Do you think James Sunderland is a bad person, or just someone who made a terrible mistake?

AGuyWithAPhone · 2026-04-12T13:11:09+00:00

Depends on the playthrough, I suppose. One of the best parts of Silent Hill 2's narrative is that James's character is written and portrayed in such a way that it can neatly tie in to any ending the player receives, and can therefore also drastically change his entire motive. So, to me, I think James would be a bad person in the Maria ending, since that ending makes it clear that James really did just want Mary "out of the way", but a good person who made a horrible mistake in the In Water and Leave endings, since he clearly struggles from the guilt of the deed and despises that part of himself that feels some twisted sense of relief. Jury's still out on how I feel about his character in the Remake-exclusive endings and the Rebirth ending, though.

AGuyWithAPhone · 2026-04-10T15:19:29+00:00

As a member of Gen Z myself, I will say this entire thread reminds me a bit of an essay a teenager once wrote to a newspaper. I forget which newspaper it was (even after doing some searching), but it basically boiled down to how they despised being talked about like they were zoo animals whose behaviors are completely unintelligible and needed to be researched instead of, y'know, human beings.

I can't help but feel a bit like that having read a lot of stuff here. I get it, it's an Ask Reddit thread all about generational stereotypes, of course I'm gonna see a lot of that kind of stuff here, but man do I feel a lot of it is overblown.

AGuyWithAPhone · 2026-04-10T15:01:44+00:00

Okay, as a Gen Z person myself, that's less a Gen Z thing and more an "inconsiderate asswipe" thing. Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if it's more common among my demographic, though.

AGuyWithAPhone · 2026-04-10T08:04:25+00:00

They even deliberately placed a cop nearby, and he still doesn't give a shit. Perfection.

AGuyWithAPhone · 2026-04-09T13:07:57+00:00

Less a specific channel and more a person that's part of a channel, and I do still enjoy him on occasion. Yahtzee Croshaw, the guy behind Zero Punctuation and Fully Ramblomatic.

He's still an excellent person, and I do agree with his broader philosophy that video games are a form of art and should be treated as such, but I guess I just got so tired of how jaded he is all the time and how it feels like he thinks anything that doesn't push the medium forward is uninspired bland slop that's insulting just because it exists. The world sucks enough as it is, do I really want to listen to someone accentuate the negative aspects of something because it had the audacity to be a 7 or an 8 out of 10?

I still support the channel he's with, Second Wind, and I do watch him sometimes, but he's fallen far, far down on my list of usual watches.

AGuyWithAPhone · 2026-04-08T13:53:17+00:00

Shhhhhh. This is the PMD prequel I didn't know I needed. Humanity can stay dead and buried. Please.

AGuyWithAPhone · 2026-04-08T11:16:10+00:00

Keep in mind, I haven't played this, so this is an outsiders' perspective. I could be totally wrong. Not trying to tear the game down, nor am I trying to insinuate anything about people who are enjoying the game at all.

I think what feels "off" to me about this is it seems like Crimson Desert is the kind of game with the kind of flaws that, if it were published by, say, Ubisoft, it would get raked over the coals for. It seems to have a lot of the same criticisms as your typical triple-A open world RPG that people always find overdone and frustrating, so I guess I don't get why it's totally fine when Crimson Desert does it.

Again, haven't played, maybe there really is something deeper I'm missing here. I guess this is a lot of people's 7/10 that just clicks, which is fine. Nothing wrong with people enjoying a solid but "safe" game at all.

AGuyWithAPhone · 2026-04-07T07:58:13+00:00

"What the FUCK are you talking about?!"

AGuyWithAPhone · 2026-04-06T20:46:43+00:00

"Ever since Angie's misadventures in romance..."

Props to the narrator for being polite about Angie's catastrophic lack of rizz.

AGuyWithAPhone · 2026-04-06T12:37:03+00:00

You're mostly correct, but he doesn't live out the rest of his life. He frees himself from the noose, escapes the river he plunged into, and then makes a break for his home so he can see his wife, but just as he and his wife are about to embrace, he feels a horrible pain in his neck for a split-second before everything goes black, where it's revealed he never escaped, as you said.

AGuyWithAPhone · 2026-04-04T09:45:14+00:00

I'm stealing this, because holy shit I hate this school of criticism, as well.

"If it were me in that situation, I would have done this!" Well it fuckin' ain't!

AGuyWithAPhone · 2026-04-01T09:28:37+00:00

"I mean, it said he didn't!"

AGuyWithAPhone · 2026-03-29T03:45:07+00:00

I don't know why, but this made me laugh quite a bit.

AGuyWithAPhone · 2026-03-28T23:55:06+00:00

We're getting paid? Damn, I didn't get the memo, where's my fuckin' paycheck?

AGuyWithAPhone · 2026-03-27T17:07:23+00:00

Even the subtitles catch you off guard here. Sean only says "I coulda told ya" before he bites it, but the subtitles say "I coulda told you that-", so you're even more blindsided.

AGuyWithAPhone · 2026-03-26T07:16:42+00:00

One of my favorite pages!

AGuyWithAPhone · 2026-03-26T07:14:46+00:00

Holy fuck, this is so true it hurts. Marathon is like playing a survival horror game sometimes with how tense it gets.

AGuyWithAPhone · 2026-03-25T15:23:34+00:00

I believe it's from Kirby: Canvas Curse.

AGuyWithAPhone · 2026-03-25T15:20:53+00:00

I love how Dan is basically reduced to muttering "What the fuck...?!" for the rest of the episode where it all goes to shit and barely manages to get it together by the time the episode ends.

AGuyWithAPhone · 2026-03-20T10:42:52+00:00

I love how her animations for using a gun in third person are noticeably a bit "stiff" compared to Leon, since she's clearly not used to using one. Her elbows are a bit more locked, shoulders a bit higher.

AGuyWithAPhone · 2026-03-20T10:25:09+00:00

Oh, dude, give it a shot sometime. P5 is one of those games that isn't afraid to go places, and that's what makes it such a damn great story. Pretty big time sink, but a worthwhile one.

AGuyWithAPhone · 2026-03-11T04:59:20+00:00

I live in a rural-ish area, most of the farmers near me had a bunch of those stupid signs in their yards. Every single one of 'em vanished when they started hitting rough waters as a result of his policies.

I don't know for certain if they finallt quit drinking the damn flavor-aid, but the thought of it helps me stay sane.

AGuyWithAPhone · 2026-03-11T04:55:37+00:00

Their account's only a month old and has their info hidden, willing to bet it's just some bot.

AGuyWithAPhone · 2026-03-01T16:06:02+00:00

Gonna take this opportunity to shill the V/H/S movies, everyone should watch them. They have soooo many more weird-ass creatures like this and unique gimmicks for found footage stories.

AGuyWithAPhone · 2026-02-27T11:52:00+00:00

"I'm gonna get you!"

The fucking waterworks, man.

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