That’s only true if you believe that Microsoft’s model will make things better for the consumer, which not everyone agrees with. Microsoft absorbing yet another large scale studio does not increase competition. Microsoft owning more of the IP market is not competition, it is consolidation. They are attempting to make…

If you want a documentary that actually asks “why big tiddy anime girls?”, People Make Games did a really interesting dive into this.

I only need to know one thing: can I passive aggressively bap things onto the ground?

Do you think Bayonetta stops being sexy when she keeps her regular outfit on, or is camp and sex-appeal only achieved when she’s partially nude during certain fighting moves? Does a moderately higher coverage bra fundamentally change the experience?

My partner’s mother is unhappy I haven’t curbed his “video game problem,” and she’ll nag me for not fixing the things about him she doesn’t like. Gaming is a “lazy” hobby.

You can’t use it on most (all?) unique weapons, but also if you’ve infused elemental effects to your weapon you can’t use it. I’ve got a keen dagger I can put grease on, but my lightning dagger is a no go.

The nebula on Wings of Astel and Bastard Stars will also make short work on their armor, as well as gravity spells, gravity ashes, or the consumable gravity stones. For Dex builds, the Nightrider flail will do a lot of work. I hear tell they’re weak to bleed as well, but I’m the one person not doing any bleed so YMMV.

Depending on your actions, I can think of 5 with reasonably happy endings.

Guy invades with glitched spell, using an end game weapon, whines about fairness. More than half the invaders I get are using these glitches, none of them are looking for a “good old fashion PVP showdown”. They want to cop heals in the shadows and cast invisible spells to one shot people doing co-op. Invaders are…

They are not asking consumers to back the production of this project. Per the Kickstarter, this is already made and paid for.

There are 2 Dakotas because the Republican party at the time wanted more seats in the Senate, and pushed to have Dakota split to get that. Arguably, DC has more right to individual statehood because that’s what the population wants.

So here’s a question I have, because neither my partner nor I have played the game: when you load into the character creator, what is the default character?

There were a lot of trophies like that in Desperados 3.  They rewarded you for finding weird things or hearing dialogues.  Lots of the Hitman in-game trophies as well, otherwise I don’t think I’d have attempted as many assassinations with the exploding duck.  “Find the most interesting way to solve the Murder Puzzle”.

It also gives you access to some cool perks if you want to do fire damage. It’s such a weird, fun stat, entirely ignorable if a player decides.

It also gives you access to some cool perks if you want to do fire damage.

Ketchup. Mac & cheese. “American cheese” in general.  Jell-O.  Oh, all those salad dressings like thousand island and so-called "French" and "Italian" dressings. My mother says "iceburg lettuce" and chicken-fried steak.

This game lost me when they ditched the co-op aspect. It’s one of the few JRPGs I can think of that had a couch co-op mode. I wanted to play this with my partner, not in front of him.

“As a bonus, it makes Fallout 4look like a Japanese role-playing game”

I still use the P5 bag for my tablet and its accessories. It’s exactly the right size and already coordinated with the Wacom colors.

I savor my FromSoft games. I have a set of restrictions about when I can play them and for how long (only at night, in mostly the dark, when there are zero distractions around), knowing that I will never have this first experience again. It ends up taking me a lot longer than my friends to play through them, but I…