Offtopic: The Witcher 3 is great.

Or triple triad or FFVII's varied ways to get final weapons and limit breaks.

If you were on Goblin, I'd help you.

Even as a supremely dorky 16 year old, dodging 200 lightning bolts made me strongly question my life choices.

I'm ten minutes into the open world part, so I don't know. But the CCG is surprisingly robust. Four factions and hundreds of cards. The mechanics are a little weak, but still looks pretty fun.

Yup you have to collect the good butter flies while avoiding the bad ones. Honestly, the first three aren't too horrible. Blitzball is fun for some people, and the rest are unmitigated bullshit. Some of the worst minigames and side quests in video game history.

You ready for Heavensward?

Try to max wisdom, intelligence and charisma. For the most part, fighting is optional, and the combat is so poorly done in that game that you are better off ignoring it. Max all three of those stats should allow you to choose almost any dialogue option in the game.

Gaining the sigils ranked from easiest to worst:

Then you need to play Blitzball. Make sure you recruit brother before you start playing. Also get the jecht shot.

The best way to learn how to play is by starting as an Irish Duke or count in 1066. You will have very little to handle in the way of vassals or kingdom wide disputes, and you have a clear goal (uniting Ireland) to help figure out the system.

Learn Crusader Kings 2. It's one of the best strategy games ever made, and the only one I know of where committing patricide is often a smart strategy.

Dragon's Dogma has the most kinetic (and I'd say best) combat of any open world fantasy RPG. My big problem with that game was the open world parts of it seem largely superfluous. There didn't seem to be much incentive for exploring and the weapon and armor system were really sparse.

I like the Gameological's coverage though I will likely never play most of the games they discuss. Because the Witcher 3 came out today.

I got it for 20 bucks during a massive PSN sale. I also got 35 dollar far cry IV and 40 dollars for every episode of every Tell Tale adventure game. It's pretty good.

Kind of hard to disagree with his reasoning. But it's also too tiring to engage too much with culture that engages with the world. Isn't that why I became a geek or nerd in the first place?

The avatar makes this post confusing to me.

Is that sentence about the peas three hits true?

I realize I've never used cultural appropriation as a reason to not do something. I think it's time to change that.

I realize I've never used cultural appropriation as a reason to not do something. I think it's time to change that.