I know I must remain skeptical in the face of trailers, which are carefully engineered to impress, but this...actually looks like it might be pretty good? Despite being VERY different from the original game, it seems like they’re keeping the plot (at least of the opening act, anyway) largely intact, even while…

*sigh* Ni No Kuni was so disappointing for me. I thought the art style was great (love Studio Ghibli), and the story was solid (not exceptional, but enjoyable). Even the gameplay wasn’t bad - until I got additional party members. The battle system, when you have to manage multiple characters, is atrocious and…

I looked into it a bit more, and apparently not:

So is this a case of “available free for one month, then after that the price goes up to $X for new purchases,” or is it a case of “you get a free demo of the full game for one month, then have to pay regular price if you want to keep playing after that”?

On the PS4? No it will not. Certain popular titles from the PS3 will get “HD remakes” or whatever, where the game is ported to the new hardware, but the PS3’s architecture is VERY different from what sits in a PS4, and the latter simply lacks the power to brute-force emulate a PS3, even with the kind of source-code…

Laura has long tried to be more than just a killing machine. It’s a struggle that Logan faced and mostly won by the latter half of his life. He had centuries to reclaim his humanity.

I look forward to playing it next year sometime, when it comes out for real, instead of just this sneak preview for less than half the audience.

It was not a good movie. It was, however, a stupidly fun popcorn flick.

Shepard is a customizable protagonist - the player can choose an appearance from a wide range of adjustable facial features, a gender, and any of 6 classes. You can also choose a first name, but giving the player character a last name allowed them to more easily construct conversations that were fully voiced -…

Look, I’m as pro-femShep as ayone, but you’re being rather misleading with that comment (posted twice here that I’ve seen).

He was treated that way back in the 90s. I guess they got bored of that?

Well, the idea that a single gene could be the cause of everything from laser eyes to shape changing is wildly absurd anyway. I wouldn’t try to bring your basic high school biology classes to bear at this point.

Okay, I haven’t actually read X-Men in some time now, but...when did Slimer join the X-Men?

The Empire absolutely cares how they look. Everything the Empire makes is designed to inspire fear and awe in the populace. Look at the designs of the Star Destroyers, the Death Star, the interiors of their ships and stations, the (useless) armor of their stormtroopers, hell even the NAMES of all this stuff - it’s all…

Now I kind of wish this were going to be 2 games, with more to follow as the MCU continues to unfold: Marvels Avengers would cover all the Phase 1 films, then Avengers 2 would cover all the Phase 2 movies. There’d be a bit of a delay, of course, before the 3rd game could come along, since they’d need to wait for Phase…

I was given Arkham Knight (PS4) as a birthday present at the end of July, and just finished it a couple of days ago (we’ve got 8-month-old twins, so my gaming time has been limited the last few months). On the whole, it was okay, but I found it a bit disappointing. Mostly because of the damn car - I did not like…

Well, I wouldn’t call it dialogue HEAVY, but what there is of it is fairly important - you might have a hard time understanding why you’re doing things without it, since most of the plot is handled in character exchanges.

From the image and title, I was expecting they were re-introducing a version of this guy:

Given that it took them 2.5 years to do the Mac port, I wouldn’t necessarily give up on that, but I wouldn’t hold my breath for it either, if I were you.

Agreed - he’s got all the challenges of a character like Namor - a super-powered monarch of a part of the world that is regularly mistreated by the rest of the planet, and has little reason to be kindly disposed to most other countries - plus the fact that he is a “racial minority” (to Western eyes, anyway) and so…