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Was playing No More Heroes on my Switch at the time. Also, Suda himself RT'd a post I'd made on Twitter of me trying to get a Vindictus character done up like Travis. Was pretty moé~

I don't know, my duder. If you're not sure, get it on Steam but keep an eye on the timer! Don't hit two hours without making your choice. If it doesn't grab you, refund and walk away. No pressure.

I love me some everloving hell out of Bastion, but I've been consistently disappointed by everything these guys have done since. I love their look, I love their music, I love their vibe, but I'm through giving them chances and money.

Yeah, how dare people be unsatisfied with a half-assed re-release that doesn't contain nearly enough games and released in too few numbers. There's nothing there to be upset about.

Now stop acting questions, stop having your own opinions, and keep pretending that access to ROMs of games you already own and network functionality are somehow deserving of a paid membership...

Damn, duders! This game kind of came outta fuckin' nowhere to me and having enjoyed mindless adventuring games with cute female characters, figured I'd bite. I really like the presentation, for what it's worth. In no particular order:

• Man, the art style is great! Really like the visuals. But then again, I said the same thing about KurtzPel and holy crap, that game's a shitshow.
• The music is real nice. It feels so familiar somehow but I can't put my finger on it!
• No Steam version. I mean, I'm glad it doesn't need another extraneous storefront I don't want, but come on.
• The guide character is irredeemably shit. Character design is irritating (I'm not a pedophile so the trying-to-hard-to-be-cute thing really doesn't do it for me), voice and writing are both shit, and it's pretty fucking obvious that the floating blob girl who speaks in the third-person has some connection to (or might just fucking be) the goddess from the first cutscene. How original.
• You cannot rebind your keys. There are no settings for adjusting camera sensitivity, acceleration, smoothing, or inversion. Let me say that again: fucking staples from the goddamn '90s are not in this game. Inexcusable. Are they serious? I was hoping to do some archery and shoot dudes with mouseaim, but with the unchangable controls and uninvertable camera, I can't even fucking play this shit. Maybe that's for the best.
• The keymapping (which again, you can't change) is shit. RMB to sprint? What?
• The character design. Really not feeling it. Characters either seem to be irritating underage girls or feminine boys. Some more adult females would be nice. Jean's jiggle physics are a nice start, as is the witch lady.
• The climbing just feels... off. Not just due to the terrible camera and horribly-slow pace of the animations. I just don't get it. Everyone can just Spider-Man up sheer-ass walls? At least try to put some kind of audiovisual and/or mechanical in-universe explanation. Climbing gloves, hooks, knives, hell, even just glowing magic around the hands and feet. Also, the act of scaling just isn't fun at all. Where are the cool-ass ninja moves of Warframe? The sword-wall-stabbing of Gunz: The Duel? Or just grappling hooks outta Just Cause, Bionic Commando, Lost Planet...
• Lack of character creation or customization, as well as the very notion of the party system. These two are related so I'll combine them. I don't particularly like any of the characters, not that it matters since I can't directly unlock/purchase them. Why can't I just, you know, create my own damn character? And instead of switching between dudes, just have my character switch between her elemental weapons? Spare me this Agents of Mayhem crap; tie classes/abilities/Supers to weapons and let me have one character whose design I like feeling completely boss by wielding all kinds of magic weapons, switching between them in combat.
• I'm glad there's a story, but I'm really not feeling the writing and voices. Acting's decent enough, I guess, in that sandpaper-ass "dubbed animé" feel.
• The bad side of free-to-play. Pay-to-wait energy. Multiple currencies. Gambling. Inability to directly purchase the stuff you want. Free-to-play isn't necessarily a dirty word, and it can be done in a non-scumbag way... it just isn't here.

I really WANT to like this. I don't even know why I want to like this. I want it to be good. But goddamn.

I think a lot of what I want out of this game, Dragon's Dogma and Black Desert just plain do better. Not just conceptually, but technically. If they get their shit together and patched, you bet your ass I'll be back, though.

Nothing good could come of this.

@sombre: Now this duder gets it. It's gotta be the God Hand. Keep that pimp hand strong.

"Take Me Home" at the end of Prey (real Prey, not that unrelated one with the same damn title) stuck with me.

"Beyond The Sky" from Xenoblade Chronicles is one of the only remotely-anything videogame-related that brought me close to tears. That one really hit, man.

Wait, are all English-language versions censored, or just the North American one?

Shin Dan reveal when?

I try to wrap up the side stuff first, before tackling the story, so that once the credits roll, that's it. Game over. I have the closure I need; I move on, you know?

As a result, I don't often get to the end of games, unless I play them on-again-off-again. Took me about five years on-again-off-again to finish GTA IV, but I got both endings, a 100% game clear stat, and all of the single-player achievements. Even though I'm playing through GTA V, I'm damn tempted to jump back into IV just to experience it again.

Hell, this year, I finally got around to finishing Crackdown 1 and 2. In both cases, I put off wrapping up the story in order to work on side stuff, build my stats, and collect some stat-boosting achievements along the way. I'm tempted to go back into 2 to get some objectives I missed out on, like closing all the Freak Breaches.

In some cases, like Saints Row 3 and Sleeping Dogs, once I've finished the game and the expansions, I might stick around if there's something I really want to see or do, or if I'm so close to getting all of the achievements that I figure, "What the hell, I don't really care about those, but I'm so close that I might as well, and any excuse to keep playing this game that I'm about to put down forever is a good one."

I have the regular-ass original retail disc version of Destiny, hit the level cap of 34, and have yet to set foot on any planet other than Earth (Crucible matches notwithstanding). I am in all likelihood a terrible human being.

Even if they're not back in the traditional white-tank-top-and-panties sense, I'm sure there'll be some kind of equivalent (boyshorts and a car company t-shirt, etc.), like in Beyond.