PS To be honest, it’s also one of my favourites games of 2018 because it’s one the few games from 2018 that I actually played this year. After my travels in 2017, which put much distance between me and gaming as a hobby, I spent most of 2018 catching up: I saw two main-endings of Nier: Automata, played and finished The…

I liked „Where The Water Tastes Like Wine“ because it’s an exciting scavenger hunt for people who are deeply in love with folklore, made by people deeply in love with folklore.

2018 has been a weird year for me, gaming-wise. The lead already says that 2018 is a rather ‘business-as-usual-ly’ year compared to 2017, so that certainly plays its part. As does the fact that the Gameological Society is what it is post-Kinja — I hadn’t realised just how much sharing my thoughts with this excellent…

I do agree somewhat. I wonder if the best way to do remakes wouldn’t be to treat them like a Director’s Cut, with the original creator(s) on board. The end result would still be a different version and not just ‘the last word on it’ (as are director’s cuts). But by having the original creators decide on what they…

On it’s own, the PS4 is an easy recommendation in this console circle for the reasons Dave laid out. However, one thing that is sadly lacking from it is backwards compability. Microsoft provides that to an ever increasing degree. So, it’s PS4, but if you have XBOX 360 games per chance, the X-Bone might be a reasonable…

I hadn’t heard from the game before I read this comment, but what you’re saying is what I wanted to say, too. It’s especially impressive compared to the Bloodstained trailer above, which does not exactly look cheap, but jarring — as if they had felt an obligation to be more ‘modern’, but had no idea how to make that…

They are slow (make that veeeery slow), but pretty steady, though, aren’t they? There are really no signs pointing to KR0 being vaporware. Rather, it’s a pretty sure bet that they’ll round it up in 2018 (I don’t think they would have gotten that Switch deal otherwise.) Also, with each part being of that quality, the…

Oh, wow, I haven’t logged in into Kinja in so long that I didn’t remember that <i>those</> parentheses are not the way it’s done around here anymore. Sorry for the ugliness of my post — I assure you, it’s only skin-deep, or something like that.

I can’t say that I’m excited for too many of the games on that list (<i>KR0</i>, though!!!), but that’s not on the writers, it’s on me. I didn’t play too many games on 2017, so there are a lot I’m still looking forward too — <i>Nier</i> first among them, and I still have a bunch waiting in my backlog that I…

so many extraordinarily well-aged classics

Oh, it works now with Firefox, too? Thanks for the heads up! I have been waiting for this — I was surprised to find out to what degree I was unable to put up with the new comment system. (That’s why I hardly bothered to log in over the last few months.) Let’s hope that this will bring me back — I actually missed being…

Isn’t it more like, your player started automatically skipping the first song of an album everytime you wanted to listen to it, because most people do not like song 1, and thus, well, you’re out of luck. I could get mildly angry about that. Or maybe I just sounds even more late night dorm-y than the original article.

But that’s the thing, innit? If they actually wanted to give you control, they would have that option. They could just leave the opening sequence in there and give you a range of options to deal with it, from auto-watch it in its entirety to auto-skip it completely. It’s increasingly not what they do, though — they…

To be honest, I think that semi-ghost writer/co-author Tom Bissell is an important factor in the quality of the book. I can highly recommend most of his books — Extra Lives is probably the best-written book about video games out there, but even if you’re not into the medium, his Magic Hours is highly enjoyable.…

You probably mean Miami Connection, but yeah, the comparison is apt. They’re both not only bad in a “somebody failed to achieve even basic competence in what is expected from a movie”. They’re more like “those people don’t have the slightest idea of what a competent movie should look like”. But it’s the fact that…

Sod it, I’ll just put a period in my username. Crafty! Seems to have worked this time. I’m here, then? And even in Technicolor this time. Oh what a time to be alive.

While "populist" and "populism" is used in different ways — and not only precise ones —, it definitely has a negative connotation in European media at large. I lately read a pretty succint essay (in German, by Jan-Werner Müller) which defined it as a phenomen characterized by a list of traits:

Oh, only realized now that you had already mentioned it a few comments above. But good to know that you're sold, too — it's one of the games that I'll probably back, just because I think that I'd really like to get an insight in the development of the game. I can't imagine that Swery writes boring updates.

Oooh, that's extremely interesting, thanks for mentioning it. Bonus kudos for linking to a video that puts the complete version of "Night On The Galactic Railroad" in the "up next"-queue. I wanted to re-watch that one for a long time — one the most hypnotic animated movies I've ever had the chance to see in a cinema.

I think that's one of my favourite things as well: how Nick and Girard started contributing to the site proper. That proud feeling of seeing them grow up, so to speak, but also the fact that this mobility just underlined how much all of the site — not only the commenters, but also the writers and editors — felt like…