TheMightyEthan

I typically don't care about challenge rooms, but I've really enjoyed them in the previous Arkham games.

That season pass looks pretty sweet. But yeah, the only reason to ever pre-buy something like that is if you get a discount for doing so.

I'm exactly the same way. I think it's just personality differences though, there's always those people who want to be the center of attention and those who don't.

I had a thought yesterday that if 4k bluray really hits later this year then this might be my first one.

Okay, apparently that only applies to money that was converted from MS points, and none of mine is actually going to expire.

I just saw it today. I think my favorite part was

That money expires?

I don't know that there is an English word for a collection of villages. "Commune" has connotations of being like a small, communist cooperative.

RIP Courier.

I'll wait til it's cheaper. If it disappears then I'll pirate it. I like to avoid pirating things, but if I actually can't buy it then I don't care.

Why does he look like his mom just told him he can't go out for ice cream dressed like that?

The stars Netflix shows isn't strictly what other people have rated it, it's how much Netflix thinks you will like it.

I love that book.

How would you spell it?

And I'm not trying to say the games are bad, or badly designed, or that people are wrong for liking them, or anything like that. I'm just trying to explain what I don't like about them clearly enough for people who do like them to be able to say "Yeah, I can understand why you might not like that," without acting like I'm wrong for not liking them, or that I want all games to be super easy baby games or something. Again though, that's not really a thing people on here do, just kind of the general feeling around discussion of the game in general. Anyway, in my specific situation (I checked and it was Dark Souls 1), it was after the third time I died to the boss and felt no more enlightened about how I was supposed to approach it than I had the first time I tried, and was faced with making the boring run back to it, that I got frustrated and quit. That was just the trigger though, than the actual cause. Another issue was that up to that point I hadn't particularly enjoyed anything I'd done either. Like, it wasn't that I had thought it was especially bad, it was more that it just didn't feel especially enjoyable either, so there wasn't really anything drawing me to the game strongly enough to overcome the frustration.

Lol, yes, that should totally have been obvious, given that she's not wearing huge amounts of loose clothing or anything.

Butter that's not how Catherine is, it's not just exposition. In Catherine you get to take plenty of actions that should define the attitudes of your character, but the instant is a cutscene he acts one way no matter what you've done. Fine, they don't want to give me control I don't care, but then don't pretend you're giving me control just to take it away later. Also, the fact that the ending /is/ determined by your choices make it really jarring unless you go one particular route, because nothing in the story led up to it. *Edit - Really, I'm not saying it needs to have choices, I'm just saying that if it does have choices those need to be reflected. P4 did perfectly fine at acknowledging your choices without them really affecting anything. And if they wanted to not have choices at all that would be fine too. It's the shitty implementation of the choices that bothers me.

He kind of looks like my evil Fable 2 character...

But in that kind of situation, because the item or shortcut remains, you still had tangible in-game progress. I'm fine with death in that kind of situation, a calculated death that accomplishes something. It's when the death requires me to redo something tedious, especially when you're expected to die multiple times in the same place. If I can just run past all those enemies to get back to the boss, why even put me that far back? Why not just put me right outside the boss room? Having to run past them isn't challenging, it's tedious. I play games to enjoy them, not to redo boring things multiple times. Not trying to say that they're bad games or that people are wrong for liking them, just I feel like a lot of people act like if you don't like them it's just because you're a pussy who can't bear failure. Not that you're doing that.

Well this is what I was referencing: http://youtu.be/3Wwv5YSM0JM?t=10 *Edit - Apparently you can't embed with a time code.

I liked Catherine too, although one major issue I had with it is that the game is all about choice, and acts like it's giving you choices, but then those choices are completely ignored in the cutscenes which (except the end cutscene) are all the same no matter what you do. Like, I'm not someone who thinks that every game needs to offer you narrative choices, but if they do then I want the game to at least pretend like they matter. And I don't mean that they don't matter in the sense that they don't affect events, I mean they don't matter in the sense that your character expresses certain desires and whatnot in cutscenes, regardless of whether that has any resemblance to the the choices you've been making.

Hmm, I'm a little interested in Akiba's Trip, but $25 is still high. I wish it were 75% off, I'd defo try it for $12.50. *Edit - Same with the Korra game, if it were $5 I'd probably do it, but $7.50 seems too high.

Well then maybe I'll rent it to check it out, once I put a bigger dent in my current backlog.

Watched the video, and based on that and what you guys have said it sounds like I still wouldn't like it. Too bad.