Oh snap, we’re getting another Trine? That’s great! I’m looking forward to a bunch of these. I wish there was an option for 15 to 20 hour versions of Baldur’s Gate and Starfield. The “This will take you 300 hours” thing is a deterrent for me. Just like there are one-shot D&D campaigns, I wish I could get a one-shot…

Oh that’s cool, I didn’t know that! 

Epic has gotten really good at whatever this cel-shading technique is. It’s pretty cool seeing these 2D characters in 3D still somehow look like their 2D selves.

I never really played Pikmin until earlier this year, after I had played TinyKin on Gamepass. I kept seeing how TinyKin was inspired by Pikmin, and I really enjoyed my time with that, so maybe I’d like Pikmin. Nope!

Valhalla had such a promising start: Chests that were almost always hidden behind some kind of puzzle or stronghold. Puzzles that required you to shift your perspective. Legendary battles that were super tough. Hidden armor pieces that required careful traversal. Raids on villages to get supplies. Drinking games,…

I’m totally with you here. It’s sort of like when Mr. Beast did a Squid Game tie-in. Like they played the same games (non-deadly of course), had all the costumes, even recreated most of the sets, it was quite a production. But it was just a weird vibe to me given the message behind the actual show. As you said,…

Yes! I rewatched it recently and I love how confused they are lol. And then one immediately shoots him too. I think Batman works best in that Burton-esque (or Animated Series) heightened/stylized reality. 

This was my favorite thing about the last Batman movie, and I’m not even sure it was intentional. Robert Pattinson looks ridiculous walking around in his bat costume at a crime scene surrounded by regular cops. There’s one guy that looks at him and his expression of fear reads less like, “Oh man he’s a badass that…

I used this mode in Last of Us Part 2. There’s actually multiple settings for it. The one I chose made you basically invisible while crouched as long as you don’t bump into anyone. I liked playing this way SO MUCH more than the first game. Not only does it speed up the pace (because I wasn’t fighting much, I didn’t…

I feel like Minish Cap is often forgotten in these lists, so I was happy to see it here so high up. It’s one of the few Zelda games not made by Nintendo and it’s terrific. The sprite work is excellent and the shrinking mechanic is fun. Not the most mind blowing Zelda game, but a solid, fun adventure worth playing if…

That’s wild. Walk me through this, if I’m paying for GPU monthly right now, do I need to turn off my renewal and wait until it runs out before buying and stacking the deals? 

Yeah I agree with this. I think his most coherent game is probably Snake Eater, and even that is bogged down with meandering monologues and ham-fisted philosophical rants by way of corny dialogue. “Pretty good anime” about sums it up.

You literally haven’t a clue what you’re talking about so why are you telling your kids the reality of it when that isn’t the reality of it at all for most, I make a good living and all I do is hit go live when I’m thinking about playing some games, you are making out like it’s a hard thing to get into and succeed in…

Oh for sure, I don’t blame them for wanting to do it, when it appears to them that the person laughing and screeching into a microphone is doing that for their job. They see me, working from home in meetings all day saying boring business stuff, and then they see this dude playing Fortnite surrounded by LED lights?…

I’d venture a lot of the viewers are kids too, or at least teens. I don’t allow my kids to watch YouTube unsupervised in my house, but my 11 year old has lots of friends who don’t live in houses with that rule, and almost all of them want to be streamers, it’s wild.

I don’t think you’ll find many people fighting you on this. Hobie ruled, even my kids came away thinking he was the coolest. The moment he reminds Miles to use his palms and then immediately quits and leaves for his own universe? Amazing. I hope he gets even more to do in the sequel. 

Exactly. Like I said, my kids use it more than I do. And really it’s only been the past month or two (after getting one two years ago), where their use has jumped because my oldest has two friends that recently got Quest 2s, so he’s coming home from school and playing in Rec Room with them. I’m sure they’ll eventually…

What’s amazing about VR and what’s limiting about VR are both things you can see almost immediately after purchasing a headset. I think my Quest 2 is pretty cool. Beat Saber is fun, and hooking it up to my PC to play Half Life Alyx was rad. But I treat that thing like a board game. It sits in a closet and gets played…

Yeah I built a ramshackle platform that got me about halfway up that railing, then attached an octorok balloon to my shield, used it to glide up and get height before my platform fell, and then glided to the end. Not at all an elegant solution, but I got there! This game is great. 

It’s cool to have all four of them with you and to be able to call on their abilities whenever you want, but I wish they were easier to activate! In the rush of a lynel fight or a boss battle, it can be hard to get the one you want in front of you. I know you can dismiss some of them, but they also do damage on their…