What about Hank and Dean Venture? And Barry from Odin?

Why do your protagonists need a more concrete connection beyond that? There are enough real world geo-political trouble that stem from "that's where they're from" that such a basis seems adequate for setting a story.

I think pacing was an issue, but I see why they made the decisions they did. Like I know a lot of people mentioned the lack of towns, which I missed too, but we were told that on Pulse Fang and Vanille were the last survivors and on Cocoon they were all being hunted down by the police.

Cocoon, save for Fang and Vanille, is the home of all of characters. We know that from the very opening movie. Did we really need more of an explicit connection to see why they would want to save it and the people on it and not just let Barthandelus (Orphan technically) to destroy it. It's their home, it's where their…

It's never explained because that wasn't the point of the story. Lightening back story as to how or why she became a soldier is irrelevant. The same for all of the other characters. Remember Hope and his mother only ended up as part of the Purge because they were literally at the wrong place at the wrong time.

What more did you need to know or have develop about the characters from XIII? Hope was a teenage boy bent on revenge, because he blamed Snow for his mother's death. Lightning was a dedicated military trained soldier, that broke the rules to rescue her sister. Snow was a immature bro who felt as if he had to be the…

I think that idea kind of died down once people began to think about why the dead coming back to life wasn't really realistic, and thus not really that scary. I think you have to believe on some level that what you are seeing could happen to you for you to be scared. The idea of an infection plays on human's…

I don't think Infinite was mocking religion, so much as the game was criticizing what happens when people take it to the extreme, like requiring a baptism to enter state. Mocking implies some form downplaying the significance of the subject, whereas I think Infinite was trying to say that religion taken too far can be…

It's probably more likely for Archer to be part of the Venture universe than the other way around. There is magic, demons, and costumed villains in the Venture world whereas the Archer world while taking big leaps hasn't gone that far. Ray could totally get it on with Shore Leave, and Malory could throw herself onto…

It's a model house. Roaches can't get that big, gravity would crush them. And the cars are a reel, added for the effect of a roach house.

I played Drakengard 3, but the gameplay never really caught one with me. It felt choppy and really simple, like just slashes with a finish combo. It lacked fluidity. And the world was not really fun to explore. The towns were barren. You just had huge open fields with pretty much nothing in them.

I think it's a great idea. If they do, I hope they release the international one that gave you a bit more freedom with controlling AI.

Well this is a fun recent development. Glad to see the X-2 coming to the Vita as well. I really loved that game. Glad to see my Vita catalog expanding a bit. I don't know what the development challenges are, but in addition to bringing out new games for the system I've always thought bringing back old PS2 games to the…

This isn't actually one of my favorite Storm games for a couple of reasons. The biggest is that I think the game series is at turning point, where instead of being principally a fighting game, the game series wants to be a action adventure game with an optional fighting game on the side. In the past the game has…

Why always this false choice, why can't we do both? Why can't you set a action game in the Middle-East where one of the characters has to go in and save their same-sex partner from an authoritative regime?

I don't understand what's the problem with a little diversity of characters and reflected backgrounds. The classic model of your standard Caucasian heterosexual male protagonist seems out of place in a world that is sociologically as diverse as ours. So, yes, the mediums that people consume should reflect the people…

Why? Bart, Lisa, Stewie, Brian, Fry, etc from the plethora of ageless animated characters have not aged since they came on air. Bonnie just had a baby after like a decade long pregnancy.

Oh, I get that we are fragile, but we've also survived pandemics, economic collapses, political upheaval, and natural disasters. Human society is resilient, and while there might be initial crunch from a severe event we have always bounced back, stronger too. Of course things could be worse, but there are enough smart…

It's hard to believe that such a dangerous pandemic would be able to wipe out that much of the population so easily. Information of the symptom would spread quickly. World health organizations would ground flights. The CDC would quarantine regional affected areas, and get information out about reducing your exposure…

Well, that's stupid. The reason we call ourselves American is because it's in the name United States of America. We're not referring to the northern continent, which includes Canada and America—which not many Americans would probably freely associate themselves with—but rather the formal recognized name of our…