Imagine being so insecure in your own preferences that you feel threatened by others playing a game differently than you.

The enduring popularity of the “git gud” mindset among gamers never ceases to depress me.

Hell yes! If you’ve had any success in breaking your players of the “every enemy must be fought, every fight must end in death” mentality, you’ve been luckier than I. My players are the furthest thing from murderhobos I’ve ever played with but I think video games have conditioned them to think that way.

Still working my way through Mass Effect Legendary Edition--just made it to ME3 (and there’s no more head-exploding headshots in this game what the hell!?) so it’s gonna be that for the next couple weekends. Feels kind of silly to play a trilogy I’ve played through 9+ times before when I have so many games in the ol’…

Oh you know someone is going to be drawing porn of this (or many someones, more likely).

Andromeda was a good game, for sure. I didn’t think it had a very good story (it seemed like most of the ideas were either watered down from the main ME series, or set up for potentially more interesting stuff in DLC and sequels), but it was a lot of fun to play for the most part and had a lot of promise. I wish we’d…

I love Renegade Cut, and I love Rick and Morty, but I feel like it would be disingenuous (even as a big fan of the show!) to pretend Leon doesn’t have some good points in this video.

I really love the Fagles translation, it’s the first one I ever read and I still think it’s my favorite. I think it’s really cool that they’re doing this reading—anything to make the classics more accessible to a new audience is a good thing in my book.

For what it’s worth, I am very happy playing the PC version of the Legendary Edition. I’m about halfway through ME2 now, making the same decisions as I did the first Shepard I ever played the series with (I usually try to make different decisions to see all that there is, but I’m enjoying the nostalgia bomb).

I agree, it is a pity! And I’m glad the games exist because a lot of people clearly love them. But for some reason they just aren’t for me—which is weird because I love fantasy and I love Total War. This is going to sound completely mad, but I really just don’t think I like what the fantasy stuff does to the Total War…

Kelly Marie Tran was my favorite part of that one movie she was in, and I would probably watch any movie she was in just on the basis of featuring her in it.

That made me laugh. The KMT still kinda sucks honestly (not the KMT who is the subject of this interview, this KMT is awesome)

I still like Attila better than Rome 2, but you’re certainly right that Rome 2 is more than a solid game now. I have a few issues with it, and I really think the Crisis of the Third Century DLC (I’m spacing on the name of it right now) would have fit Attila better, but it’s a damn fun game.

I don’t play MOBA type games, so I’ll have to take your word for it that the mechanics have leaned in that direction lately. But personally, I’ve found that Attila and Three Kingdoms are about on the same level as Shogun 2. I really enjoy them, corporate BS aside. I do feel like the games are somewhat a victim of…

I’m honestly not wild about the Warhammer games, but I have been continuing to enjoy the historical ones. I would love to see more great historical games coming from CA though.

Is the game really bug-ridden still? I’ve gotten very lucky then, I have encountered very few problems. It makes me sad that people are so unhappy because Three Kingdoms is probably my favorite Total War game. The only thing I wish is that there’d been some more real expansions—not just new start dates but stuff like C…

I never heard of this before now but I am so intrigued. I have always loved classic noir, and I am a big fan of adventure games, so this is going right on the wishlist.

I love Joanne and think it’s criminally underrated—such a good album. That said, I have to be deeply boring and say The Fame Monster.

This is so depressing. I admit I wasn’t caught up on Berserk (I am the worst at finishing manga series) but it was really good from what I’ve read, maybe about half of it. Super talented artist, clearly, and gone too soon. It’s really scary to think how little warning there often is for maladies like this.