This is true. People raged about the “super deluxe alpha EX 3" editions, when those were probably the most cost effective way to get the most content for your money. Buying everything piecemeal adds up really fast.  

Sometimes it’s easy to forget, especially when you spend an appreciable amount of time on sites like this, but the vast majority of people in America... hell, the majority of people in the world, do not give a single shit about video games.

I’d love to play some casual Overwatch with my PC friends. They can disable crossplay for competitive mode, sure, but being able to play together in a mode where winning doesn’t matter would still be fun.

Mayo in other countries tends to be much better than American mayo. It has a lot more going for it than just the fat.

Curiously, I think books are superior to movies as well. No artificial time constraints, and having to use your imagination encourages the reader to engage with the piece on a deeper level.

He has something of a point. I love movies; they can and frequently do tell some great stories. But I can’t think of a single one that wouldn’t be improved by a degree of interactivity and the removal of a 90-to-180 minute time limit. 

I would love it if Rin was trans, and handled well, but unless I missed some key information somewhere, I can’t jump to that conclusion like everyone else has. Even the trailer above shows Vincent freaking out anytime the other women enter his general vicinity.

I knew there was going to be some new stuff, sure, but this trailer shows off a lot more than I was expecting. Really looking forward to it.

I’m playing the Shenmue games for the first time right now (almost done with the second), and loving every minute of it. Yeah, they’re rough, but there’s nothing else like them. That uniqueness, the sense that somebody made the game they wanted to make instead of the game a focus group or a CEO wanted them to make, is…

“Adult” refers to the intended audience, not the content itself. To be fair, Japan is hardly the only country that equates youth and attractiveness, but it does feel like Western audiences are willing to embrace a much wider range of material. If Steam keeps with this trend, we might even get to see some of it…

I’m about halfway through Shenmue 2 right now. I regret not playing these games when they first came out, but now, a couple decades later, I’m discovering why they’re considered classics. 

I’m guessing Microsoft and PlayStation accounts are tied to a specific region, and set up in accordance with those region’s laws. Meanwhile, Steam accounts are more global, so they have to account for all the different privacy laws in various countries.

The impression I’m getting from the article is that whatever changes occur in the NPCs or the environment, they’re going to be so small and meaningless that they’d be better off not including them in the first place. 

I’d actually love to have that as a skin, along with a banged up mech. 

Same. Every game in my collection, and every game on my to-play list is something I’m legitimately interested in and excited to play. They’re not all gems, but I can count the number of times I regretted a purchase on one hand, with fingers to spare. I have a bit of a backlog now, but that’s because I try to beat a…

Man, I would play the hell out of Dino Crisis and Dino Crisis 2 if they remastered those. 

Oh, I can tell you exactly what’s wrong here. Life sucks for so many people in this country. And the stress of daily life manifests in a myriad of ways: anger, hopelessness, depression, paranoia... And when those negative emotions are taken to extremes, people lash out. If they happen to have a lethal weapon handy, it…

I think every dollar diverted away from CEOs, billionaires and military dick measuring contests, and put towards mental health care among many other things, would be money well spent.

Guns being so readily available most definitely is a major part of the problem. But banning them and calling it a day won’t fix anything. Sane gun control regulation needs to be coupled with easier access to free mental health care, as well as nurturing a culture that takes mental health issues seriously. And if we…

I’m fine with this. The next several months are packed full of games I want to play, so this will give me some breathing room. And if it makes for a better game in the end, then I’m all for it.