The Witcher 3, when I have access to the good computer, and lots of random stuff when I don't. I'm glad I played fallout 4 first, because man the Witcher is just so good.

The guys who made this also do the excellent Idle Thumbs podcast every week, where they bullshit about video games, and occasionally discuss our imminent demise at the hands of invincible robot killing machines. I highly recommend it.

I would like to think of myself as a "highbrow" gamer, having a rich pedigree of experience with ye olde classics of yore and appreciating only the more refined and difficult sorts of hard-core hardcorditude, but my complete and utter inability to deal with puzzles or puzzle games prevents me from ever truly joining…

Ah, the good old days. I even made it on to the list a few times. It's all so, so different now.

I loved Sunless Sea, until I'd seen all the islands, done a lot of fun stories, and gotten a sense of what it would take to REALLY make progress towards any of the ending conditions. And in every case, it looked like SO MUCH BORING GRIND that I couldn't be bothered, and I couldn't go back.

Ah, Master of Orion 2. I played that game a lot when it was first released, having been a big fan of the original. Then, years later, I got into it again playing on a machine many, many times faster than had been available at release, and it was SO MUCH BETTER. The improvement that came from every window and menu…

That situation is … annoying. You end up running several separate party groups, and worrying just as much about guys leveling up as you do about guys dying. If your experience is like mine, you'll have guys hitting level 5 and ready for the advanced dungeons by the time you manage to clear out all the level 1…

One other bit of Fallout 4 advice - playing a melee character in power armor is super fun.

I finished Fallout 4! Going with the Minutemen, and only the Minutemen, made the game seem a lot more shallow than I think it really was. Advice - do quests for some of the other factions, too. Then again, I built, like, every settlement, and had a TON OF FUN doing that. I don't know why, but I did. Maybe I…

Is that the one where you play as the president in a giant mech?

I guess it says something about my utter and complete lack of movie knowledge, but for the life of me, I draw an absolute blank here.

Whoa there, Hitler. Don't be a Jhonny Boy.

I've been actually making headway through the main quest in Fallout 4, and with any luck will finish it soon. I absolutely loved the bit in the Glowing Sea, and have been generally impressed with the environmental design in the game across the board. It's just heads and tails above its predecessors on that point ……

Actually, that would also be super-awesome. You could have the occasional field trip to each zone, but the whole crew would accompany you, like a traveling court, and who and how you politick would guide the narrative.

I like DA:I quite a bit, but I think it could have been absolutely amazing if, instead of an action RPG at its core, it was instead a strategic resource management game with time as its main resource.

I'm willing to bet they had full scripts and quests written and ready to go, but were told to cut it.

It's touches like that which make me think they lost the financial authorization for voice acting right at the end, and had to massively cut back on their scope and ambition.

I only ever played borderlands multiplayer. I played through. Both games, in a pair and as a triad. So, two playthroughs each. Totally worth it.

This weekend I'm doing a training seminar, so not a whole lot of gaming will be accomplished, but recently …

Once I got a look at the costs for the better ships and late-game accomplishments, and had explored the whole world and done something on every island (not everything, I know … but something), I was done. I wasn't going to sit and grind for 50 hours to buy a "good" ship, or look up some super-duper broken optimized…