No, but there is a “redshirt” setting where every killable NPC is dressed like a Star Trek ensign.

Missed opportunity using the Monopoly police officer in place of, say, an Enclave soldier. But those tokens are hot - I’m tempted to get this just to use them as meeples in other games.

Missed opportunity using the Monopoly police officer in place of, say, an Enclave soldier. But those tokens are hot…

How many hours of cutscenes are there in a Bioware-style game? I’ve never tried to add it all up. If there are only a couple hours total, then I could see them reaching the level of the best animated films. But if it’s, like, 10 hours, then I have trouble seeing how a studio would ever decide the cost is justified,…

Doesn’t look like anything to me.

When they put original Baldur’s Gate over BGII and Fallout over Fallout 2 I figured that they just were doing series instead of particular iterations. But then how do you explain Diablo 3?

I hated the Chalice Dungeons (but beat all the non-root dungeons because addict), but those boss-vs-boss fights are AWESOME.

Oh, I have no trouble being cynical...

Even more true. I think of myself as Gen X, but I’m really Gen Y, the generation that turned out not to matter.

While us Gen-Xers, we think if someone’s out there holding a football, they’re just getting ready to pull a Lucy on us

If Chris Kluwe is reading this (which he might be!) I will totally donate to that Patreon.

Have there been any significant updates to Darkest Dungeon since the beginning of the year? I played for a while last winter before tiring of it, but if they’ve kept innovating I might dip back in.

Believe it or not, Binding of Isaac and even Super Meat Boy too much for my Chromebook (Toshiba Chromebook 2) to run. It’ll work for a bit but inevitably overheat. Lesson: even though you can switch to Linux, you still probably shouldn’t.

Just don’t push it if you play a game that overheats your computer and causes it to shut down. You’ll shorten the lifespan of your laptop if you repeatedly overwhelm your computer by running a game it can’t handle to the point it shuts off, but there shouldn’t be any meaningful damage if it just happens every now and…

That’s OK - it was a good comment no matter who you were responding to!

I keep waiting for the counterrevolution to the open-world fad, where well-crafted linear gameplay comes back into fashion. Something tells me I’ll be waiting a while...

On top of that, the American use of the term “mafia” came from New Orleans. To say a game about 20th-century organized crime in a fictionalized New Orleans isn’t about the Mafia because the protagonist is black is as historically ignorant as it is racially blinded.

Will the Loo-Lau wedding have a luau?

“You have quite the treasure there in that Horadric blender!”

So excited for more Isaac... although given that I averaged almost an hour a day on it in 2016, this is not great for my New Year’s Resolution of playing less video games and/or a wider range of games.

... which is basically how every parent would describe their teenage son if they were being honest and/or charitable