Yes, Discord is, to me, the best form of small-group communication we’ve had since the pre-bot days of IRC. Our group is as scintillating as they are here, and I love how scalable the intrusion level is for your life.

I find myself “farming” games to a great extent...scouring corners and ceilings and platforms for everything there is to find in a section before I move on. Certain exceptions exist to this rule: the bigger the area, the less likely I am to scout, the bigger the danger the more likely I am to want to deal with probing…

Good to know, but I kinda want there to be this notion that it’s impossible to romance a character (read: any and all characters in a game) and that it’s OK.

I got to exactly your point in Zelda last June, and haven’t had a chance to get back, partially for fear I’ll get too involved again. I think I might even wait to see if there is going to be a “DX” edition (with DLC) for Switch to get back in...neither of those products (Switch and Zelda) are going out of print…

There is the Vanishing of Ethan Carter, Dear Esther, and Everbody’s Gone to the Rapture. You could also consider point-and-click games like Machinarium, Broken Age, and remakes of Grim Fandango if you’re in the Day of the Dead mood...

It’s already creeping me out, because there’s a guy out there causing chaos and the game is called “Firewatch” for a reason...not to mention my 8bitdo FC30 Pro is not mapping directions and buttons correctly, which is causing frustration, and there’s not enough control configuration...

Unfortunately, you’re right; videogames that aren’t “pure narrative” (Dear Esther et al) devolve everything into a system, and Firewatch is actually unlike those in that they offer choices that can be optimized for the story. My wife and I had to discuss what we would choose in those situations, and we were…

EVERYONE! MARIO KART 8 ON THE 8TH IS NOT DEAD!

AAHHH! I was meant to set it up last night! YES.

Might I suggest a bite-size game like Mario Party or Wario Ware? If he feels those games you describe as “boring”, maybe he prefers some variety in gameplay. Pokemon and Mario Kart have a repetitive interaction with the environment (“Menu Select!” and “Gas-Brake-Honk/Honk-Honk-Punch”), so maybe the fresh environments…

And that’s exactly the way I felt at first, then got overwhelmed and started missing the sense of place. Something that I found interesting recently that changed my attitude was watching the movie Moana prior to going to Hawai’i for the first time. For a big budget, mainstream picture, they did a reasonable job of…

I didn’t see your comment before I posted something about Never Alone! (I like using the other name, too, but typing it on my phone would be like performing surgery with oven mitts.

While I very much appreciated the educational part of Never Alone, feeling like I needed to stop every few minutes to ponder the deep cultural context of every spirit, location, or type of snow took me away from the experience. I do want to know, but give it to me silently and help me go back and understand during the…

I knew of Devolver prior to last Summer’s E³, but wasn’t truly in my radar until their taped keynote parody. What a lovely company with such joie de vivre. If it weren’t the near antithesis of my playing style (or if it had some auto aim help) it might be a blast to play, pun not intended.

There is one very plausible explanation, beyond simply that it was someone inside his circle that had unfulfilled desires for entertainment - these files could be used as a baseline for injecting virus data, allowing them access to computers for any variety of nefarious purposes.

I won’t disagree; I was repeating “think Archer” during the first 20 minutes of the film until I accepted him, then I thought he was OK. While skewing a little older now, Chris Pine, Karl Urban, or maybe even Tom Hiddleston would have worked, as their sometimes cocksure attitude combined with their ability to screw…

I love this idea, and please read what I responded to SingingBrakeman...I probably should have replied to your comment directly...

Indeed, and I’m putting that into my lexicon. I think it’s what’s so wonderful about Luc Besson, and why I enjoyed The Fifth Element and Valerian [and Laureline] so much.

Well put on the commitment to being scared, as Gone Home gave me chills on a number of occasions as my wife and I played through a few Halloween weeks back on the TV with the lights off. The bathtub and the Ouija board note gave me chills, but the ultimate scare for me was the light bulb snuffing out after I picked up…

My pleasure! I’m heading to get the latest one this week, and I’ll grab a second code for you and post it here.