I love how with GamePass I don’t feel like I have to have any commitment to the game. If I play it once and have fun and then never touch it again, that’s fine. If I keep coming back to it, that’s fine too. There’s no pressure to enjoy something more or less than I’m actually enjoying it.

You reminded me I never finished Astral Chain. I really liked it, I just got distracted about half-way through and never came back to it. So, I’ll put that on my list.

I got a Game Boy for Christmas in 1989. They were sold out everywhere. I was convinced I wouldn’t get one and there it was, waiting for me on Christmas morning. It’s still hands-down my favorite thing I’ve ever gotten for Christmas. I carried it on many a road trip or just playing on the couch at home. I got years of…

The others are great, but I’d say for someone brand new to the series, just start with Like a Dragon. It’s excellent and you really don’t need to know what happened in the others. If you want, you can always start with Yakuza 0 after you play Like a Dragon.

I prefer the offset sticks (like on Xbox and the Switch). It’s more natural for most games. If you hold a controller, without using any muscles in your hands, your thumbs should naturally be in the “high” position, which on an Xbox/Switch controller means your left thumb is on the left stick and your right thumb is…

I believe this is the full list: https://stadia.google.com/games

$9.99 a month is if you want the free monthly games and 4k streaming / 5.1 surround sound. It’s free for 1080p streaming. So, $12 a month if you want to play Ubisoft games in 1080p. You can also play on a phone or PC without a Chromecast Ultra and use 3rd party controllers. If you do want a Chromecast Ultra and their…

Yeah, the F1 games are the big thing I worry about in this acquisition. F1 2020 was one of my favorite games of the year and did a lot of things really well (the custom team mode for one). I worry F1 will become just another watered-down EA series with a bunch of purchasable DLC that’s released every year.

I used to prefer the theater to my house before I was a parent, but now I’ve got young kids and even without COVID, it’s a pretty big undertaking to make it to the theater. I’ve got to schedule a babysitter to come for several hours, and then pay them. And then we’ve got to hope everything is okay with them while…

They go into a box and wind up in my basement. I act like I’ll get them out again someday, but they’re mostly forgotten. I guess my kids will either dig them out someday when they’re older and get a kick out of them or they’ll get them out when they’re much older and they’re cleaning out the house to sell. I all…

Microsoft had direct orders when they went up for preorder. It was the only place I could get mine from because the other options either sold out by the time I put it in my shopping cart or I never saw them go up at all. Now, as to why they don’t just have a waitlist that lets people put their name down and get one…

But that’s not really based on class. We have excellent Internet available for anyone in my city and the surrounding area. You can get it for about the same as, often less than, the cost as Internet anywhere else, but it’s much faster with no data cap. Class has nothing to do with it, it’s far more based on location…

Yeah, I think the interactivity is a big thing here. When you buy a game, you’re buying the ability to play and experience that game. Watching someone else play is not same thing as playing that game yourself. So, broadcasting you playing a game is not equivalent to broadcasting a movie or some music. With the movie…

I might be worth checking out again, depending on how much you’ve watched. Season 1 had a lot of issues and wasn’t great, which is basically a tradition for Star Trek shows at this point. Season 2 was better, not perfect, but a notable improvement. If the first episode of Season 3 is any indication, then it should…

That was my assumption, that it’s one of the last cats or something.

Kavanaugh was replacing a conservative, though. The court was effectively the same. ACB is replacing the most liberal member of the court. This will be one of the largest ideological shifts in the history of the court.

I usually do and have gotten pretty much every system day 1 from N64 until today other than the PS3, because people were camping out days for that and I just didn’t have the time to devote to hanging outside of a store for that long. I camped out all night for an Xbox 360 before that and vowed to never wait so long…

I haven’t tried OnLive. So, I can’t vouch for it, but with Stadia there is no noticeable lag for me. As I said, I have a much better connection than most people and it’s hardwired on a Chromecast Ultra, but there’s literally no lag. If it weren’t for the different controller, someone playing it on my setup wouldn’t…

Yeah, I think that’s what a lot of people who criticize it miss. The technology actually works way better than I expected. I have a fast hard-wired connection, but there’s literally no noticeable difference from playing it or one of my traditional systems (Xbox One or PS4). Google totally pulled off what everyone…

I didn’t expect to care, but I’ve tried Stadia and it works far better than I expected. I admittedly have a better connection than most of the US, but I didn’t think it’d be possible to play games that require fast, precise inputs and not notice any lag. Surprisingly, that part works pretty flawlessly. I can play F1…