Phil Owen's discussions

Just for today. Maybe some other things soon. Read more

Roll Tide Read more

Well, I'm thinking very specifically in our internet nerd things bubble. I've been writing about nerd shit on the internet for six years or so, and it feels like we establish a stated consensus about everything, and disagreeing gets you laughed at. So I think people tend to sort of keep deviant opinions to themselves… Read more

I'm intentionally obtuse, to be honest. Unfortunately, I'm not famous and so nobody is used to my confusing tone! Read more

jokes and jokes and jokes. that whole paragraph was like the 22 Jump Street of game journalism. <— that sentence was also a joke, by the way. I'm not an extremely serious person. Read more

THX SORRY BRO I FIXED IT LUV U Read more

Alpha Protocol forever. Read more

Roll Tide to all of this. Read more

Yes, but insisting on every individual thing you spend money on directly making money back is not good business. Read more

Can you stream PSN games you already own for free? I had thought PS Now would be more about backward compatibility than high priced rentals. Read more

I love you. Seriously. Read more

You're funny. Read more

no, the games did not set the gender for Revan is the point. Read more

I'm a critic. I make value judgments for a living. Read more

it was not. The first SWTOR book, about Revan running back to the Unknown Regions and then later the Exile chasing after, set Revan as a man and the Exile as a woman in the continuity. Read more

Obsidian made the content. Fans just put it back in. 2004 was a weird time. Either way I like vanilla KOTOR 2 better as well. I'm not so hung up on whether an ending sucks. Read more

When people accuse my sincere editorials of click whoring I take it as a compliment. Read more

New Vegas is one of my games of the generation. And I've got quite a soft spot for Alpha Protocol, mess and all. Read more

I wrote this piece because I tried giving the original another go last month but switched the sequel after the first time Carth told me he didn't want to talk about it on Taris. Read more

It's a Ratchet & Clank kind of shooter. Not really "yet another" anything. Read more