Thank gawd we judged that bullet!

I find it very plausible that a gay Asian man who was tossed into a show with the one of the biggest of bloaty white arrogant bros of the day might still hold a grudge.

It’s Tokenism / Affirmative Action for Indies.

It’s nice that it got the nomination, but there’s no way it’s beating Elden Ring for GotY.  And I say this as someone who’s NG+ing XC3.

That is indeed a terrible name, but bad localization would certainly explain it. Chinese games are generally very bad with this, because they just don’t care - Genshin Impact might be the only exception I can think of.

I would be up for a Sonic game that was just straight up funny and not trying to do tween (mel0)Drama. Sonic Team always tries for pathos and always ends up with bathos.

Crafting goes back to at least 8-bit days. It’s there on the Apple ][, C64, Speccy, NES, etc. - just think of all the RPGs, and then you have games like Beneath the Root for instance.  Maybe even to mainframe games before it.

Zuck has never in his entire life actually taken responsibility for anything.  He’ll still be the fantastically rich owner of Facebook, and he’ll still be lying out his ass any time he says anything, just like the last 20 years.

Anyone who’s ever owned pets has most likely gone through exactly what happens in the Fenrir scene. I’ve had six beloved pets die in my arms (Snoops, Goro, Shimi, Fresnel, Kuro, Lizzie RIP) because it’s inevitable. The game handles it sensitively - it’s more poignant because it’s a child dealing with it for the first…

Directors for large games usually consider themselves too important to be reading every single line of dialogue when they could be doing more important things (like ‘research’ at a cabaret club), so you’d usually have a story editor, but you’re right. But since all the Yakuza games are (at most) AA games with B movie…

I hated the old Kratos so much. He was both an evil bully and yet excruciatingly sniveling, believing that he was such the victim while causing most of his own problems by just being an asshole. In this he anticipated the Trumps / Putins / Musks of the world.

I think you still might end up taking less time than spending two hours choking down chicken (ahem) you hate.

It makes more sense when you realize those games are written by a giant team of separate writers, especially stuff off the main plot path. So you’ll have one guy writing these episodes, another guy writing those other episodes (it’s nearly always ‘a guy’), and then you’ve got these other minigames designed by someone…

The dumbest bit of this (other than him thinking this was very important) is that there are tons of ways to sexy up chicken so that it’s not just choking down plain chicken every day. It’s true that the dark meat on these can be greasy and the white meat is always dry, which is one reason you need to mix them.

‘I AM HERE TO RESTORE FREE SPEECH TO TWITTER FROM THE NAZIS THAT BAN PEOPLE WHO LIKE NAZIS!’

Sorry, I don’t trust the current Squeenix to not turn a Xenogears remake into a pile of steaming hot shit.

King Bible + Clock Lancet are essential for staying alive - King Bible makes a whirling wall of death (especially when evolved), and Clock Lancet freezes lines of enemies. Crucially, when they’re frozen they do no damage to you, so you can run right through them to escape and you always have an escape route!

This is no surprise. And the biggest reason you don’t really see self-identified Gamergaters any more is that that was back when people thought they had to hide being Nazis or hating women, Jews and Black people, etc. Then Trump happened and they were able to proudly join White Supremacist groups or whatever hate they…

Hugely talented, but he was a complete shitstain of a human being when he wasn’t making music. Very Kanye.

Hello Streisand Effect!   You just increased sales of the game by at least 100x.