I’ve been on both sides of this now, as an artist and as someone who has to contract out artwork. A lot of times you have a flat fee set by your department budget, and if people can do the work for that, awesome, if not, you find someone else. If too many people can’t do the work for that amount, then it’s time to…

It was good, and stopped just short of great. In general, I’m very tired of the jedi/sith conflict (the lack of jedi is one of the many reasons I loved Andor). In Fallen Order there are some characters that live in the gray area between the two, and they were the highlight of the story for me. Because you’re right,…

I got an Alienware gaming laptop with a 3080 in it last year, and that thing pretty much killed my Switch use, to be honest it killed my other console use too thanks to GamePass. I bought two additional plugs for it, so it’s super easy to take it between my desk, my bedroom and my living room. Is it as portable as a…

I tried and failed to keep playing this game for years, never making it more than four to six hours. What helped me (on PC) was lowering the difficulty all the way down, and using some mods to make weapon durability, potion making, and crafting irrelevant. This freed me up to play the game like a TellTale adventure…

I figured you would. I mean it’s a Marvel game, how could only have ONE costume?

I thought most people were against it because of the visuals. That’s what put me off (but I can get over it, because it looks fun). Those black and gold costumes look extremely goofy. The designs just feel like 2001's idea of cool. A superhero X-COM sounds rad, and this preview has me more interested than I was…

Yeah all this makes sense, especially the comparison to Anthem. My oldest son and I recently installed it via Gamepass and actually had a good time for a couple hours. It’s got the bones of something really cool, but...after our initial few plays, we never went back.

My guess is some of the vitriol comes from what the game could’ve been. There’s so much potential there! It’s the definition of a 6 to 7 game. It’s got some really cool elements, and certain characters feel like you want them to feel (I particularly liked Thor)...but then you get into the spongey combat and a random…

Yeah he’s in this league of YouTubers that create this friction in my brain so I avoid them. Like it’s great that they can do seemingly charitable things, but they also have a lot of videos that veer a little too close to Squid Game for me. You know the, “Watch people do a ridiculous thing for a shot at life-changing…

Added a bunch of these to my Steam wishlist. Three things have me navigating away from Switch purchases:

Oh that rules! Is it easy to set up? If by the time Steam Deck 2 is out, I can easily access Steam, Epic and Xbox Game Pass, that would be amazing. 

Good point. I don’t have a Steam Deck myself, but I’ll likely pick one up when they do a second version. Even though that’s potentially years in the future, I’ve already started going out of my way to buy on Steam, when in the past few years I had stopped caring where my PC games were. Epic, Steam, Microsoft, whoever…

I started one of my sons using my phone number, and then I went to make an account for my other son and it told me my Google Voice number couldn’t be used. So I had to use my wife’s. And that leaves me without a number to make my own account.

Revelations is always left off these lists. Is it because they were originally 3DS games?

Oh yeah, you’re right. Don is who I was thinking of, though he’s been dead for like a decade I think. Maybe that’s how they worked this out, who knows. Still feels kinda weird to me!

Pretty sure he’s officially available in the Descript synthesized voice app

Ahh, that’s right. Totally forgot about that. I wish I had a 100% save so I could dip into this game again, ignoring all the boring bits. 

You left out Liberation!

This! It was always a roll of the dice if the manual would be included in a Blockbuster rental. I remember loving the look of this game, but not getting far in my rental period because I was just guessing at the controls. 

Not related to Soulsborn games I guess, but anyone else tweak difficulty just to avoid engaging with certain mechanics in a game?