Like every FromSoftware game (minus Armored Core) I’ve purchased, I have the nagging feeling it’ll still end up going like this for me:

I agree. The most fun part of open world games for me is the end when you have all the abilities. I like enjoying the story and being overpowered.

I think I will buy the PC version of Elden Ring just incase I get completely frustrated with the combat and need to skip a boss with a cheat.

Literally the only place 'cheating' should matter to anyone but the individual player is in a multiplayer game. Beyond that, if you're getting what you want from a particular game, go to town.

I wish I could use Wemod for Dying Light 2 on my PS 5...because that game has some really tedious item collection and systems in place to slow the game down. But in the case of Dying Light 2, the game just isn’t that compelling, so I don’t want to spend 60+ hours slowing accumulating crap to get a slight upgrade.

If anyone ever complains to me about cheating in a single player game, I just ask “who am I hurting by playing that way”? The developers got their money, I’m not in any multiplayer maps and maybe I just want to mindlessly shoot enemies.

You know, there are two paths you can take when seeing someone living in better working conditions.

to be fair, 2020 was like.. the worst

I can see that with LWT, though for me Oliver balances the dark with humour that laughs into the abyss; you can tell he was a stand-up before a presenter. Sterling is twin barrels of outrage and anger, there’s rarely a cleansing of the palette with a joke. What little is jokey is lathered in despair. I do genuinely…

Plenty of adaptations are better than the original:

It’s almost as if NFTs are a solution in search of a problem and that pretty much everything crypto bros claim they enable for gaming has been possible from a technical perspective for years.

Frankly, I think you can  make a game that’s about muddling about that’s entertaining from the jump. BotW is a great example of this. Despite a general lack of direction (besides those temples), there was virtually always something interesting on screen that you could interact with and puzzle out. I think Outer Wilds…

Man, Outer Wilds is one of those games that everybody seems to rave about, and I just could not get into when it was originally on GamePass. It was everything I disliked about Majora’s Mask, plus physics-based controls that I just could not get a handle on. Like, it’s one of those games that I feel bad I didn’t…

here’s my problem with Infinite’s campaign. you only do two things the whole time. you’re either wandering around the open world which is just one environment fighting the same enemies with the same weapons over and over. then the other half is wandering through the linear corridors of the forerunner buildings.

Immortals: Fenyx Rising (or Gods and Monsters as it SHOULD have been called) is a fantastic game. I have a hard time recommending Ubisoft games these days, but if you can borrow it from a friend or buy it used, I definitely recommend it.

Imagine if BOTW met AC: Odyssey. The writing can be a bit a cloying at times, but…

It had a steep learning curve for sure, but I stuck with it long enough to “beat” it (no secret ending for me) and really enjoyed my time with it. Eventually you’ll learn the recoil helps you maintain distance from enemies with each attack and is a defensive tool. The atmosphere was fantastic, but it was a game that…

I find the specific chunk of criticism outlined to be so aggravating. Because I watched the anime prior to the live action and felt like one of the anime’s *weaknesses* was an overreliance on “cool” over “logic”. The live action version over corrected FOR SURE but to act like the anime’s choice to blow past answers to…

Ari, how did you wizard this past your editor?

Why is it sad that they have characters from other studios and stuff? That's something that has made Fortnite fun and interesting. Using characters like Aquaman to introduce new swimming mechanics is a cool idea. Web slinging with Spiderman is cool. Bashing on the game just feels like you're trying to appeal to the…