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I don't think there's an RPG as rigidly devoted to recreating its pen-and-paper counterpart quite like Temple of Elemental Evil. Its fairly slavish adherence to the specifics of D&D 3.5 rules and...

I think the reason I've never gotten super far in FF XII is its length and faux-MMO design more than anything else. I've increasingly found that the JRPGs I do attach to are either more mechanically i...

Are we just posting links in the thread? Alright. Here's the stuff I've put out thus far: A Totally Normal Mario Level (Me, messing around with the toolset after years of not playing Mario Maker)W8N-0...

There's definitely a bit of irony behind my anticipation for Death Stranding, but only in the sense that I'm well aware of Kojima's quirks as a writer by this point. I say this, even as someone who fo...

This definitely looks... slow, though I’d like to see a side-by-side with SamSho II or V Special for a better perspective on *how* slow. It’s still kind of a bummer though, because I was definitely ex...

I have a lot of fondness for those original N64 games, and in general I think Banjo-Kazooie's smaller, contained scale holds up a lot better than Tooie's much larger levels and more involved problem ...

It was a weirdly undercooked E3 this year outside of Nintendo reminding me that I'm on the hook for multiple games of theirs this year. Sure, part of that is because their release calendar was so bar...

If there's one thing I've learned about Falcom's games, it's that they have a zealous, dedicated fanbase that manages to not be terrible most of the time. SPOILER That, more than anything was probab...

Definitely will echo the Heroes of Might and Magic series. It’s on sale on GOG right now for dirt cheap. Best ones are 2, 3, and 5.

"Prediction #3: Nintendo Will Announce A Spin-off To A Beloved Franchise No One Wanted"Is this even a prediction when it's really just an inevitability? To piggyback on this for a second, I predict t...

Coming from a humanities/social sciences background and being left-of-center means I tend to at least pick up sociopolitical stuff in the media I consume. I agree with the sentiment that everything is...

It really does feel like Capcom lost a decade somewhere between their failures during the last console gen and their recent upturn of the last two years. Inafune's belief that Japanese game developmen...

Based on what I've seen, Pathologic very much seems like a Dave Snider/Austin Walker sort of game, which is a pity because neither of them work at the company anymore. Just nothing but extremely Russ...

I have a lot of fondness for KOTOR as one of the games that got me into RPGs in the first place. It’s also arguably the game that solidified BioWare’s formula and general writing style for better or w...

I will admit, I think I spent all of an hour with Gothic, not really enjoying its clunktastic combat or understanding its structure. That's also something I could say about my experience with Risen 2...

Iron and Blood is definitely from that awkward mid-90s era of Dungeons and Dragons games between stuff like Eye of the Beholder and stuff like Baldur's Gate. They were definitely slapping the license ...

I felt like that feature was dead in the water the second they failed to figure out what the hell a B-Game was. There's definitely potential for a series where they look at obscure, unsung, or weird ...