I wasn’t upset with any of the plot or character developments—Dany going mad was inevitable—and the episode was visually and technically stunning. The problem is that Game of Thrones has felt incredibly, needlessly rushed for the past two seasons.

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I haven’t been part of the problem this time! I have 7, 9, X and X-2 on my Vita, and 7 and 9 have bugs, so I’ve left those be, and I got 12 on PC last year, so it’s recent enough that I didn’t get sucked in, even with the cool new additions. Normally I am weak and I just buy ports. So far.... I’m good. 

I was at a bar, since i’m lucky enough to have no tv and a drinking problem, and for to watch both games simultaneously. It was sport nirvana. 

Dame hit that shot about 2 minutes into the Sharks-Knights OT. I remember because I was praying for the basketball game to finish before the OT started, and ended up switching frantically between the two like a small child on Adderall

I didn’t think this series had an episode left like that in it. Last week was all boring table setting. This week was a table setting episode too, but my god, it was brilliant. It’s what a table setting episode should be. It basked in who these characters are, and made so many beautiful moments from it. It showed what…

It’s still immersive because all you see in your vision is game, and it’s 3D so you have depth and scale. It depends on how its implemented. Its kinda like a first person camera but you control a person standing a few feet away from you instead of yourself.

I stayed at the Willard in 2010, and ventured out a bit on my time off. The little details are uncanny. Ubisoft always does their homework on their games, and I’ve been blessed to have been to a number of the settings for their games, but it’s really incredibly thorough. I’m super glad to know my way around enough…

I have a distant relative who died in their late teens, apparently from complications related to eating old rice (compounded by other other health issues, but still it is what created the illness that they ultimately died from, or so I have heard).

Most of the changes are where they compressed the map a little bit, just like they did in TD1 (especially on the east side around Stuyvesant and the UN and other diplomatic areas)

Likewise TD2 compresses some areas, “overgrows” some others, but overall they are definitely on the ball. I mean, it’s not that “hard”…

Do yourself a favor and pick Watch Dogs 2 up. It’s not the best game ever, but it has really stuck with me in a major way since I played it. As someone who hated the first Watch Dogs, I am extremely fond of its sequel.

Went to college in DC, and have worked here for 6 years now after law school elsewhere. I am astonished by the accuracy. I mean, some things are off, but I have been running around without the game map and I always know where I am. The most inaccurate things are the edges. The NOA building is... a horrible eyesore to m…

Being from San Jose and visiting SF often, after having played WD2, I can say UBISOFT did a decent job. It's not exactly the same but most of the landmarks are there and running around the East Bay and Peninsula, in game, felt familiar.

Im trying to check.  I'm a local.  There's so much detritus on the streets though that it's hard to tell at the moment

When the first Division came out, the game starts you off literally a block from where I used to work in Manhattan. So that was weird... Although it got a ton of stuff wrong too but it was a pretty decent representation. Curious to hear from D.C. natives.

Sadly, the Switch almost killed the whole Vita emulation scene. Once the bigger, more powerful handheld came along and it actually survived, people were far less eager to throw effort into the dead handheld.

They still have them in some markets, or at least they did in mine a couple of months ago when I last went.

Jason Mendoza

I still laugh about Conan’s various rating systems at the end of Clueless Gamer segments where he says weird stuff like, “If blue is good and yellow is terrible, I give it a 5.”

“The first time was just to case the joint and rob it a little.”