Or any video game review on any blog where the reviewer didn't give it a score to the tenth decimal place that was exactly what each reader believes it deserves, sight unseen. Kinda makes you wonder if grades/scores are necessary at all.

I'm in the same boat as you. I'd really like to finish Xenoblade first and apparently the key to it was to avoid almost every sidequest you come across.

If you value your collected Echoes, you'll port out before taking on 'Ol Bloody River. I fell into that trap and ended up losing out on 40k echoes. Those suckers are pretty mean as is what lies beyond.

Ah for some reason I read it as having to do with graphical fidelity as well. I do agree that it looks impressive given the Wii U's under powered specs compared to competitors.

You should totally share your D&D stories! That's one of the best parts of this weekly thread. I'm in the same boat as you (minus the kids). I've been interested in playing for so long, but never had the critical mass of nerd friends required to get started. I have to give Gary Gygax, Dave Arneson, & Wizards of the…

I'm hosting a little pre-Thanksgiving party tonight for some friends and plan on trying out Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes. I'm always down for some frantic co-op party games that involve puzzle solving. The rest of the weekend will be spent getting a department presentation ready and playing Fallout 4: So Many…

Hearing about all the crap you have to download just because they couldn't fit it on a disc has soured me some towards a purchase. Also the endless side-questing of Xenoblade on the 3DS.

I didn't really find the bludgeoning death of an ape-man by his fellow ape-men to be particularly funny, but hey different strokes and all.

Wait, affluenza isn't real?! Then what fucking good was letting all those rich assholes sneeze on me?

I will be consuming roach meat and nuka cola with most of you in Fallout 4: Bahston Edition this weekend. I haven't had to many fun, unscripted moments yet. So far, I've escorted that little band of stragglers to the Promised Land a.k.a the suburbs and started building their shelter. And like people in a promised land…

I'll know the future is here when the Xbox comments on my daily activities. "Quite the heavy flow today sir." "Yes, Xbox. It is."

Yeah so far Arno is a bit flat. His dad was an assassin and the lady he loves is a Templar. What's a guy to do? Why he'll manage a cafe, stab some people and fiddle around with a stupid phone app!

I just picked up Unity on the cheap and started playing it. Does the story end up being satisfying? I haven't really run into any bugs (yet) and the game play feels pretty much the same as ACII and Brotherhood (which made me love the series). Should I just give up and wait to play Syndicate?

"This isn't what happened last week! Have you all got amnesia? They just
cheated us! This isn't fair! HE DID'NT GET OUT OF THE COCK - A - DOODIE TIME-SPACE VORTEX!"

Fanny pack, eh?…. *waddles off to create new phylactery*

What if…I become a lich? Would I still lose?

If you ever wanted to marvel at one of the most faithful interactive translations of a sci-fi film's aesthetic to a game, Alien: Isolation is the ticket (not that I can really think of any other examples). It is a downright beautiful game and very good at building tension and the "lived-in feeling" of a crumbling…

Some of the scenarios seem really stacked against the investigators. One in which I was the traitor allowed me and my monster to basically kill the other players in about four rounds. It kind of took the fun out of the game once we all realized they didn't have a chance.

A bit of a tangent, but I always favored fantasies that were presented as influenced by personal anxieties or issues. For a kid audience it works because when you are young, your day-to-day existence regularly slips between reality and fantasy at your whim. As you grow, your anxieties change and can become nebulous…

To be fair, the first time I remember seeing the full movie was in middle school so I was like 12 or 13? I'm pretty sure I knew what electroshock was by then. But you are right, the movie does a great job of presenting Dorothy's fear as a very palpable and something that kids in the audience would easily pick up on…