So wait, the butcher of Wounded Knee was 16 years old? Holy christ.

On that we can agree! I confess to "Beatles fatigue," but they definitely carved a huge notch in our musical lexicon.

"Part of me does wonder if there is a racial aspect to so many of his critics just waiting to pounce on Temptation."

Well, why wouldn't an organization whose driving force is to push whitewashed patriarchal 1950s morality also perpetuate the "homosexual ~ molester" conflation that was so common during that era? One little anachronism spoils the time warp, you know.

Ha! I just came down to the comments to mention Incoboto again and there's my last post saying the same thing. Damn, I'm repetitive.

Well-said in all aspects; I enjoyed Tomb Raider, but perhaps I should have called it "enjoyable" (an utterly subjective term) rather than "great," which seems to imply some sort of measurable intrinsic quality. You are correct that it's pretty conventional.

I know what mean, it literally makes my eyes bleed.

"I hear you, but by what metric can you judge "best?""

I'm still annoyed by the word "best." It's just obtuse in general, but especially since it seems so regressive to want to cling to what is effectively ancient history (rock in its infancy, games in their infancy) and pretend the entire trajectory of the medium has been a pointless downward slide of failure.

This isn't a question of "most influential," this is "best." Games have evolved since then and there are hundreds of better games. It doesn't diminish the game's massive accomplishments, but clinging to it as the apex of the entire media is either excessively regressionist or borne of lack of exposure.

Right, I get that, but as someone who went to music school and has dedicated tens thousands hours-plus of his life to music, it's a bit of a pet peeve when people (usually people without a lot of investment in music, very casual listeners) swing that verbiage around. Even the concept of "best band ever" is kind of…

"The Beatles: the best band ever."

I'd hope Nintendo is smart enough to realize that Earthbound was just ahead of its time in the US. American gamers in 1995 had just barely begun to embrace JRPGs as a genre; the Japanese smash hits FF1 and DQ1 (here Dragon Warrior) were modest successes here, and though FF4 and 6 saw good sales in their NA releases as…

Naw, this series has been hilarious. Subjective humor is subjective, tautological concept is tautological.

Nope, it's pretty common.

I get your beefs with Tomb Raider. I think Yahtzee's review does the best job I've seen of pointing out its problems; most of its set pieces are almost completely non-interactive, running-away sequences that are glorified QTE cinematics.

God dammit I was planning to make this same joke, and there was your comment, all beating-me-to-the-punch.

What the flying christ does the amount of money made have to do with quality? I'll repeat what I just said to another responder to this post:

You might have Infinite on the brain, but "murder" just happens to be the best known of the weirder collective nouns. I could have said "a bike of Luigii," but then it just sounds like I'm having a stroke.

Holy cow, shut up and take my money Zeptolab! Both Cut The Ropes are great, and several more hours of content for a buck is a hell of a steal.