I know this isn't how TV (or movies) work, but let's play layman doctor and do the "who would actually live, assuming first responders show up in the next few minutes after Hannibal's exit?" I would LOVE to get corrected by a nurse/doctor/cop/whoever with actual experience.

I love to hear that. Maybe I'll pick that up at some point. Companions that are real characters should judge you! That's what people do! It's much harder, but much, much more compelling, to design tangible cause-and-effects into games, rather than just assigning some good or bad points to actions and calling it a day.…

Admittedly, I kind of like it when by the end of the game I just slay the fuck out of the final baddies. I don't like when games level with you that much - it downplays your effort and time sunk, and it makes leveling up become a lot less satisfying. It reminds me of car racing games that include a "catch up" feature…

These games tend to be way more fun if everyone goes for the best "experience" rather than simply centralizing strategy on winning.

Therein lies the problem with these games. Most people wouldn't act purely paragon or renegade all the time, and taking a more middling, human and realistic route actually makes you suffer because you don't have enough points in one category.

I really like how my strategy evolved while I played. At first, I just silently snuck into the camp and tried to get through without getting caught. Then gradually, I moved to silent sniping, sometimes spending minutes and minutes devising the best sniper's nest, and the best backup plan, and the best weapons to use,…

As someone who disregarded this game basically until Tuesday afternoon when the glowing reviews came out (and I went and picked it up after work), I'm immensely satisfied. The shooting is so, so tight, and the diversity of play is really fascinating. Makes it easy to get sucked in.

I chose Tali as my love interest just to see if i could get a flash of what she looks like under the suit.

Notably, it took them three weeks to get Wolfenstein (2009) to me last summer. I canceled my service immediately following my rental.

A nice little bit of Duke Nukem esque levity, but without actually having to play a newer Duke title.

An incredibly cool game, that managed to introduce and balance the horror elements really well later on for added flavor. Plus, it basically begins with you in Castle Wolfenstein, and gives you a whole fucking game after that too. Really long, diverse, and compelling.

It added a few really cool moments in the game, like busting in a room full of thugs, taking them out, and notice that a Swede-pop music video is playing in the corner of the room on a tv. Don't like the sound of that? Go change the channel to a metal music video or just shoot the thing. The game doesn't care.

Ah, nevermind. I forgot that he was wearing the suit, just remembered him coming in and being surprised she was gone.

I was shocked by that too, because I thought Fuller was rashly stamping out any future Mason plots, which would have been deeply, deeply disappointing. They made such an effective foil to Hannibal, I'd hate to have him just get buried like that, and I thought he HAD really killed him.

Fucked her brains out, good.

I kind of liked the speedy pacing! Why would a man as impulsive as Mason, guided only by his own whims and fancies and perversions, patiently wait for his plan to come to fruition over the course of 5 or more episodes? Instead, we get a peek at it, then next thing we know his thugs are storming Hannibal's house.

This also happened in Game of Thrones season one, where… (ugh, spoilers)

It also helped that the boar (not Hannibal's boar-man) wasn't literal, because the thought of Hannibal packing a knocked-out Mason AND an actual pig in the car is really funny.

I think Abel Gideon was fairly campy in parts - he seemed to be adopting the more theatrically sinister pieces of Hopkin's Hannibal that Mads had left behind in his performance.

I'm not saying it was a 1:1 ripoff of Ledger's Joker, but Pitt definitely brought some new elements to the role, and they're definitely inspired by one of the most legendary villains ever portrayed in film.