Wouldn’t Bombardier be Canadian?

There is a YouTuber (Sinvicta) that I watch on a somewhat regular Basis who does daily Eden runs in The Binding of Isaac Afterbirth+, and he often seems to believe that the RNG is rigged against him. One thing about the game (at least in Afterbirth+) is that it gives the option (presumably borrowed from previous mods) …

Lately I’ve mostly been playing Destiny 2 and trying to work my way up power levels (currently around 935) but getting a bit bored with just doing bounties.  I’ll probably go back at some point and start working through some of the campaigns I missed out on earlier.

It’s usually pretty simple: If something has to tell you that it’s funny, there’s a pretty good chance it isn’t. Which is why most of what’s on sites like CollegeHumor or Funny or Die ends up being so completely devoid of humor as to ultimately end up being depressing.  By the same token, a game that has to tell you…

The main trend with TVs seems to be that prices for bigger ones are going down. We have a 60" 1080p Sony that’s about five years old in the living room currently. At the time 60 inches was considered high end and 4K was basically found only in the high end (thousands of dollars) sets. Now you could get a 60 inch 4k…

In nearly 20 years of experience as a software QA tester, I have appeared in the credits of something I worked on exactly one time, and that was on something incredibly obscure (a launch-day Beavis and Butt-Head iPad app that I’m pretty sure is no longer available.) Outside of video games, credits just aren’t a thing…

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…

A few of the more popular Williams/Bally tables (Medieval Madness and Attack from Mars that I know of so far) have actually gotten remakes, although the prices are pretty steep.

I’m guessing this one would be a permanent magnet mounted on a servo to move it in and out of position.