Tip: If you ever want to progress this game, don’t be like me and go down the Codex rabbit hole. I played for three hours or so last night, and managed to get MAYBE halfway through the very first mission, because I kept stopping to read the Codex. I don’t regret it, because I enjoy the backstory and context, but Mass…

I don’t know that I’d call the Protheans benign. They were, by their own account, pretty much the galaxy’s biggest assholes ever, even if Javik wound up being sort of a kind of okay guy, once you get to know him, he takes some getting used to, I guess.

At last, audiences can judge Hamlet on his actions rather than his deeds.

Well, it LOOKS pretty good, and if I needed another Xbone controller... Well, I’d probably just bite the bullet and spring for an Elite.

If the next line out of that guys mouth is a demand for someone’s motorcycle, consider me sold.

Their latest stab at voice chat’s not bad. It’s not as feature-rich as established services, but it’s also embedded in the Battle.net launcher, and, thus, all of their games, and is pretty idiotproof.

I don’t know. I remember running BRD once, and we had to pause for something at the Athenium. Maybe we needed a new Rogue?

A slap i the face? Really? This kind of hyperbole does no one any good and it certainly doesn’t change companies’ practices; I mean, it’s a way to make you digital sword dude or dudette swirl their sword around.

Ganonhorse.

Wrex.

Wrex.

Could be worse - at least you have an idea when your sword is going to break. Remember Baldur’s Gate? The original one? Where a large part of the plot was centered around explaining why almost all of your non-magical gear could shatter into uselessness the first time you swung it because the dice hated you? And…

Oh man, that guy’s voice is awful. The hairstyles are okay. Nothing great, but nothing terrible either, which isn’t too surprising. 

Here’s the thing: I figure if I were to never play the game itself, I can use those minis in all sorts of things.

That is really tempting. I mean, a SIGNIFIGANT part of the reason I backed the Conan and Dark Souls boardgames was the miniatures.

Fair enough, though I’d say that calling Wake’s writing middling would be overly generous.

Or just make Mercenaries 3.

Keeping in mind that I haven’t played Alan Wake since it came out, the only thing I can remember that was bad about it, my only complaint was how awful Alan Wake (the character)‘s writing was. He’s supposed to be this great world-famous novelist, and his prose was laughably terrible.

Last I heard, the plan was for a four-player co-op mode to be added down the line a bit where each player controls one of the bros.

No transcript? That’s disappointing.

I’ve never played the original (we were a SEGA household), but I did own a copy of the official novelization as a kid. I think I got it at a book fair maybe?