I’m disappointed in many of the comments here. You don’t know much about cults if you don’t understand how easy it is to get sucked into one when you’re in a difficult period of your life. Cult leaders are master manipulators that slowly put you in a place where you’re dependent on them psychologically, economically,…

You can tell they aren’t lying about him being obsessed with these shows because I’d probably believe it existed if you told me about it with a serious face outside of a webcomic, really accurate parody.

I feel called out with the Penny Arcade one. Everybody I know is watching game of thrones and other awesome trendy stuff like that while I am on a neverending quest to consume the earth’s supply of random gritty british crime dramas that none of my friends have ever heard of. There just is something addicting to mopey…

Yep, my memories of not being able to plug headphones into the GBASP directly are part of why I’m pretty adamant on only buying smartphones that have a 3.5mm jack for as long as possible. I love the flexibility of having one pair of earbuds that I can plug into my phone, laptop, ps4 gamepad, switch, and work/library…

Damn that is a great anecdote to use in a columbo-style mystery. “I noticed the victim had air conditioning on in their apartment despite it being on Shabbat, and you’re the only person in this building that isn’t an Orthodox Jew. Do you ever help out your neighbors turn on and off appliances?”

Makes me remember Norwegian Wood a little, will definitely have to play this. 

Any word on whether the West version of the game will feature the new face/performance?

Fair points, but don’t think I agree. The logic puzzles specifically ARE about understanding a situation. Each contradiction you find has a reason for the contradiction existing that sheds an inch more of light on what exactly transpired the night of the murder. The witnesses don’t lie randomly, they are always…

steam is way too bloated these days. Like, changing my username, my download settings, my gamepad settings, and my chat notification settings are all done from four entirely different settings menus, one of which requires opening Big Picture Mode to access, which is a whole mess of bad design and slowness of its own.…

Ace Attorney deserves a king spot on this list. Amazing games that have crazy sharp writing and plotting. Yeah they’re linear but if that’s the price to pay for cases as brilliant as the ones in these games then I’ll pay that price happily. Plus it does amazing work to put you in the mind of Phoenix and his friends…

Just wait till they find out that art museums perform x-rays on paintings to see the underlying sketches. Manet didn't want you to see that earlier draft, you pricks!

A lot of people also are having these attitudes on the assumption that the games they’re playing are fair. If something is blatantly bullshit to an extreme point beyond what any human being should consider reasonable, I’m not scared of looking up a guide or even going in the console and doing some quick tweak. 

Dnt know much about the recent AC games so you could be right, no idea myself. And red dead’s multiplayer is kind of its own separate thing corded off from the story (and also multiplayer, and we’re talking about turning single player into games-as-service) but also nudging along that way.

With whatever form of MTX bioware and EA decide on. The point is to continue engagement so that players get exposed to the MTX and have more opportunities to consider buying whatever they are.

holy typos batman! “Maybe DA4 will have side quests AND very occasional MAJOR content regularly added...”

A compelling idea is a compelling idea. How do you turn a AAA single-player game into a games-as-service? Hitman so far is the only game to try to answer that question, and makes an interesting argument.

Its about damn time that these games got ports to non-mobile platforms. You’d think it wouldn’t take this long to port freaking visual novels (and ones these amazing) to every system on earth.

Worth mentioning that at the time of release these games were supposed to be a borderline-cyberpunk future dystopia where the Justice system is so fucked up and corrupt that the guilty verdict is almost automatically given to whoever the police find at the scene of the crime without any real due process, so Phoenix is…

I wonder if BioWare is looking at IO Interactive’s two most recent Hitman games for inspiration. Though some people have gripes with how they’re doing it, I’ve been incredibly impressed at how they’ve created a single player”games as service” experience with new assassination targets and challenges every week, along…

Thats pretty great. I never actually did the final mission in New Vegas specifically because I didn't wanna end the game. In my long overdue second playthrough maybe I'll install this.