TomFooligans's discussions

Wow, I had never seen that demo before. There were some really neat, spooky ideas in there. The dolls scrambling around was probably a better concept than practical mechanic, and there were too many prop-based jumpscare moments, but wrestling with the ghost, and indeed the ghost itself, were really scary /… Read more

The only thing that keeps swirling about in my head is “portable Dark Souls”. Port em all over, I say. That would sell so damn many systems. Read more

That was a well-written and very sweet piece, Luke. In the spirit of your point about how our initial gaming experience shape us, isn’t it interesting to think that a console this under-received by the public might be the doom of a company besides Nintendo, no matter what neat product they’d announced to win back the… Read more

I got my Xbone in 20...13? ‘14, probably, and it filled up quickly, particularly with my room mate’s penchant for downloading hot garbage to it. It was a relatively easy balancing act, getting rid of Games With Gold that I didn’t want, demos, whatever, but I hated always seeing less than 40GB free, and it did fill up… Read more

I’m not surprised that it sucks, but a little surprised about the issues with frame rates and whatnot. My concern was playing the damn game on a touch screen. Mega Man demands precise control, which I truly found out when I bought the first one for my 3DS and tried to play with that D-pad and Circle Pad. The D-pad was… Read more

Wow. I never considered something like that. My father died when I was 15 in 2003 and I wanted his PC, though my grandmother took it (I wasn’t consulted about any of the divvying up of property, by the by). But I’m sure I could’ve found something to remember him by. He wasn’t stealthy about his porn habits; there were… Read more

Honestly I’m a little surprised not to see the Dark Souls 3 theme on here. I think it’s something we take for granted, but in a game that uses music so sparsely, that greeting every time you fire it up is pretty impactful. That and the default volume is loud as hell before your profile loads. It just kinda beats your… Read more

Thanks, Jason <3 Read more

Here’s a question that will sound indignant but I really don’t mean it to be. How do I become an approved commenter? Back when there were starred commenters I was one, then when the Gawker blogs went to the “must be followed by the blog” model following the Jezebel trolling, I was able to slowly regain my approved… Read more

How nice for all the people who get to play the game. I almost bought IW, which I’ve no interest in, on sale for PS4 before remembering that only the expensive edition even includes MW. I tell you, I’m about as sick of Activision as a person can get. They don’t want my $20 unless it’s attached to a $60 product I don’t… Read more

Really, this is a decent way to bridge the generation gap, by featuring pre-evolutions to existing OG Pokémon. I have maintained that it’s a little much to expect from this game to introduce the 2nd gen Pokémon so soon anyway. People demand too much of it. Objectively it’s no more fun than you make of it, it’s a… Read more

I’ve got schadenfreude like crazy over here. Some years ago I gradually stopped pirating stuff as it became more and more affordable and convenient to legitimately pay for it. Since getting used to paying for what I take, I’ve kinda re-acclimated to the idea that piracy is wrong and risky and particularly not worth… Read more

Since adding a PS4 to my living room some weeks ago I’ve noticed that they have sales of steeply discounted games pretty much constantly. Tonight I bought Metal Slug Anthology, Heavy Rain, Beyond Two Souls, Rocket League, and Rogue Galaxy. I will be sampling them alongside obligatory attention to Battlefield 1,… Read more

Ugh. Bought both at full price. Read more

Ugh. Bought both at full price.

Aw <3 I rewatched SDF Macross a month or so ago when I discovered it (and the other two shows diced up to make Robotech) was on Amazon video with Prime. Which is beautiful since they released a box set of Macross earlier in the decade or possibly at the end of the last one and it came and went before I ever got my… Read more

I played Neopets around 2000. I remember my stepmother, when the computer came down with viruses, blaming Neopets, my most frequently visited website. She was ignorant and full of shit. That said, this forced break would eventually lead to my abandoning Neopets. I signed on some years later, still in high school, for… Read more

Thank god, dude, I’ve been waiting forever to get my nostalgia on. In a world where Berserk simulcasts from episode 1, I found it terribly confusing that something as huge as Dragon Ball was making us wait this long for official western distribution. Read more

That’s what makes me love Dark Souls, Gone Home, and Silent Hill 2 so much. You know what, I’d even add Fallout 3 and Oblivion (and Skyrim I guess, but I got less into that one), because both of those laid out not only a world, but a history and lore that was as much there as you could dig your way into, either in… Read more

This is a really good example of the sort of thing that doesn’t need to be reported on. Part of what is contributing to the evermore polluted image of gamers as a community is that we shine spotlights on very unimportant things like this. I don’t mean to devalue Hernandez as an author, she is very good at what she… Read more

I work in one of the (tons of) schools that recently had to lock down over clown threats. It’s super weak. Administration doesn’t want to be wrong about something like a threat. But 1. Nobody who does damage starts with a threat, ergo 1a. These sorts of threats, never mind the blatantly pop culture infused nature of… Read more