Recent content by Seneschal

Straight people are being "demonized?" Erm, I didn't realize yaoi fangirls who think "het is ew" were such a large portion of the population... because that's literally the only instance of "straight-hate" that I've ever encountered. Now, lately I have witnessed some discrimination of...

They did intend to replace it. In fact, if I remember the exchange correctly, a fan had shared their opinion that "it didn't feel right" with regards to Tracer's personality, to which Blizzard responded, "Yep, we know, it's a placeholder," and promptly replaced it with a personalized dynamic...

Nope! The game just throws storms at you constantly to show off its swaying trees, rolling grass, and wet-surface effects. I don't mind it at all, it makes every ride through the countryside look very dramatic.

I think it would be "okay" in the sense that it wouldn't be skin-crawlingly sleazy anymore. It still wouldn't work as a localization - the entire rest of the character is a very japanese erotic fiction stereotype, the sexually confused young girl with just enough same-sex urges to titillate the...

I used to squat on this site day-in-day-out. Nowadays I check in every wednesday, watch ZP, glance at the "Most Views" and "Most Comments" tabs and promptly remember why I stopped coming.

Agreed. Once the game turned out to be 10 hours of (admittedly pretty) metroidvania bookended by half a page of narrative, I lost interest. The trailers promised something meaningful. I don't have it in me to play games for mechanical diversion anymore.

I remember reading that "the jewels of Eryn Lasgalen" were a Peter Jackson invention. Supposedly, they were Thranduil's heirloom, given to the dwarves to be made into jewels for his wife, but Thror considered himself powerful enough (or maybe he was just going mad with greed) to keep them. He...

I think DAI has an additional layer of "soft DRM" that hasn't (yet) been cracked - you must use the default world state if you're playing a pirated copy, since you need Origin to access the Dragon Age Keep (in which you pick choices from DAO and DA2 which could influence your DAI campaign, like...

Err, I scanned the thread in a hurry so someone might have mentioned it already, but I think there is cyberpunk game about LGBT characters - ROM: Read Only Memories [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gaymercon/read-only-memories-a-tribute-to-90s-adventure-game]. Though, it's a 90s style...

Ironically, when I looked up the trailer on Youtube, two clickbait fan-trailers were at the top of the search results. When I finally got to the real trailer, I could hardly tell the difference. Yes, it feels amateurish. And again it makes the prequels' mistake of placing a galaxy-spanning...

Choosing to interpret that The Critic Cabal are bearing down on you, emasculators in hands, when the exact opposite has happened with Bayonetta 2 reviews, takes some impressive mental gymnastics. Arthur Gies was in the tiny minority when he argued that Bayonetta's crotch-massaging camera did...

Personally, I think edginess is the second-easiest thing in the world to pull off, right after gratuitous sex-appeal. It takes a lot more skill (and attracts a lot more of my attention) to handle it with intelligence and subtlety (e.g. Gus Van Sant's Elephant is a monotonous, poignant...

Huh?! The artists' freedom isn't being contested at all. There has been no demand for the artists to be reprimanded, censored or, god forbid, fired. On the other hand, the freedom of a critic to say "I'm uncomfortable with this particular artistic choice; I find it tacky, cheap and...

I assume Jimbo is directing some of his digs at the kerfuffle in Polygon's comment section. It's really regrettable that such a discussion even needs to take place. Personally, I find Bayonetta "outrageous enough to get a pass" as well, but I've seen a lot of defensive comments making her to...

You actually don't. Definitional debates are a sisyphean task in sociology. Cultural phenomena tend to be like porn - you know them when you see them. "Religion" can have a nice, precise dictionary entry describing traits associated with religions, but you'll always be able to find one that...