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My favorite game is Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time...Well, looks like I'm a sand monster!

I tend to just read whatever Apple News has aggregated for me during my commute times. If I run out, I go through in order The Atlantic, LA Times, CBS News, Politico, and The Guardian. Rarely do I get past the LA Times, though. Sometimes, I also read "local" news, but I live in a forgotten...

There's not a lot to go on. It could have snowballed into that situation. It's hard to convince people not to transform if vampires are not only surviving better but also threatening them if they don't transform. Eventually, it just becomes a case where becoming a vampire and risking starvation...

Yeah, unfortunately, Xenoblade is the worst offender of this I've seen. I was willing to endure it because it didn't get bad, let alone the 30-60 minute time sinks, until after the characters and world had already hooked me in, but I can easily see the inventory system putting a lot of people...

The Bad 1. There's a lot of busy work. You'll be picking up potentially 100+ of multiple types of items each between vendor visits, and that's not accounting for the gift-giving to help raise each pair's affinity. There were times I'd spend 30-60 minutes just managing my inventory, getting...

Outlast 2 and Resident Evil 7 aren't that surprising. Hillbillies are a major villain target in horror. It's offers convenience, both in the "what goes on out in the middle of nowhere" and/or in the "what happens if your car breaks down out there" senses. It also helps that arguably the most...

It's been a long time since my last play through of BioShock, but as far as I remember, only Atlas and Suchong use the phrase prior to the twist. Ryan doesn't say it until after. Cohen might not even know that it exists. Tenenbaum doesn't use it during the debate over the Little Sister. Outside...

I remember renting The Thousand Year Door, but I never bought it. I'm not sure of the exact reason, but not playing it through is the primary reason I don't feel like rating it higher than Paper Mario 64. That said, based on what I've played of it and some of the other Mario RPGs, I should...

5). The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: I'm struggling to select a #5. There's a lot of games like Oblivion, Fallout 3, The Witcher, and various Tales games I want to put here, but I'm picking Skyrim simply because it perhaps best captures a "go out and role play" attitude of any game I've seen. Yes...

I stayed away from Dragon Age 2 for a long time because of all the negative criticism. I think I eventually picked it up on sale since I had completed Origins and wanted to at least experience DA2 before trying Inquisition. While I did get annoyed by the repeating dungeons, the game otherwise...

Not counting Reddit (I frequent about a 8-10 subreddits), this is the only one. I sometimes go onto the Steam and GOG forums. I used to frequent some Linux distros' forums, but tame ones like the Ubuntu and Linux Mint forums were still too overrun with people who made the Battlefield forums...

FEAR did a good job of keeping me at least uncomfortable. Combat wasn't scary at all except for those assassins, but they only appeared like once or twice. However, the game did a good job juxtaposing the power-fantasy of using bullet time to mow down super soldiers and the powerless state of...

It's not that I expected him to attack Geralt. However, any expression of anger or distrust he showed, if he showed any beyond just being an inherently grumpy person, was significantly more mild than what I'd expect from him.

I actually preferred the SPAS-12 to the AA-12. Part of it was just a preference for the feel of a pump-action shotgun. However, the SPAS-12 also had quite an impressive range where 1-2 shots could kill someone. I always found the AA-12 to be limited to short and potentially medium range. The...

It's been a long time since I've played a demo for any game. I do remember often not getting games for demos I played, though. Generally, it was because the demo wasn't fun, but occasionally it was because the demo didn't impress me as much as some other ones I played at the same time, leading...