experiencing genre fatigue. To continue your steak analogy, if I’ve been eating steak for dinner every day - sometimes amazing, sometimes so-so, sometimes steaks so good they make me question the nature of…

Good golly. I don't know about anybody else, but not a single thing I've ever heard about MOBAs sounds fun. They sound challenging, sure, and like there's a sense of reward for enduring long enough to become something like "good," and then surviving long enough after that to thrive - but that isn't the same as being…

Dammit. Dammitdammitdammit. Even if there's a great story in this DLC (which I'm doubting, based on all the sidequesting in DAI to begin with), it's still wrapped in a new area to wander around in doing nothing of consequence to fill the required grind-time. I am so completely disappointed.

The designs for Nightcrawler, Storm, Colossus, and Thunderbird were all leftovers from when Cockrum was working on Legion of Superheroes. If you compare their designs with Cockrum's Legion run, they look like siblings.

Show me all the blogs you like and it wouldn't matter - it's a statistically insignificant number of people, and reveals nothing of the majority of mainstream opinion on diversity. Furthermore, I guarantee you that, were I to wander around those blogs, I would find a much more nuanced discussion of what makes good…

The same exact thing could be said of the other side. Don't confuse the loud few with the majority. The internet creates a fog through which the loudest voices get the most attention and negative ideas tend to rise and reverberate more strongly than positive ones regardless of their actual support or frequency. It's…

Some might. Most don't. Don't confuse a few people for the majority and paint everybody with the same brush. I'm not over here assuming you're somebody who's going to assault a woman (since, after all, all you guys give off the feeling of hating all women *sarcasm*). That would be a ludicrous thing to assume, both…

You clearly don't know me very well, or you would know of my deep and enduring love for breasts. Of all sizes, sure, but particularly... well, whatever, but I love me some boobs. Love 'em. Ask my wife and her poor chest about all the attention it gets.

First off, those breasts are hardly "comically oversized." They're downright subdued compared to characters like your mention of Mai Shiranui. Secondly, there is no hypocrisy at all in enjoying this illustration and wanting more variety in character design.

Alright, a few things going on there and I want to take them a piece at a time.

The only thing "us guys" act like is that A) it would be nice if character design embraced a wider variety of body/personality types, and B) it's fun to see different/alternate takes on existing characters, including (but not limited to) when those reimaginings address point A.

It isn't hypocritical to suggest that it would be nice if there were more variety in female character design. That doesn't mean we should never see large-breasted women or women flaunting some sex appeal - only that it wouldn't hurt if that wasn't all we saw.

Final Fantasy XV: Episode Duscae opens with four bros in a tent. These bros, who are camping out in the wild because their car has broken down and they need to fix it so they can get back on their brotastic road trip, are immediately a blast to watch, a boy band with silly faces and even sillier names: There's the…

Inquisition will probably wind up my least-played Dragon Age game. I'm a guy who ran 6 different Shepards through the complete ME saga, and played both previous DA games a minimum of 3 times through, but my second playthrough of DAI just felt kind of boring. I think after the initial "Wow!" wore off and I started…

An excellent spread of solid storytelling. I wound up really disappointed with Inquisition, but it's still a really solid experience. And someday - someday - I'm going to get around to playing Chrono Trigger for the first time.