Triple Click is great, and I’ll give you guys a listen. Bring on the dulcet tones of Fahey

Perhaps it didn’t show up on his screenshot because it was taken 30nm SE of Bugalaga airstrip, not 40nm SE where the mine actually is.

I like the analysis of games as service and the spooky implications of the technology at play but... this ain't a review of the game, really. 

I am intrigued to try this hunt for the mine, as it is massive and not hard to navigate to. I have had issues here and there with trees being overpopulated in the wrong places and it bunches up over land features and buildings. For instance my home of Vancouver has lots of trees still in between the buildings…

Dear Will, if you took a second to try and review the *game* Microsoft Flight Simulator instead of the concept of cloud and games as a service, maybe you would have done the tutorial, which would have taught you to fly VFR (which incidentally is the only form of navigation actually included in the tutorial).

I think Galaxy 2 is a good game—perhaps even great. But I also feel like I’m one of the only people out there who unequivocally prefers Galaxy 1 over 2.  

My guess is they have a full HD remake of SMG2 in the works for the launch of whatever the new 4k switch is. 

Speaking of things that suck, losing another editor this week really, really sucks. It doesn’t sound like Natalie is getting an exit post so uh, I guess this’ll do.

The less than $20billion company is a little guy when compared a Trillion dollar company

It always amazes me not matter what nastiness a publisher does, there’s always at least one person that defends it (not you, but the person you replied to). “Guys, it’s not that bad.”

The ultimate edition is the same game.  Giving it a different SKU doesn’t make it a different game.  Especially not different than the digital deluxe edition that also came with the DLC.

I imagine the lower than expected graphics quality is because they want this to be an esports title that is played by a huge number of people on both PC and Xbox. Esports titles are never the best looking games because you don’t want to limit the game to a small set of players who can afford the best hardware.

Thousand Year Door is literally my favorite video game and it breaks my heart.

And that happened a lot, as battles would often be based around using the exact right rare items at the exact right time, and leaving you up the creek if you messed it up, which you probably would since the games were also stingy with hints.

For those wondering why this series hates being an RPG so much, the overall series head, Kensuke Tanabe, revealed as such in an interview. Among the many games he was a producer for at Nintendo (no, he’s not a Director and hasn’t been since Mario 2 USA, instead usually being Advisor, Producer, or Supervisor) was…

Yeah, back when it was a fantasy, and not the sad state of wealth distribution in the country. :’(

I know it’s kind of a staple in the Indiana Jones-ish adventure genre, but maybe we should just retire the “savage tribal enemy wearing a scary mask” trope in general? I remember playing Borderlands 2 a while back and playing the Hammerlock Big Game Hunt expansion and mowing through these enemies thinking “wow, this…

In general, I feel like scored reviews tend to skew toward justifying the number the reviewer assigned. If IGN gives a big number, the review has to be glowing; if Gamespot gives a lower number, the review has to focus on flaws. In contrast, the lack of a number allows a reviewer to both really like a game and point…

They know they’re on camera. The scary thing is that they don’t care.

My gf has a relative that got radiation poisoning as an engineer in the US Navy because he worked on sonar systems. On an occasion or two, the sonar was on while he was working on it (despite the crew responsible for turning it off being made aware they should turn it off while he was working on it) and died of…