I note a curious absence of the cult robot factory in Nier: Automata. Looks like someone won’t be as gods.

This is a pretty comprehensive list, and I’m struggling to add to it. I would like to give a nod to Breath of the Wild’s Great Plateau, which is an all-time great tutorial level and one that eases you into a massive game with a confidence that few tutorials manage.

That actor’s name? You guessed it... Frank Stallone.

Being Black at night, probably.

Ok Bill Cosby.

“Hillary’s in the pockets of big business.” As opposed to Trump or any other politician? “She’d have been likely to keep us in active conflict in the Middle East.” We’ve constantly been in conflict in the Middle East, neverending, and wait to see Jared’s plan to attack Iran. “She may very well be terribly crooked.” Ba…

I believe it was in the Panhandle, which means a lot of Alabama voters in attendance.

Considering most polls have him in the low 30s, I’d say this one is an outlier. Much like Trump himself, who is an out-and-out liar.

Is “black women will commit fraud for a buck” really a new stereotype to you? If so, congrats on missing out on the decades of panic about welfare queens.

And Hellblade.

No they didn’t, Night in the Woods is on the list.

Absolutely well said. The past few years have seen a lot of games banking on either nostalgia or an “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” mentality. Comfortably sitting around, gaming was content to just put out bigger worlds on consoles with better graphics and speeds. As such, though, I feel like 2016 was a let-down in…

Breath of the Wild was such a beautiful, engrossing videogame. I bought the Switch after not playing a single video game in nearly six years, and bought it only to play Zelda. That game, above all else, taught this old fool what it feels like to be a kid again.

Gonna keep the format of these, though it might be a bit shorter. Three choices...let’s start with...

This was an astonishingly good year for video games, if not always the culture around them. The best games were confident, experimental, thoughtful, surprising, and entirely sincere. Wolfenstein II had a deranged vision about the horrors of American Nazism and what was needed to fight it, but it was also one it fully…

I love you Professor Oak!

unless its actually ryan reynolds in a physical pikachu costume, stumbling about half blind and all dialogue recorded through the suit, no sale

And apparently evangelical Christians need Jerusalem to be the capital to help speed up end times and Jesus’ second coming. Like no joke, that’s part of their reasoning, fucking eschatology.

You mean go under for simple orthodontic surgery? And risk having negroes and un-wed mothers root through his pockets while he’s out? NO THANK YOU!