It’s good to hear a recommend for QfG5. I absolutely loved the first 4, but heard a bunch of bad things about the last one, and never got around to playing it.

The powergaming friends in my group always liked to play wizards, because they could abuse the system. It annoyed me, and thus I have always preferred anything BUT wizard.

Last week I was still deep into the dystopian future of kitchen, where there are only endless lines of demanding customers — Cook, Serve, Delicious 2. But that was wearing thin. This week, I was engrossed with Hero U - Rogue to Redemption, which has already been plugged with great enthusiasm by SAM elsewhere. I second…

Yeah, that battle is kinda bullshit, but trust me - master the defeat of one of those bastards in a clean way, and it gets reasonably easy.

I second the recommendation for Hero U. It’s fun and charming, it gets a lot of what the old QfG games did right, and it kind of understands life sim time management games as well. You’re entirely right, the pacing is quite tight, but I don’t mind it as much - that may just be my personality.

Yes, both from a platforming sense and a boss-fighting sense, it is goddamn hard.

Witcher 3 really was so much better with a majority of HUD elements turned off. No mini-map, no quest markers, none of it. Navigate by landmarks, and visit cool places on the map. It’s a ton of fun.

I tend to put in about an hour a day, about 5 and a half days a week on average. These took me 2, maybe 2 and a half weeks. I work slowly, and have only been at it for about a year.

I will stick up for Borderlands whenever necessary. Those open areas were NOT boring! The desert is beautiful and wonderful. I love deserts, and shanty towns, and Borderlands would have been better with 15 minute drives between areas of significant interest. Hah! Take that, modern gaming conventions! Borderlands would…

Hollow Knight is so, so good. I’m glad so many people are finally getting to enjoy it nowadays, as it seemed a bit wasted on the bitter-hearted PC gaming crowd — just witness the dismissive thrashing it got over at Rock Paper Shotgun. The Basin was super creepy, yes — but the burrowing depths was the zone that really…

I finished Cultist Simulator. I figure I’ll try and go back to play with a different cult once some extra content or DLC has been added, but I’ve seen enough for the moment.

I have never understood gamers who enjoy play situations which have been stripped of challenge. I know that a lot of people enjoy this, and in theory I can vaguely understand enjoying the fantasy of ultimate power. But it just feels hollow and pointless to me - why am I doing a thing that is not hard? What skills am I…

I finished Cultist Simulator last week. That was a blast. I loved that game.

That true final boss is a real bastard. I’d dug way too deep into the game before that -- I got every charm, and almost finished the rose quest -- and was kinda burned out by the time I got to him, so I wasn’t really ready to seriously dig in for another super-hard boss fight.

I absolutely loved Hollow Knight when I played it on PC last year. Best of luck with it!

I do not understand, and have never understood, complaints about inventory. I have no idea what people are talking about when they say something is good or bad, and they all seem about the same to me. I hear people complain that “you have to juggle slots to keep your stuff” and I think, “well, of course you do, that…

I know that a lot of people want to give Valve crap for failing to ever make a HL3, but I dunno. Sometimes you reach a point where innovation becomes really hard, and where enough things have been figured out that making a truly revolutionary game is just more than can be asked of any team. Think about it — what…

With the extended ending patch, the Red ending actually seemed kinda awesome. The Reapers become a benevolent construction and peace force, and the galaxy develops with great justice and happiness. I was pretty happy with it.

The key takeaway from that Borderlands story is, in my opinion, to never play a sniper. Then again, I may be a bit biased — I HATE SNIPERS!!!!!!!!

Yeah, that’s a big reason I’ve been itching to get a PS4 for a while now. However, I’m PC only, and have been for a while, and that console would be a big chunk of cash all by itself.