that our major beef with the Razzies is not so much their general mean-spiritedness, but the sheer lack of creativity with which they express it

This budget improv Rashomon sucks.

Separate weeks in January nowadays, but the AVN’s got started by running concurrently with CES.

The only thing I liked about e3 in recent years is that it always meant a specific time in which Nintendo would be forced to do a direct. Without that, they have even more opportunities to be overly sporadic.

Have to wait for the sequel E4

I’m going to go against the AV Club grain here and say Kevin Smith seems like a really decent, cool guy.

why comment then

“Did you fix the crash?”

I am very anti-Moonveil Katana, not because it’s too good for PvP, but because good lord it shouldn’t be able to do all these wonderful things without necessitating a more confusing stat spread. At least SoNaF requires you to go Golden Order (my personal nickname for INT/FAI spreads) for it’s power. Moonveil is just…

The northern stretches of the map felt a bit empty, little bit like Just Cause 3.

Imagine how Axl feels.

Now you have me wishing Elden Ring had implemented a similar mechanic. There are so many rare consumables in that game that I’ll most likely never use because, as you mentioned, I might need them later. If those consumables also slightly increased one stat trait associated with their benefit, like fire resistance, I’d…

This story is just a reminder that it’s best to think of this as Putin’s war, not Russia’s war. Because there are a lot of Russians (particularly the young) who don’t share Putin’s worldview.

Well with that attitude I’m just going to buy that game now even though I have a giant backlog because reviews are solid and I like me some RPG, jokes on you nice developer

Translation: it probably makes sense over the long term but we have to spend a lot of money that we don’t have to get there. Microsoft has it, so they can do it that way, but we can’t.

If you needed to Google what a Tarnished is after the first two hours of the game, the problem might be you and your lack of attention. 

It probably wasn’t the biggest factor, but I imagine having them both competing for GOTY was *a* factor. A small one, sure, and it’s not like GOTY is some universal, official thing, or really means a *lot*, but the thought had to have been in some minds, you know?

The covid thing is not nothin’, honestly. It feels like almost every game released since this pandemic began has been notably, tangibly less polished than you’d otherwise expect, even the really big, famous, moneyed ones, and some have been shockingly messed up.

When I got locked in the room with the stormcalling knight I clearly heard that jerk laughing. It was a Patches move, but I hadn’t met patches at that point so I assumed it had to be Gostock. I never noticed him skulking around the castle though.

The most recent Guns & Roses album, which was in ‘development’ for like 20 years. It took a second for it to click