Their entire profile is full of unhinged anger

This statement feels completely, absolutely off base. Virtually every major console game released these days has a “performance” mode that targets 60fps by reducing the graphical fidelity. 30fps is the default target for most games because developers want their games to look prettier, not because their games are CPU-li…

Because it’s just as much cost-cutting, but where there used to be jokes, post-Marvel the prevailing humor is just characters lifelessly talking with modern-day affectations in genre settings.

I think it’s interesting to contemplate whether Garland’s British-ness is an important consideration, here. Britain has been remarkably resistant to fully committing to any ideology or government type. They clipped the monarchy’s nuts, but not completely, and didn’t get rid of it. They clipped the House of Lords’…

Isn’t part of his point that, while the setting is current, America isn’t all that exceptional when it comes to this sort of thing? That civil wars occur, for the same sorts of reasons, all over the world because humanity shares an inherent tribalism that’s always looking for an excuse to rear its ugly head?

That’s everybody though, you and me, everyone has a form of unconscious bias. Is it a bad thing? In some rare circumstances it can help keep you safe, but we know the old saying of making assumptions. As a person of color I get it. I had an older white man come up to me at our local cars and coffee and say “I’ve seen…

Academic discussions about historical figures are OK and should be encouraged, after all how else are we going to learn and move forward, in my view the problem here isn’t about whether or not there is anything to learn about the nazi dude and his regime, but rather that this not only does it have no academic value,…

“Hitler was, you know, a demon on steroids, but he had some pretty good one-liners.”

You can divide FF into two categories: “High fantasy” and “Cyber fantasy”

My kingdom for the first patch or mod that removes Chadley completely.

>The series is built on choice but not a single choice you have made affects the ending

I mean, we actually already know who did this, because Patrick Weekes (one of the other writers) posted about it on the Penny Arcade forums not long after it happened. And everything he said tallied well with what we knew from Bioware’s own laudatory mini-documentary novel, The Final Hours of Mass Effect 3 (written by…

https://www.pcgamer.com/mass-effect-3-series-former-lead-writer-reveals-original-ending-ideas/

Right, I forgot about walking away (I haven’t played the game since it came out).

Wish they ignored the russian leaks and went forward with their dark matter plot to really strengthen the ending.

It wasn’t a limitation. It was a design choice that took inspiration from old school BBS and forums. Since Dragon’s Dogma Online was released on the PS3. 

OK but were you informed an enemy was weak to fire?

Dragon’s Dogma is arguably the better “game” of the three of them, even as a monster-hunting witcher-like game, it’s got better mechanics and gameplay. The only thing it lacks is a very strong/directed narrative with lavish cutscenes and characters, but that’s largely because it seems like it’s trying not to shoehorn…

To be real, if this game is anything like the first game, I can see why they didn’t add multiplayer. The way the world, combat, and the exploration all functioned in the first game were great for a single person and a team of mostly competent pawns, but I think adding too much human interaction would have made it feel…

I certainly hope so.  The first was a rough-around-the-edges diamond.  While I grateful the sequel exists, I want it to do well enough so we don’t have to wait another decade for part 3.