Video games aren’t shared the way music is. Skyrim isn’t going to be playing in the background of a pivotal scene in a famous movie. You grandparents aren’t going to be playing Skyrim at a wedding or Bar Mitzvah. Skyrim isn’t going to be booming out of a tailgate at the beach or before the big game. Raw sales numbers…

I mean in terms of famousness. I love Omega Race but no one I talk to has ever heard of it.

Unless those fetuses are in their daughters or mistresses uteruses.  Then they’re pro-choice real quick.

Unless those fetuses are in their daughters or mistresses uteruses.  Then they’re pro-choice real quick.

The proper answer is clearly Chocobos.

I think you’re vastly overestimating the number of people who even know what Reddit is, let alone browse it a couple times a week.  There was some stat I read last year indicating that about 6 percent of internet users in the US use Reddit.  That’s a lot of people not using Reddit.

Fair enough.  Like I said, IMO it was a second tier game even in the era it’s from.

Gamers really cannot comprehend how irrelevant 99 percent of gaming is to non gamers. They’re easy questions if you have knowledge in the category. 

If you’re a gamer, sure.  If not, who the hell would know anything about Elder Scrolls or Destiny?

You cannot possibly really believe The Elder Scrolls or Destiny 2 are part of the general pop culture zeitgeist. Hell, even Disney wasn’t all that interested in Disney Infinity. The only thing even vaguely in the realm of general cultural awareness here is the Joust question, and even for that arcade era of classic…

Again, you’re thinking of this as some kind of comparative model of two universes.  It isn’t.  It’s a game where no one is “nicer” or “meaner” or more or less “scared of” or more or less “attracted to” the two available characters.  I’m glad of that, because as soon as the game designers started making choices like…

I mean, you could mention Jabbar is an experienced writer with several published books to his credit, including a handful of decently well regarded mystery novels.

The game universe isn’t aware there’s a second person to react to. From that perspective there’s only one set of reactions, one set of events.  Trying to figure out a bunch of ways to differentiate the way the would would react or events play out differently would be a nightmare, because inevitably a conclusion would…

They’re both of ethnic greek descent but neither has the game accent in real life.

They said right from the beginning the story/gameplay would be identical for either player.

Someone should also do an official release of Gokaiger, which is a big anniversary love letter to Super Sentai, and gently mocks it from time to time, and actually has excellent characters and story.

The Shape of Feathers?

Here’s the difference: The way policing is conducted is a real world problem effecting real people in our society, every day, and Spider Man, a character historically seen as a sort of folk hero or “little guy” on the outside of official power structures “siding” with police is an unavoidably political stance worth…

Is my memory wrong or, in the book, his big reward was getting to take a long hot shower?

I don’t know if you have any fondness for anime, but this one is pretty decent and is mostly set in floating ship-city-raft things on Waterworld-esque future Earth.