The game goes so far out of its way to tease its secret sci-fi plot that it never actually gets far enough into what’s actually happening to stay interesting. ... and characters who someone desperately tried to make mysterious but just come off corny and poorly written. “I know a thing,” they essentially say,…

Another cool bit in this paper is that if it they hadn’t found one at the end of a track they wouldn’t have any idea which bit was the ‘head’ and which was the ‘tail’. As far as they can tell there’s no difference between head, tail, and body segments - there’s no ‘eat at the head, digest in the middle, poop at the…

This seems more like MHW 1.5 than just an ‘expansion’ - In the old days they’d have called something this big MHW 2.  Not that I’m complaining!  My palicoe is lonely...

This stuff is ‘Luke came across something he thought was cool and shared it’.

So since he can’t see the colors most people do, he’s ‘over’compensating with an extreme knowledge of color theory- and that makes his stuff awesome. Very inspiring!

You keep saying this like it’s a bad thing. Trimming non-essential bits of games is a sign that your designers know what the hell they’re doing. Precisely because it removes something non-essential and distracting from your core gameplay (showing faces adds absolutely nothing to this game), and second because it saves…

That’s just smart game design though. Who cares about the meatsacks for a game like this?

Lehto told me that [Disintegration] began life as a spiritual successor to Bungie’s ‘90s real-time strategy series Myth.

I joke, but I also think it’s actually what happened too.

“We’ve got $20B to blow, fuck it, just buy everything.”

I guess either he or his manager decided that the top 40 music industry is just so terrible that just having a good voice isn’t enough to get you anywhere, you need a gimmick.  And they were probably right.

Because if you say ‘dangerous dogs’ people think pit bulls, and I don’t think it’s really the dogs’ fault.

The remaster has some options to cut down the pain, but I will also do that, thanks.

But at least now he’s super good at pinball.

I didn’t get very far into FF8 either because I hated the characters and I couldn’t get over that and the tedium of the magic draw system.

Yeah, I hate boss fights. Okay, if I know in going the game is about the boss fights, like Dark Souls or Shadow of the Colossus then I’m calibrated and okay with it.

Wow, this is amazing.  He cosplays way better than he musics.

Here, have a doi!

I would really be interested to know if the brains of those terrible little evil yappy neurotic dogs are that way because of breeding or because they’re generally owned by neurotic people who made them that way.

Some games it is - Xenogears without the music? NFW. But in a lot of games it’s just phoning it in. I always start with the music on, and if it’s ‘okay, this is a low-rent overwrought John Williams wannabe’, or otherwise too annoying I turn it off and don’t feel I’m missing much.  It’s not setting the atmosphere, it’s…