See, that one I don’t remember at all! (Doesn’t surprise me, though - ‘tie-in mobile games’ were about as common then as ‘not-quite-mandatory mobile time management tie-ins’ were a few years later, like the one that came with Andromeda. It all seems... very EA.)

Makes sense; I knew the game existed, so I probably took any reference to Jacob’s history (that doesn’t get covered in the actual game) as a reference to that.

Wasn’t there some sort of mobile game as well, where you played as Jacob shortly before ME:2? I always thought that’s what the ‘corsair’ line was referencing, but I never actually played it. (Or possibly I dreamed the whole thing up - it’s been a while, for sure.)

Yep; I’m the same way with my co-op group and ‘Destiny’ as you guys are with ‘Rocket League’, and I find it interesting that there’s a lot of discussion in the Destiny community about how much grind there is, what level of difficulty is too difficult vs. not challenging enough, etc. And I feel like what kind of gets…

Will do; thanks again!

I’m glad you found one that clicked for you!

Thanks for the recommendations! Disco Elysium, especially, is one I’m looking forward to trying when it finally arrives on Xbox, which I think is supposed to be relatively soon. (I honestly can’t remember if I tried the ‘Divinity’ series or not; I get those and ‘Pillars of Eternity’ confused, and I know I bounced off…

Yep, those are two examples of exactly what I was talking about, all right! Both absolutely stunning to look at, both of which I put about an hour or so into and just walked away. And I think you’re absolutely right that I probably could push forward and get to a point where I enjoy them, but there are just so many…

Yeah, my main issue is that I ‘missed’ the heyday of CRPGs: I started out on PC as a kid playing point-and-click adventure games and flight sims, and then gravitated toward consoles and JRPGs right about the same time CRPGs were having their ‘moment’. So a lot of these modern CRPGs that are doing that kind of…

Awwww, man. CRPGs are one of those genres of game I always really want to like, and rarely actually do (see: incredibly gorgeous, equally punishing side scrollers; anything that involves the phrase ‘bullet hell’). This looks like it will absolutely convince me to buy it, sit in my Steam library making me feel guilty ev…

Cheers, thanks! In that case, I probably won’t pick it up, just because I do kind of need that sort of thing to be fun played solo in addition to co-op: I play co-op games primarily as a way to ‘hang out’ with my friends, and that’s something we can do with plenty of other stuff as well. (Which I acknowledge is a lot t…

Honestly, I kind of love that about this generation. You see people going on about how there just ‘aren’t enough big games’ for either console - by which they mean games exclusive to the new consoles - and I... don’t really see it as a negative? Like, ‘consumers don’t feel pressured to pick up the new and shiny box…

Anyone have any idea about Fatshark’s ‘Darktide’? As I recall, it was announced at Microsoft’s ‘not-E3' last year, where it was one of the few games that seemed to imply it was only coming to next-gen, going off of the chyron at the bottom of the screen. (This was shortly after Microsoft said their own first-party…

Exactly. I’ve been playing the same instance of ‘Sniper Elite 4' since I got my Series X at launch - I bounced off the game when it first hit GamePass on Xbox One, because I didn’t have the patience for playing an open-world, stealth-heavy game for long periods at time. But with Quick Resume, it’s much more ‘oh, I…

I think the assumption is probably ‘if you’re going to buy the digital-only console, you must have fast internet; if you have fast internet, you don’t mind downloading a game, playing it, and then deleting it once you’re done’.

I’ve definitely done the same thing with my co-op partners, for sure: ‘We should play this game.’ ‘But I don’t own that game.’ ‘NOW YOU DO.’ But at this point, our co-op backlog is so huge that I’m not going to pick something up just because it might be fun in co-op - I kind of need it to be fun in solo play as well,…

Glad to hear I’m not the only one with a co-op partner who had a strong reaction to Destiny in 60 fps; mine got a Series S about a month or so ago, and had to kind gradually build up her tolerance. For a while there, she could only play for about fifteen minutes at a time.

I mean, you’re not wrong, but I think that’s just a side-effect of any conversation like this: the people who feel most strongly - either for or against any given position - are the ones most likely to speak up. So it’s going to sound like everyone’s shouting and taking unreasonably harsh positions... because the only…

Same. Speaking of (and totally unrelated to the subject of the article; sorry, rest of the thread): how is ‘The Blackout Club’, especially solo? I spent about ten minutes hemming and hawing yesterday, and ultimately didn’t wind up picking it up, but the sale’s running through next Tuesday, and I’ve still had it in the…

Yeah, exactly; they want consoles to be another reliable revenue stream, like GamePass, rather than coming in fits and starts based on how far they are from the newest generation. Again, like the iPhone, it’s almost more like a subscription than anything else - not just GamePass, but the whole deal, console and all - a…