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I have a real big problem with Wreck it Ralph. It's not that it used iconic video game characters in a bait and switch tactic to make you think it was going to be about the video games you loved. It's not that the plot made little sense even within its own logic. It's not even that the biggest...

It only feels like the same game twice on a couple occasions. There is enough variety in the approaches to certain situations (the game cleverly peppers new content inside of what might feel like retrod ground) and new side quests only available to certain playable characters that it barely...

It's actually much weirder and more convoluted than any other game's timeline, even Kingdom Hearts. This is due, primarily, to the fact that it goes well outside the realm of games to tell its stories. Short stories, drama CDs, and even stage plays all factor in to the Nier storyline. Seriously...

There's a link to the first game in this thread. Play it, then you'll understand the error of your completely forgivable ignorance.

Maybe I enjoy Grim Dawn more because that's pretty much how I played Titan Quest. I picked one primary ability and one secondary with a few passives or auras to improve them. I will agree that the early portions of GD become absolutely trivial after you've been through them once, which is to the...

While I do agree that aestheticism is one feature of Grim Dawn that is inferior to Titan Quest, I feel that your pointing that out exclusively rather slants your description of the game. I could find your argument a lot more compelling if you discussed anything relating to the actual gameplay...

As wonderful as this news is, as I put far too many hours into Titan Quest from when it launched until about three years ago, I wonder how much this will divert attention away from its spiritual (and mechanical) successor, Grim Dawn. Grim Dawn is great, everyone. It takes the best parts of...

Here's a video of the devs trying to convince their audience that a tick rate of 20/sec is fine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTH2ZPgYujQ&ab_channel=PlayOverwatch They use cute examples and make the whole thing palatable to a layman audience. But the fact is that they were wrong, and...

I'll cede the point to you two. You've not only made some tacit points, but you're correct when you say that my experience with this sort of thing is outdated, for lack of a better term. I don't really mind the lack of private servers with Overwatch either, though I am growing very tired of...

The only Battlefield game I played much of was 1942, and I never encountered anything of that nature there. But then again, the game was from a time when a lot of those server scripts didn't exist yet. But that's not the only FPS I've put hundreds of hours into. Team Fortress (QTF-TF2), Unreal...

Yeah, it's almost as if the fact that private servers go against their business plan (sell more crates) means that they have to do more work to make the game mechanically viable. This isn't a problem for the infrastructure of other FPS because most of them still allow people to make their own...

As interesting and overwrought as the resulting conversation on this thread is, I'm going to try to address the original topic. Trans people are often times just like regular people. Mostly because they are regular people. Their sexual taste varies completely based on the individual. My...

I just recently played through FFIV. I think Cecil was pretty even keel, aside from being upset that he was complicit in the slaughter of a village of innocents, or that the kingdom he fought for was going insane and turning completely evil, or that the woman he loved was stolen away from him by...

Ooh. That's a good one, too. Unfortunately I don't think it's quite a contender against the absolute bevy of amazing titles, across nearly every genre, that dropped in '98. Hell, ONE DAY (Nov 30th) saw the release of four utterly phenomenal titles that shaped the landscape of gaming for decades...

...but the original Pokemon games came out (In NA) in 1998. Pokemon is part of that legacy of the golden year of '98.