This is on mark. Calling him wouldn't really serve any purpose. At the same time, I wonder if you think it wasn't a bit naive of Greg to not expect a hostile reaction there? I feel like if you're putting that down, you had to sort of expect it. Maybe not in the weird way it sounds like it manifested out of Whitlock…

I know others have said it but I'm just adding my voice in to say that you've badly misread the part about hiring writers, not sure if the use of 'hot-takers' threw you or something. Greg's point in that section isn't a slam against Whitlock for hiring these types of writers, it is demonstrating that these capable,…

There's 'walking while possessing hips' and there's what's being done here. Trust me in that I know the difference (or don't!). But if you're animating characters in some sort of action adventure context, you should probably err on the side of 'walks like a man' rather than the other side of 'cartoon character.'

When Dragon Age came out, it obviously drew heavily on a lot of imagery from the LOTR films, and arguably a lot of the writing was ASOIAF influenced too.

(small thing first: this media player is terrible)

Makes all that money and they still can't fix their client being that terrible Adobe Air mess.

"Also, someone who uses homophobic and racist slurs in arguments with their loved ones, is a horrible human being that doesn't deserve loved ones."

It isn't that hard to understand. It isn't that you get angry enough to 'become racist'. You get angry enough that you're searching for something that will hurt the person you're angry at. You think about what they might be insecure about, or what might wound them, and you drive at it. You get angry enough to resort…

KotOR2 is one of my favorite games of all time, and I see you mentioned New Vegas in the comments. I was surprised to see no mention of Planescape: Torment here.

Even if you cut out the entire Malachor V segment, it is still one of the best written RPGs.

There's a rumor that some of the Lucas guys in charge of managing the brand were a little horrified with Obsidian specifically because they greyed aspects of the Star Wars universe and made you speculate that the Force could be seen as a detrimental thing overall.

Ten years later, it is still one of my favorite games of all time, and has a permanent installation on my hard drive.

No, you're way off base. The concept that the Force is a universal moral force sitting in judgment, 'guiding' (read: manipulating) people's actions, and that that might be a bad thing that restricts people's freedoms or condemns their actions, is one of the single most interesting story ideas done in the whole huge…

It is okay. My friends make fun of me for being the only person on Steam profiles who has KotOR2 listed as her favorite game. I've made this exact same argument, about the depth and deconstruction of KotOR2 making it one of the best written video games, before, even in the comments sections of Kotaku.

In my experience living in America, most people have a really warped view of what life in China can actually be like. They are pretty sure the country consists only of dirt poor farmers, starving factory workers, and bureaucrats in brown uniforms. They seem incapable of grasping that there is any urban life, middle or…

Sinophobia is alive and well. An American living in Japan probably gets a double dose of it, too.

It's not all of action, nor is it all of a movie. How hard is this to get? The Raid is good at choreography, bad at everything else.

Lufia 2

It isn't just about 'a reason'. Any idiot can give a character a reason. "George needs to save the world because he doesn't want the world to be destroyed.' There, my character has a reason. The how you express it, why, the complications, the resolve, how you show what happens in the process, that is storytelling and…

Exactly! You can pull off the sickest spin kicks and whirling swords, but if you don't have that moment when the hero pauses and raises his guard while silently deciding he must kill his own father to save his friends, then what is the point?