For GTA I’d lean toward “minimal customization” instead of “no customizable protagonist”, because even though you can’t build a unique character at the beginning there are the various ways you can modify the characters once you’re playing them. There’s also some scifi aspects, like bigfoot and UFOs, though they’re…

For the most part Riptide felt like padded DLC, though it is important in that it (probably) bridges the stories of the first DI with DI2.

Psych!  It’s now being released in 2031.

Totally agree. I never play online with randos that I can hear.  I learned years ago that there’s basically nothing gained by being able to communicate with them. At most I’ll be in a party with friends.

It sounded vaguely familiar to me, but apparently it’s a Philly “tradition”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Eagles_Santa_Claus_incident

AFAIK the “canonically she’s 900" excuses don’t fly in the US (though I don’t know about other countries), because the laws give very little leeway for excuses. If a character looks one way (per anime), or a woman/girl is found to be underage during filming (such as with The Guy Game), then that product can be…

Yeah, it’s weird to call out Lincoln’s birthday. Just don’t call anything out beyond this event’s historical significance. You could maybe reference Black History Month, but even that could be weird. To my mind, if he had to call something out, it would probably be better to call out the question of why QBs have been…

Hmmm, have they ever been seen together? Do we know for sure they’re not the same person?

Supposedly the average age of the game’s audience is in their 20s, or at least adults. Part of it has to do with the fact that the game is pure nostalgia (specific time/place/era that the adult player experienced as a child). Alternately, some children wouldn’t care to play the games because everything you do in them…

Yeah, it’s basically a miniseries with each episode covering specific themes of the game. Thankfully it’s structured with multiple chapters, so it’s possible to watch the entire thing over multiple sittings (and maybe even more desirable to watch it that way).

It’s funny you mention that. The Action Button review for the game discusses how the first Boku game might have influenced Animal Crossing (though unfortunately I can’t recall where it’s discussed in that massive review, if you wanted to jump to it).

Thank goodness for that. They were pretty good games, but made unnecessarily difficult by their limited designs, so the remakes are much more approachable with the QOL design changes of Super Metroid and later.

Honestly, he’s made so many hits for Nintendo over the decade that they let him do pretty much anything he wants. His designs are the core of Nintendo’s style. That said, I’m reminded of a reviewer’s take on Mr. Resetti in Animal Crossing (paraphrasing): “Nintendo made children cry, so that Shigeru Miyamoto wouldn’t.”

If it were written by a person intentionally I’d possibly give them the benefit of the doubt, especially if the show/events clearly mocked how bad of an idea it was. But as we’ve seen with other AI stuff lately, it’s almost guaranteed to be the result of data/text being sourced from actual transphobic people and their…

There are somewhat cheaper alternatives, such as placing boulders or cement blocks, or building heavy duty planters. In the case of a local store near me there was talk of the store and the landlord sharing costs to install something. Either way, the landlord does still have a financial incentive, because it’s…

Extra useless: in the Cory In The House DS game (of meme fame), in the Buzzy minigame the Buzzy model has a decal designed to look like a tattoo or WW2 bomber painting, but it’s basically impossible to see in the game because it’s at the front of model and the camera is always behind it. Unfortunately I can’t find any…

The only “upside” I see is that the dipshits have moved on from crying about Velma all the time. (and while I enjoy Velma, I can accept that it has legitimate flaws, just not the ones that the TRASH have been crying about)

Basically, having millions of dollars.

While the rain drops do look too large and bright to me, that could just be the art direction for the game. It might also be that the rain effect is still being developed. Also, rain is really difficult to make it look right. Whatever the case, it at least looks better than the GTA remake’s rain, though that’s a low…

I’m not sure what was initially planned for Sasuke, but the early chapters made me think he was a destined to be an irredeemable shitheel and either become a villain or get killed. Sakura could have been forgiven for having a teenage crush, but it seemed implausible to me for it to be maintained through however many…