Not quite the same thing, but here:

As for the cosplay, It probably wouldn’t fly here since fun and politics never go together and it’d be really easy for opponents to turn whatever you cosplay as into some kind of anti-religious statement. Hell, the Evangelion cosplay alone opens up the can for so much potential anti-Christianity nonsense that it’d…

If I was running against her, I would’ve focused more on her being a horde orc assassination rogue player who stuck to the shadows and used poisons to dispatch her foes. Then I’d point out that I played an Alliance Human Protection Warrior and talk about how I’d be the first one in the fight and the last one out.

Would be interesting to see how this would have fared in the US, especially given that as recently as 2012, the fact that a candidate for public office actively played World of Warcraft was used against her in a mailer by the opposing party.

This is reminding me of how my US History 1 professor (a decade ago now, jeez) opened her first class. She said something to the tune of, “Popular culture has for a while been obsessed with the idea of the apocalypse, the one big, catastrophic event where before was good and after was bad. It hasn’t happened yet,…

Yeah, aside from the kikimora, striga, djinn, green and gold dragons, cursed hedgehog knight and doppler...no monsters whatsoever.

It’s based on the books, so the show isn’t going to be structured like the game’s many side quests that revolve around “hunt this monster this episode” then “hunt the next monster in the next episode.” It’s telling a story, and if it continues to follow the books, there’s very little actual monster hunting involved.…

You sue for unpaid wages AND the studio could be investigated for fraud. 

I’ve said it many times, but Witcher 3 is still the only game I’ve played in which every quest feels completely unique. Maybe I’m looking back overly fondly but I can’t think of a single quest that I did that felt like they just re-skinned something else. It’s set a very, very high bar for any other game I’ve played…

A couple of every day style stories here, at least compared to the extremes that this column can go to.

Whenever this question comes up, I go to the basics from my childhood. Your final fantasies, your megamen, your journey to silius (which might be my favourite ‘retro’ OST)

You are speaking my language.

Eeeyeah.

I love me some fantasy (and sci-fi), and can be a bit of a fanboy over my favorite IPs—but god damn do some people take works of fiction far too seriously (and personally).

I’ve never published a novel. Like every other English professor I’ve ever known, I have one sitting on my hard-drive, half-finished and…

On the subject of the Solas romance fans, that sub-community is fucking insane. There was a bit with the Tumblr fandom about a year ago where one of the more prominent members was sending out anonymous death threats to other authors in the community, then swooping in to play the hero.

The case of DA2 vs Origins is one that I think can take a lot of different forms. I get the appeal for both games, and I understand why some might prefer one over the other. Inquisition on the other hand is a poor man’s (very poor) Witcher 3, imo. Story and character issues aside, I thought the combat and quest design…

They’ve already been through their terrible reception and rebounded (Dragon Age 2 to Inquisition) so they’re not going to try to rock the boat too much.

I don’t particularly care for zombies in games overmuch, with a few exceptions (TLOU being one of them), but damn did I love me some Saints Row 3.

...there was just something about being able to clothesline people on the street, strike a pose immediately afterward, gain some additional following for it, and then stroll…

My partner was the one who was super into me playing DA:I: they spend a lot of time on the intertubes and had seen a lot of love for the series. I asked if it was ok if I stopped playing and they looked up from their laptop and were like “yeah, this isn’t so much fun to watch. How about going back to The Last of Us?…

Witcher 3? huge effect from narrative choices. How does that make you a hypocrite?

I’m a massive Witcher fanboy, too, and I, similarly, just couldn’t seem to care about DA:I at all. I wanted to. I loved Origins so much and was stoked to play alongside Varric and then just... meh.