This is my same loop.

Yeah that’s a bummer for playing on console for sure. I have a Series S and a PS4, but I decided to dump money into a dope gaming laptop instead of track down a PS5. Really wish I could play that new Ratchet & Clank though!

Anyway, I heard the same about Dying Light 2 from some podcasts, so I decided to wait on that…

That’s fair, and probably a bad example (especially because you can’t mod a Switch game...at least not without jumping through hoops I have no interest in jumping through). There’s some grinding involved, but you at least have all your powers right after the tutorial. Unlike something like Borderlands 3, which for…

WeMod is a PC program that is basically a cleaned up, user friendly version of CheatEngine. You open it, then open whatever launcher your game is in (Steam, Epic, Game Pass, etc.) and then push play from within WeMod.

I did too! Also it lets my youngest son play Cuphead without dying. He loves old cartoons, and he’s not interested in beating games. He just likes running around their virtual worlds. I shared that I did this for him somewhere else and so many people jumped on me for enabling him cheating or saying he wasn’t really…

The older I get, the less time I have, and the less patience I have for looting everything in games. Slowing down to pick up trinkets so I can fiddle around in a menu so then I can buy a new thing that enables more looting. It’s just so tedious, and very little of it actually makes the game more fun (aside from the…

Honestly feel the same about Last Week Tonight. I love that show, but stopped watching it every week sometime in 2020 because the weekly dump of “awful thing you didn’t know was happening” report was starting to really bring me down, even with the hilarious jokes. Now I dip in every now and then and it’s much easier…

Me too! I’m learning this right now, from this very article! I just remember the early edge-lord days and the militaristic presentation and checked out back then (that edge-lord style complimented the Zero Punctuation edge-lord reviews as well, which I also checked out of at a certain point). Watched one of the linked…

I still pop in for a few games every week or so, enough to knock out some challenges and maybe earn something in one of those limited time events if I happen to catch it.

Excited to try this in six months or so. I came to the first one a year late, and there were already PC mods available to get rid of the weapon durability stuff, which meant a lot less time puttering around in crafting menus (my least favorite thing to do in any video game), and more time just having fun.

You can always trust Halo fans to get real bent out of shape about a lore that is needlessly convoluted at best—packed with goofy proper noun names for everything.

Having stuff locked to armor is a real head scratcher. Why are there multiple armor types anyway? Why not just a single Spartan frame you can outfit how you want, and then save presets? I can barely tell the difference between the Mark V and the Mark VII. They’re both chunky space military armor! I would be inclined…

Fortnite does this too. There are multiple reference points for making this work better than it does now! 

Yeah I recently got a gaming laptop with a high refresh rate screen (plus a 3080), and playing games at their maximum settings at a high framerate AND a high refresh rate? Holy crap I didn’t know what I was missing. Everything feels so smooth, it’s hard to describe until you see it yourself. I picked up God of War…

My guess is this is more about production costs than metacritic score. Both games selling 8 million can mean drastically different things if one cost 2 million worth of game sales to make, and the other cost 7 million worth of game sales to make.

I agree! The gameplay was rock solid and fun to control from the very beginning in BotW. Not knowing how things fit together or what the heck korok seeds were for didn’t matter. You have to go into Outer Wilds knowing the pace is much slower and there’s very little direction. There’s nothing like the joy of popping…

Totally agree. And sometimes critical acclaim and power me through until either the gameplay or the narrative hook me (“I heard this was great, so I’ll play a little longer to find the greatness”), and it almost did that with Outer Wilds. But once I took a break, I kind of lost it all.

I basically jumped in after all the early buzz and it took quite a bit of time before it clicked...but even then I didn’t finish it. I’ve never been one for the “muddle around until things make sense, and then it’ll be REALLY cool” kind of narrative some games use, because that muddle around period could be 20…

+1 to this. It’s also a totally manageable length. I got through the main story and had all the upgrades I needed in like 26 hours (there was still plenty to do on the map of course, so a completionist might take longer). After watching the Assassin’s Creed games balloon in length, it was really nice to play a tight,…

I kept thinking while watching season 2 how much a Game of Thrones style intro song that covers the map would be really useful. That and labels on screen when we see a new establishing shot.