Has the gameplay changed much in this one? I enjoyed the open world aspects of the first one - except for those stressful timed challenges - but found the controls a bit too floaty (no pun intended) and imprecise, particularly during combat.

I do understand “Learning Life Skills’” pain. I grew up in the south in the 80s and went to a high school full of trailer park kids. I was skinny, somewhat effeminate looking and had already developed social anxiety from the bullying of middle school. I was called “faggot” far, far more than my actual name even though…

Beast Boy...or Beef?

Just goes to show how subjective music is. To me that soundtrack sounded like something my dentist would play with his jam band on the weekends.

This is such a fascinating and delicate subject to me because in bringing up genuine feminist (and humanist, in my opinion) concerns, those who enjoy this part of the medium of anime effectively feel “kink shamed” by the critics.

At this point Overwatch feels like that friend at the party who’s really fun and charming and can’t stop making funny jokes and insightful social commentary...but who you secretly can’t wait to leave so someone else can get a chance to talk.

It’s a basic human interaction with a basic human noise. Another example: I thought I invented the word “F*ck” as a child in 1984, then heard Eddie Murphy say it and asked my mom how he knew my word. She was neither convinced by my authorship, nor impressed.

Anyone else terrified that the multiple cowboys shown on the teaser means the game will be multiplayer focused? I wouldn’t put it past Rockstar after abandoning GTA V singleplayer DLC for an endless sea of multiplayer content.

Give me my vast, singleplayer, story-driven cowboy open world or I shall cry.

Thanks to the DragonCon singles mixer, I got lucky with Chun-Li and Sephiroth in one weekend.

I thought it was just me getting confused about co-op being added to so many new games regardless of whether those types of games were historically “c0-op-able.”

I’m still sad Square forced Nintendo to kill Super Mario RPG and replace it with Paper Mario. And yes, I am old.

Forgettable music in movies and gaming has been my most lamented pop culture shift of the past twenty or so years. Maybe I was just an impressionable teenager (I definitely was) but it seemed like mood-defining soundtracks like Final Fantasy VI and Jurassic Park were once the norm rather than the rare exception they…

Sony was hoping for, “Yay!!!” and instead got, “Meh.”

As much as I will always have a fondness in my heart for tabletop, I still desperately yearn for D&D to return to greatness in videogaming. Give me something on the scale of Witcher 3 set in Faerun. Give me “Ravenloft - The Survival Horror.” Give me an open world Dark Sun game where I can play as a Thri-kreen insect…

Things like this remind me why RPGs and open world affairs will always be solo activities for me. I just can’t get lost in a fantasy world the way I like to when JoMommaSeattle74 is calling me a noob for venturing off the beaten path.

I was in a similar position in the early 2000s, coming off of five straight years of nothing but JRPGs. I just belligerently ignored everything else because my lizard brain remembered the teenage wonder years of FFVI and Chrono Trigger and thought that the best gaming experiences for my particular tastes would only…

While you’re absolutely right that having an ex life partner kill his/herself after you break up with them would be traumatizing, it’s equally if not more harmful to spend even more of his life waiting for the “right way” to break up with them to present itself. These solutions you mention aren’t easy to find, and if…

I think Zhang has unintentionally hit the nail on the head here. Most whitewashed films or media told with a lack of minority characters are “true to the artist’s artistic vision.” The problem is simply that this artistic vision was informed by decades of pop culture media filled with white (or in the case of anime,…

Think we’ll ever (I mean years from now) see Sony and Nintendo first party games on Steam? Seems the closest to a unified gaming platform we may ever get.

What do you think are the chances of Suikoden and Suikoden II coming to Steam? I’d love to play these classics again on PC with achievement support, cloud saves and whatnot.