As an eighteen-year-old prospective philosophy major who had already planned out a senior thesis about the intersection of neo-Kantian and neo-Aristotelian ethics, it seems safe to say I was on pretty solid footing when I mocked the two teens for being nerds.

I have been parsing over the rules for Feast of Legends since it was announced, and while inwardly I groan a little when the advertising comes on a little strong, it has been a pleasant read so far. It would be funny if the game caught on, and suddenly your local Wendy’s looked more akin to your friendly board game…

Lovely! Hahaha it was a lot of fun to play, and it was nice to save my last quest to find out more about a companion I seldom thought about. Very funny. Thanks for tipping me off to it!

Wasn’t Blood & Wine a fantastic epilogue? The whole game was amazing, and the writing for the DLC was just as good as the main game, but the setting of Toussaint just elevates everything in my opinion. It was both a loving homage and a biting deconstruction of fairy tales. It made me day seeing surly Geralt traipsing…

You have to really game the system in KOTOR for some of those unfair fights. I won’t say how, but I had to cheese the final boss fight a ton to actually win. Calo Nord is a pain but I think I scraped by fine in that fight, if memory serves correctly.

Tales of Symponia is on my list of games where I got 90% finished and then just stopped for no apparent reason. It’s not the games fault at all, I assume my attention just went elsewhere. Maybe someday I’ll pick it up again, but I’m more likely to just check out a future Tales game than replay those 70 hours all over…

I have not played KOTOR 2! It was an arbitrary decision to do dark side first. My friend told me the situation in KOTOR 2 is that the galaxy has gone to shit, so what will you decide to do with that? And while I always pick being a good guy, I just have to go dark side once so I can check it off my gaming to-do list.…

There’s something about Zelda games that makes them so inherently shareable. My wife didn’t care much for videogames, though she caught the Overwatch bug after watching me play it a bunch. Nothing else seemed to attract her though, until Breath of the Wild came out. At first she was a little annoyed at how much I…

There is that! I should have expected it. But the kingdom was just so colorful, I thought she would enjoy sullen Geralt traipsing through fairy-tale land. Ah well.

I’m surprised that you like the influencers. I haven’t played it, but based on trailers I suspect I’d find them even more annoying than Handsome Jack. But even if we both disagree about what’s annoying in B3, at least we can agree it still manages to annoy.

Was it Equine Phantoms?

Ironically White Castle won’t be able to sell Weyerbacher’s beer in it’s home state of PA. Maybe someday these ridiculous liquor laws will be repealed. 

I tried attacking the electric poles on the right and left real quick, but I also had full health so I think I was using the lasers to attack it. I also didn’t try for super long - this was for 5 minutes before I left for work this morning. So I’m sure it will work itself out next time I play.

That’s totally fair. I guess in my mind, “meta = bad”, but I suppose chaos would be just as bad too. I still subscribe somewhat to “the less meta the better”, but it’d be difficult to have a game that has no meta whatsoever that’s still strategically balanced. 

I have, he gave me the Pegasus Boots. But maybe I need to talk to him again to trigger something at the Castle?

OK! The lack of spies does hurt a little - spies were my strategy for a good portion of the main game. I guess they are just too powerful for PvP though. But considering other mechanics are introduced I’m sure there’s some strategy I’d take a liking to. I will say one thing that’s rough about card games like…

Enjoy Stardew! It’s simple but really fun, and because the clock system is different from Animal Crossing you’ll find yourself playing multiple days without realizing it. The most dramatic it gets is usually backstory of love interests - I’m thinking particularly of Penny, who, to put it vaguely, isn’t happy at home…

How does Gwent compare with the mini-game in W3?

Hello all! This week I have continued my playthrough of Blood & Wine as well as LoZ: Link to the Past. If you care about spoilers for B&W, just skip the image and a paragraph or two.

Beware, he’s uh... well, if you took Between Two Ferns and upped the intensity of the awkwardness twofold, you’d have Eric Andre. There are some absolutely wonderful moments, but it’s not for everyone, especially if you’re Lauren Conrad.