Polar seltzer hype.

I agree on the tentacle monsters, but emo man child? The guy is flawed. He’s a wannabe Vader. He wants all the power of the Dark Side but just can’t seem to get it right. He has an enormous family to live up to and he just can’t live up to those standards. He deals with that disappointment by thrashing out at everyone…

I really just don’t understand the GOP. I mean, I get some of the religious stuff. That’s a big deal for a lot of people and it’s an important moral bedrock for a wide part of the country, but some of this stuff about women and Republicans is just atrocious. It goes beyond misinformed about women’s issues, it goes to…

I think what you’re going to start seeing in the Dark Zone is PvP tournaments ala Dark Souls. In Dark Souls people would get together on reddit to organize “fight clubs” where they would all congregate in one area, set down a bunch of summon signs and invade each other to fight duels.

I’ve been really taking my time with it. I bought it launch and am maybe level 22 or so and am really enjoying just going into it at small bursts solo, checking every alley for intel/phone records/other collectibles. Unlocking and conquering new neighborhoods is really enjoyable too. Gameplay is functionally strong -…

The critical damage system in Witcher 2 was the jankiest of the jank. You could enter a battle surrounded and get flanked in the back a few times before being able to actively move out of the way. Mechanically the game itself is fine, I’ll admit, but it’s those moments that happen way too often that remind you how…

You see that a lot with European developers. Look at the Witcher series! Witcher 1 was good, but really unpolished. Witcher 2 was janky as all hell, but had a really great story to mask over that stuff. Witcher 3, when compared to the other 2, is like a whole new development team.

It’s just the kind of wording used to describe European developers’ games, specifically Eastern Europe. If you’ve played any japanese developed games in the last decade, then you can probably agree that 9/10 of those games have a real, well, “flair” to them that define them as being from a japanese developer e.g.…

You can totally blame consumers, man, look at those god awful Furby robots. Where you can blame this developer is in the marketing and in the sale of this, in which you are right, he just doesn’t know the market. With some notable exceptions (Gone Home et al.), narrative one-time games are not going to be making all…

So much this. I’ve always found my favorite channels to be exactly what you described. What I think people who do Let’s Plays should do is focus on their brand as a channel, rather than the games that they are playing. Are you the goofy type who makes jokes through the game or does something super serious? Use that as…

Tons of great stories come from video games, but the game that cemented my love for the medium was Harvest Moon 64 - hands down. I had grown up with a Genesis and loved the shit out of it, but it was always just a passing thing to get through the time and what not. I was super stoked (see that famous youtube clip) to…

The Witcher 3 is a really great example of a developer realizing the shortcomings of the games they made before. Witcher 3 really did take the best parts of its predecessors, made it all really intuitive, and then added it all into a seamless open world. When I first booted up the Witcher 3, all I could say was “Wow!…

Decent list - some of these games really should be classified as “You CAN do it one night, but you should take your time with these.” To The Moon being an optimal example of this. You can play it all in one night, but I was much more affected by it because I took about a week to play it, basically doing a sequence…

Good to know! Thanks for sharing.

For everyone looking to jump on board the cry-engine train now, Humble Bundle just released their newest bundle that features all sorts of assets for the engine. Might be fun for people who are getting into it.

Yooo I haven’t seen that mod yet. Guess who’s doing another run? See you in two months.

I can understand why a lot of people can’t. If you can’t stick the landing, it makes the rest of the jump worthless. I still enjoy Mass Effect 3 though, it has some of the tightest gameplay and streamlined features of all 3. It does actually do service to a number of stories, though. The Krogan stuff is fantastic, as…

it’s true, ain’t it? Every once in awhile you get one of those moments and it’s like “Oh, jeeze I guess they did think of everything.”

I call the mining days my “catch up” days, where I mount my tablet on a little side table next to my couch and just put on some Netflix binge show while I do some of that menial stuff. Also while drinking beer.

I still go back to Mass Effect 1-3. I’ll try a different build one time, go for renegade or paragon or even do a mix. The games, some graphical things aside, have aged really well. Even 3, with it’s lackluster ending, is kinda okay now without that initial vitriol.