that love interest was also a jewel thief, which is even funnier.

That did make her kinda cool though

reading these novels (or sherlock holmes) is a bit like being beaten in the face with a churchill

Could be worse…

The obviously foreign character of Poirot is definitely used to poke fun at Brits and their racist insular attitudes

Of course, there’s also the episode where the disappeared Russian servant of a rich old lady is suspected of murdering her and being a Soviet agent. Poirot figures out this can’t be the case because he finds a bunch of Orthodox religious paraphernalia and a picture of Nicholas II in her bedroom and it turns out that she is actually the Good Kind of Russian: an aristocrat who fled after her family lost their holdings to and is now forced to live under a false name and work as a servant. At the end she gets the old lady’s inheritance and can resume her upper class lifestyle and hopes that someday Russia too can be truly free. Poirot’s only love interest was also an exiled Russian noble who missed living in a mansion

lmao, he’s retired now? I remember hearing about him setting up his own company after he left Bungie but before his chudness became known. Guess nobody wanted to work with him because he’s such a massive piece of shit

Though apparently he bought the rights to the cancelled Six Days in Fallujah game at some point, presumably to suck off da troops

But where’s the avenue for rent seeking in that

Also the users can pretend to be creative and stick it to real artists at the same time

Get a cane from Ali along with your bucketful of Ukrainian medals, fake a limp and a bad Russian accent and you could probably get a few bucks from Mark Hamill

This post was meant to be a reply to ghosts

No posting medal for me

I’m just confused who these are for. Who’s buying fake Ukrainian medals off AliExpress and for what purpose

Don’t worry, PC gamers will still get …Marathon and all their other upcoming live service flops. Oh

He could’ve gone for “Generic Buxom Fantasy Wench” from the cover of any old RPG that would have at least fit the art style and setting better but for some bizarre reason the direction he went was 2000s porn star with massive fake boobs and tons of plastic surgery

Lost Odyssey already lets you change between English and Japanese voices, or at least the European copy I have does. I think it might have had lip-syncing issue with the Japanese dub or maybe I’m thinking of Asura’s Wrath or something

Two

Funnily enough, in-universe they’ve been been saying Snake looks like a crusty old guy since MGS1

Japanese beauty standards, man

They also had very anime character designs that they tried to make look good in a photorealistic game and it was kind of a mixed bag. At least Dante was supposed to look older

I was joking and there’s nothing wrong with his face in a vacuum but he just does not give MGS2 Raiden vibes. He kinda looks like a clean-shaven Geralt in Raiden cosplay

Speaking of cosplay, there’s something about the suit that’s off, like it’s bought from Temu or something

I saw someone say he looks more like Christopher Lambert as Raiden in the first Mortal Kombat movie and it’s kind of accurate

They also made the MGS HD Collection that launched on Xbox 360 and PS3 in 2011 before they were acquired by Sony and that the Master Collection versions are still based on

Why is the cover image for this story a still from the Dead or Alive 7 teaser of all things

Attention war = OnlyFans vs video game boobs?

Not to take anything away from Deadly Premonition (the 🐐) but that was only in one cutscene. The same technique has been used in Sims games since 2004 though

Like you don’t need physics, just have a big flat mesh that goes over the character model

The Old Blood is meh; it’s like meme Halloween DLC.

I was really looking forward to The Old Blood after playing TNO to see some classic Wolfenstein tropes served a lá New Wolf but yes, it ended up being just kind of an okay DLC and the supernatural elements felt really undercooked.

The New Colossus is oddly different tonally from the first game in a way that is hard to describe, but just not as compelling for some reason.

I think that the election of Donald Trump and the rise of the alt-right between the two games really affected the sequel’s writing. After the Nazi villains were shown in a sinister, creepy light in TNO the devs made sure to make them as stupid and pathetic as possible in the sequel. To really drive the point home, they wheel out

The subplot with BJ’s retconned racist, anti-semitic southern white trash dad also feels like another take that against American right wingers

A large part of what made the first game so compelling was the serious, solemn way in which they depicted the horror and despair of a post-Nazi victory Europe and what made exploding them into gibs by the dozens feel so good. Turning the whole thing into some slapstick grindhouse flick just sucked all the gravitas out

The first game is really good, the second kind of sucks and the third game is tedious co-op slop. The action is still pretty good in the second game and there are some moments and setpieces that deserve to be experienced even if the overall package is much weaker