Not only does the character generator allow for beautiful monstrosities, but the fashion (souls) is topnotch. I’ve found some pretty interesting pieces myself, but I’ve also seen people walking around with pig masks and what I’m pretty sure is a shield made from a mushroom cap.

Can a game be “meticulously crafted” with as much re-used assets as Elden Ring?

I read an article yesterday about how Elden Ring gets elevators right. I don’t remember which site (most likely Kotaku, RPS, or Polygon), but it’s amazing to me that it came a day after I found a small unassuming building in the woods, a building the article actually mentions, stepped on a lever, and took an elevator…

“What if someone took one of these massive, bloated open worlds, filled as they are with with procedurally generated, algorithm-shat content, and instead filled it with authored, beautiful strangeness? Filled it with wonder and secrets, where finding a single hidden passage can open whole new vistas to explore?…

I’ve found it by far the most approachable From game. I like how they’ve made it more approachable (spirit summons, healing flasks recharging after fighting groups, more frequent check points and fast travel) without compromising the formula. The longest I’ve ever played one of these was Sekiro, where I got up to the…

This is a phenomenal comment.

C’mon you can be better than that ..

Did you really just say “fuck you” to someone for jokingly dissing a video game you personally enjoy

This is the best troll posting I've seen awhile. Sad I arrived early to the comments 😂

Did they show PC Principal’s real name before this episode? I like how it's Peter Charles, literally making him P.C., Principal.

“Putin? It was just a little noise when I pulled out. Nobody was pootin’, okay?”

you did great work. i appreciate it.

Hey folks. I just wanted to drop in and say thank you to everyone here for all the kind words, and also for reading what I’ve written at The A.V. Club these past nine years. I know I wasn’t always the most consistent presence in the comments, even before the Kinja transition, but I dipped in fairly regularly, and for…

Doing this job has only strengthened my conviction that most movies are neither great nor terrible but somewhere in between—you know, which is what the C+ fundamentally signifies.

I will say, while I appreciate any lack of histrionics over the Future of the A.V. Club As We Know It!! (and imagine it has served the old-new guard well, ha), I would point out that past incidences of major exodus were either because a bunch of writers left together to start The Dissolve, or a few instances where…

A few things:

Attempting to encapsulate all of a movie’s qualities with a one-byte letter grade has always been ridiculous. The world would be a better place if film reviews never contained letter grades or star ratings or any other kind of numerical summary.

In retrospect, Iron Man 3 was a continuation of my biggest problem with the MCU: they turned Iron Man into a sentient deus ex machina. The bulk of the movies were a series of problems being solved by Iron Man inventing whatever needs to be invented to solve the issue, with absolutely no difficulty. This trend…

A- minus reflection on a C+ review.

Thanks for all the amazing work at the AV Club over the past almost 9 years Alex, and I look forward to seeing what you end up doing next.