Speaking as someone who probably would have dodged Lego Dimensions entirely, (I’ve never bought Skylanders or its ilk in the past) the Lego part was enticing, but the Doctor Who stuff sealed the preorder.

I know I’ll be buying at least a couple Who sets and leaving them posed around the TV when not in use. Which probably won’t be often, as I’m itching for more child-viewing-appropriate gaming.

It’s not about laziness or greediness, it’s about available hardware resources. They pushed the PS3 and 360 to the max to get DA:I working, and even then with some sacrifices from my understanding? It’s like Shadows of Mordor; there were so many mechanics in that game that system resources were pushed to the max, and…

Much as I’m enjoying Witcher 3, I find the combat feels too loose and formulaic. It’s not bad, but it’s not great. I much preferred the combat in DA:I, as well as all the character development. I think they're both solid RPGs in their own ways.

Mass Effect DLC has gone on sale through the years, though. I paid half price for all of my ME3 DLC with some patience. Mind you, those were Xbox sales, so I'm not sure if EA/Bioware had anything to do with it.

What do you expect from an MMO? An expansion where one of the two playable factions becomes the new ruling class, and the other 50% of player characters are forced into slavery and extinction?

You know, I loved Adventure games growing up. I fiended every Sierra Quest game there was, as well as many of their side projects. Then Adventures kinda died for a while. Everything had to have combat and/or platforming and/or third person action. Suddenly, RPGs were as close as it got to a solid story-telling…

I was talking about the number of NEW free games offered each month, and you're saying I'm wrong because they still offered old games for longer periods. I've been trying to illustrate the difference ever since.

According to posts on MajorNelson.com:

You mean, one of the one free Xbox One games per month?

Pool Nation was a bonus game while it was up, it wasn't taking the spot of another game.

Those 48 hour passes can only be used on an account that’s never had Gold. So once you use it, you invalidate future uses.

Anyone who played the original Everquest is likely shrugging at this. We constantly bought expansion packs that included the past content as well. They did this so it wasn’t oppressive to start the game fresh. They never gave free things in the expansion packs if you owned other things; but they did introduce a…

Until recently, starting a new WoW account meant spending over $200 because their expansions remained price-locked and never included past content. Unless you caught it on sale, which was rare in Canada apart from official sales, it was insulting on top of a $15/month subscription.

Should try waiting for a Windows Phone release on a lot of these. At least Win 10 looks to make that a thing in the past with almost direct importing from Android apks if the devs do it.

I don’t use it to select stuff with my hand, I use it for the voice commands. My guess is with this UI you “grab and scroll” pieces of the UI to make selections, rather than "punching" one of the 10 on-screen tiles.

I don’t think it’s just about buzz. I grew up reading as many comics as I could afford, which wasn’t a lot. In my adult years I stopped buying books, but now that I have kids and more free time I’m interested in them again.

So... as someone who loved Wolvy and the X-Men in the 90s (my first comic was the new X-Men #1), what’s been going on with them lately? I stopped reading around when Magneto yanked his skeleton and after his whole feral phase and the Apocalypse horseman bit.

It was a great core game, but as you said, netcode was awful near the beginning, and the patching process near launch was awful. Dedicated server stability was very hit or miss early on, leading many to abandon the game.

I didn't even realize until now this was by the Brink folks. I loved that game, even if its launch and first few months of patches made the experience a pain. Does this one take the same scoring mentality, where kills aren't tracked, but every action gains you points? I LOVED that feature because it meant fewer people…