Recent content by Insomniacal Fan

No violence was done, and since I agree with most everything you wrote, I'll just take it as a lesson for how to better express myself in future posts :) I would be a bit less harsh on the mission design. The missions are the most linear parts of the game for sure, because they support the...

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker - 2003 - Game Cube I was leading into this with the preface for my RDR2 pick this morning. This is the Zelda game where Nintendo decided to publically poo-poo the trend of graphical photorealism. Nintendo's follow-up to the sometimes grim and edgy Ocarina of...

There was a point in the 2000s where Nintendo reps started declaring in interviews that they weren't interested in photorealism as a visual style for their games. A sympathetic take would be that the 3d games of the 2000s would age poorly if they weren't extensively stylized. A cynical take...

I didn't figure Earthbound was going to go in the first round, but it's a funky, bold choice for a funky bold game. Excellent pick!

I'm guessing Dennis plays more minutes per game next year than Jonas did last year. This seems like a more serious attempt to build around Domas. Signing JV always seemed like a weird move to me. Good player, but behind our best player. Why get a vet that doesn't improve team's...

Eh, hardly. The team was never built around Jonas, he's just around to fill a role.

Baldur's Gate 3 (2023) - PC Let me set the stage for this one. It's been almost 20 years since this board last explored video games in the desert island draft (2008). A lot has happened in that time. At that point in 2008, Video games were coming off of a fresh Supreme Court win that gave...

Snake would be my preference

I'm up for a video games edition of the draft! How do I sign up?

It’s not “dramatic” to prefer communications to be simple, clean and substantive, rather than filled with tripe. That’s just good taste. But I dunno, maybe I just need to learn to live, laugh, love

Oh, ok. I guess the real GM has been ChatGPT all along

eh, I think every new GM the Kings have had (excluding perhaps PDA) have had a chance to rebuild. It's to be expected, and welcomed. Half the time the team should be getting better, half the time it should be getting worse

That's our boy!

Yes, this. Tears of the Kingdom needs a bit more oomph to run smoothly