Anecdata here, of course, but it absolutely happened to me on older consoles. I remember struggling horribly with one particular puzzle in Portal where I kept missing a jump that I was SURE I was supposed to be able to make. Then I realized that if I left the controller unattended, there was just the sliiiightest bit…

Yeah, and if that collection proves anything, it’s that you need a serious hook. Anthem could have had one with the flying, but I’m still not sure its story/worldbuilding stood out enough. I mean, Borderlands has a STYLE. The Division goes for real(istic)-world grit. Warframe...well, Warframe is fucking weird. (I’m a…

Yep. The actual chain of events here is pretty much “somebody decides what they want in the game, which is another sexy lady to ogle, and then they come up with Lore(tm) to justify the sexiness, and then nerds who also want sexy ladies to ogle will use the lore to justify the presence of the sexy ladies they’re ogling,…

Hayward uses the phrase “let’s work the problem.” He’s a monster.

Devs: “You can be a space hero with superpowers! All the choices in the galaxy are yours!!”

I got everyone to get along in that mission my first time through, and felt at the time like it was too easy a fix. Then I looked up the formula for what you had to do to make it an option, and realized how much of a razor’s edge I’d actually been walking. I...played very carefully after that. ;)

That’s the ending where only Joker survives, right? Watched it on YouTube once upon a time. That shit was rough.

I lost one character my first time through because, as I recall, I hadn’t maxed out either Paragon or Renegade points, and so the conversation option I wanted during a squad argument wasn’t available; I had to pick sides. Ergo, loyalty lost for one of them. Fixed it during a second playthrough, but I remain more than…

Ten bucks says that console went exactly the same way as the TV I ordered once upon a time that got partway into shipping and then just...disappeared.

It hit me a LOT harder than expected. Really, really well done.

Gender and race are frequently assumed based on names, and many, many studies have shown that blind applications that strip out such obvious signifiers result in less unbalanced choices.

I never could get to that ending of Episode Ignis through normal gameplay because I was struggling so, so badly with janky mechanics. The other night I found a post of mine that I made after playing through that DLC and I was just FURIOUS at the time, to the point where it was kind of a hilarious read. In any case, I…

Upside of all this: I just learned the word “stoush.”

Meanwhile: Ow. OW. Really?! Ow.

I just went scrolling through my own collection of Prompto’s photos, and the one that made me laugh the most, just by virtue of it existing at all, is the shot he took of this absolute unit.

Literally.

But yeah, sometimes the photos will make you look like a total badass. Even when you’re fighting gooey flan monsters.

The camera system is fantastically fun. If you spend any time with FFXV’s multiplayer, it will also crop up in there, taking lovely (and sometimes not so lovely) pictures of your own avatar. Hilariously, during Prompto’s cameo, he’ll even take pictures of you during your duel with him.

One part of it that’s pretty easily accessible: The Storyteller episodes are streaming on Amazon Prime.

Hitman might be the weirdest gaming experience I’ve ever spent any time with, and I’ve actually spent tons of time with it, just at a remove. I’m pretty sure I’ve watched every let’s-play video that Outside Xbox has ever done with Hitman (and I’m sure I’ll be watching them play this game), mostly because everyone on…