The current teams writing Joker and Harley have been pretty bad, and missing the point for years: their “relationship,” such as it is, is never over. That’s where the comedy and tragedy of it ring truest. And I don’t know who that is up there, but that isn’t the Joker. He’s some half-baked caricature of an abusive…

What the fuck? When did Deadspin turn into a shitty fucking hot take factory? How the hell are you comparing Newton’s press conference to that Manning press conference? Manning literally blamed his teammates for the loss. THAT is what made that so shitty. Neeton didn’t do anything like that. He gave curt answers. He…

So on a scale from 1 to 10, how would you rate this game?

Calm down there, Satan.

I get what they’re going for here but it’s quite vague, perhaps intentionally, what their standards and criteria are.

What is “strategic?” It could mean many things - also, there’s a lack of distinction between strategy (which I think of as larger-scale resource management, planning and decision-making) and tactics,…

Until life happens. My wife and I do not have a mortgage on our house (we own it outright), but heating, cable, electric, gas, sewer, etc.—these bills add up over time.

Caring for our four-footed kids has a pricetag, too (we’re not having children of our own).

And then there are the incidentals. I just ate my first…

I don’t know if I’d even want a game bigger than Witcher 3. With all of Witcher 3’s side quests and treasure hunts, there’s at least a good 100+ hours of gameplay there. Maybe even 150. Having a game be much more than that would just seem overwhelming. Of course if depends on how good the gameplay is, as well.

It’s the biggest, most complex open-world RPG to come along since Skyrim

The lack of communication from them is the most troubling thing, as smart users out there were able to vocalize that it was a caching issue early on before Valve even bothered to confirm it, but only after turning the service off, and fixing it.

Right? Adam Driver did in one movie what Lucas didn’t allow Hayden Christensen in two. Though, I do have to say that despite how horribly Lucas’ writing was for Hayden, that the basic outline of Anakin’s descent makes total sense to me on paper. His mother being tortured and dying in the desert and then forseeing the…

“redundant”

One of the best voice actors alive delivering rusty lines? That is definitely just a theory. Unless he has forgotten how to use his normal voice and can do nothing but the Joker.

It’s probably in sixth place in the pantheon of Star Wars movies for me. Entertaining, yes, but we can do better.

Patrick: You forgive The Force Awakens for being A New Hope 2.0, but I’m hoping they take some big risks in the sequel. I mean, The Force Awakens is painfully aware it’s going over some known territory. There’s that scene where they’re preparing to invade the Starkiller base and Han says something like “Oh, there’s…

“Unfortunately, you can’t buy the original version of the movie anymore”. Hey Disney, you own Star Wars now, right? Do you like $$$? Someone told me you like $$$, Disney. Guess what, I’m a huge Star Wars fan with $$$ that would like to own the original unaltered movies in HD format, and I have never purchased nor…

Bioware also had the state of mind to keep us grounded while upping the stakes. It doesn’t get much bigger than the entire galaxy, but it still felt personal because of the individual people we cared about. Like Mordin said in 2, “hard to anthropomorphise entire galaxy, easy to think of favorite nephew.”

Sounds like BioWare’s approach with Mass Effect.

I think the problem with the Halo games currently is the lore is so far up it’s own ass it can’t find it’s way out. None of it makes sense anymore without having the dig into all this spin off content.