I didn’t really mind the weapon durability in BotW, but it did seem to discourage the use of “prize” weapons because you’ll break them if you use them. I know that the Lightscale Trident isn’t exactly the Master Sword, but it would be nice if the Champion weapons used the same “recharge” system instead of needing to…

Making games hard is one thing, arbitrarily punishing players for making mistakes is another. The fact that a lot of games (Celeste in particular comes to mind, but also things like Meat Boy and VVVVVV) are generous with checkpoints and let you basically try again almost immediately after failing makes them still feel…

Bah, Trivia Murder Party did this years ago.

I usually keep a sidearm (Minimum Distance) in the kinetic slot when I’m not doing weapon bounties.  Works well for small enemies, especially on something like Escalation Protocol.

I haven’t even really figured out the meta in this game, I just play with whatever weapons seem most interesting. Lately that’s mostly bows and swords. I masterworked a Subtle Calamity and found a Masterworked Arsenic Bite for Void and Arc damage respectively, and also have masterworked Hakagure and Negative Space for…

I don't care one bit about cosmetics, unless you're standing around the tower doing nothing all the other players are basically a blur 95% of the time anyway.

A lot of shmups do. Radiant Silvergun has you and a couple of other people as the only survivors of a mass extinction and trying to go back in time and prevent it. Ikaruga is similarly depressing although I don’t remember all the details. Think JRPG style plots, only with more shooting.

And then to make things even more messed up there’s Thunder Force 5. In that one the remains of the Rynex from TFIV drift toward Earth where they are found, and a supercomputer called Guardian is built to analyze the advanced technology (dubbed Vasteel) found therein. Vasteel technology advances humanity dramatically…

Link’s Gerudo outfit from Breath of the Wild. To be fair there’s nothing wrong with the outfit itself, but apparently just wearing the right outfit is enough to be able to roam freely through Gerudo town in spite of the strict “no men” policy. You’d think someone would figure that one out pretty quickly. Of course,…

Borderlands 2 did a pretty good job of this with the Fight for Sanctuary DLC that came out in June. It lets players create a new character at level 30 with all but the final story mission completed. In theory, even before this you could jump straight to the DLC areas from a new game, but you would be badly underleveled…

If anything, mine would be to learn more about game development. My job occasionally involves working with Unity and Unreal Engine (I work mostly with developer tools and developer relations stuff), but I know barely anything about either of them.

The Disgaea games are pretty good about letting you turn off attack animations and adding speed settings for things such as dialog and movement. As a result, even though they’re SRPGs, Disgaea games have a tendency to play a lot faster than you might expect (which, given how grindy those games can be, is a good…

It feels a bit weird to me that there’s no way to figure out the recipes in-game without looking them up online, but it’s not a big deal.  

Biggest surprise for me:  Probably Tetris 99.  I could never really get into it myself, but something people assumed to be a joke when it came out turned out to actually be quite good.

For that matter, Mario Maker 2 itself, since it was announced only a couple of months before it was released.

I’m reminded of the “don’t play the game for five years” achievement in The Stanley parable.  Unfortunately I found out it doesn’t work if you uninstall the game and reinstall it, so I guess I’ll be getting that one some time in 2024...

Spykers seem to be a bit of a weird amalgmation when it comes to looks. Some of the interior elements in the Spykers look really cool, others look like they came straight off the set of a 1970s Chuck Barris gameshow.

Based on the description I’m guessing Skyrim.

I kind of feel the same way.  It always seems to happen when you’re reaching the end of a console generation and a lot of the big releases are targeting the next one.  Then again, the lines between generations are getting a lot more blurred these days.

Haven’t had much chance to play this season yet, but I started playing late (with the Steam release) and have been catching up. Currently around 907 and progress seems slow. I’m guessing the answer is to play more strikes and PVP, but I’ve never cared much for that. I see there’s an exotic bow quest at the weaponsmith…