This just reinforces my feeling that the best time to play a Ubisoft open world game is three to six months after it comes out.

I wish I could just buy Bowser’s Fury!

My parents used a kitchen timer. When it went off you had to let one of your brothers (I have two) play or go do something else. On weekends or when we had friends over, restrictions were looser, if they were there at all. They bought a NES with track and field and Mario for themselves when I was like two, so they…

Pre-pandemic my kids (age 7 and 9) couldn’t play games on the weekdays (except Fridays). Between after school care, activities and home work, there wasn’t much time anyway.

Oh totally, that was just off the top of my head. I think we’re on the same page here on wanting to minimize jedi/force users. I’d love The Division 2 but Star Wars, regardless of era. Fallen Order already has great jedi and lightsaber action, Battlefront has good jedi stuff too. I just want a game that covers somethin…

I got bored with the Division 2 because of its setting and gear and story. The fundamentals of that game—combat, dynamic enemy AI, cool, versatile skills—were great though. Swap the guns for lasers, swap the +5 kneepads for something like beskar armor, swap the generic military jargon quest givers for Jedi, and swap…

I like it better than Odyssey just because of the structure. You’ve got a town that you’re trying to grow and it’s nice to always come back there. Each alliance you build can only be done one at a time, so you “pledge” to take on that alliance, and it starts a new story arc (it literally says something like…

I did the same thing. Got it on PC first where I tried games I never would have purchased and ended up really enjoying (Shadow Tactics, Mutant Year Zero, Darksiders 3), then in June of 2019 I scooped up a One S via Facebook marketplace and I haven’t actually purchased a single game on it. It’s just my Game Pass…

This is a bug!?! I’ve only had this game a week or so and I just figured that weird woozy drunk screen effect when you respawn was going to have some sort of narrative hook, like a glitchy, unstable animus connection.

Exactly. I felt like I had the whole skill tree filled out before completing all of the main game. By the time I got to the DLC I was god-level, which actually thematically fits with the game. By then they had introduced gear load outs, which was really nice. I liked being able to switch gear and perks to fit how I…

I got the booster in the last game. I was part of the Stadia beta so I got the game for free and Google included $10 in Ubisoft bucks that I could only use in the AC game store. Seemed like a sensible thing to get at the time when I didn’t know how long the beta would be and I wanted to see as much of the game as…

Well yeah, that’s exactly it. This is capitalism. The same thing can be said about climate change. We’ll either wait until someone finds a profitable solution, or it will get so bad we have to go into full-on emergency mode to fix it. This was both profitable and a giant, global emergency. It’s depressing, because…

Everyone complains how this game looks, like it’s not got ALL THE GRAPHIX or whatever. For me though, it’s the art style. I don’t need this to look like the new Demon Souls. The old Sands of Time had a more whimsical cartoonish look. Go back and look at the old character designs, they’re Fortnite-esque in their…

Interesting! By that point I’d completely bypassed the game’s economy lol. When I finally went back to Witcher 3 I used a mod so I no longer had weapon degradation. Then I accessed the console and just gave myself the raddest armor and weapons I could find online and over-leveled Geralt a bit. Then I cranked the…

This. Coming to Witcher 3 later I got the benefit of patches, plus mods that got rid of all the fiddly stuff I didn’t want to engage with (mainly encumbrance and weapon degradation).

I just finished Miles Morales last week and it took me like three or four play sessions. I loved it. I wish more big budget games were short like that. With few exceptions, it’s usually the nicer a game looks, the longer it has to be. It took me three years to finish Witcher 3—it was basically the show coming out that…

I get it, but I seem to be immune to the hype for three reasons:

Ohhh that’s right. One of my sons plays it on the PS4 and the other plays it on Xbox/Switch. So only one of them has that PS4 skin, but I can still see it on the other platforms.

Samus is such a natural fit for this season focused on hunters. That would be super rad.

I’m more interested in this meta story they seem to be hinting at. What’s this loop? Why are people trying to break out? I’d like more of that.