I’m pretty excited for the RPGs and fighting games, as well as some of those weird, early titles that I passed up because I was a child and had no idea what they were: Intelligent Qube, Jumping Flash, Mr. Driller... And it’ll be nice to have another excuse to play Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil and Ridge Racer again.

A person can enjoy fiction while acknowledging that the content is problematic and deeply immoral in real life. I’m very much aware of the gigantic problem in society right now. I simply don’t believe that media causes it. 

Nor is there anything wrong with me thinking that you have a shakier grasp of the difference between fantasy and reality than the people you demonize. Nor is there anything wrong with me wishing that you never get your way in this matter. 

Nope. Neither the original creators, nor the people localizing this game made the choice to remove content from it. That was all Sony’s doing, and was elaborated upon in the article. Do you really not understand what’s going on, or are you just pretending?

I’m locked into “adults should be able to create and play whatever they choose to” in games, thank you. You might not think much of it personally, but you’d be singing a different tune if a businessman took it upon himself to dictate what you’re allowed to -like-. And I guarantee, there are plenty of people out there…

No, the first amendment isn’t under attack. But a businessman is trying to dictate what kind of fiction grown adults are allowed to enjoy or not enjoy in the privacy of their own homes, and that’s kind of shitty. People are well within their rights to take issue with that, even people who have no interest in the…

So basically, as long as you get what you want, everyone else can just fuck off?

With the Switch’s massive popularity, a lot of visual novels are making their way to the console. Though things are changing a bit, Japanese gamers still tend to prefer consoles over PC gaming, so... you know, it makes business sense to put your games on the systems people are playing on, even if it has to be…

Well, I’ll readily admit that I’m a casual fighting game player, so I’m less interested in learning frame data and gaining a competitive advantage on day one. But I can buy a copy of Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition for less than the price of the two season passes that are included. Go back further and you’ll see…

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.