It’s been decades since I’ve played, but you can observe how other players act and respond to you and others, what people say, all with the intent of determining what cards they have without having to move around the board and ask what clues/cards they have. It’s not an instant win, and gets easier as you have more…

Especially if there’s 2+ people “playing” simultaneously, even though the game shown is single player.

I found that a bit ironic, in that his observational skills could be used on other players and maybe even the game pieces to glean clues/solutions. Essentially metagaming to win. However, for whatever reason his skills seem to only apply to “real” things, and not the abstract versions of such things that are presented…

The video also mentions that the medical book claim hasn’t been verified. That said, if it is in a book or similar I wouldn’t be surprised if there are true crime or “faces of death” type media that had it (assuming it really is from a guy killed by the mafia).

“What’s next? Trevor is transgender?” Well, he might be, but it’s so buried under psychological trauma that I doubt we’ll ever be sure. At the very least the game strongly implies he’s in love with Michael (which admittedly is sexuality, not gender, but this is the main thing I noticed in the game), but he was so…

Now Cavill has nowhere else to go

Given the many bits of world building in the game, there’s a ton of things that could be explored in a show or movie.  Either way, Kojima seems to now have his wish to make a movie, and we’ll quickly find out if he’s actually good at it.

I recall reading a while back that another occasional problem was sabotage by competition, where owners of other escape rooms (or people they sent) would be intentionally destructive. I’m kind of glad to hear that isn’t happening.

Yeah, I could see that. I wouldn’t say that’s all of it, though. The fact that the terms and genres are both so close certainly doesn’t help avoid confusion. Like if there was also a Metroidvadia genre that is also very similar to the Metroidvania genre, people might subconsciously lean toward one term or the other…

I think I agree with everything you said. Hades is a roguelite, and it’s great. Personally I think one of the reasons why is because it integrated the design aspects of the genre into the game world. On a related note, a friend of mine said he didn’t like roguelikes until he tried Dungeon Of The Endless (which is more…

I suspect that at least some of the screwiness is due to the mythology evolving over 1000+ years, combined with the creation of new gods for different things, and also the integration of other cultures’ gods. Also, different city states had different favorite gods, and so they had political reasons to modify gods and…

Moros might also give you foresight with what’s to come in future stages, given he historically has the power to let people preview their deaths.

Tangent: Are we doing away with the distinction* between roguelike and rogue-lite, and just calling all variants ‘roguelike’ now? I’m okay with it, because true roguelikes are rare and frequently unfun to me. So if rogue-lites are the norm and just take the genre name then that’s cool. I just want to make sure I’m on…

Counterpoint: Trejo was one of several actors known for playing “scary mexican” at the time, for instance https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0190441. In the 90s, for most people Trejo was either unknown, or at best a “that guy” actor. It’s essentially survivorship bias, because Trejo got a big break and became famous later,…

Michael Rooker and Danny Trejo are cool, and while they were working at the time they weren’t famous in the 90s. This makes think that Keighely is just doing his best to get cheap talent so he can make friends with “famous” people.

Yeah, given the insane price increase for retro games in the last 2-3 years in a lot of cases it’s not even possible to buy an old console and a copy of the game you want. Though to be fair, the biggest and most expensive games tend to be the ones that were incredibly popular and have been rereleased in various ways…

I completely agree with what you said. The reason I think it’s tough comes down to how to handle DMCA claims (or really any claims) in a way that weeds out the awful people with ill intent, and doesn’t block valid claims, and also isn’t able to be abused in a new way by the awful people. I’m not claiming that nothing…

I played the game to completion, plus a bunch of side content, and I agree with your conclusions. The game’s issues ultimately came down to the gameplay, and had nothing to do with “woke reviewers”. He might have half a point with “reviewers who couldn’t be bothered to actually play the game”, except that I view it as…

I’m not sure if there’s any sort of recourse when white supremacists seek to weaponize the protection of free speech. 

Yes and no. I suspect that it’s true that businesses get the most money/benefit out of weakened and cheaper labor. But rich people are individuals, and some will still be incredibly cheap if/when they can get away with it. Some rich people will buy tacky and meaningless nothings, but not all (especially those with…