Great writeup!

I have a lot of discussions with my team about which games you need to play to be "literate" in videogames, and I remember one of them asked me what I thought was "the most important, not necessarily the best" game was so far in history, and my answer was Doom. Most of them were pretty surprised, but we…

Alright fine Jesus I'll buy it EVEN THOUGH I'M FINALLY GETTING BLOODBORNE TODAY god dammit Jason

Mine was getting started in the first place.

Corporate culture would demand a lot of front-facing gymnastics if Kojima and the higher-ups at Konami had a permanent falling out. They can't just say "Kojima and Sakamoto be beefin'", but at the same time if the mandate from on high was to cut Kojima out of the system ASAP (which sure as hell looks to be the…

If anyone's on the fence about this because everyone keeps crowing about the difficulty: Don't be.

Super happy that crappy line got cut. I really loved the DMC reboot, but my first time through it I remember hearing that and rolling my eyes. Wasn't enough to stop me from enjoying the game, but it did shove that scene over the edge into "trying too hard" territory.

Aaaand this is why I will never self-identify as a Male Feminist.

Yes. Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes.

(Crossposting this from a reply I made to this subject on Kotaku, but:)

Jeez these comments are kinda depressing.

So, here's something kinda weird: I've had a near death experience. Had it when I was a teenager. Got brought back. I am not religious at all; I still tend to pause a bit when people assure me that there's no afterlife whatsoever and it's just a cut to black and that's it because man, lemme tell ya, when you die? You…

I decided to watch this at work and the look on my face was sufficient to prompt one of my co-workers to ask if I'd just shit myself. /highfive

If you want to consider the manga as canon (which is debatable), Ridley's a "he". He also talks quite a bit in it and is shown to be quite intelligent, which makes sense given his backstory as a Space Pirate leader figure; weird thing is, they really don't even show this in the games. He just kinda screeches and flies…

That's...Actually the best explanation for this I've ever heard.

I still can't quite get my head around the Australian-Olds concept that videogames are something targeted at kids and that's it, despite all the pushback from seemingly everyone under the age of 60 in the country about it.

For the small subset of people whose consoles routinely experience a large amount of physical abuse I'd say this is a pretty good tradeoff, yeah.

Loader Bot needs his own spinoff DLC.

It's always fun to see the "official" explanation for this stuff.

I know "professional athlete" and "great scientific mind" aren't traditionally the most overlapping of Venn Diagrams but this is pushing it, Schilling.

I'm just gonna throw this out there 'cause I'm already seeing the comments to this effect and it's kind of an interesting dialogue to have: There's some folks turning their nose up at how "easy" this is compared to old-style leveling that took months and how much better that was: What I think these folks generally…