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It's okay to enjoy a game that you know is kind of shit. It's what makes opinions so fun and wacky. Like torture. Like, for instance, I know Final Fantasy VIII is a wildly, horrifically fucked up game. Yet, for some reason, I still boot it up. And beat it. Whilst groaning at Selphie and banging...

No, I see you're point. I'm kind of interested in the Buck Rodgers-esque setup and there's no guarantee they won't somehow make the story work, (Unlikely, I know, but stranger things have happened. We live in a world where The Lego Movie was good. Strange times, man.) but it is no doubt a step...

I've watched this guy's material before and it's mostly empty-headed, harmless stuff. Just kind of a typical gamer on Youtube. Not much in the way of brains or heart, but he sure does like the same thing everyone else does. That and he had a rant about how he just "couldn't get into" the...

It's not often that Eurogamer puts out an article I can praise, but holy shit, this guy gets it. Specifically, he gets me. That's how I felt about the two games and why I reason NV being my favorite. (Also of the series, with FO2 tagging just behind.) Except, I have to admit, I cratered the...

Wow. Was totally unprepared for this news. This is terrible. Nintendo has always been a big part of my life and Iwata was a really good guy, if business sense often eluded him. I feel like the medium has lost a great man. Rest in peace, Satoru Iwata. Also that fake wiki-info is just terrible...

Yes it was, but I can blame annoying children characters for anything. Even when it is temporally impossible. :razz:

My father in law is a huge history nut and is big on nordic cultures. Big viking guy. As such, I introduced him to Skyrim and it's one of his favorite games. That man has patience I can't perceive of. He has invested so much time into the game that he knows every questline and how to keep it...

My first playthrough of Fallout 2 went horribly out of control because of that. I couldn't get back the same item, actually. Ended up getting pissed off and threw a grenade at the kid. I regret nothing. Of course, that destroyed the kid and the item and I spent the next hour of gametime with...

Sadly, it was still a huge improvement from Oblivion.

With all the talk lately about Fallout 4's (possibly) limited dialogue options and narrow choice I thought I'd mock up a scenario in which Bethesda's obsessive need to tell a specific linear story might actually work. First, we'll begin with what is arguably Fallout 3's biggest problem: Emotion...

Just wanted to comment that I like the look of the game. It's pretty cool seeing Fallout's HUD and gameplay with new models. I don't know why, but the way it moves reminds me slightly of Neverwinter Nights. It's not really that similar, it just gives off the same vibe. Hope you can complete it.

I had a pretty heated argument with a jackass roommate of mine about how he thought Arcade was "creepy". Being that I enjoyed the character, I engaged him as to why. After a series of bullshit excuses, it came out that he hadn't even traveled with the character and he was just reacting to...

I just meant some indentation and segmenting of paragraphs. For long reads it can become easy to end up reading from the wrong line, for instance. Not a huge annoyance or anything, just a note. Also, I agree that Tactics' system tended to be unwieldy, but it had the right idea and I can't help...

I very much enjoyed this review. Though the merits of this game have been talked to death, I think you covered them well and descriptively. Could use a bit of editing to allow the eye a rest here and there, but that's aesthetic not substance. As a note, I think my only consistent issue with...

I have no doubt that some of the blame lies with Obsidian, they have significant issues as a development team. However, many of these are documented, actual events that happened. Their trouble with publishers has been a constant shit-show since the word go. Lucasarts rushed KOTOR II out the...

There seems to be confusion as to the point of my post. It was not that no one has the right to argue or that any one side is outright right or wrong. It's the difference between "I disagree and here are my reasons:" and "Fuck you, you're wrong and there is nothing you can say to change that."...

Obsidian always seems to be having an an 18-carat run of bad luck. Their writing and actual roleplay systems are some of the finest in the genre. But most everything else seems to fall apart around them, usually on account of publisher meddling. Lucasarts, Bethesda and Sega, all the same shit...

I just sat down to watch this video from a pretty brilliant youtuber, Noah Caldwell-Gervais. I thought I'd share this video as he is analyzing one of my personal favorite games, Alpha Protocol. A game which is so wildly, deeply flawed but I still manage to adore. It just kind of hits a lot of...

I just wish Bethesda would let people fail. My biggest issue with TES for the longest time is how I can't fuck up. Because of the lack of fail states I never feel like the world is real. I couldn't care less about companion AI if only because I consider them to be their own thing, and more often...

I can see what you mean, though for me it often feels like babysitting instead of genuinely working with my followers.