Nice! I actually have Dr. Wiley on my phone already, so this is a good reminder to add it to the list. God, Duck Tales was so good, and it had no right to be. Who was out there asking for a game where you play as Scrooge McDuck? A game whose central mechanism revolved around a cane? And yet all parts of it shined.

Cool, thanks for the recommendations! I have a lot of ground to cover, so I have plenty of space for non-video game music too.

Good call on the castlevania front. I hadn’t thought of incorporating retro stuff, but maybe I’ll create a retro section, too. My plan for the playlist, because it has to be (let’s be realistic) 5 hours long, is to make 30 mini playlists in it from different genres of music. So I could totally see including both contem…

Yea. I’m so aware of my limited gaming bandwidth (the limits on my personal bandwidth for playing games — not my IT limitations) that it makes it hard to find any joy in the steam sale any more. I have a ton of games that I would love to play that are basically at my fingertips already. When I buy stuff at steam sales …

Honestly, any inventory system that doesn’t call attention to itself is a winner. Failure is the default state in that regard. I definitely agree regarding the Resident Evil 4 inventory system. It’s simple and intuitive. As far as I can tell, its immediate ancestor is System Shock 2, which featured the same grid style …

Hey! I finally remembered where I stored my Kinja Burner password! (Why can’t we change our burner passwords again)? At any rate, I have a question for you fine folks. I’m training for a marathon right now. No idea if I’ll actually be able to succeed in completing my first -- and surely only -- marathon. One of the…

Yea, the game has a couple of tonal shifts that, if you have a short attention span like me, are definitely welcome. It goes from dread to excitement to gross-out to comedy pretty seemlessly, moving forward just as the previous mode has begun wearing out its welcome.

I have played plenty of games that take themselves too seriously, though, and they greatly overestimate my interest in the story. But riffing off your comment, I guess I would say that the difference maker is tone. Wolfenstein understands exactly what kind of mood they want to convey, and there doesn’t seem to be much…

I started playing Wolfenstein: The New Order, and I’m a little confused by how much I’m enjoying it. I mean, I’ve had it in my steam library for a while, so when I had a sudden hankering to kill Nazis this week, I decided to fire it up. And first of all, the basic gameplay is pretty fun. Maybe it’s just been a while…

It’s funny, this game wasn’t on my radar at all because I don’t like fighting games. This review made me curious, though, so I went to check out how the game was faring on some review aggregators. I was surprised to find that it seemed to be averaging mediocre scores. Digging a little deeper, though, it looks like…

“Someday, AV Club,” he said, “someday, you’re going to fuck up so magnificently, so ambitiously, so overwhelmingly that the sky will light up and the moons will spin and the gods themselves will shit comets with glee. And I just hope I’m still around to see it.”
“Oh please,” said AV Club. “It’ll never happen.”