I played about 2 hours of it last week and kind of bounced? The sickness is in me, I know, I need to give it another shot. Read more

Thank you for catching this, dumb mistake on my part (it’s the most chilling line from the first episode!), has now been fixed Read more

Apologies, I actually did have this right in my original draft - after people pointed it out to me earlier in the season, which I appreciate - but failed to communicate it to my editor, so it got changed while they were busy fixing my various typos and grammar mistakes. Should be fixed here, and in all other mentions… Read more

Everyone should watch Person Of Interest, a thing I feel comfortable saying even in spite of the Caviezel of it all. Read more

Thank you for this! I suspected that’s what it was, and kept meaning to go back and check but never did. Read more

I think my oldness might be showing here - “Maybe” is really central to Fallout 1, playing over that incredible ending, and so it’s the song I most closely associate with the games. “World On Fire” is also a biggie, but “Maybe” will always be THE Fallout song for me. Zur’s soundtrack is a whole other, great thing -… Read more

Good catch, thank you! Fixed now. Read more

For context: I’ve probably played through Fallout, Fallout 2, and New Vegas three or four times apiece; I’ll admit I’ve only played the Bethesda games once each, and didn’t do any of their DLC. My apologies for missing this enemy from the DLC of 4! Read more

My terrible, horrible secret is that I don’t like Fallout 4 (which means I only played, what, 80 hours of it) and so I never played the DLC. I missed the Gulper, apologies! Read more

All I ever want to do in RPGs is talk the bad guys to death and Alpha Protocol might be the best “talk the bad guys to death” game of all time.  Read more

It certainly counts as “unfilmable”! Read more

I really appreciate the thoughtful response! I think we’re ultimately coming down to a difference in how widely we want to apply our definitions (and probably some bias on my part in terms of how I got to these games) since I’d also categorize Nioh (a franchise I love, at least from the second game onward, and into… Read more

The A.V. Club and Kotaku are two different publications owned by the same company. I have a ton of affection and appreciation for my colleagues over at Kotaku, but our games coverage is strictly independent from theirs. We posted our reviews at the same time because that’s when the review embargo lifted; AVC reviewed… Read more

I don’t know how you play either of these games, walk around for 10 minutes, feel what it’s like to swing a sword or face down a monster, and not feel immediate parallels to From’s work. “Imitator” isn’t an insult, it’s an indication that two games are following a similar stylistic path. Like most of gaming’s fairly… Read more

Brotato is conceptually neat but I need more unlocks/diversity to get my brain going, baby needs his candy and the different character classes don’t quite hit it. Read more

I am sleep-deprived Today because of Balatro last night, it hits real good. Read more

I think it’s perfectly fine, but I don’t know how much it actually has to say about Demon’s Souls, if that makes sense? It’s a good way to play the game, for sure. Read more

I taught myself to type playing Quest For Glory 2; Sierra never had a GREAT parser, and I think the move to icon-based gaming was inevitable/good, but I do have a soft spot for it.  Read more

Damn, that’s an excellent addition, kicking myself for not including. Read more

I looooove reading these, thanks for doing them, The_Misanthrope Read more