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I see. I guess I'm kind of the opposite way, I really don't like lickspittle/fainting/damsel-type female characters in cis-hetero stuff unless they're actual lunatics/stalkers (when it sort of wraps around to being kind of fun again), which are sadly not uncommon in the worse-written shonen-type...

Wait people hate Nynaeve and Egwaene? I had no idea. I guess both of them can be wet blankets at times but honestly a lot of the characters in WoT could benefit from some wet blanketry!

I feel like Peck sort of almost karmically balances Schulz here (I mean, you shouldn't need to karmically balance your cast but w/e), I was just watching him as a guest judge on RuPaul's Drag Race (S15 I think, I'm catching up), he was pretty fun. Also like, I think he'll definitely be able to...

Now that is a deep cut! I hadn't thought about that game for a long time. Re: "change who you're playing" in an action-y game (as opposed to a CRPG), the problem is that every game that's done that has both flopped sales-wise and been poorly reviewed. Clive Barker's Jericho, Agents of Mayhem...

Orion is positively sane compared to the proposed usage for an actual nuclear ramjet, Project Pluto. On a charming note, Putin recently claimed to have basically resurrected Project Pluto (though the complete lack of radioactivity from the test in October strongly suggests the whole "nuclear...

Also whilst I mentioned he is good at hiring the right people, it's come to light that the process they use to do this is sometimes nightmarish and exploitative: There's more reporting on other people with similar experiences here...

I think a lot of those authors are pretty influential on sort of Japanese writers who basically created the shonen genre too, though. It's not like there's any lack of awareness of Austen/Dickens/Tolstoy in Japan (Austen I know is particularly big/influential/well-regarded), and yeah...

Yeah, it's er... not great. I've maintained for a long time that Swen is essentially kind of an idiot who is good at basically two things - hiring the right people and keeping his company private (and he's potentially wavering slightly on the latter). But there have been signs he has Bad Ideas...

Yeah he's a jerk, and it's a pity they cast him, but at least he's playing a minor character and one whose primary claim to Street Fighter fame is that he sucks.

I've been saying this for years too but yeah @Retros_x explains with words what I only had as a vague instinct. I think there are actually quite a decent subset of fantasy novels, especially of the "Epic Fantasy" subgenre who would be easily best-adapted as anime if being adapted to a visual...

Minor update as Swen said that Divinity will be a turn-based RPG like DOS/BG3, but "brought to the next level" (which I can only assume means even more cutscenes!). This is of note mostly because the original Divinity was actually a Diablo-like ARPG, just more story-heavy.

Updated this for The Game Awards - will try to update quarterly at least going forwards.

I have to say I found the dating sim elements in Three Houses so absolutely goddamn tedious and pixel-hunt-y that they dragged down the game significantly. I felt much the same about similar elements in Midnight Suns, which also had them. In both cases it was because those elements were not, in...

I think in this case kind of neither instead it pushes them into a crippling fear that at any moment all their stuff could be taken away which means they have to fight the urge to hoard for the rest of their life.

It might have been that you just happened to see it just before a whole bunch of faux-K-Pop Demon Hunters stuff got taken down. Or that they called it "K-Pop DnD Hunters" in the ad, expecting you to click directly, but they don't use that actual terminology to describe the game in any of their...

I honestly can't think of a better class for a one-class loosely D&D-based RPG.

Sadly I do not and never did, even as a child. I did, however, have a Jetfire, which I felt was pretty much the best Transformer ever made by some margin. Of course later I learned that was because it wasn't really a Transformer but basically from Macross but there we are. I don't have him...

And talking of the dating/sim RPG crossover, one of the most fun games for me, for like a month, at least, maybe two was The Sims Medieval, which was very much "What if the Sims 3 was fused with Quest For Glory" (i.e. not quite a proper RPG, but on the way there). It was a very far from perfect...

That is the most "23-year-old" ass line I've heard in my life lol. Every slightly edgy 23-year-old believes that, I swear to god, and they're all fooling themselves. Nailing the character they're going for at least.

Brosnan Bond has by far the highest on-screen kill-count of any Bond, but maybe that was overcompensation? Also Moore was the least believable in terms of "will kill you at the drop of a hat" for my money, especially once he got into his "handsome grandad" era (For Your Eyes Only and A View To A...