1. I never used the word "forced".

There is no why. They're Irrational.

Galactic Princess?

I wish people would stop calling it a trend.

Oh, so you can hear now, too?

It's also the newest entry in a very long-running series of Blackwell games which seems worth mentioning in the non-article.

the question is, if this is the aesthetic that the guy wants to go for, or perhaps sits within his skill set, would you rather have the game like this, or not at all? art is subjective...I still like things like this, I think it gives me more of a feeling that this is a fantasy world where I can fill in the blanks,…

This is actually more on par visually with, say, Full Throttle, which is a 1995 computer game (and from the same era as your PS1 JRPGs).

Insinuating that Its a bargain bin game to begin with?

I thought it was the countdown clock for Half Life 3.

A googolplex is a number with a googol zeroes. It's a lot bigger.

I've never used this macro before, but I think it's very suitable.

Using your smartphone on the toilet? No problem. No one says you have to engage your full attention to whatever grafitti is in the stall.

I have a massive gaming backlog, but at the same time I don't feel any regret over it. I've purchased a lot of games during the Steam Sales or donated to devs/charity via Humble Bundle for the sake of showing my support. Even if I don't get around to play each and every one of them, chances are I can always watch a…

ripping pretty much the Entire thing is an honest buck nowadays?

Do you think that the game should also tell you what move the boss plans on using as well? And how much damage that will do? Heaven forbid something unpredictable should happen in a boss fight.

But adding a handful of dark-skinned NPCs wouldn't be inaccurate, nor would it simply be "empathetic to modern sensibilities."

I call these folks idiots not for their "arguments" - the game takes place in a small area of medieval Bohemia, so there are good odds everyone would have been white anyway - but because of their hair-trigger hostility, and the extent with which they feel entitled to lash out and threaten others.

If you actually look at the evidence provided by medievalPOC, you'd notice that the idea of POC being in Bohemia at the time is not that far fetched. http://medievalpoc.tumblr.com/post/750486061…

Maybe you should post a link to the original response from medievalPOC... as it provides quite a few artistic citations illustrating that there were people of color in Bohemia at the time.