Flapjack Phyllis got me. Almost ended up with a keyboard full of coffee haha

Wish I could actually be one of those sales. Why couldn’t I have been born a bot?!

A friend of mine worked on Returnal and has been sharing a lot of the articles first impressions, and I tell him that I can’t wait to play his game in like 2032 when I get a PS5 haha. 

Honestly it improves the comic IMO, because the joke itself is pretty weak, and I mostly just got a kick out Ken randomly being in it. If it stayed within TLOU I probably would’ve just groaned and kept scrolling haha.

Slight correction:

Is there any rhyme or reason to the Street Fighter/The Last of Us crossover in Double XP? Not a complaint, it just seems hilariously out of left field haha. 

At first I thought they might have created brushes with the heads and just painted them on, but then I enlarged the pic, saw that they were all properly placed, and proceeded to slow clap haha

Luckily I quit the Destiny business after the first game when I realized it was my second job haha. I would literally get home from work, eat dinner, then start my Destiny shift, and I was almost not playing anything else.

I literally commented on another Kotaku article that dropping Destiny was one of the things that allowed me to even address my backlog haha. I’ve been at it for a bit because I quit it before Destiny 2, but I’ve chipped away a decent amount of my backlog because of it. 

I hit the same realization into my 30s, and other than the fact that it’d be nice to be able to play everything since I’m in and around the industry and I teach game design, I really don’t feel bad about it at all. I still just naturally have a bit of completionist in me, but I’ve learned to save it for games I really…

Oh man, this reminds me of how hyped I was for Clayfighter 63 1/3 thinking exactly that (that it would kick ass like Street Fighter), only to finally rent it find out that it was a dollar store rip off of pretty much every popular fighting game at the time haha.

As someone who used to do this with NBA 2K, Madden, and WWE games until a little over a decade ago, it really does make a huge difference haha. Once I dropped those and kicked Destiny to the curb, I could actually say hello to my backlog.

I feel attacked by this question. Attacked!

I only wish this was some awesome “Sonic & Knuckles Lock-On” type of tech that actually put Dante into whatever game you slap the sticker on haha. 

This is what I came here for 

As did I, and I actually did managed to find Bloodstorm at a single arcade inside a mini golf place. I thought I knew the game pretty well, but it moved and controlled VERY different from how I expected it to haha. Crazy how there were so many games back then that I felt intimately connected to before I had any idea…

Oh snap, Double XP with the deep cut! I totally remember that Daniel Pescina Bloodstorm ad.

Not half bad. Not half good either.

I now genuinely want all of this to happen haha

I just came to say that I don’t play Outriders, but every time I see an Outriders thumbnail like the one in this article I think it’s about a new Darksiders game and I get really excited. Then I see that’s not the case and get really disappointed haha. 

Pretty much all my thoughts exactly (except I’m a bit younger, graduated high school in ‘01). If I have to pick a retro style it’s 16-bit pixel art by a long shot, and that was the predominant style in my real formative years as a hardcore gamer.