Seeing a deep dive in one developer’s ideas about games is nice and I hope there’s more to follow.

“A great day to play”, says Phil Spencer

As a dad, can 100% confirm this.

I only made it three regions into Valhalla and, while I don’t begrudge the fact Ubisoft made this wide world that some of its players could explore, I really wished it had offered a straightforward route through the story content and major landmarks.

Great piece and sensible advice. Hope you succeed at weaning yourself of subscriptions.

Am I dumb and can I simply not find a link to the text version of this article (plausible) or is this one of those ‘supposedly meant to inform, except it steals 5 minutes of your lives’ videos?

The general word on the digital street was that it would run okay with mostly stable 30 fps on low to average settings, based on recent games like it.

Sure! I’m playing BG3 and Armored Core 6 on it currently! Both are pretty and run smooth enough for my liking.

Seems like you’re having a great time! Good to hear!

Thanks for your thoughts.

Those are some great insights, thanks! I’m all up for something more kinetic to counter the steady-fun BG3 turn-based combat.

Thanks for that, watching right now!

Thanks for the extensive and comforting write-up!

Save, quit, and go take a walk sounds like solid advice for any (FromSoft) games.

Thanks for sharing your experiences! Sounds good!

All right, I’ve seriously been on the fence about picking this up. Any good advice for me here in the comments?

Good overview of the low impact of main quests in these series, but wasn’t the water crisis a Fallout 1 main quest? Fallout 3 was where you had to look for your father, right?

I watched that IGN video and it had some angry video gamer mojo. Seeing we seem to have just passed the early 00's in retro-culturs, we’re probably in for a revival of those shenanigans.

Interesting discussion, especially regarding the fact that characters don’t seem to have a preference, other than a ‘moral’ one.

I can see a major plot twist coming: the girl you accidentally end up protecting in the future is actually your daughter!