It looks like rural Georgia, but it doesn't really feel like Georgia in the sense that shows like True Detective or Rectify really feel authentically rooted in their places. Designing Women feels more authentic and it was shot on a soundstage in Burbank.

it's only "realistic" if you are a complete and utter misanthrope.

roll for initiative you son of a bitch

Turns out I remembered correctly!

I'd swear I heard that having child killing in the game at all, even region-locked, would have caused massive issues with certain markets. Like, if it's in the code at all, the game couldn't go to Australia or wherever.

Girlfriends. Ain't no way we'd get a show about four black women basically just being awesome together these days without it being some Real Housewives-style buffoonery.

Yeah, but Orphan African-American is just PC liberalism run amok.

I may have the truck brands wrong, so please be careful!

Ha! yes, video game romance often falls into "LOVERBOT, DO THIS THING FOR ME! SACRIFICE YOURSELF!" while the player has to maybe like do a fetch quest they were gonna do anyway to progress the plot.

Also, the claim that you could tell a character's moral alignment in the story by what brand of truck they drove? Like, protagonists who survive drove Dodges, protagonists who die drive Chevys, and antagonists drive Fords?

holy shit you have no idea

Okay, I got you now.

oh jesus that house

Shadowrun: Hong Kong is supposed to drop Thursday!

Man, shit. I remember the first time I went in a house in FO3 and found two skeletons on the bed and a pistol on the nightstand.

I was genuinely shocked at how compelling I found certain points of SR4. The Gat mission where you do a SR3 Genki challenge together and you're just shooting the shit about old times and how things have changed while murdering dudes in furry costumes - really strangely touching. (also, the ending montage of How The…

Yeah. I tried to do an elaborate jailbreak by arming him and turning him loose, just to see what would happen. He got killed by the guards.

In light of a lot of this conversation, can we just give a shoutout to Saints Row 4 for literally having a "PUSH X TO SEDUCE" option? The first character you use it with, the protagonist walks up and says "Hey [character], wanna fuck?" We need more of that piss-and-vinegar attitude, I think.

I'm gonna give a shoutout to (friend of the show) Christine Love, who I can only describe as a sort of auteur designer of visual novels. IIRC her next game is a take on the dating sim genre.

Oh, well then - look, the South is a fucked up place, even by American standards. Sociologists and historians have made entire careers out of trying to make sense of Southern identity.