I don’t really have a dog in this fight because I’m not invested in the series. Played a bit of the first one at a friend’s place and it was fine. Watched a playthrough of the whole story and again: fine. Nowhere near the masterpiece people prop it up as but it’s pretty good.

waiting for the topher grace edit.

I cannot help but think Todd’s still extremely jealous that Obsidian got all the glory for Fallout New Vegas, and has been trying to totally-not-copying-Obsidian-nuh-uh for the last decade, and failing badly.

At least in NMS I can talk to weird aliens and see planets with strange impossible geography and everything has a prog rock album cover aesthetic.

Pack it up folks, Amethyst says we don’t need reviews anymore!

The problem with Starfield is that it is the worst thing a product can be - mediocre, mundane. It has things it does well, and things it does poorly, but its the exact same game that has been released by this studio so many times over, with all of the familiar jank that comes with their products.

There better be puddles, or GOD HELP THEM

I feel sorry for people like that. It’s just so... I can’t think of a word, but there’s probably one in German that describes that combination of performative and pitiful.

Dude. Get some sun. 

Why would people want a feature that is included in the game to be functional? Is a uh, weird flex. 

The reason is almost certainly a practical one: Red is **Mario’s** interface color, and they usually like to have a single obvious color for each playable character in these games so players can reliably tell themselves apart in the HUD and menus and such.

Apparently the Flower Kingdom is in an episode of the animated show from the 90s.

- guy from 1998

GTFO, it looks fantastic. 2D games can be just as amazing (if not moreso, in some cases) than 3D games.

I’m genuinely excited about this new Mario! Can’t wait!

I’m increasingly getting the impression that the heads of the studios would rather just get out of the whole entertainment business entirely and move into something more reliable like furniture wholesale

We always talked about the ‘Golden Age of Television’ ending at some point, but I really didn’t think things would get this dire.

Jesus Christ this shit is getting out of hand. 

“There are tons of “thees” and “thines” and “thous” and the verbiage can get pretty dense, so if you’re not well-versed in Old English, a lot of the game’s writing will land with a thud.”

“Old English?”