As someone who just started this game last night, I’d like to think that 5 millionth player was me. You’re all welcome.



should be obvious, but /s.... sort of

Gonna eschew the main topic and say that I have concerns for the new game. If Liara is gonna be the main playable character, I feel like that is not a good foundation for a new Mass Effect, unless it’s deliberately supposed to be a Gaiden-like story.

I’m sure some are fine with Shepard’s story being done, and there’s…

This is a case where “it’s just video games” actually is a valid response. Like, these folks are supposedly losing their minds over more people being able to play video games. Huh.

Noctis is what convinced me to buy Tekken 7 two years back. I think the hardcore/mainstay fans for Tekken (or any fighting game franchise) are always gonna come back, that’s usually a given. For fringe players like myself, who don’t always spring for a fighting game, or are relative strangers to Tekken, a good guest…

Just bring the Midnight Blue back, please. I loved that for my DS4. The first blue is too sky-blue-ish, this new one is too close to like... cobalt, or what have you. Just goddamn Midnight Blue, Sony. You’ve done it before.

This is a good one to mention since I wonder if there are others like me who actually have never played Skyrim. I was all in for it at the time (important disclaimer), but I heard it was notoriously bad performance-wise on PS3, and I did not want a 360, nor did I have a gaming quality PC.

Time went by and I never got…

I was laughing at how absurd this was, every time they did it. How utterly insulting. And then to start things off memeing about it with Christopher Judge, like, “harharhar we played you off the stage last year because your speech was so long” and then they did it SEVERAL times unironically for some speeches that were…

Not an expert in how these deals work, but I wonder if Embracer could sell the licensing rights to another company? Maybe someone who could actually take and do something good with it. I guess Disney would have to approve? I dunno.

Otherwise, I kind of doubt this sees the light of day, or if it does, it’ll be like 6-8…

God, the Arkham series was honestly in the absolute upper percentile of great gaming for me in that period. The kinds of games that I can just have fun doing anything in, nothing feels boring or unengaging, and the gameplay just always feels satisfying.

There’s something unsettling about cases like this when you’re mid-way through your 30s. I fully understand that this is just the point we’ve reached with AAA gaming, exponential dev times and exponential dev costs. But just knowing that when the next title in your favorite franchise is going to launch, whether it’s…

Slightly odd that Atomic Heart is cheaper on Xbox than PS4, but oh well. If it was $35 on PS4 I’d go for it, but not at $49 + tax.

I actually kind of like the Shepard one. The rest, ehhh. Snake is just... no. The cheekbones are just so wrong.

Agreed. In a vacuum, a KOTOR remake is a really fun idea, and something that a lot of people (myself included) were excited for. But it happens to be in the clutches of Embracer which is possibly the worst company right now to have ownership. Unless they sell off the rights/development team, I don’t know if it will…

There were two articles on this very site, with quotes from “sources” claiming this was not going to be the case, or at the very least, steer very hard away from the traditional QD formula. That’s where this is coming from. Since I assume you missed it:

That’s what I assumed until reading the earliest articles on it which “sources” (quotes for a reason) claimed it was not going to be a traditional QD romp.

I feel like this is an odd statement when you have close to no idea what kind of game it’s gonna be. “Action game” is extremely broad. We literally have a teaser and a few comments, and that’s it.

It’s like telling someone you’re making a movie, then 5 months later saying, “Not everyone is gonna be nude in it.” They’d…

I will get around to playing this eventually, but Souls games and Soulslikes are that genre that, once I finish one, my appetite is satisfied for like a good 10+ months.

I’m like 130+ hours into Nioh right now and I tried the demo for this a few weeks back. I appreciated all the visual nuances, atmosphere, etc.…

I really appreciate that extra information. Yeah, I’m not surprised by any of that. I think the natural reaction for most when you see a commercial for a university/college is to be suspicious.

I would have loved if they had done this, but even I get a bit tired of all the “____ IS WOKE!” outcries.

Sigh They shoulda done it though...

Stig has been around for quite a while. He used to be part of Sony Santa Monica and was the director on God of War III which feels like ages ago. He also, weirdly, was in a commercial for some college in Santa Monica (he was an alum there). Knowing he was involved with both Jedi games here was a very small but cool…