Games like Valhalla make me wish there were like story select mods or something. The same way you can find people out there giving you watch guides to long-running TV series: You can skip most of season 1, and three episodes in season 4, etc.

Same! I have played every Assassin’s Creed game, and I realized today I was 23 (!!!) and did not have kids when the first one came out. I played it on a freaking 1080i CRT!

“People who judge games based on hour counts and map sizes might find Mirage to come up short. But for players who prefer games that don’t feel overstuffed with padding and side missions, Mirage will be a wonderful gift.”

I am turning 39 in two weeks, have a full time job, and a 6 year old. This year has been a procession of phenomenally generous games that immediately turn me into a ball of anxiety and shit because I just don’t have time to play them. I could damn near cry hearing that this game has manageable scope.

I’m confused by the negative reviews from so many outlets. The most recent games have been criticized for their bloat, but a lot of the negative reviews I’ve seen have criticized Mirage for lacking features I’d associate with... bloat. I’ve definitely read about how uninteresting the story is, but I haven’t really…

That’s always been my issue. Yes, absolutely offer 30, 40, 50+ hours of gameplay to those who want it. But ALSO let people get through just the core story in 10-20 hours if they choose. That used to be how most open world games were -- but somewhere along the way, even the bare minimum amount of time just to see end…

I played a bit of all of them. I ended up not finishing Revelations because I was not about to waste time on that stupid tower defense mini-game they had. There are certain parts of the earlier games that I really really hated (the underwater stuff in Black Flag, the carriage racing in Syndicate, etc.), and a den…

Odyssey was the AC game that got me into the franchise, so I’m always more favorable biased towards the RPG versions of the series. However, I played pretty much all the originals in the first year of the Pandemic, and I gained an appreciation of the pre-RPG versions of the game (ended up beating 2, Brotherhood, 3,…

However, Mirage’s main story is definitely the weakest part of the game. I like Basim and it is nice to see how he becomes the assassin we meet later, but 99% of what happens in Mirage is so low-stakes and sectioned off from the rest of the franchise that by the time the credits rolled I wasn’t sure if this story…

I only made it three regions into Valhalla and, while I don’t begrudge the fact Ubisoft made this wide world that some of its players could explore, I really wished it had offered a straightforward route through the story content and major landmarks.

ive been calling him ket shee since shortly after the game came out. my brother looked up how to pronounce it and made fun of me when i pronounced it wrong.

I think I’ll stick with the Scottish pronunciation. I took the time to look it up back when FF7 came out the first time so it’s been that way in my head and friend circles for what, a quarter century now.

Lifelong Lego fan here and I was super excited to try Nanoblocks when I first found them - and I came out of the experience extremely disappointed. Saying Legos are so pricey because of the instruction books is misleading - while yes I’ll absolutely admit official Legos are overpriced, they’re far and away the best…

IIRC users should still be able to download it if they’ve already purchased it. It just ensures they can’t sell more of a license they no longer own. This happens pretty frequently with other games with various licenses. 

I think the main issue is taking away consumer options. If my friend owned Game 5 out of 7 in a franchise and we wanted to play it online together, I could usually go and buy Game 5 and away we go. I’ve done this with a game in the Battlefield franchise for example. If they had removed the old games, we’d both have to…

THIS is the kind of thing some people aren’t thinking about when they discuss console gaming becoming all digital. There are ways around this kind of situation for consumers on PC, but maybe we shouldn’t be cheerleading the end of (offline functioning) physical media on our consoles. 

I would love a better explanation for her not contradicting Cloud while he’s telling the story, or hell, in this version maybe she does! In recent years I’ve come to think that Tifa just not telling everyone that it was Zack is almost as bad as the infamous“ We all grew up in the same orphanage but we forgot cause of…

Yeah man, they spent 5 years and hundreds of millions of dollars on a “cash grab”.

It should be added that Unity gets to decide what is a charity, so even though the profits may be donated to a charity Unity can just decide that they don’t actually consider it a charity and so it wouldn’t fall under the exemption.

And yet no matter what walking back they do at this point, merely showing they are able and potentially willing to make a change like this should remain a massive red flag to any developer.