Yeah I have four whole batteries now and am closing in on a fifth. You purchase Zonaite crystals at the Zonai forge (there’s one in the starting sky island and several in the depths). I think it’s for every 100 charges the Zonai refinery (next to one of shrines on the starting island) will add another blip to a…

Agreed. The one downside is that the air bike is relatively slow compared to other contraptions you can build. I wish you could fly on the wings indefinitely, it would make it so much more fun to fly around. 

I use this thing all the time! It made the Goron dungeon trivial. You can tell they designed all these mine cart tracks and puzzles for you to navigate, but I just used the air bike to fly around them, then launched my goron friend from the bike in midair rather than construct a path for him on the ground.

I am 100 percent aligned with this sentiment. It’s why I play most of my games on PC, because then I can use WeMod to circumvent grinding, collecting and crafting. I have limited time to game, and I want to actually play games, not putter around in menus (looking at you Witcher 3).

Ah, wasn’t aware it had a name. It’s a head trip for sure, I’ve gone from “your primary responsibility is to make things” to “your primary responsibility is to manage people who make things” and it wasn’t easy! I have a lot of outside projects that scratch that itch for me, but I’m the first to tell my direct reports…

Yeah I once worked at a company and there was a town hall with the executives and someone asked about success, and the executive answering the question actually pointed at me and said, “He’s creative for a living, if he were to have my job, where he wouldn’t do that at all, would he consider that success?” And I was…

Kudos to Linus for having the maturity and humility to make this move. This right here is why a ton of game studios and tech companies crash and burn or end up with super toxic work cultures, because the founders were coders or designers or artists—people who don’t necessarily have the skillset, temperament, or actual…

Yeah I was in middle school when the original Mortal Kombat was released and adults were fainting in the media about the violence, and at the time I just thought it was hilarious.

They should have instead looked to Halo Infinite. For all that game’s many faults, the way battle passes never expired was great.

I did! We were in the middle of moving, and buying a Switch was pretty low on the priority list, but I already had a Wii U. So I got BotW and played most of it on the gamepad because we packed up the TV, and I didn’t need that to play.

He’s only 25!?!

Played this the week it came out and really enjoyed it! It’s a little more forgiving than Flashback, but if you liked that classic game (or the original Prince of Persia), you’ll like this. I’ve got a lot of nostalgia for Flashback and PoP, so I thoroughly enjoyed Lunark. The cyberpunk aesthetic is great, and there…

I have been writing and have managed writers my entire career, and the undervalued thing is in every industry. From video games, to commercial scripting to advertising, to SEO.

Also not a prude and I thought the same thing. Like, come on, that is just preposterous. I looked her up and she does apparently have an actual top on under the loose fitting robe thing. Maybe it was a trick of the lighting. 

Yeah some of the one-off stories in the different territories are solid...but many of them have nothing to do with Eivor’s (or their brother’s) story. They don’t need to be there. You show up and are a side character in someone else’s story for many of them. They could have cut the territories by half (or more), and…

Good points! I did blast through God of War when I replayed it on PC last year in like 17 hours on the lowest difficulty setting, and that was a good time. 

Yeah I always like to dig into the rarity of a “you completed this game” achievement whenever I finish one, because it’s fascinating to me how few people finish games. I mean I regularly don’t finish books or TV series, but the cost of entry is much lower.

Heh yeah, those were howlongtobeat’s stats. I must have spent 85+ hours in Valhalla, and like I said there are huge sections I don’t remember. It all sort of blends together. I’m hoping AC Mirage is a return to form. The formula and gameplay works best in smaller doses.

Yeah it’s sort of this weird self-fulfilling prophecy. Games don’t need to be that big, but when you’re a giant company with a huge head count, it costs a lot to make a game because of headcount (the single biggest expense in many businesses), so you make a big game to justify all those people, and because market…

I have a Series S and Series X, but still don’t have a PS5. Of the three systems, Microsoft is the best at handling sharing games. I usually only need to buy one copy of a game for both my kids to not only play it at the same time, but play it together if it’s multiplayer. Also with my gaming laptop, I can play with…