Oh yeah, I also had a blast playing Mario Kart 8 with several of you fine folks this past Tuesday! It was a smaller crowd, and we had the usual connection issues, but fun was had nonetheless! Go Team Karts!

Hooray for Overcooked! Two-player mode seems ideal for that efficient, functional cooking experience. My partner and I played through the game that way, and it served us well right up to the final kitchen. We've also played a handful of times with three and four people, and things get crazy! Incorrect orders, pots…

Have you tried… CQC?

We started playing Tacoma last night! My partner and I have only spent an hour or two with it so far, but it's already showing signs of being just as intimate and deceiving as Gone Home. I'm especially intrigued by the warning to refrain from talking to the AI under any circumstances. Is this a plot device…

I wouldn't want to butcher his message with paraphrasing, but he said Gameological will remain it's own page (with a distinct URL) and they're committed to keep the community thriving.

Got a request for the Unofficial Gameological Discord link. Join us here, if you'd like:

Yarp. DL and I put one together a while back to foster conversation during and around MK8ot8th, and it just kind of grew from there. Disqus appears to be eating comments on this thread today (probably too big and crowded). Look me up over in last week's Keyboard Geniuses to find a link to the server.

Have you stopped by the Gameological Discord channel recently? Gerardi shared some of his thoughts on the transition in the #general thread there. That might help to assuage some of your fears. They certainly helped me!

Thanks for the reply! Will we see some updated list of guidelines for remaining in the good graces of the site (perhaps when the new site is live)? Or is it basically going to be the same comment policy as appears now on the A.V. Club About Us page?

They mentioned above that they'll be porting over existing comments. I didn't see anything about upvotes/downvotes yet.

I've been reading a bit about how the Kinja comment system works on other sites, specifically Gawker. Are you planning to implement a "pending comments" similar to other sites? (Default display only shows author conversations and comments from users that are "followed" by the site.) If so, will there be any system…

Uh oh! This sounds like another great experimental game that deserves a place on my "Play it now!" list. Just gotta tear myself away from Dark Souls II and Overwatch long enough to try it out. I recently picked up a fairly decent wireless gaming headset for my PS4, and it could really stand to see some use outside…

Taking this advice!

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Yeah, I don't know that we're going to be able to get on the same page here. I feel like I shouldn't have to explain hedge words like "seems to", "often", "in certain circles", etc. If you ignore those, and the part where it was a response to folks saying the game should never have been made (rather than folks…

Who's making broad character judgments? If the shoe doesn't fit, then I must not be talking about you. Again, we must have been talking to different people, because I seem to have run across a lot more overt sexism and homophobia in reaction to Gone Home than you did.

I gathered as much. Gone Home (the subject of my comments and the example I was referring to above) specifically faced a sizeable backlash from self-professed Gamergaters, but it certainly wasn't the only game with light interaction and a marginalized group that drew their ire. I'll let you google it.

I think you and I may be talking about different games and different examples of criticism. I'm referring to people who claim they are uninterested in playing a game where all you do is walk around a house to find out about the past year of a teenage girl's life. With folks like that, the criticism is never just…

If you like playing games with feels, then Gone Home is definitely for you. If you grew up in the 90s, then you should probably play Gone Home. If you like digging through people's personal stuff and piecing together the narrative for yourself, you can't go wrong here. I'd recommend playing it at night, with all…

I had an original run print of Final Fantasy VII as a kid, but it has since disappeared from my collection. It's likely one of my brothers lent it to a friend back in high school and never got it back. Even so, I believe the highest dollar item in my collection is likely Ocarina of Time (though it definitely…