The bookkeeping, that explains it… I've only encountered this game once before, and it was abandoned mid-way at a board game bar. I always took that as a damning sign, but I guess it just means it's a more complicated game not suited for when everyone has had two beers and it's 10pm.

Kelly from Mass Effect 2. I played ME2 while the DLC was still coming out, and the Hammerhead missions came out right after my crew as kidnapped. I delayed the final mission so I could play that… and then Kelly got liquidized, and it was specifically my fault for wasting time. Ouuuuch.

Decided not to make a giant wall-of-text post about it, but in lieu of playing anything, I'll be watching Killer Instinct at EVO. It is an incredibly entertaining game, and I hope someone plays as the chaos demon Omen and takes the whole thing.

Oh, huh! Thanks, amending post.

No malice intended! It was a half-formed joke about not knowing card games that didn't really coalesce. I don't think Egyptian rat screw is regional, but it probably goes by other names.

[please ignore this post where I attempted a joke about how no one outside the Midwest knows what euchre is]

As a library employee who has organized game events: we really, really, really want you to show up and be enthusiastic so we can justify getting funding to keep doing them. :)

Coup is a spinoff of The Resistance (EDIT: sort of not really, see below), which makes sense given that they're both excellently easy to pick up. (I prefer The Coup because I don't enjoy being a deceptive jerk, even in a game context, but…) It's hilarious that the first round almost always boils down to everyone…

Is it secretly Live Action Game Week? I'm down with that. This looks far more interesting than it has any right to be, and the bizarre aesthetics help a lot there.

Yeah, I love the idea and the absurdity, but the stiff interface doesn't look very cooperative. This would be probably be terrific on phones with rotating controls and a touchscreen.

woah there hitler

We're approaching the singularity of everything you mentioned: Cyan's upcoming Obduction is going to be an Oculus game on the Unreal engine… with live-action cutscenes. I doubt it's gonna be a trend, but OH BOY.

I've heard comparisons between Her Story and the Virtual Murder series by Shannon Gilligan from the early 90s. Haven't had a chance to play either, but there's definite surface-level similarities that make them worth comparing: they're mystery games where you solve a crime primarily by watching suspect interviews.

For your defense of FMVs, I salute you. There are absolutely places where video – when used in the correct places – significantly enhances even poor games. Noctropolis, for instance, is a pretty disastrous game with terrible acting, but its use of video dialogue and live-action characters grounds the game world in the…

That's brilliant. It never occurred to me that the ambiguity in here would have broader application… mostly because other games have failed greatly in that area.

If Great Job, Internet! just became a public access footage showcase, I would be completely okay with that.

Thanks for the heads up!

In anticipation of EVO, I'm going to get back into KILLER INSTINCT. I've rambled here about how much I enjoy this game, but it bears repeating again. I typically dislike fighting games, but Killer Instinct is such an exceptionally fun and crazy thing. If you've written the game off in the past (I don't blame you for…

The linked article says his agency "quietly" dropped him late last year, but it sounds like no one actually bothered to ask until now.

Kel had a promo at local bar a few years ago and spent the entire time making orange soda jokes and doing All That voices. That was depressing. I'm happy to see him getting back to more of the corny-but-honest work that he legitimately seems to enjoy.