You spend 3 games being given clear correct choices to build a big ass fleet of allied races and it doesn’t amount to much

what those people really wanted was the illusion of choice

The ‘horu’ portion is interesting, and likely explains the spelling of his name. I’d be curious to see how his name is portrayed in the Japanese game, if it’s in kanji and kana, or if it’s always in english letters as Dighoru. Either way, it seems like they were going for a pun, naming him with ‘dig’ in two different…

tied at two games in the best of three grand final

Ugh. Their claim might technically be accurate, that management made the decision alone. Though if that’s the case then my suspicion is that it’s only because management was hired because they think like corporate, or that it’s clear that their continued employment depends on thinking like corporate. Easy peasy, no…

Man, that intersection looks like a nightmare.

Do they have any way to confirm if each of the 350,000 accounts are unique people? I’m curious if there’s a way to confidently determine how many accounts are from repeat customers setting up new accounts.

In the first game I played through Paragon first because that felt the most comfortable. I tried to switch to Renegade on a second playthrough, but only got a few hours in because I was a bit worn out on the game, plus many of the Renegade options felt forced to me, or unnecessarily harsh. After that I just stuck with…

Perhaps it’s like with The Thing, where the infection just replaces all of the person’s cells with its own, though in this case it’s maybe a slower process.

Yeah, that bugged me in 7. The chainsaw used to cut his arm off basically mulched half an inch of his arm. So even if he can magically reattach the arm to the stump (and get all the bones and veins and whatnot to line up), all that mulched flesh is gone, and the overall length of that arm should always be half an inch…

Yeah, I think all of the RE games have ridiculous aspects that some fans gloss over. RE4 had random precious stones inexplicably embedded in random places, plus a 3 story-tall mechanical robot stone statue. RE6 has the bizarro boss that is apparently a transformer made mostly of bones, and somehow can change how much…

No worries.  1337 = LEET. It’s from “leet speak”. Sort of an early internet meme. 1337 and most other “letter to number” conversions aren’t popular anymore and it makes sense that they’re being forgotten or not encountered.

Ah geez, JNCO jeans. If that’s what Chun Li wore it would either make the lightning kick impossible with her feet getting stuck in the pant legs, or the kicks would just shred the jeans.

He should have waited a few more days to get 1337

I like that.  My first thought was to just throw it in a dumpster right before trash day, that way the cops have to go searching for it in the local dump.

My vague recollection of the comic is that most characters ended up being stupid and/or evil. For instance, I vaguely recall that at one point the “good” king wore “shoes” that were literally just babies strapped to his feet (or maybe he just said he’d done it?  I can’t remember for sure).

If they have a dedicated test team then I wouldn’t be surprised if someone setup a test account and a script that automatically “purchases” every game as a basic confirmation. Although, I’ve seen people do that kind of thing manually as well just to see what would happen (back in the Xbox360 when “buying” all…

I know for sure I have over 100 games in my backlog, some going back to the 16-bit era, though the exact number is difficult to say. As some have said, I think it’s important to define what it means for a game to be in a backlog. For me it’s games that I want to play but haven’t gotten “done” with them. This can be…

I recently bought quite a few games on Switch (just a quirk of multiple games on my wish list going on sale in short succession), so I’ll probably be focusing on several of those most of the time. Such as Legends of Amberland, which looks like a throwback to the Might and Magic games, or Katamari Damacy REROLL because…

While I initially read it as ‘Final’, I can’t fault people for seeing it the other way. The text is just a mess all around. Ironically, it looks like someone intentionally added some space between the letters of ‘Final’ (probably for this exact reason), because the letters in ‘Battle’ have almost no spacing. They…