How do you guys feel about Sea of Thieves now that it’s been updated so much? On a bigger scale, how has reviewing changed for you in the age of “games-as-service”?

Fungal Wastes is a terrible place to be in early game. Funnily enough my first playthrough took me there early on, but in my second playthrough I rushed through cause I knew there wasn’t much to be done there just yet. You’ll get back to it later in the game and it will be a lot easier to deal with.

Alright, I’ll be honest. I know what I said. I know no one is guilting me but me. But I still didn’t play Witcher 3 this week.

My two worries for CSH are that the combat is going to get repetitive due to having to recharge attacks, and that the writing won’t get better. It’s too early for me to definitively say what I find lacking in the writing, but so far it’s been written like it knows it’s video game dialogue and wants to joke around…

Hello all! Soon I’ll be tackling Obsidian’s take on KOTOR with KOTOR 2, and I’m curious to see how they handle it. But first I’m taking a breather from KOTOR to handle shorter things in my backlog. First up is, to my shame, Blood & Wine from Witcher 3. I know, I know. I’ve talked about playing it probably every other…

Gerardi, formerly of the AV Club, wrote an article a few months ago about the competitive Smash 64 scene. Check it out. https://www.escapistmagazine.com/v2/2019/01/07/inside-the-secret-world-of-competitive-smash-64/

It really is a great game, but the pacing of the first planet is pretty terrible. Should you ever try to play it again, just remember to get past that- the game really opens up after Taris (and the brief aside that is Dantooine).

Last night I finished Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. A classic game that still holds up on the replay, with a caveat or two. Part of this might be residual salt, but it’s really not fun to be soloing a boss and the boss stuns you, and then kills you while you wait helplessly for the stun effect to end. As a…

I played Don’t Starve Together a few years back, and that was a surprisingly fun multiplayer game. One time my wife equipped her lighter, accidentally burnt one thing in my camp, and then freaked out, running left and right trying to figure out what to do. Meanwhile her lighter was still equipped. She burned down my…

Makes you wonder when Sea of Thieves will patch in black monsters representing trauma. Don’t keep us waiting Rare!

This week in gaming, I finished KOTOR. Write-up will be incoming on the What have you finished...prompt. This weekend I plan on (maybe) hooking up ethernet to my office. My gaming PC is lovely in every…

Firefly.

I very much like your accidental “Indiana Jones” dilemma in SW:TOR.  Though in this case it was the casino boss who was poisoned, and they didn’t daringly escape Club Obi Wan.

Edit: I forgot the name of the boardgame in the last section, which should be titled Fake Artist Goes to New York. As the game depends on miscommunication and the manual is in Japanese, I guess I mixed up the name! No insult intended towards any of you Japanese artists. Apologies.

I’ve played about 15 minutes of WU on my wife’s phone. I enjoy the spell tracing part because it reminds me of that halloween google doodle from a few years back. The google doodle is better, however.

I hope you don’t need me to tell you that that is incredibly wrong, but if you do need to hear it: Anxiety & depression is something anyone can suffer from, regardless of race, gender or beliefs. It is not a sign of weakness or deficiency. It’s just a mental illness, something anyone can struggle with. If you decide…

I do mean Murray Bauman, and point taken. Scratch him off the list!

Assuming spoilers are safe....If it turns out our favorite copper is dead, then Suzie is ultimately to blame. I loved that moment and it was great, but for real, if Hopper is gone then I’ll never forgive Suzie.

I get what you’re saying. They’re a pretty blunt tool design wise, and they’re being used for more precise movements than they were likely intended for. Still, glad you enjoyed the design!

I do not have Mario Maker yet but I do have a code for my brother’s level, and I thought his concept was pretty well-done! It’s a short but sweet level using the twister as the main mechanic.
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Once you get a hang of stage battles you can begin to enjoy the rest of the game. A lot of people panned the RTS aspect when BL first came out, but I personally didn’t mind it. The story and world-building was too charming for me to knock on gameplay I wasn’t expecting. A tip: before a hair metal stage battle there’s…