Bleachers and Leon Bridges both high on my list.

So bummed that Arclight (specifically Arclight in Chicago) didn’t make it through the pandemic. High quality theater with a good blend of indie films and films like F9. No ads before the movie, max 3 trailers. Summer Shandy on tap. Really gonna miss it. 

Yeah I feel like saying Rise sucks is the most controversial Star Wars opinion. Even the people who like it know its not good.

Its obviously preference but I still prefer New Horizons more than Stardew because it’s a different style of game.

It would absolutely not surprise me if a big update came out the same time as the Switch Pro. Upgrade the game to 4k, new features, new NPCs, maybe a Switch Pro exclusive feature or two. Get all those new players people who bought a Switch for Animal Crossing talking about the game again.

Yeah I’ve been playing since day one. Usually I play 2-3 hours a week making incremental changes. Sometimes I think about starting over and playing at this rate because it feels like the best way to play. 

Yeah even as a linear action RPG it’s just not that fun or satisfying. Like it doesn’t really even matter what skills you give your character because you are usually walking down the same hallway, killing the same NPCs, in the same order, no matter what your character build is. 

And here I thought the first half of the game felt rushed. Glad I stopped playing.

Maybe it’s just him being excited about a project he gets to help announce but it’s Keighley’s facial expression that make me think the theory is true. He just has the expression of a guy who is trying so hard to not ruin a surprise party.

Also Microsoft is the one actively trying to get gamepass on every console. They want to be able to reach the whole market. 

I treat it like I treat streaming music on spotify, if I find a band I really like I buy vinyl or merch. If i find a game I love on gamepass I usually buy it. 

Patiently waiting for everything to be XCOM.

Yeah definitely never hit the design highs of L4D but trying to mow down those giant hordes of zombies as they slowly got closer was a lot of fun.

Not for nothing, both L4D games had amazing level design which contributed greatly to that ebb and flow of enemies. Which is why the co-op worked so well (and verses). It required all 4 members on the team to be on their toes and watching each others backs. 

I feel like the Gears 5 PvE modes had a really good balance of the classes were really tailored to your preferred playstyle as opposed to the game being designed around classes. Like you could still do 50 rounds of horde with no class abilities or “cards”. Just old fashioned Gears shooting. But if you wanted to raise…

We havn’t seen gameplay yet but Redfall is the one I’m most excited for simply because it is Arkane. The others like Back 4 Blood I’m sure will be a lot of fun, but Arkane just has such precise design. 

I bought my Switch for Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing (Also mobile gaming). If we get news related to either I’d be pumped. Setting my expectations low. 

Successor is probably a better term. Obviously, we haven’t seen the next Sims game. But from my light understanding of the Sims community, the general feeling seems to be that Sims peaked at Sims 2. Not that Sims 3 & 4 weren’t good, but they didn’t seem to push the genre anywhere forward.

I do think that between Morrowwind, Oblivion, and Skyrim some simplifying was needed to just nail the core of the game. Which I think Skyrim did. But yeah rather than branching out from there they just kept simplifying the games. Hopefully Starfield takes it in the right direction. 

I feel like people were starting to think this would be something totally totally new, or something like No Man’s Sky. But I think it makes a lot of sense that it follows the Elder Scrolls/Fall Out Formula.