Conditioned by years of JPRGs, where I hoard every potion, every useless trinket I can because they’ll be useful later, my kleptomania kicked into high gear the very first moments I started playing Elder Scrolls Oblivion for the first time and, conditioned, began taking every spoon, cup, rock, pair of pants, bone…

I’ll take “it’s over a decade old” for $2,000, Alex!

Trigun is a great anime to introduce people to anime/manga. And after they watch it they should start on the Trigun Maximum manga which is incredible.

Thanks everyone for all the feedback! I'm going to go play some Baldur's Gate.

Turing's life was tragic because he was chemically castrated & committed suicide. But a number of Polish cryptanalysts who should have been at Bletchley Park, namely Lieutenant Colonel Gwido Langer, Major Maksymilian Ciezki, Jerzy Rozycki, Edward Fokczynski, Piotr Smolenski, Captain Jan Gralinski, Lieutenant Antoni…

Then there's the very heart of Dead Space: its inventory. Most people probably don't think about how inventories influence your emotional state while playing a game, but they do. Being weaponless or using a one-hit kill health system in a horror game is all well and good, but it leads to a flat, binary experience.…

Can't say this is terribly surprising; I remember watching that video back when he put it out (for the record I fucking adore Stephenson — Cryptonomicon is one of the best books ever written) and thinking "Hhhhuh...This guy doesn't actually know much about video games, aaaand this is probably going to fail."

I remain attached to the more pleasing aesthetics of the original Transformers, regardless of the cartoon's nature as a commercial in disguise.

like this you mean?

God, but I do love this game. Except for that fucking rubber duck puzzle. That can go burn in bad adventure-game puzzle hell forever.