This. I spent more time reading guides while playing Pillars than I ever did while playing Dark Souls, because I couldn't get my head around the differences to D&D. What do you mean my fighter doesn't have to specialize in a weapon skill???

Yeah, at first, I was a bit disappointed because they seemed to be slaves to the Nostalgia Factor, but as I kept playing, I found that there are a lot of clever changes.

I guess having Eder carrying all of the pets is… procedural canon, or something? (Like, they game doesn't tell you to do so, but everybody with a heart and a soul will have him do so anyway?)

Yeah, but it just looks lazy.

Pssst, it's "him", not her.

That's a reasonable point. Come to think of it, the ending was pretty ambiguous in the comic, too (and arguably its weakest part). I guess what's more grating is that even in the comics, Scott is not actually the most interesting character, it's really more of an ensemble piece, with a lot of time being spent with…

That was supposed to be a reply to Robert Loggia below, talking about Beasts of The Southern Wilds… sorry!

I thought that the biggest problem of the movie was that it just didn't have enough time for telling its stories. The movie is really great up to the third ex, all the way roughly the timeline of the comic. After that, it can't help but rush through the rest, leaving a lot of characters on the wayside.

See, that's were subjectivity kicks in. I'd argue that not only is Toy Story 3 not the best animated movie of all time, but that in this half-decade alone there is at least one worthy contender for the title of "being an animated movie better than Toy Story 3 (which would be The Wind Rises, by the way, which I think…

There are a few if you're not too strict with your definition.

Interestingly, there seem to be quite a few designers trying to reimagine the graphical style of the era, in a somewhat similar way to what good pixel art does to the 8- and 16-bit era. Kill Screen ran a series of articles under the header A comprehensive history of low-poly art last year; it's well worth checking out.

Watching Rilo Kiley opening for Bright Eyes. While I like Connor Oberst alright, I absolutely whent for Rilo Kiley, and fell asleep halfway though the mainact's set. (Which was not his fault, but mine — I hadn't had much sleep. Still, it felt fitting the way the evening turned out.)

Not really all that recent, but since I have never seen it mentioned before here: I'm tempted to say that Lost Constellations, a free mini-episode for a Kickstarted game that will not come out for some time, was actually my favourite gaming experience of 2014.

Yeah.

I too, have read it!

There's also Peur(s) du noir, another animated, strictly b/w movie with a heavy French influence — it's an omnibus, though, with Blutch, Lorenzo Mattoti and Charles Burns contributing. It seems to be even less known than Renaissance, which always baffles me, because you can't get much better known in indie comics…

I could imagine that the restrictive order could a result of technical limitation. Which, frankly, wouldn't be surprising at all. It's a small miracle that the game is running on the PS2 hardware already, I think.

He certainly is one of the most distinct ones.

I'm not exactly feeling bad about it. It's just one of those series that Gameologinarians love to talk about, and I essentially know nothing about. So when it comes to FF in these parts, I mostly just do the internet equivalent of staring down on my shoes, rocking ever so slowly backwards and forwards while I sum…

Yeah, this kind of bothers me too.
I mean, I am among the people who repeatedly becry the lack of a proper road game (in the sense of "road movie"). And now it seems like a Final Fantasy-game, of all things, will be the best shot at that genre. I seriously am interested in that game. So much so that it's the first Final…