The fact that you assume women of color are only preyed upon by black men says everything I need to know about you. Also, flagged.

It looks like somebody in the SNL Writer’s Room has been watching Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.

I definitely think the next Zelda game has to focus on the dungeons in some way. BotW is all about the Overworld with the Dungeons being kinda small.

Yes - just to name one other obvious model, GTA V (which is otherwise not really big on freedom of movement, at least not on foot) has modern glider-esque parachutes that you can use to get down from anywhere as long as you have a second of freefall in which to open the chute. The big difference there is that GTA V’s…

I literally said “But hey it’s okay because it was like this in the books therefore it’s not a problem.” It’s no excuse. CDPR could have made some important women not hot or made some hot women not available to bang (yes I know there’s like two of those) or done a dozen other things to soften the bro fulfillment. They…

You need to get back into this game. Just follow the instructions they gave you. Make for the large mountain with the split in it. Walk through the split. Turn left and make your way to Kakriko village. Along the way, you will find a stable and more information. You will learn a ton doing this.

I’ve mixed feelings on the Korok puzzles. On one hand, they can get repetitive, especially since Nintendo only had a few puzzle types. On the other, I was finding new types even around the 300 - 350 mark, and one thing about them that’s really cool is how the puzzles can be altered to suit new contexts. One of the…

Exactly! It’s why I always found criticism of the Korok seed stuff in Zelda to be kind of baffling. Like, just don’t do them if you find them tedious or unengaging. You don’t miss out on anything. Same with the number of power moons in Mario. I love the Koopa races and the challenge rooms, so I’ve been seeking those…

HZD is plagued by the issues most open world games have, but I actually found it a breath of fresh air coming off The Witcher 3 (which, for the record, I also enjoyed, it was just feeling old after 100+ hours) thanks to engaging and difficult combat. I mean, nothing I did in The Witcher 3 felt as amazing as finally…

It’s not a true map game unless, while slowly watching tiles change colors, you can accidentally eat your bastard incest child while thinking you are a werewolf.

You absolutely nailed what I love about Mario Odyssey. There is almost no incentive to do something you’re not enjoying. Do you find shepherding to be tedious? Do you find racing to be frustrating? Is there a particular capture enemy that just feels off to you? Then just go after another moon! You’re not missing out…

The limited climbing paths in HZD were my biggest criticism of it. One gets the sense that they borrowed that approach from the Uncharted games, where Nathan Drake almost always has one path to get to wherever he’s going next. That works just fine in a linear narrative game, but when I was just exploring and…

I hope these games point the way forward to others looking to make large-scale open-world games. I’ve loved Super Mario Odyssey and Breath of the Wild so much (BotW easily ascended the ranks to become the most genuinely enjoyable game I’ve ever played, narrowly edging the previous champion - Super Mario World)! I had…

Fallout 4 also deserves credit on how to do open world right. It eschews for the most part any of the usual find 10 of these, 500 of these BS quests, even minor quests have well thought out stories and characters that are more than just “local villager who needs X brought here,” and almost all locations were lovingly…

How did you wring yet another article out on this subject? Horizon was a great game, period. I admit to suffering some “map game exhaustion” (although I resist your efforts to turn “map game” into a thing) - I abandoned Fallout 4 halfway through, and when I recently loaded up Shadow of War, my urge to slaughter…

As someone who’s still slogging through Witcher 3, I do have to chime in on the comment here - for all the praise it got, for all that this article says it transcends the genre.... it really, really, does not feel like that to me. If anything, it feels like even more of a map-icon hunt then DA:I did.

What story there…

“They’re not always true.” - Richard Gere

While I agree, I honestly don’t have a lot of sympathy at this point? It’s not that everyone is a bigoted monster on his level, it’s that at some point you have to have some integrity or you get judged with the company you keep. The difference between Trump and a shitty boyfriend is that everyone else around you…

Any time I hear someone says that we should reach out and learn to empathize with Trump voters I remember that picture of the real rednecky couple smiling at a rally wearing matching “Trump 2016: Fuck Your Feelings” t-shirts.

 Fuck Trump voters. A few of my fellow Liberal friends always criticize me for my hateful attitude towards them and other bigots. Saying I should be try to be nice to them and win over their hearts and minds. Fuck that. It’s not my job. I’m no therapist. Some act like I’m worse than Richard Spencer because I would…