I’ve been playing a bunch of different things. Dragon Quest XI has occupied the biggest chunk of my Christmas gaming, but I’ve also been extremely pleased with Astrobot: Rescue Mission and Vermintide II.

The chapters dedicated solely to him after that initial event are entirely superfluous. The point of both of those characters is indeed to show a sort of trickle-down good fortune stemming from the Corleone family. It’s just that we don’t need to follow them on their own personal journeys to see that.

This week I’m going to finish Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire again so I can see what, if any, impacts the DLC have on the finale. Overall, I think this game was an underrated gem of an RPG that deserves to be played by more people (it’s supposedly coming to PS4, Xbone, and Switch in 2019, for those without a gaming…

It’s weird to read the reviews of the Sicario sequel and see, more or less, the same criticisms I lobbed at the first one.

Well, now I feel like a jerk for not adhering to the structure of the prompt. Bad form, me.

It’s not that the story is weak or vague, it’s that it feels rather slight. Five or six quests and you’re done. The bulk of your time is spent doing sidequests that almost all relate to one of the four factions vying for control, and the game strongly pushes you to commit to one of them before you head past the point…

This year had a ton of great games. I honestly don’t know which one I’d call the best, but I know the game that I’ve most come back to throughout the year: Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire.

The 1998 Godzilla did spawn a short-lived but decent animated series from the people who did the also-decent Men in Black animated series. The sleek design for Godzilla was a lot more effective in animated form, where it could actually be presented as speedy—particularly when fighting other monsters, which is…

I like Dishonored, but I tried to play Dark Messiah back in the day and never really got on with it. It has a number of problems that are hard to ignore; in particular, its level design was nowhere near the quality of what we’d get with Dishonored, even given the standards of the time.

I have far too many games to play right now, from Diablo III on Switch (an essential purchase for the console, though there is a pretty bad bug related to Necromancer curses that has yet to be resolved), to Red Dead Redemption 2 (which is great, but has a slow pace that makes it more of a treat to be savored when time…

It wasn’t a draw. The House has the power to investigate Trump, and tons of local races went blue. This is a bigger upset than the Tea Party insurgency of 2010, which was a huge blow to Obama, and Trump is presiding over a better economy with a better electoral map for his party. This is about as close to a disaster…

Let’s be honest, Ian McShane should be in everything.

Bully!

It legitimately astonishes me that they didn’t get Ian McShane on Westworld for a cameo role.

I feel like Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, deserves a nomination purely for the excellent name.

Well, there was no option on Friday when I tried on desktop, mobile, and PS4 to find Shudder on Amazon, but it’s there now.

People keep telling me that, and it’s absolutely not true. There is no option to subscribe to Shudder through Amazon.

Now if they could just make a PS4 app...

I find it to be way too grindy and arduous, but in its defense it is structure so that you can just play it here and there whenever you want and aren’t really required to sit down and dedicate dozens of hours to it like you would a lot of other games.

I’d say my favorite is any story where someone is in an isolated location being pursued by a monster. Really taps into a primal fear of predators.