There are certain kinds of challenges I can still enjoy and which feel worth the struggle - I like strategy games and had fun with Darkest Dungeon for a while, and oddball things like Rock Band (which I only played on extreme). But, generally, I just don’t have the time to waste on dying over and over without making…

Lack of agency is an excellent point. I just finished both Spider-Man games on PS4 and was deeply frustrated by how often the bosses removed all your abilities, gadgets, and tricks. You’re swinging around like a lunatic, struggling to keep track of where the enemy is, and none of the things you’ve spent dozens of…

The closest I’ve ever gotten to a Soulsbourne game is Jedi: Fallen Order, and I played it on easy and loved it. And that’s as close as I ever intend to get to the Soulsbourne world - nothing about those games sounds fun to me!

Time is one of the biggest reasons I get so stressed out during difficult stretches of games. I’m almost out of my 30's; I’ve got an hour, hour and a half maybe to play games in the evening. If I look at the clock and see that I’ve been stuck at a boss for the last 40 minutes, my brain explodes at the idea of having…

I personally love the feeling of accomplishment that comes with killing a particularly hard Dark Souls boss or solving a late-game puzzle in The Witness.

The entire run of Ultimate Spider-Man is a treasure that still holds up. It’s relatively timeless, and I’ve gone back to it enough times to feel confident saying it’s worth it. There are some dips here and there, sure, but it’s never a bad comic. The worst it ever gets to is “solidly okay.” I think it’s the best…

Grind only narrowed to mean “grinding for xp” later in its life. The original usage of the term was simply to mean slogging through any dull, repetitive actions in a game over exhaustingly long periods of time in order to advance. And, by that more full and proper definition, spending hours dying to the same boss to…

Ethan mentions it’s the type of thing that grinding DOESN’T help, but instead you need to play with your strategy.

The problem is you’re suggesting the use of a corded electrical appliance to people whose problems are currently and quite famously defined as not having any electricity.

Or you could also take the non-religious view and not kill living, feeling things just for the fun of it because that’s a giant asshole thing to do. I don’t need to believe in any particular god or afterlife to understand that.

Now that’s what I call... Pom Wonderful.

Either way, he’s retiring to Fort Lauderdale.

That actually makes it less baffling when you consider her body was literally built by a deviant chauvinist a-hole who was very specifically looking to design *his* ideal of a “perfect woman.” Miranda looks exactly like what one of those douchebags would hold as their ideal. See also: her natural willingness to follow…

Not invalidate, no, but it does complicate things. I always remember trying to re-watch Silver Hawks when I was in college. I loved that show so much as a kid, but watching as an adult I realized it was utter garbage with no redeeming qualities beyond truly fantastic opening credits. I can still remember how happy I…

I don’t really replay games once I’m “finished” with them. I put that in quotes because sometimes I’ll need to play a game several times when I first get it before I feel like I’m done. I played the Mass Effect like five times, but 1) it was because there felt like so many different ways to play and it felt so…

You’re right; sorry, I misplaced a decimal in my haste. And it’s 9 figures if you include his wife, and look, I know an athlete has a limited window to earn enough to support themselves for life, but again, there is no reason for her to be worth all that either. If you can’t live the rest of your life on a few…

No, not good for him. Nobody should have 100 million dollars to themselves in a country where over 14 million households don’t know where their next meal is coming from. Being worth six figures is immoral - you can live fantastically happily the rest of your life on 10 million and never be able to spend it all. Give…

I was so happy that I played the game before they patched out the ability to glitch Aranea into joining your group for a while. I’ve got a whole Prompto-camera-roll full of pics of her and the gang hanging out together, camping, goofing in town; I’m pretty sure she and Gladio had a thing going on because they’re…

There are specific circumstances in the way the game ends that make this different, and while I certainly never suggested it was the only game or story to create that effect, whatever - you clearly aren’t actually interested in understanding my position and it’s not that important. I was just trying to put something…

It’s a circle for your experience with the game. It ends with Noctis and Luna and the memories of their journey, and when you start again you’re essentially inside the photograph, inside the memory, reliving as they remember. It isn’t about the story itself, but your connection to it and how you experience it based on…