A while back I saw a dating profile where the person listed their pronouns as Cuno/Cunoesse. I didn’t send a message, could never find them again, and expect this regret to drive me into an amnesiac stupor. 10/10 would do it all again.

Tecmo Bowl. Everybody talks about Super Tecmo Bowl as an all-timer and the godfather of football videogames, but the original is the single best version of Rock Paper Scissors ever invented. Each player has four plays to choose from, and the entire game came down to guessing what your opponent was going to do. Just a…

Something that may clear up confusion: “psychological hazard” is a term of art in Australia that’s somewhat similar to how we use “hostile work environment” in the US. One definition I pulled up online is “those hazards that can have an impact on the psychological health or mental or emotional wellbeing of a person.”

This may just be my Super Nintendo nostalgia, but 1994 had Final Fantasy III/VI, Super Metroid, Donkey Kong Country, Earthbound, System Shock, the original Warcraft, the original XCOM, the original Need for Speed, Star Wars: Tie Fighter, Earthworm Jim...

This is not a new tactic for Apple. When DOJ and a bunch of State AGs sued them for price-fixing ebooks, they subpoenaed Amazon for a ton of incredibly sensitive data and strategy information that had no plausible relevance to the case. The judge rejected all of the disputed requests if I remember right. (Most of…

Missed the request for ideas, but a few more to suggest:

Missed the request for ideas, but a few more to suggest:

Also a great take!

You just articulated my exact playing experience and thoughts much better than I could have. I appreciated getting turned down by Jack (and by Vivienne in Dragon Age: Inquisition). Compared to, say, The Witcher’s “if she’s female you can bang her” approach to relationships, it’s much healthier and more interesting.

And there’s a Darkest Dungeon coming, and there’s the Binding of Isaac game that I kickstarted but haven’t played, and...

And there’s a Darkest Dungeon coming, and there’s the Binding of Isaac game that I kickstarted but haven’t played,…

Yeah, I seriously considered getting a copy to play solo, though Tabletop Simulator was close enough that I didn’t. I did a two-character evil playthrough, since my group play had been good, and was disappointed that the evil pathways kind of trailed off. But it was still loads of fun.

My review: good enough that I smashed the down arrow off my laptop, not so good that I don’t regret it.

I just started playing the original for the first time (which is crazy, since III/VI is one of my all-time favorite games) and kind of can’t believe the Remake is just the Midgar section. I just finished that and the game feels like it’s barely started — like, not even the equivalent of reaching the World of Ruin in…

Heck yeah to Gloomhaven. Still very sad that the pandemic put a stop to my group. I ran it solo on Tabletop Simulator for a while after we had to shut it down, but it wasn’t the same.

I am totally here for this hot take. Pyre’s story is fantastic, asking a “how do you balance friendships with greater causes” question in a really unique storytelling style. I found the core gameplay a little clunky and frustrating, but beyond that it was great. Hades had a somewhat similar approach to dialogue and…

I appreciated Transistor’s story by the time I was through it, but for much of it it felt a bit too cliche-cyberpunk-rebellion for me. Bastion’s and Pyre’s stories were much more compelling to me. Plus Logan Cunningham’s narration was spectacular in Bastion but a little less compelling in Transistor. 

That’s my view too, though I know it’s the minority view. For me, Bastion’s story, music, narration, art style, and combat are all perfect. (The soundtrack made my Spotify top-5 list this year, 10 years later!) Transistor’s stop-and-start combat didn’t grab me quite the same way, but other than that it was great and I…

Yes, check them all out! Bastion might be my favorite game of the 2010s, I totally get why some people feel that way about Transistor, and Pyre has some of the most interesting storytelling this side of Outer Wilds and Disco Elysium. It’s been so lovely to see Supergiant have an absolute megahit — like watching the…

Yeah, Horizon Zero Dawn was the first game I played where your footprints would stick around in the snow for more than a few seconds. I would trudge around and then come back to where I started just to marvel at my footprints still being there. Gorgeous.

Yeah, I don’t bother with the shortcuts either. Slow and steady seems much better than trying something fancy where you’ll get screwed if somebody bumps into you.

Oh man I’d forgotten how lovely the ending credits of Link to the Past were. I miss the days of wordless where-are-they-now montages at the end of games.