I've been partial to the Battlefield games for years now. It always feels like there's a huge battle going on with or without you so if you are able to actually get in the zone and start making a difference you feel like the character in every mid century John Wayne-style war film who pops out of cover and goes…

I forgot about Murdered Soul Suspect. There was a game that even before it came out, you could see the ads with the fedora wearing, magic bullet riddled protagonist and go "Oof, that's gonna bomb".

Finally got Persona 5 and wooooo baby does it make me feel like an anime-obsessed high schooler again. The raving reviews and everything were drawing me to it but I was skeptical because I hadn't enjoyed a JRPG since Final Fantasy X in got-damn 2001! July 2001!!! I hadn't played and really enjoyed a JRPG since…

I guess they never saw it coming…

You're crazy. I had that anime on VHS and it kicked ass. The US dub even had crappy punk songs by Offspring and the like overdubbed for some reason. Hell yeah.

There are ways to kind of get away from all the potion bubbling and alchemy stuff since the game gives you enough options to progress in your own ways. Enjoy the game though. Though it has kind of a circle-jerky fanbase in some parts of the web it really is a great experience.

The Kate roof top struggle is such a unique encounter. It's done so well and so fast giving you multiple answers that seem like they could work that it really gets you scrambling. There are apparently clues in her room that can help, but I didn't look hard enough for them and let Kate fall. That was the biggest gut…

Yeah it's strange how much UC2 is able to do in terms of coaxing a great popcorn adventure out of such flat characters. I beat the game a few weeks ago and I can't even remember the generic Russian baddies name. Broganov? Rukiev? Yuleg?

Prey looks really good and I honestly almost want to pick it up as a charity case because if it sells as poorly as poor Dishonored II I'm worried that they'll shutter Arkane and all the glorious weird first person games they could potentially make will be lost forever.

I unlocked all the characters in Tekken 3, which is sort of the end of that game but I haven't gone back and beat Arcade mode with every character so I can see their 90s-tastic hyper-compressed 240p CGI movie. I thought those endings were the best back in the day, as real as reality itself.

Read that just yesterday, coupled with the Waypoint oral history of Halo (which covered Halo 2's similar mid development scrapping and retooling) I realize now more than ever that producers and project managers who keep games on focus are the real heroes out there.

I've got a rare amount of free time coming up soon as the in-laws prepare to take my son to Galveston so I'm basically saving all my gaming for that time when I plan on picking up P5.

Hmmmmm, if I'm just spitballing on shit that would blow my butt-ass off, Xenogears HD Remaster. That would rule.

That is the amount of time I plan on devoting to it (work + 1 year old) but that honestly is half the appeal because I figure I can buy the game in June and be set with my game time until October.

Awesome tips! I hadn't heard about the Chester Beatty Library but that sounds crazy cool. Old Trappist monks and all that kind of Old Old Church stuff is really interesting to me.

Dublin, Cliffs of Moher and Belfast. I'm pumped as hell for Belfast which is supposed to be seeing a really cool revival these past few years.

Thansk for the tips. I think my dad is dead set on Guiness so I'll def do that and as for actual black and tans I'm definitely into finding some good Troubles tours in Belfast. It's a really interesting thing to me.

Similar Boat. I was saving my June new game purchase to finally get Persona 5 but the idea of finally having a fighter I can play online that I might be good at (I'm a mean Hwoarang when I get in the zone) is very tempting.

That was the first thought I had after I saw IO Interactive got axed by Squenix. Bethesda is gonna cut Arkane loose and keep all the IPs to turn them into mobile games or some blasphemy.

I love Souls games but none of the Souls-likes have clicked for me. Also the slo-mo gruesome kill-cam in Surge kinda turns me off.