this is why I don’t care about buying sealed retro video games. if I’m buying an old game I’m buying it to play it so that seal is gonna get broken if it’s there.

Huge missed opportunity that these dresses weren’t unlockable as general costumes for the rest of the game (for Cloud specifically, but also for Tifa and Aerith). I’m glad modders are fixing the oversight!

Yeah, seriously. As somebody who went to a lot of anime conventions in the 2000's, it feels really weird to see what was just common cultural knowledge being treated like it’s some kind of esoteric secret.

All that said, man the 3D models are uncanny, doesn’t feel right unless it’s paired with the original gif:

I honestly thought the origins being a Swedish band was pretty common knowledge, like the name of the song has the word “Dansen” in it, it’s clearly not originally from Japan.

A byproduct of our litmus test society. I think it's ok to say "women". They know who they are.

Given the nature of the main setting, it feels like the character can be fairly interchangeable. Like, I’m curious what role cultural origin would even play for a game primarily set in a made up world like this. There are stories set in some version of the past that would benefit from exploring other cultures and…

Yes. You have access to internal files and can mod them if you have the tools.

It took me a couple minutes to realize what was going on with the picture. When I noticed how the thumbtack was positioned I tried putting it in a drawer and it was valid! I just thought to myself “That’s REALLY strong ‘show don’t tell!’”

To be fair, someone else moved in with her. But, yes, making space for someone else’s stuff, especially someone whose stuff implies that they are WAY more compatible. 

Unpacking does an amazing job of telling its story through the mechanics, and this level is a perfect example of how. Trying to make room for your things in this level communicates so much about you, about him, about your relationship, about your life, all without a single word.

The following level, the picture of you together, where it’s allowed to go, and where the thumbtacks are placed if you put it on the board were such a wonderful bit of subtle storytelling.

Wait, the level is called “Bar Room Blitz”, the jukebox playing is an integral part of the level, there are different songs that can play...

A fair number of composers and artists (ie character designers, etc.) working in the Japanese games industry in the ‘80s and ‘90s were women. There weren’t many game designers that I know of. There was Rieko Kodama at Sega, who also started out as an artist, but graduated to director with Phantasy Star IV and later to…

Yeah, this is one of those come-outs where I hear it and go ‘oh, yeah, that makes complete sense’. Not one so predictable that I thought it was obvious or already happened, just one that’s entirely unsurprising.

Yeah, I am a bit surprised by this response to be honest. You obviously would have a harder time taking it further than SR4 but you don’t always have to do MORE. You can make the satire and jokes hit harder, touch on darker/introspective/whatever ideas, make it closer to absurdist fiction if you want (in a…

I disagree with basically everything John Walker writes on this site, and the one time he has a take I agree with the comments are roasting him for it. You couldn’t pay me to sit through a GTA clone, you can barely get me to sit through GTA, so SR1+2 did absolutely nothing for me. 3 raised an eyebrow, and I was all…

See I go the other way Saint Row 1 and 2 just felt like GTA clones.  3 and on is when the series really found its own silly footing. 

I wish they went with the escalation of stupidity from Saints Row 3 and 4, but this seems to keep the idiotic tone.

That’s what I was hoping Squadrons would be: TIE Fighter 2.

I was crushingly disappointed with the game. Sadly you really need a keyboard and flightstick to make that sort of game work and I am not a 2-player sort of dude anymore. Gimmie a robust single player campaign because my 50 year old ass ain’t got time to deal…