There actually were remakes for Playstation 2 and there are fan patches for the first two games available as well. I don’t know in what ways the gameplay was changed, though. It’s all on Phantasy Star Cave, if you want to give it a shot.

Looking back, it’s rather odd that adventures were as popular as they were, to be honest. At least this text adventure/point and click-lineage tends to operate on a downright teleological world view, which is simply at odds with how modern humans think.

Over the last week I’ve completed both King’s Quest 6 and Gabriel Knight 2, which is great but now I’m left with the seventh and third installment respectively, which are said to be quite inferior.

Hey, nice! I’m spending some time with Phantasy Star II myself, where every heal takes about 12 button presses.

*slips Mr. Snrub a note saying Kelsey's Portuguese is wrong*

"Eaves, a former academic and Peace Corps member, doesn’t believe fame or money should put anyone beyond the law."

Ah, so that's why Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald is missing from this list. Phew!

Ah, not so fond memories of spending every evening at MacDonald's.

You should definitely make it a point to check Serious, which has both at peak form https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Oh, I agree with the premise too, I just don't think those are the best examples. I think Wu-Tang Killa Bees: The Swarm was maybe the first release I considered really underwhelming.

I don't know about that (doubly so considering no-one seems to be protesting the idea that Cappadonna is "slept-on"). I can take or leave Killarmy, but Natural High is a pretty good album and Killah Priest and Shabazz the Disciple made some pretty key contributions to the Wu. I'd take Death Be The Penalty over 90% of…

He is, but honestly he's not helping. A lot of his stuff is comparatively hard to come across by modern standards—but that's his prerogative. I was stupid happy when Horror City got released for free.

This kinda reads like half of a Jeopardy answer where the question is "How do you know Scott Tobias no longer writes for the AV Club?"

Booty Clap is legitimately my favorite Bass song. It's just so gleefully obscene and it's been joyfully inclusive before that even really was a thing. BOYS! Get that dick in the air, get that dick up, dick up!

I was (or considered myself) too old for the books at the time and was mostly ambivalent about the whole phenomenon, but I know a lot of people were crying that they and the movies were bad. I've seen all the movies by now and some are better than others, but I'm really happy you got to have that ride all the way to…

But that's the good one. Surely that counts for something?

I'm sorry, but this really means a lot to a subset of people whose start page is discogs!

I remember waking up in the middle of the night and seeing my brother—whom I shared a room with—checking out paparazzi photos of the crash. Probably the first time I thought "The internet is some bullshit".

I know this isn't a rare opinion that's gonna rock anyone's world or anything, but L.A. Confidential is SO good.

1997 is probably the year where hip-hop truly split into radio-friendly Mason Betha jams and underground, with DJ Premier's NY Reality Check 101 as the central piece of the puzzle.