Kiyoshi Shigematsu's A Thousand Years Of Dreams from Lost Odyssey might be the only good writing in a JRPG, although perhaps that's not what you mean by story.
Probably not an actual company policy, but perhaps an accepted but unapproved practice by cashiers as a response to company policy rewarding them for selling those kinds of useless doodads. Or a rogue asshole cashier.
Okay that back and forth tirade between Jeff and Dan about Terminator made me think it was actually a lot funnier since Brad had to be the one to rein it in while Jeff had a lot more energy to rebut Dan's claim of T2 AND T3 being better movies. God, that shit was hilarious.
Ha, how it was an actual debate until Dan brought up T3 and everyone realized it had become time to shut it down before things got ugly.
Oh, also, Jeff is totally right. Terminator is a great movie, T2 is a theme park ride.
Doing quick looks alone is just a person commenting on a video game they are playing, and doing more playing then commenting.
Without a dialog going on between two people it is far less interesting, and without someone asking questions about the game for the other person to answer it's just a big expository dialog dump.
Solo quick looks don't work. Solo video features with a very directed purpose, maybe. But a couple guys just exploring a game trying to figure out what is up is what quicklooks are all about.
EDIT: Oh, also, it would be good for him to get someone tonally different from him to give him a bit more to bounce off of, like how it's worked with Vinny and Alex.
Really glad it has worked out this way. Jeff's niche was always to be a sort of anti-establishment outsider coming in a adding some chaos to the mix, he was pushed out of that trying to be the guy keeping everything in order. Seemed like he wasn't having as much fun that way.
I wouldn't say Grantland is mainstream water cooler stuff. The whole point of that site is collecting great writers and giving them freedom to write features on what they want. While they often do cover mainstream topics, they are often through a completely unique lens that you wouldn't find in many other places. Like Bill Simmons writing a piece that is ostensibly about LeBron, but filling it with mostly discussions on where his personality compares/stands in the halls of some of the greatest players ever. Or him writing another story about Melo not being a superstar by throwing down a gauntlet of historical statistics that would make most statisticians cry with joy.
Tom Bissell writes about why games that are popular and well liked are terrible. He's the latest in a long line of people who have somehow decided to focus on and write about something they have clearly long ago started to despise.
And those articles are about GTAV and Gears of War and Skyrim.
So suddenly No Man's Sky is on par with "RELEASE EVENT AAA MARKETING BUDGET HIGHER THAN DEVELOPMENT BUDGET" style games? This game that people know almost nothing about other than space and dinosaurs and automation? Sorry, but this being on Grantland is weird.
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