I still really love Knights of the Old Republic’s ending(s).

It’s been known for a while that the first Assassin’s Creed game started as a new Prince of Persia game, that was then turned into its own IP. The licensing issue mentioned above is probably the main reason why they decided to make it a new IP instead a of another PoP game.

Half-Life 3 opens with the episodes being a dream in Gordon Freeman’s mind. From there it devolves into a series of micro-transactions that are used to progress through the entire game. Oh, did I forget to mention its mobile-only, too? 

Eh, games where you can’t defend yourself got old about a decade ago. I’m sure streamers with lifetime memberships to the AmDrams society will love this though.

I wouldn’t say the Shenmue games were great. They were an awesome technical achievement and was ahead of its time for the open world/lived in feel,but aside from the fighting the game was not all that good. VA was bad, the frikkin forklift simulator was bad and the story was sort of an afterthought.

I don’t want to take too much credit away from Stardew Valley - which was a very good fresh take on things - but it was definitely helped by the old Harvest Moon series being dead and the Story of Seasons brand never catching on to the same degree.

Yeah, but it’s also a movie.
This is a 24-episode TV series, and for a TV series, this isn’t bad at all.

Now, I could probably go for a different artstyle, but the actual animation work here is pretty good.

See also: Saint’s Row series

Portal is a pretty hilarious game.

Maybe Microsoft should have stuck with numbers, numbers a fine, they don’t have to mean anything, but ‘The X4' or whatever they want to call it, just sounds better and really doesn’t require a crazy new naming scheme every iteration.

The funny thing about King books for me is that often I don’t even really care if the ending is good or not. I’m just sad that it’s ending at all because I just love hanging out with these characters (the Boulder people, the Losers club, the ka tet, etc.) The stories are just a delivery mechanism for a bunch of great…

Me too. It jumps the shark several times and the series peaks in the middle, but it’s more than the sum of its parts.

Wow...just wow.

Keep digging that fucking hole, guys. Jim Sterling is going to have a goddamn field day with this.

You can disable the shard ‘cinematic’ from the options menu. Totally gets rid of that and makes things go faster. When you get a new shard, it merely pauses to show you the description and stuff. Whenever you acquire additional ones, there isn’t even a pause.

I don’t think the hair looks any worse than the elf hair in LOTR

Both Clueless Hero and Double XP speak so much truth. And I usually don’t like Double XP.

The game A Hat in Time, the protagonist is a girl with a mustache.

I’ve been waiting for the Schreier breakdown of how this fell apart far more than the game itself.

Thank you for the write-up.
I loved season 1 but for some reason that was it for me.
I felt like it had a good ending, I didn’t feel the need to go on and even though I don’t think I missed out it’s good to know that at least so much effort (both from the developers and fans) wasn’t in vain.

You totally forgot the best one from E3 2013: