The ending to L.A. Noire wasn’t satisfying to me because the bulk of the game wasn’t. I didn’t get the sort of feelings I’d get watching something like The Maltese Falcon or Chinatown. See, if we’d been in Jack Kelso’s shoes from the very beginning, conducting complementary investigations to the ones Phelps was…

Well, at least Andrew Luck has good taste in books. May not say much for his playing abilities at the moment, but says a lot about the brain inside.

I feel sorry for the high schoolers they con into putting on the suit. Worked at Chuck E. Cheese in the Denver area in high school. It paid like any other after school job, but it was a special little hell. Toddlers screaming your character’s name with childish glee as they headbutt your groin (and you can’t make a…

Not to belabor an obvious point, we never stopped being at war with North Korea. An armistice only says we stop shooting at each other for the moment. A peace treaty would require an entirely new declaration of war. We’ve somehow stretched out “for the moment” for sixty years. Technically, if I understand correctly,…

Can’t tell if I should be hearing Vangelis or Yoko Kanno in my head looking at these.

Seen far too many players go the “Lawful Stupid” route with paladins.

Pretty evenly spread across all four of those possibilities. But there are some things even mechs won’t do.

Worse than the janitors who have to clean the tunnels of the Deeprun Tram?

Considering the main game took place in and around Colorado, the hot springs in Yellowstone, and Devil’s Tower seem like a pretty solid indicator that this DLC is happening in Wyoming.

Yes, it is. The kid mentioned it in the trailer. Also kind of weird how it bears a vague resemblance to Kratos in his earlier days.

It is a tough call, to be sure.

Was his name Gehngis by any chance?

From a directing standpoint, how he picks his shots, framing, blocking, that part’s always good. Like you, I don’t think I can complain about that aspect of any of his films. Far as acting and writing, how much of that is on him and how much is the responsibility of the actors and writers?

A minor correction: Spike was not a con artist. It’s probably more accurate to say he was a mob enforcer.

The single biggest problem with “games as a service” rests on an assumption: your Internet connection is always active. Publishers, in particular, are all too happy to try and exploit that condition because, “hey, our dev studios never have Internet connectivity go down, so it can’t possibly happen to our customers.”…

Assuming they could squeeze through in the first place. They are a little narrow.

Metal detectors would create too many false positives. Think about how much metal goes into some props and even costume pieces, particularly for large and elaborate ones like some of the Reinhardt costumes from Overwatch or the amount of tactical gear used for cosplay based off Resident Evil. Plus, metal detectors are…

Suppose it depends on a couple of variables. First, as one person asked, is it a single enemy unit, or is the AI essentially a conglomeration of all the different enemy subroutines in the game that has somehow fallen together into sentience? Second, depending on the circumstances of the first question, is it going to…

Cole Phelps was probably the single worst thing about L.A. Noire. I have never before or since hated playing a character the way I did with that game. You look at characters in the genre like Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon) or Ed Exeley (L.A. Confidential), and you see interesting flawed characters. You look at Cole…

Sounds suspiciously like Outpost, but without the tedious mucking about in cryogenic storage while making an interstellar voyage.