Yeah the ads on this site on mobile are really hard to navigate around, and the ones that pop up over comments in particular have a tendency to just freeze up my mobile chrome window. I hate what the corporate overlords have done to these sites. 

When you customize your skater you can also choose to put a mask on them. That must have been a very late addition, but I thought it was cool.

Yeah if I play an RPG on PC the first thing I do is look for an unlimited inventory mod. Dragon Age 2 did the same thing as Mass Effect and people were so mad. Maybe those people like spreadsheets, but puttering around in a menu for 30 minutes to make sure my whole team has the right gear is not fun. What’s worse in…

This is great! I loved everything about Control, except the difficulty. I was about 9 hours in when I turned to cheat engine to make myself invincible. I just kept dying and on my dated PC the load times were super long and when you only have like an hour a day to play games, spending half of it dying and reloading is…

I used an earlier version of this mod back when I finally went back to complete this game last fall.

Yikes! Did not remember that! But I do remember in Arkham City how Catwoman was called “B*tch” non-stop. Random thugs, other characters, radio chatter about her, it was constant. It felt like a 12 year old’s idea of what a “mature” Batman game would be.

This looks like Assassin’s Creed: Gotham (or more accurately given the studio, Shadow of Mordor: Gotham). I’m not mad about it—the multiplayer missions in AC: Unity were actually super fun. I’m also very down to play a Batman game without Batman, because I think he’s a boring character stuck in a rut that no one seems…

I agree, the weird perspective on the old one was part of what made it so difficult. I played the new one with my two kids and we got through the first riding level on the first try. You only need one person to stay alive for it to keep going, and the others will respawn after a few seconds. Also if you die a bunch of…

I played about an hour or so last night with my two sons, they’re 6 and 9, and they loved it. The goofy morphing and wild character designs worked for them, even when many of the jokes fell flat for me.

Back when they “accidentally” flipped the switch on cross-platform multiplayer revealing the hold up on that was just Sony not wanting to play ball? That was cool, and almost believable as a mistake. When they finally got their way, it opened the gates for other games to follow suit, and that’s awesome! I love that my…

Heh, I’m only five or six hours into that game and I stopped following those golden birds after the third or fourth one. It’s just as formulaic as Infamous, just with a layer of abstraction. That’s something I haven’t heard a single critic mention—Infamous was the exact same structure: a half dozen repeatable events,…

Just once I’d love for this trope to be subverted. Where they finish the hacking or door unlocking BEFORE you finish killing every last bad guy. Or maybe you see a big ol’ turret and when you get to it...you don’t have to get in it to fight a wave of enemies that was apparently just a half mile behind you the whole…

I got in the Stadia beta and loved it—I was playing Assassin’s Creed Odyssey for free and it worked incredibly well! Then halfway through the beta they said everyone would get a free copy of the game on PC AND their save would be intact. At that point I stopped trying to rush through the game before the beta ended.…

I picked up one of those clips for my controller when I got into my beta. It streams to my Pixel 3 and works remarkably well. Just this week I’ve been playing The Wolf Among Us on my phone while lounging in bed. A game like that is perfect for this service, as I can’t really notice any latency. I played Gears 5 a few…

Yeah, I know some well off folks doing it. Hell there was a thread in my middle class neighborhood’s FB page about pooling resources to hire a teacher or two so all the kids can learn together. Not my kids! We are full remote and my wife and I are just gonna make it work. There’s a person four houses down with a…

I can see it working. Early Allen was pretty goofy, showing up to fight Mark’s dad every few years because he never bothered to check if he had the right planet. Before he became the head of a giant planet-spanning government he was just a dude that enjoyed a good fight.

Man I loved that book. I read it so long ago, way before the MCU. I wonder how it would feel now that superheroes are everywhere. 

Xbox V would have also looked like a roman numeral five, which might have benefited them when the untrained eye sees it next to the PS5.

That was my experience too. Played a bit of Gears 5 and had to eventually head to the options and switch it to the mode where holding down the left trigger locks onto an enemy (much like Crackdown 3). It was just laggy enough that precise aiming didn’t feel right. It’s definitely better for some games than others. I…

Yeah I used to review games for Gamespot and having to marathon a game really does change how you feel about it. You try to take that into account in your review, but it’s hard. Think about it, when you get frustrated with a game, normally you might put it down for a few days, or maybe even stop playing it altogether.…