Disc and PS4 in my childhood bedroom/adulthood storage locker with $0 monthly rent 30 miles east of here, though I am seriously tempted to get it and do a refresher if only to make Elden Ring more productive.

Father Gascoigne, huh? There are a few ways. One lesser-known one is to use a music box you get from an early quest designed to help you beat him. It dazes him long enough for you to deal 30-40% of his health bar when he transforms.

This is my first real effort/purchase of a Souls game, having given up on Bloodborne which I tried, wanted to, and did kind of enjoy but I just couldn’t get past that fucking Father Gascoigne cocksucker (Also got the game from a neighbor for free, so no sunk cost made it easier to give up).

This article is supposed to be some kind of confession.

I love how bits like this are interspersed with her not knowing tech words like “network” because even though she’s cloned from a genius her intelligence doesn’t come with a built-in dictionary.

Its funny you say that. I’m nearly done with a playthrough in anticipation of Friday, and realized at level 51 i had never bothered upgrading my spear this playthrough. Whoops. sure Alana, I’ll go one shot the scrapper for you. 

I dread ending it, but also I cant because Sigrun is kicking my ass

But that’s not a problem with franchise films, it’s a problem with how business is done. If it wasn’t big series, it would be something else like westerns, or big-budget trilogies, or endless rom-coms.

I think what makes it an even weirder criticism for this game is that it was clear in Horizon Zero Dawn that they were looking at as a game series and instead of cramming all those answers instantly there, they were building those hints with the sense that the answers would be coming. There’s a lot of stuff in HZD…

Honestly these days the fact the review embargo lifts several days in advance is the best sign of all it seems. And it sounds like this game is exactly what I was hoping for, keeping all the focus of the original game with the only flaw being it could never pull off a satisfying twist the level of finding out what…

“It’s not solely a problem with Horizon Forbidden West, nor is it a problem limited to video games. You see it across popular genre fiction these days, as everything from Star Wars to the Marvel Cinematic Universe doubles down on plot over people, going so far as to fill in backstories for enigmatic characters who…

I’m really looking forward to the Rings of Power trailer, since we’ve gotten so little info about it (at least until a couple of days ago). The backlash from a certain segment of the internet about the prominent existence of black people in the show just makes me more enthusiastic about it.

“Unless they literally shoplift a physical copy of a game, not one single cent is ‘lost’.”

Why does this “subjective values judgment” argument get trotted out as a justification for piracy all the time as if the value prospect of playing a game for $0 through piracy does not heavily influence the initial value assessment of someone who can and does pirate games and whether or not they’re going to buy it?…

It should be noted that today’s Escapist has basically nothing (except Yahtzee) to do with Sterling’s Escapist. That site had become a breeding pool for reactionaries during Gamergate, and then promptly imploded. It’s been a corpse for years. This recent iteration has been resurrected by (I think?) Russ Pitts, who…

Moviebob came back to the Escapist for a bit and they are doing a lot better now.

The “gotcha” is that they can’t take a pile of money for doing nothing? Cry me a f’ing river.

It’s funny how often the “every game should be for everyone” apostles fail to see the flaw in their reasoning when they instantly make an amalgamation between a community and its toxic vocal minority.

My god. The SAME people? Can’t they get new people to throw original hissy fits?

This all makes me very anxious. My entire life I’ve judged games based on fun and the narrative and the challenges and the art and how they control and how holistically finished they feel. Little did I know I was doing it all wrong, and I should instead have focused on puddles and trees and a character’s climbing…