That was great. I was getting antsy when we hadn’t heard any Bastion after the first 50 minutes or so, but you can’t argue with that medley at that end...

That’s great! I figured I’d wait til it went on sale, but I might buy it now just to show that there’s support for this kind of conscientious dev.

So it’s... so it’s Spelunky meets Divinity: Original Sin? I’m in.

Took me a minute, but that’s some dark genius there.

Then you roll 216,000 dice to see how many dice you roll with. Oh, 756,000. Perfect, lots of choices.

This looks and sounds amazing, but hoooooly crap is it going to come down to the quality of the writing. Based on those mission descriptions (around 1:40 in the trailer), I am definitely not optimistic.

Oh, I never realized that it was the original prototype. That’s great. I thought of it as the same thing as the retro games within Super Meat Boy, but this is a really nice nod to its past.

It’s nice, but real heads know that Colonization in Quattro Pro is where it’s at

I would love a game version of Wolves of the Calla. Not sure exactly the form, though — asymmetric board game? CRPG? XCOM-like?

Yikes. That might be the only video game where I’d support law enforcement profiling of people who are into it...

“Smash TV meets Bloodborne” may be the kookiest pitch I’ve ever heard that made me say OH MY GOD I WANT IT NOW

The original Pet Sematary was my first-ever experience with surround sound, in the basement of a friend with an audiophile dad. The sound of zombie toddler footsteps moving across the floor above us was fucking unforgettable.

Slay the Spire meets Binding of Isaac with a cardboard style I’ve never seen before? Uh, very yes please.

Sounds really silly and fun. Reminds me a bit of Spaceteam -- maybe they’ll come out with a tag-team version where one player organizes items and the other names them. 

Wow, this is the first thing I’ve read about MH:W that makes me really interested to play it. Nice article.

There’s... driving stealth? That seems like one mode too many.

Yeah I’m gonna go out on a limb and say Burry wouldn’t be talking it up if he thought this was a good time to buy GameStop. He’s just hoping it bounces back from the 90% losses over the last three years. (That said, I haven’t read the Barron’s article and maybe that’s unfair to him.)

Do you know about the ‘80s AI program Eliza? I gather that’s part of the inspiration here. It was, uh, not exactly Turing-proof, but certainly had its charms.

I was thinking The Hound, which was a ... different direction.

Got that paaaaaandemic