“Nearly everything you do earns you “Nook Miles,” which are inspired by airplane mileage programs. Everything from arriving on the island to crafting items to simply picking weeds earns you points, which you can exchange for access to items and activities. The goal, said the developers, was to make it so that players…

I’m really digging the Majora’s Mask eldritch-horror tone

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I didn’t know rental-exclusives were a thing, and I even rented that Indiana Jones game (spoiler: it wasn’t very good)

The climax of the movie was the only part I really disliked. It was just such a bland Marvel action sequence.

I miss honest-to-god sandbox games. Today’s “open world” games are just sidequest-and-loot themeparks. The likes of Fable and Morrowind weren’t afraid to let you run wild with systems until things got inevitably very silly.

Is anybody else shocked that this is actually coming out on such a timely schedule (3 years)? Final Fantasy XV took 13 years if you include the span when it was called “Versus XIII”.

Pretty sure most of the people who drive them are indulging fantasies about doing exactly that.

Don’t forget this jam

I’m going to play Devil’s Advocate:

Honestly I thought Chris Hemsworth just put on the weight for the movie. It’s not unheard-of for actors to dramatically change their physique for a role. Although admittedly, it usually happens for more prestigious roles...

I got about halfway through that paragraph before I gave up out of exhaustion. How can something so mundane be so complicated?

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Not into the action gameplay, but I’ll play it anyway.

Oh! I’m sure they’ll be glad to find out about these other jobs you’re talking about and just go grab one of those. That was easy; glad we cleared that up.

I wish they’d add an option in the main game to use the old biome algorithm (the switch happened around 2012). The newer one is fine, but sometimes I miss the original.

Dany is the Night Queen

Yup

My favorites were in Metroid Prime, though shockingly, I can’t find a gif or even a YouTube video of them.

Those presenters were hard to listen to. On the positive side, it looks like environments are going to be much less static which will be a genuine upgrade over past games.