Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf/Xiyangyang doesn't really have any propaganda to speak of (after having watched dozens of episodes), it's just... bad. Like, the kind of bad you might see on an early 00s website made in Flash by someone desperate to get into animation but with no writing ability. I've seen a lot of bad…

Yeah, your example was good, I didn't mean to tell you off or whatever.

Bree is already a town in LOTR, so it's not like it doesn't already sound fantasy-ish.

You realise the first couple of levels are... the tutorial, right? It obviously gets more hectic and tense further into the game, with new characters and different equipment and abilities.

Also, the game is definitely best played co-op with friends.

Nintendo aren't all that different from the makers of Assassin's Creed, CoD, etc - they just space out their releases enough that it doesn't fatigue the series. Just like AC+CoD the games are all of high quality typically along a very tight formula, but in those non-Ninty titles we just see one every year and it…

See, I don't agree that AC games are actually hit or miss. I just think they're too much of the same, too quickly. People are now sick of that formula so much that each game has to bring something radically new to the formula or people won't enjoy it.

The same could happen to Ninty games if they released them a lot…

This game passed me by entirely, I must admit. I did see it during one of the press conference trailer reels, but didn't really think much about it after that. I guess I should pay more attention to it in the coming months!

Yeah, but if they had the sheer size, they could have multiple teams leapfrogging each other to make sure that there were more than one instalment in production at any one time - like how AC3 was being made while Brotherhood and Revelations were being done, or like Bioshock 2 being worked on while the original team…

Heck, we even saw it with the original Wii. We never did get a decent lightsabre or even swordfighting game (Red Steel was... nah).

Actually, these pipe-dream games, the ones fans and journos talk about lots but never get optioned by risk-averse producers, are the kinds of games that do extremely well on Kickstarter. I…

That's what always happens, though. Nintendo's not a big enough company (or doesn't have enough AAA-qualified teams) to give you a new Zelda, Mario, Metroid, Star Fox, etc every year. So every Ninty console becomes a drawn-out waiting game for each major release every 8 months or so (if that).

I suspect though, that…

How else are we to speak out against sexism and violence being associated with videogames but to condemn those who speak out against it? No, wait

While that's true, it's not even taken as a harmless hobby anywhere near as frequently over there as it is in the West.

My speech on Societal Problems for my Chinese degree was on videogaming in the country, because that's what they see it as. A problem. People die from it, it ruins their kid's chance at success in the…

It's so bizarre that DVT is associated with videogames over there rather than long-haul flights like it is here. Well, maybe not so bizarre given the smaller percentage of long-haul fliers versus the popularity of net cafes, but still.

"Free speech", haha. If people want to freely speak, they can go ahead and say what they want, out loud, in the real world. When they're speaking through a service he provides, he can choose to moderate that however he wants and no-one's right to free speech is being limited.

That argument is so nonsensical every time…

I think as Eric said it's a combination of factors - and that videogames was one of those factors is hard to deny. It's a growing industry with lots of entrepeneurial opportunities, and the two of them seemed to have applied their smarts and business savvy to the field, one they clearly had a passion for. Lots of…

They're very, very dated. If you keep that in mind, I'm sure you could probably wring some enjoyment from them (they were stone cold classics back in the day!), but part of what makes this project so exciting and necessary is how well modern sensibilities would smooth over the rough stuff from the old games.

But sure,…

From the KS video above it seems like this one is also "VS The Man", but more from a "Another evil candidate for future The Man" point of view rather than "justified rebels" or some such.

Syndicate Wars was real-time rather than turn based like X-COM, but otherwise there are similarities - squad management, tactical combat, etc. I haven't played X-COM, but Syndicate Wars was known for detailed customisation of each individual unit. Kinda reminded me of the later Deus Ex games, all those augmentations…

The best UW game we got was (the relevantly-to-this-article titled) Uncharted Waters: New Horizons on SNES. Shedloads of freedom and depth to the mechanics, as well as the 6 playable characters with vastly differing playstyles and priorities.

The UW MMO is on Steam now in English, but I think that's the only UW we've…

The women staff members at the university in China I studied at did the same thing, so I assume it's something that exists in East Asia in general. We heard one of them speak on the phone to her mother, and her voice was much more natural - but then as class resumed, she was speaking as if she were 5 years old again.

I…