I feel a little guilty this weekend, because as much as I want to help out with Splatfest in Splatoon 2, I’ll be awfully busy all weekend playing Nintendogs But For Real and, Like, Probably for Fourteen Years or So. I’ve heard a lot of about this game over the years, but I’ve never actually played it myself. Sure,…

I’m still on my Binding Of Isaac: Afterbirth+ bullshit. Like, to the point where I spend a lot of time at work watching YouTube Isaac playthroughs (NorthernLion for the win). I haven’t been this hooked into a game in years, and it’s at that point where I worry a little that I’m being borderline pathological here; but…

Still mostly taking it sleazy with a casual replay of Super Mario 3D world. I made it to the Special levels and they still don’t really excite me that much. Also in the past week I booted up Rocket League to find out I’m still terrible, Fortnite to find out I’m somehow worse now and Wheels of Aurelia to find out it’s…

Well, I’m a bit sick so I missed my chance to post early and now I don’t have the energy, so I’ll keep it short this time...

I especially like the themes in P5 that came into focus at the end.. how the individual desire for rebellion and justice runs into society’s resistance to getting involved with change. It feels incredibly prescient right now, even though I know the game’s been in development for a decade and was intended to be…

I’ve spoken at length about BotW but the good thing about the Ubisoft Towers in it is that they just show you the map, not fifteen-hundred icons.

There’s always room for another Gameological Wall of Text. Here’s mine:

Salutations~!

Two-parter this week. Don’t all cheer at once.

I don’t think so. The MCU being what it is today could never have been done under Fox or Sony. We may have gotten a couple good movies out of it(like the Raimi Spider-man or a few of the X-Men films) but studio notes and mandates would end up killing a cinematic universe way to quickly.

Could all that MCU cash have been Sony’s to win? That requires believing that Sony would have been as successful in developing the series.

Dude, it’s a known issue that a happy meal currently has too many calories for a child. Right now, a child who eats a Happy Meal is getting fatter. How is it a bad thing for McDonald’s to cut the calories of a Happy Meal, thereby at least slowing that problem?

I’m just installing Kingdom Come: Deliverance (ahead of tomorrow’s WAYPTW) and this is a game that seems to be selling itself on the “go anywhere, do anything” aspect of the game.

I’ve not been to McDonald’s in years, but I won’t lie, I’ve got a lot of nice childhood memories of that place. My parents weren’t poor by any means, but they were very cost conscious. They were the parents who packed a cooler of sandwiches so we wouldn’t have to stop anywhere during a long drive.

I love open-world games, but I have to take breaks between them. I got into Skyrim late so the wife played through BotW while I Skyrim’d it up. Part of me really wants to do Zelda now that I’m finishing up my Skyrim play through, but the thought of its similar vastness is daunting. I’ll probably do a Mario runthrough…

Because “gamers” fetishize game length over game experience and they judge games purely from a $-per-hour standpoint. For instance, Gone Home was maybe 4 hours for me, and so cost $5/hour or so, while Fallout 3 I played for maybe 50 or so and ended up being $1/hour. From a lot of “gamers” perspectives, Fallout 3 would…

I’m curious how game designers came to the conclusion that gamers wanted all of their games to be open world.

If you’re a parent, do you risk having a meltdown or do you get your child what’s most appealing to them?

It doesn’t start to sink in until the fifth or sixth time.

I’ve read this twice and still have no idea what this means.