Here in Australia, we just have stores with FCUK written in big letters in the window. I have no idea what they sell.

Well, this is game development. At least they aren’t being forced by a publisher to release the game while it still has a serious problem.

Yes, but which glowing parts... The wings? The many eyes? The giant dangling testicle? There is choice paralysis here.

Sounds like classic Masamune Shirow, he draws at least as much smut as he does sci-fi.

The heart and star shaped hair-antenna things... Isn’t the point that they are some kind of new race (the Windermere I think they call themselves) that we haven’t seen before? In this anime, they seem to be travelling to a cluster just outside the Milky Way galaxy, so the Windermere might just be locals.

So you think if they’d made the announcement far enough back, the whining would have worn itself out by now?

At least the original games let you win through stealth or speech rather than guns. Whether you convinced someone to kill themself or sabotaged their nuclear reactor, you didn’t have to go in guns blazing against bosses. It’s almost like they hired the same guys that designed the boss fights for Deus Ex: Human…

When someones name rhymes with joke, it’s hard to say it with a straight face.

The funniest thing I’ve seen so far is when I was looting a subway station and turned around to see my super mutant companion attempting to use a terminal. Two finger typing of course. Normally he just stands around like a lump complaining about the lack of killing things.

Huh. When I heard it in game, they were talking about a guy doing the motorcycle noises and then pretending to throw grenades as he went past a pack of Super Mutants. Apparently even the super mutants wouldn’t touch crazy.

They definitely had no idea how long they’d really be taking to make the game. But despite the title of the post, this list is more like “games that haven’t delivered and never will”.

Riot Delays Statue in the Face of Criticism

I’m impressed. They improved the characters a lot since the last teaser trailer. Barret looks a lot less stupid with his gun-arm now and more like the bad-ass we all imagined.

To follow up, I watched it. It was good.

Well there’s an exposé that hits below the belt.

Lucky Luke is an Australian then... Although it’s probably too nice for NoE (whose table we eat from) too.

I was thinking more Cyberpunk/Shadowrun. Grime, neon and claustrophobic spaces are so in fashion.

Then you pump their Charisma to 10, for maximum cognitive dissonance. It’s the visual form of naming your character Butthead.

And here I was thinking “It’s the zombie apocalypse and you have time to style and die your hair?”

The difference with the original Macross was that it was relatively gritty. More than one important character died. There were hearts broken. The earth was ruined and things didn’t end happily ever after.