Yeah, I had to get a back paddle mod for my PS5 controller in preparation for Elden Ring. Dark Souls 3 in particular seemed incredibly frustrating without the button attachment, and I wasn’t about to relive my days of trying to fight Twin Princes while they teleport around the screen breaking lock-on and you have to…

Seriously. Streaming is actually the more anti-consumer option compared to buying games, because it means you don’t own anything and are at the whims of the capitalist overlords deciding whether to keep giving you access or not. Cheaper, yes. But there’s a reason why basically every expensive app (Creative Cloud, MS…

Ashen is kind of terrible now. The game is based around always having a companion (lots of monsters can tackle you, and unless you have a companion to get them off, they tend to kill you). However, the AI for the companions is godawful and in the later, more difficult areas they frequently will accidentally walk off a…

Darklurker’s a great boss, definitely one of the best in the whole series. If you suffered through Ancient Dragon (probably the worst boss in any soulsborne) you owe it to yourself to go back and do darklurker just to have completed everything! (yes the caves full of gank npcs to unlock him are no fun)

0 makes 1 considerably better if you play 0 first. Like, having more than 10 minutes of backstory for your relationship with Nishiki makes the main plot hit a lot harder, and you actually care about some of the minor characters like Reina thanks to 0 giving her a lot more buildup.

She was good on Fargo, but I watched a couple of those Kissing Booth movies (don’t ask) and holy shit is she terrible. I mean, of course the scripts and direction are terrible too, but she comes off as one of the worst actors even among all the people clearly just cast for their looks. She’s so incredibly bad and is…

Yeah, if you care about multiplayer that’s definitely the smart move. It was sort of interesting having to actually maneuver through the crystal caves without the scads of messages pointing out the invisible bridges like on PC/PS4. I think I saw TWO messages in the entire zone on Switch.

Read like obvious sarcasm to me, but I do remember being struck by how uncomfortable and wooden he seemed when I watched it. I thought he was absolutely terrible next to the others that were in his scenes. Then again, this site is good at incoherent snark these days so maybe they really don’t even know.

I got invaded once or twice when playing through naturally (got through O&S on NG+). Saw ONE friendly summon sign, not that I was really looking for them, but still. Got a connection error when I tried to summon them. Probably cause Switch’s wireless card is really bad. If you’re going to use an ethernet adapter you’d…

Anya Taylor-Joy seems more like someone that should star in a movie about The Dag than Furiosa. I like her as an actress but I can’t see her being convincing as a buff badass. Maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised.

It runs like molasses on PS5, it’s exactly as smooth of an experience as on a base PS4, albeit with faster load times. I played through it right before Elden Ring. Framerate gets up to 30 most of the time but frequently dips way below that, especially in deeper chalice dungeons, and with a game this dependent on dodge…

For some reason it goes on sale about as rarely as Nintendo’s first-party games, so a lot of people are camping out for it. But yeah I’ve never seen it lower than 30 for digital and have been seeing that for a while. Buying a used disc is probably the cheapest way to get it. Activision isn’t Ubisoft, I guess.

Gotta say this REALLY does not inspire confidence for the KOTOR remake Aspyr is working on. They can’t even get a port right, let alone building something from the ground up. This is worse than the GTA “remaster!”

Same thing happened with me and AC Valhalla, only with the Dark Souls trilogy/Bloodborne. I preordered it after loving AC Odyssey/Origins/Syndicate, then played through those Fromsoft games for the first time, and then got to AC Valhalla and was inundated with stuff I’d been fine with pre-Dark Souls but absolutely…

I’ve GAINED interest, for the same reasons. I didn’t hate the first one but it was pretty deathly serious and often kind of dull because of it (not to mention I’d already seen King of Comedy). This just sounds nuts.

Mass Effect is not very comparable. Only the first game really had barren, mostly useless “explorable” planets, and it was limited to one per system and there were only like 25 systems. ~20 planets that mostly are just filler content with a copy-paste “dungeon” and some collectibles lying around here and there is one…

I realize what you were saying, I (and looks like others) were only questioning your initial premise of “you’re weird, why would you only play 6, when 7 8 10 11 13 15 were all way more popular!!” Like, I dunno if sales numbers can really be used to compare “number of people who played the game” with games of that…

For us old millennials, 6 was held up as the best of the series by far for years. Only 7 gave it serious competition. I mean, there were the weirdos that insisted 8 was the best and 9 had a fair number of fans, but it usually turned back to 6 being the best (or 7, but I remember a lot of people trashing Sephiroth for…

Maybe they’re going to do the Iron Man-style cuts to extreme closeups of Hayden’s face inside the mask!

You’re right that that was similar to Musk fanboys today, and the brainless idolization of him was probably even more rampant. I vividly remember Bill Burr on Conan O’Brien, talking about how you knew Steve Jobs didn’t invent anything himself and going on about how he tried to maintain that illusion. The audience got…