Well you also got the ME3 character for free if you bought the game within a certain window, but they got downgraded to paid DLC once that window was over. I feel bad for the many people who played DA:O without the humor and glory that was Shale.

I mean I was willing to accept the part about him not being 100% ready and them needing time to finalize him between the game going gold and hitting shelves (since ME3 was a game who’s release date was set by EA way too far in advance with likely little input from the actual devs) but then he should have just been…

I mean these look terrible, but I was expecting something super overboard like a DOA or Soul Calibur level of jiggles. This actually does look like more of a programming error (or the work of people who just have no idea how boobs move).

Jim Mallon is where the bad blood lies. Mike just seems to be not wanting to step on Joel’s project and cause the fanbase to go back in to their crazy ass Mike vs. Joel stuff. Also in RiffTrax stuff he tends to be the last one to talk about MST3K stuff. He doesn’t come off as resentful or annoyed, but just done with…

Being in good shape to physically and psychologically perform better is true of any activity. I spend about 14 hours a week doing yoga so I can meditate for longer stretches without my mind or body being worn out, but that doesn’t make me any form of an athlete. I don’t want people to think I’m calling pro gamers fat,…

For a very long time the Olympics had a category of “non-athletic sports” because for many people a “sport” just required a level of competition plus skill and luck. The term has just changed over time in common use to only apply to athletic competitions, but it isn’t originally about that. Also, lets be honest, the…

Not to mention having a world where Jason Todd didn’t actually die makes little sense as Batman having Todd’s corpse in his hands was the only way he would actually believe he was dead and stop looking for him.

People who become rich and people who are born in to it tend to be two very different people. Especially since Bruce is supposed to be from one of those New York style old money families that have been rich for generations. The 1% of the 1%. It is a lot more common for children of those families to be this type of…

Rene Auberjonois’ performance might be the only other real standout. His Mr. House was good, but I think his Dr. Mobius from OWB was just spectacular. Especially the VO he does for the end of it. Everyone else, while good, were playing pretty basic archetypes that you could find someone else to do.

It really is the best way to describe the campaign and lore of Amalur, because if you’ve been a tabletop gamer you know it isn’t calling it bad. Just that it still needs work. If they had made the Amalur world about half the size and had half the quests and storylines I think it would have clicked with people better. U…

I always tell people the game world feels a lot like a homebrew D&D campaign. The actual game system is pretty fun and the world seems pretty interesting until you start actually trying to get anything deep out of it. The NPCs all start to blur together, the side quests are as generic as possible, the world doesn’t…

I feel like they shouldn’t even have to wait for the orcs and humans to wipe each other out. The furries outnumber everyone in this game by a huge margin. I mean I stopped playing after WotLK and can remember that there are...

EA would scrap that in a hearbeat if they thought it wouldn’t be profitable enough to release. The fact that they’ve been working on it so long without anything to show for it, any real announcements and an entirely new IP that they are putting their main team and all their marketing power behind coming out before it…

I feel like the risk is going to be the pushback from all the pissed off Souls fans because (despite them making it very clear from the get go what it was and wasn’t) this new game isn’t just more Dark Souls. Activision will be the target of all the hate if/when this game doesn’t meet that crowd’s expectations because…

Sadly I’ve seen quite a few incel/mra groups and people who list “being spit on by women and SJW culture” as a valid defense for why this guy snapped.

Glad to hear you’re doing better, Fahey. We miss you on the XIV FC, and we’ve all been hoping to see you back.

I worked at a Gamestop during the ps3/360 era up to the early ps4/xbone era. It was very clear to me that the company never had any idea on how to function when the ps2/ps3/360 trade-in era was over. They had built up an insane profit margin on the trade-in world, and they clearly thought the bubble would never burst.…

The issue with these locations is not that they resemble orphanages, it is that they are for-profit. The head of my history department is a social historian who focuses on the history of US socialwork, primarily orphanages and foster system. Despite the depiction in pop culture, actual orphanages have been far better…

Oh absolutely, but it’ll be phrased to make it sound like it is some huge boon to the farming community as a whole.

In the case of the Witcher franchise it is a little understandable since the books didn’t have many English translations or American fans prior to the games. But at this point the books and their origins comes up so often I am shocked when people who profess to be huge fans haven’t heard of the situation. Or even…