Ope, yeah. Good catch. I don’t know my Charlies Brown very well.

Having worked in videogame resale (Hollywood Video/Game Crazy many moons ago, when I was a kid and brick and mortar game stores were still a growing market!), I’ve absolutely seen my share of utterly fucked up consoles coming through. We’re talking wet cardboard boxes filled with mildew; consoles so dusty they leave…

I wonder how long it’ll be before the starry-eyed 100/10 best game ever discourse settles like silt and we can see the water clearly enough to more objectively talk about the various flaws and pitfalls of this game, because these games always have unfinished elements that make for some pretty fascinating analysis when…

Also, how about the time he went to Hitler’s mansion and documented it dreamily on instagram talking about how visiting “the fuhrer’s” home was a bucket list item.

Only a literal, whole-ass, actual Nazi would endearingly call Hitler “the fuhrer.”

I’ve been playing Legends since release and still love it. If you haven’t checked it out yet, you absolutely should. As far as a multiplayer co-op game goes, it’s very respectful of the player’s time and polished extremely well.

Yup. My favorite way to play BB is to only level using the echoes you get from bosses (not counting chalice dungeons), and to approach them in ascending order of echo payout, which puts you at level 64 by the end (so, in the 60’s for the DLC, since echo-wise they come last). This makes all the bosses feel about level…

Yeah, there weren’t any NPC summons there I don’t think—just player summons. Oh, and visceral attacks on Maria are *very* doable even for people who aren’t good at parrying—most of her attacks have larger-than-normal parry windows.

The article specifies whether they can or not.

And if those attacks were 3x longer strings, and she popped them out 3x faster, oh and if her second and third phases were an entirely separate healthbar, and if she got health back when she visceral attacked you.

It’s got guts! Huge guts! Rip and tear!

Yeah, I’m bummed that I’m probably missing out on some really rad worldbuilding, visual moments, and environments (my first trip into the deep underground, where you enter this massive cavern so large that the glowing bugs on its walls look like stars and it’s like a night sky overhead was AMAZING, and inspiring—it…

I’ve played ‘em all. Bloodborne is my favorite game of all time (beaten it on SL4, multiple NG+7, half a dozen other times, still go tomb prospecting frequently), and while I didn’t like Sekiro as much (it was more narrow and wasn’t quite my bag; the rhythm sections were way too overtuned), I thought it made some…

I finally gave up on the game—I just wasn’t having fun, the combat (which I never really liked very much) had lost its luster, the exploration grew to be a slog, the good bits were becoming fewer and further between, and then there was the whole final act that I kept hearing about being terribly overtuned and…

Imagine if the parts all had functions, too, with mechanical benefits that you could tangibly see and feel. Your ship wears down over time, parts break, with low-quality stuff going out quickly and rarer, high-quality stuff lasting much longer. A part breaks and you’re stranded until you can make a replacement, and…

That’s the vibe I get as well. Bummer that he (resultantly?) made himself such a continued, and sometimes even downright toxic, problem in the game sphere.

First of all, great name. I NEED the Legacy of Kain series to come back.

Huh. I *just* got fed up with and uninstalled Elden Ring and have been looking for something else to sink my teeth into. I enjoyed this game for a spell a few years back but then moved on to other things. I’ve been wanting to get back into it on the PS5, to see if the VR fares a little better. Sounds like a good…

The dude’s always been a magician at heart, since jump street, and he’s *always* been a mess of a developer. I don’t doubt he does love games but the fact that he’s been the heart of *so many* nightmarish situations for Gearbox, as a lead, public figure, when he *didn’t need to be*, is what bums me out.

Honestly hearing Penn talk about him like he’s more magician than “his day job” makes me really happy for him, while also really annoyed that he’s still trying to be in games (and it makes it seem like he’s in games only because of the money it makes him).

Just hand over the reins, Rando, I’m sure they’ll still cut you…

Teller did not say that, how could he?