Goddamn, but in 1997 playing Colony Wars was like looking directly into the white-hot blindingly bright future of gaming. Nobody could milk the PS1 for impressive visuals like Psygnosis.

Nobody in the history of the human race has ever been cooler than Raul Julia front-flipping through a stained glass window and landing fully ready for a swordfight.

Damn dude, you've got some Cary Elwes vibes going and it's really working for you.

Champions of Norrath and Champions: Return to Arms are still the gold standard of the ARPG genre as far as I'm concerned.

Cryptid Christian, oh the time has come~

My 10 year old loves "Imagine An Egg".

I love Firefly and have ached for its continuation as much as anybody, but no. Any ongoing adventures of Mal 'n' Crew that AI could spit out would be foul insults to the actual humans who created a world and characters we love.

Hopefully they explain what ever happened to it...? Been wondering a long time, so

I dOn'T wAnT tO DiE...

If anybody was wondering, Xinth the Black Coat whips all kinds of ass. Holy hell (pun intended), Hades 2 just keeps delivering incredible ideas again and again. I need to go back and wrap up the second half of Silksong but I'll be damned (pun again) if I don't just keep thinking "eh, one more run".

I have zero military experience which seems to be the context, but I'm 100% down for your original idea -- I'm gonna dig out my gold-plated Mortal Kombat dragon logo pog slammer, carry it around at all times, and if somebody wants to challenge me in Tekken 2 or Double Dash, that's the stakes.

Trash is taking off her clothes again

A LOT of good stuff here. Max Payne 1 and 2 were formative for me, and the Etrian Odyssey games are always excellent. For my money, 3 might be the very best of the whole series.

Cannot BELIEVE more people don't talk about "I'm sorry baby, I had to crash that Honda" as one of the all-time funniest movie lines. I kinda want to buy a Honda just so I can make a bumper sticker that says "I'm sorry baby, I had to crash that" and put it right over the Honda logo.

Fucking FINALLY took down The Last Judge. Damn, what a fight. Curious to see what's beyond the door I've been stuck at for almost three days.

Damn, you guessed it! At release we'll realize the secret twist: for the entire second half of the game, you play as Dead Aim's Bruce McGivern.

Yeah, unfortunately no surprises here. Fuckers.

...fuckin' Widow.

Hell yes! Fuck yeah! Sister Splinter was a righteous pain but is now kindling. This game rules.

That would be great. Personal favorite quote that should be on there -- "They have activated the trap card of falsifiability" from The Future is a Dead Mall.

...and 15 minutes later, I've gained a new ability that breaks the entire game open in such a crazy, fundamental way that I'm scrambling to think of where it might yield access to new routes, and the answer is, the entire goddamn map I've uncovered thus far. Holy hell. What a game.

A few hours in: Silksong seems to be the Bloodborne to Hollow Knight's Dark Souls. Combat rhythms are reminiscent of what came before but with the speed and aggression tuned WAY higher. The world is just as enthralling, and the tone is somehow lighter AND bleaker. Long story short: it's rad as hell.

Strong case to be made... Many people are saying this