Sports are 1000x better in a sci fi/fantasy setting. I had Base Wars, a cyber-robo baseball game for NES, as a kid and while it wasn’t that fun I played it all the time for the amazing aesthetics:

Nier is indeed a very good game and I like a lot of what it’s feeding me but I’m also a bit chaffed when I hear that the real mind-bending stuff is tucked away in your third playthrough. Still, I honestly enjoy it enough that it’s not the end of the world it just leaves the main story feeling a bit bare at the moment.…

I guess the assumption is you wouldn’t do that because you knew the original creator would out you as an imposter. Plus that’d be a weird thing to do when you could just make your own game inspired by Yume Nikki.

That’s a beastly backlog. Don’t know what order you’re planning on starting them in but just be aware if you start Persona 5 and get in the groove it’ll be hard to focus on anything else... though it takes a while to hit that groove as Persona 5 has a super slow start.

Bloodborne is great for a variety of reasons but besides it’s emphasis on speed (sweet sweet speed) compared to Dark Souls, it’s lack of emphasis on gear is it’s best assett. There are only a handful of weapons in the game and you could beat the whole thing with the first weapon you start with (I think I did) and be…

you’re coming up on a sweet spot though whcih is like the 4-8 months, when they’re still tiny enough to take a nap in their boppy pillow in your lap. Just keep the dualshock nearby and when they drift off you can get in a good thirty mintues of gaming... I played a lot of Bloodborne that way.

I’m a couple of hours into Nier and this game has a brisk pace. Damn. My first hour with it was something though.

Dammit Gerardi, I was trying to keep a New Year’s Resolution to not buy any new games til I put a dent in my backlog but this looks so very up-my-alley. I’m coming up on a year since I put down the Witness I am craving something with that meditative zen puzzle appeal.

Welcome to the PS4 gang muh dude. Where there’s more games to play than you can throw a controller at, and also be ready to throw your controller as the battery seems to die faster than any other controller in gaming history.

Once you get into the later combat stages of the Witcher 3 where Geralt is twirling and basically cartwheeling over foes... you’ll be glad it’s in third person. I also think it adds more to the cinematic feel of the game as the animation for the deaths are always very flashy and almost samurai-like.

Skyrim VR sounds amazing honestly but I’ve already spent hundreds of hours that I’m frankly still baffled that Bethesda isn’t developing a sixth elder scrolls at the moment and is still putting all their chips in the abysmmal Elder Scrolls Online basket.

Damn dude, I remember Lifeline from reading Official Playstation Magazine back in the day. The PS2 was the peak of Japanese wacky game development. I suppose that was probably developed as Sony’s answer to Seaman... damn, I’m getting some heavy sixth generation nostalgia.

You’d think the graphics card is going to be the place where you want to drop the most dough but don’t skimp on the cpu! The cpu does a lot more heavy lifting then you think. I would even consider bumping down your graphics card to get a beefier CPU. Though props on skipping Intel based on what the news is showing us…

You know for how beloved Gone Home was when it was released (by myself along with everybody else) I was surprised when Tacoma kinda launched to little fanfare this year. Your writeup is honestly the most glowing thing I’ve seen about it. I guess GH kind of came into a gaming landscape where there weren’t a lot of…

Dammit, I hee’d and haw’d over whether to get Last Guardian or Undertale as my final game from the Playstation sale and buddy... you’re making Undertale sound really really tempting.

Congratulations on the birth of your son! As others have said, get ready for the most rewarding and challenging game of all... Firguring out your hospital bills I mean Fatherhood!

I deleted my Twitter cuz it was melting my brain, and thus had to redo my twitter-connected Kinja so I might be gray’d out. Boo!

Boooks rule