As, you’re one of the people who makes this site worth coming back to, but I can’t wait to see your next chapter! Thanks for everything.

Exactly this: Loads on the Series X are near instantaneous. Who cares if that extremely small amount of time that is so short I couldn’t quantify it in seconds is cut by two-thirds or whatever? It’s like, oh wow, over the course of an entire year I got to game three extra seconds. #TheFuture

Libraries show that you can discourage the ownership of things while also working on behalf of preservation. Feels like there’s a weird, logical leap being taken here that I don’t understand. (Also, in the GamePass model, you can still buy digital copies of games, meaning you at least have the 1s and 0s on a drive…

I dunno, I found the idea of low-level Pokemon left guarding areas that were once hotly contested to be a perfect metaphor for the state the US is leaving Afghanistan in after 20 years of occupation.

I gotcha. I am normally the same way but am starting to branch out since two of the three friends I regularly co-op with only seem to ever want to play one of three different shooters, the newest of which came out in 2017 and another of which is a Rainbow Six game and I hate those. So if you do get TBC and want to…

So I played the prologue and enjoyed it. Not sure I’m going to dive into some of the missions until I can get someone to co-op them with me as I saw that when you play solo it quickly gets difficult w/o teammates to cooperate with. I saw another gamer on my friends list had picked it up in the sale, too, but when I…

I’d seen some of the complaints about it but wasn’t sure how widespread it was or if it was related to a specific generation of hardware or just like random unlucky users. I just knew I wasn’t seeing any of it. That sucks. Thanks for answering!

With the exception of the new map, it’s played fine for me on a daily basis? Is the issue w/ the Xbox One/PS4/Switch gen? I’m playing on a Series X. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve seen the complaints. I’m just mystified why I haven’t encountered any problems beyond the issue w/ the new map.

Nah, this game is janky as heck but fun as hell and creates a lot of ridiculous, tense moments. You’re right in that it’s not particularly “scary,” but the cat-and-mouse gameplay provides a lot of tension and although the core mechanics carry from match to match, the metagame w/ different killers and perk builds is…

I mean I honestly bought a Series X because last year was an unceasing horror show for reasons both societal and personal and I figured since I was spending all my time at home I might as well splurge a little if I could afford it. But I hear ya. (This year is better.)

This is super dorky, but I’ll reply again after I try it over the weekend. It’s been on my wish list forever b/c the premise seems cool enough (like Left 4 Dead but with teenagers and no guns?) that I was willing to take a flyer on it for $15, then gift it to a few friends if it’s good. Would rather spend $60 on four…

I do feel like the Xbox ecosystem has a pretty interesting and robust recommendation system. No idea if it’s pay-for-play, but I’ve definitely had some games cross my radar that way I’d not have heard of otherwise. (I just picked up The Blackout Club in a sale this week, for example.)

I mean, I’m hearing you, but honestly I’m enjoying all of the backward compatibility and upgrades to existing titles on my XSX. Maybe I’m a weirdo, but most of the first-party exclusives on PlayStation don’t move the needle for me. (The Xbox ones don’t either, but at least they’re included in GamePass.) I bought a PS4…

What about a buddy comedy starring a hanar and krogan who are partners solving a series of low-level crimes on the Citadel?

It didn’t review that great, either. I remember people complaining about how they didn’t like the way the vehicles handled, but I think Rare made the basic vehicles you were given for the challenges handle poorly on purpose to encourage you to mess around and improve them and that just was lost on people. Once you…

It’s not a new, fresh game, but Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts remains one of my favorite games of all time. People dumped on it for not being like the earlier games, but what it was was basically the best “Lego” game ever made in terms of giving you the ability to get creative and build cool stuff.

Right? I read stuff like the comments on here and it’s almost like, “What do you mean I can’t play the game if the power goes out?”

I mean to be fair, Horizon, Uncharted, The Last of Us, Ghost of Sashimi and many other PlayStation exclusives are made by studios that were independent before Sony bought them. Just because it happened a long time ago doesn’t mean it’s any different.

How is that any different from Sony buying Naughty Dog, Sucker Punch, Guerilla Games and Insomniac? How do you think first party studios become first party studios? Usually they are bought. Most of Sony’s big first-party studios were independent companies at some point. (The only ones I can think of off the top of my…

Why would Sony need to do this for legal purposes but not Microsoft? I don’t get these emails when I claim Games with Gold stuff.