Very much with you on Automata. I actively dislike most of its story—none of those characters except maybe Pascal do a thing for me—so I was mostly just playing it as an intermittently fun hack-and-slash. But Route E got me, hard. 

“It’s a candy necklace of a movie: sweet but chalky.”

Prey was such a neat game. One of my favourites of 2017. Glad you’re enjoying it!

I got a $10 PSN gift card from Sony rewards, so I checked out my wishlist to decide what to get. I was drawn between three games: Super Hot, Slime Rancher, and Hollow Knight. I played the demo of Super Hot back when the Kickstarter came out and enjoyed it, but I’ve heard the realm game is just amazing in VR. Slime…

The problem with the Division is I like some separation from reality from my silly looter shooter. That is one of the reasons why Borderlands is still the gold standard for that genre. A game where you are grinding to find better guns doesn’t make sense in a “realistic” near future modern combat scenario and feels a…

I began referring to Prey 2017 as a door opening simulator. This is something I want more exploration games to be. Give me multiple ways to get into a locked room, dangit!

Apex’s Battle Pass is kind of disappointing, but I’m still glad I bought it just to kick Respawn some “Hey, great job” money. (I also have faith that I’ll recoup my 950 tokens by the end of the season, and that the S2 rewards will be more substantial. They’re good at being responsive to feedback thus far. Oh, and I am…

Thanks so much! My C- Photoshop skills occasionally come in handy.

Greetings, Fellowship of the WAYPTW thread,

I used to live a few blocks north of Keanu’s Manhattan apartment and hence, weirdly, would bump into him... a lot. To the point at some point we knew each other visually enough to sort of nod, acknowledging the other person on 8th Ave or when he’d be just sitting, by himself, semi-low key as to not be recognized in…

Looked at We3, reminds me of Robert Mason’s Weapon/Solo books, except with animals. I’ll check them out more thoroughly later.

An open world game where you play as a jaguar and hunt animals, avoid poachers, and wreck white women.

I just finished Ending B, along with A (obviously), G, K*, and W. I haven’t done a lot of the sidequests; I’ve just did the ones that interested me and weren’t irritating to complete (I’m looking at you, “Family Squabble”!). And I’m sure there were plenty I missed because I gave up after wandering around the waypoint…

It’s about the number of slots each chip takes up. A black diamond means that it’s the minimum number of slots a chip of that level can take up. If you combine a black diamond with a non diamond, it will take the average of the two numbers of slot spaces. So the more black diamonds you combine, the more space you’ll…

Has anyone else been smashing their brain to pieces on Baba Is You? I can’t remember a game that’s pushed my lateral thinking muscles harder; even Opus Magnum didn’t force me to switch gears this often. I hate/love it so much.

Edit: Also, I was already bitching about this on Twitter, but I’m incredibly disappointed by…

I have re-downloaded World of Warcraft. Still haven’t really decided whether to resub, it’s pleasant enough but these days I’m subscribed to many things. And on top of that I’d have to buy the latest expansion to catch up (I stopped playing around Pandaria.) Still it seems there have been quite a few little quality of…

Agreed. He’s basically the Lebowski of NieR: Automata for me, “taking it easy for all us sinners.” Machine on a Break abides.
“I take comfort in that.” 

Hey. I spent most of this week trying really hard to defeat some 5* Magicites in Final Fantasy Record Keeper. I succeeded a lot more than I thought I would. Syldra (FF5) and Typhon (FF6 sneeze guy) of the Wind Magicite group are my new heavy hurdle to surpass. So I decided to buy Caligula Effect Overdose for PC (since…

Now that I’ve talked about what I played, I’ll comment on Sam’s article...

Currently still playing Assassin’s Creed 2 when I manage to wrest the controller away from my wife, whom I’d forgotten was super into the first game and is charging far, far ahead of me on the game. I’m only half-watching when she plays because I don’t want the plot fully spoiled for me. Fortunately, she’s mostly do…