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Evan Narcisse
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Video games. Comic books. Blackness.

We don't need just Booster Gold. We need the full on Justice League International. Or If they really want to make me happy, the Super Buddies. Honestly, formerly Known as the Justice League might be the best comic DC ever published. Read more

If they do adapt him at some point, they should explain that one of his ancestors Americanized his last name to Carter from Kardashian. Read more

I think Chris Franklin absolutely nails the problems that have been going on in the GTA series for a while. Despite the fact there's more characters, more things to do and better graphics than ever before, I find the GTA franchise increasingly uninteresting. I absolutely loved Red Dead Redemption because it was a Read more

I think it's just one of those trade offs you kind of have to make for a game. could someone completely gel the two tones together with no problems? maybe, but i imagine it's very hard. GTAV brought back the wacky hijinks, which people wanted and I admit I like. But for every choice there comes a cost, and GTAV's Read more

the problem with GTAV, a problem that Errant Signal goes over quite clearly, is that the game is so steeped in cynicism that nothing resonate comes about from any of the characters relationship. Read more

Eh. Sometimes, GTA is spot on, but sometimes, it goes for the laziest, cheapest "satire" possible and just ends up looking stupid.

It's actually a lot like South Park in that way.

Plus, sometimes the satire is either confused or...well, sort of gross. Like, when GTA makes shitty comments about trans people, are they Read more

I can tell you for a fact that the game came seriously short on proper, Ethical depictions of the real world. Ess Jay Double-yews might claim this is due to the game's lack of strong, independent Female characters. They would be correct if they weren't so wrong which is, as we all know, the opposite of correct. The Read more

My biggest feelin of winning someone over with games is my gals mother is a hard core Christian that thinks games are a waste of money and only sees the games that cause controversy. I talk a lot about how most games are not like that any longer and I found one to really get her to realize how different games can be. Read more

Well, I listened in on several conversations, many this past weekend. To your historical reading paragraph, it was while playing The Witcher [1]. I noticed how effectively they were able to tie in racial issues via human/elf/dwarf relations - similar to DA:Origins. I don't mean to open up discussion in this Read more

You didn't play it with him? I played Never Alone with my sister and we really liked it. That ending was really hard though, difficulty slows ramps up throughout the game. Read more

Also, Papers Please and Bastion/Transistor. Read more

I would demo Journey for people interested in video games but who felt overwhelmed on where to begin. It's a great gateway drug XD Wish my PS3 hadn't been stolen though :( Read more

I spent a lot of time recommending games for the steam sale while it was on. I'd get daily messages about my recommendations Read more

I wrote about how I had found a Clay Fighter: Sculptor's Cut instruction manual in my childhood room during these holidays. After deciding to sell it, I had the "pleasure" of explaining to friends and family why such a thing was worth hundreds of dollars. I barely understood it myself. Read more

I played a few games in front of my brother over the holidays. Little things I was trying to get through, like Never Alone and Valiant Hearts. He had asked me about a game he had read about in the paper called "Unfinished Swan", which was another game I own. But I didn't have my PS3 hooked up so I never got around to Read more

God's honest truth and no lie: the simple act of remembering enough to talk up Papo & Yo and Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons got me seriously choked up. I fought off the temptation to blather on and spoil the endings of either game, deciding instead to home in on how each game used its design to create playable metaphors Read more

...as in it almost made it and Threes actually did. Read more

That was one of my favorite games of the year, but I totally get it. Unless you're super into the Bayonetta experience, it's a top 15 game, rather than a top 10 one. Of course, I might say that someone who's not "super into the Bayonetta experience" has no business pretending to be an authority on games, but that's Read more