LOL, that’s not remotely true, and I say that as someone who visits Silicon Valley regularly.

Huh. Took me many attempts to get past the arrows. I beat him the first time I survived the arrows just using hit-and-run attacks on horseback while he focused on my buddies.

And rolling towards bigass scary looking bosses that can kill you in a single hit is even more counterintuitive!

He seemed to target the allied spirits with the rocks in phase 2 when I beat him.

I beat him around level 55 with a faith/strength/dex build wielding the uchigatana +8 on the first attempt in which I survived his initial bowshots. Hitting and running on horseback while summoning the helpers did the trick. I am not a very good souls player, either. It’s funny how everyone has different difficulties…

MS will buy EA and release new DA and ME games. They may not be anything like what EA has ‘planned’ currently, though.

Doubtful. Ukraine wasn’t imminently joining NATO. Putin would have found another excuse to expand Russia’s borders like he has wanted to for many years.

There’s some really good stuff in the DLC and also more Horizon Zero Dawn

The superlative combat with the robots is worth anything else you don’t like about the game.

I agree in general, but the source of the signal that woke is a huge hook,  not just a crumb.

Holland is a good and charismatic actor but I don’t believe he has the kind of charisma or presence to pull off Nathan Drake. He's just not the right actor. 

You're right.  But Holland and Wahlberg are both hilariously miscast in this. 

Yes! But it was well done and engaging, which is tough to pull off.

I think Ari’s criticism of the worldbuilding may be vague because it’s premised on execution in an embargoed part of the game. I *suspect* the issue is that late in the game, characters just start infodumping huge amounts of worldbuilding on Aloy in an unentertaining way, as opposed the the masterful balance struck in…

Friday makes the most sense. Two major religions have their holy days on Friday or beginning Friday. 

I worked at a federal government office where this was the norm, or taking half days every Friday after four 9-hour days; some folks even did 10 hour days Monday through Thursday to take every Friday off.

Metropolis was originally based on Cleveland!

Gotham is what happens when libertarians run a city!

I would rather they focus on new content and adding new animations and abilities to Aloy rather than redoing every single piece of Aloy’s walking and climbing animations. It’d be different if the animations wee terrible in HZD, but they were, in fact, excellent.

I dunno, man, sounds like the union is metastasizing, which is incredibly cool.