Untertale is indeed what I have been playing this week, too, and it's indeed so very lovely.

Uh, that track!

As far as ridiculously low-budget gerne spoofs that are played completely straight and have so much heart that they become secretly awesome go, you could do much worse than watching Norwegian Ninja, too.

It sounds pretty similar to the way Kickstarter developed for video games. There were smaller projects that fit the description of "otherwise ignored designers"— Kentucky Route Zero comes to mind — before what could be considered the Big Bang of the Doublefine Adventure, and now we have 1000 nostalgia-fuelled rehashes…

Oh what the heck, you convinced me.
I just took the plunge and bought it. I mean, I have heard that the Fox engine works wonders, but I let myself scare away by one of those "Will Your Hardware Run It"-online tests. Of course, they work with the listed requirements, so… what do they know, right? My PC is significantly…

Thanks to you and Sillstaw for replying. I was hoping that in the depths of the North American PSN, there might be more games (the European one is even worse). But yeah, streaming is really a poor option.
Oh well, I'll clear the PS3 backlog then and wait a bit to play Metal Gear. The sweet rush of being part of the…

Now that you mention PSN:
I'd really, really like to play Metal Gear. Which is funny, because I have not played any of the other games in the series. But then along came the Burches book on the first game, which made me interested, and then this paragraph by Alec Meer: "Metal Gear Solid V is a videogame in which I…

Considering that the biggest bunch of earlier reviews were done by people in conditions that are de facto the game press review of a chicken factory, I actually respect all outlets who refused to play along and wait until they could review the game properly. (If not, you end up with ridiculous things like gametrailers…

Pah! Those meddling kids had it easy!
If David had had those extra-polygons the PS4 offers, he could have done REAL emotions, I tell you! REAL emotions, and life-like people, and… all those extra-polygons!

According to other reviews, the name comes from the urgent desire to lower the volume of some of the voice actors.

It's strange — I'm from around those parts as well, and usually very much in line with a specific kind of humor that is celebrated on this site. Also, what is "funny enough for Germans" is often painfully unfunny to me.

Well, I don't hate pre-ordering, but it does make absolutely no sense to me. As in, me, personally. There are a number of factors coming into play, though:
a) I'm primarily a PC gamer, which means that basically all my games are digital. The convenience factor doesn't matter, then: it's a few clicks from the decision…

Oh, absolutely. What bothers me most it that The Secret World even had a template with which they could have done a serialized single player-RPG of sorts, if that's really what they were after. The story is about three ancient fractions doing some sort of hidden war anyway, a war that is not likely to be resolved any…

As somebody who only ever played Sonic on a friend's Master System, I
really discovered the soundtrack very recently with Sonic Generations — I bought it in a sale after somebody had pointed out how insanely catchy the modern rendition of "Rooftop Run" is. From this perspective, I can say that the original versions of…

Yeah, it's fantastic. It also made me play the game like a rhythm game, of sorts — I still think that I only got through Veni, Vidi, Vici thanks to the music.

It's funny, because it's not even true. (Nobody who has seen Shumaker's Dilbert video could get his take on the Game Boy-Robocop theme out of his head ever again. Believe me, I have tried. Oh, how I have tried.) Also, Jonathan Taylor Thomas 2 is a fine tune.

The sad thing is that there might be people reading this who think that it is hyperbole, rather than canon.

Neither is Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, which basically is the only Castlevania animated movie that everyone could ever need.

Also, for the pleasure of calling one of the supreme works of literature a "centuries-old theological treatise/revenge-porn diary".

That's very interesting, thanks for pointing it out! And yeah, the fact that they made somebody like Barlowe do concept art and then decide that ultimately, it's just too weird to be used is really the whole problem in a nutshell.