I remember seeing the gorgeous trailer for ‘Breath of the Wild’, and knowing I’d have to get the game, especially as I was already going to buy the Switch for ‘Mario Kart 8' and ‘Super Mario Odyssey’. But even as I watched it, I had the sinking feeling it was a game I’d just be terrible at playing. I’d tried some of…

In terms of influence, Fortnite absolutely blows RDR2 out of the water, even if it was a very enjoyable movie. It’s up there with Minecraft in terms of popularity. If you want evidence of this, just visit any boardwalk or mall and see what t-shirts are out front.

I agree that DE is an astoundingly strong debut game, but it didn’t come entirely out of nowhere. The lead designer wrote a novel set in Revachol (currently being translated into English, to my delight), and the setting itself has its roots in a homebrew DnD campaign he’s been running for over a decade. So the reason…

I don’t get much time to play during the week (mainly because Overwatch has its Halloween event up, plus there were OWWC prelims to watch), but I made a point to keep my Fire Emblem: Three Houses run going.

Since they can pry Halloween from my cold dead hands, I will be playing Luigi’s Mansion 3, Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin, and maybe that weird spooky musical point n’ click adventure game I picked up a while ago. Also curious about Inmost on Apple Arcade but the touch controls on my iPad felt impossible when I first…

I’ll forgive your slight against Outer Worlds if you forgive me for still enjoying it.

Glad you played Disco!! I still need to get back to it but I changed my gaming computer setup so it’s hooked up to my TV now so I don’t have to think about its busted hinge or busted internet. Homer Simpson but as a detective must make his return...

After reading SAM’s review last week, I’m curious about DE, but I’ll probably watch a bit of it on Twitch, maybe wait out a deep price cut during a sale if I do decide to pick it up. It’s not a gotta-have-it-now game, but I think I’d get a kick out of constructing my own brand of terrible protagonist.

It’s hard to start this without addressing the elephant in the room—the fact nobody sent me a review code for Death Stranding. Or a PS4 to play it on. I specifically did not put in a request for either, but it would have been a nice surprise.

I liked the first 3 hours of Disco Elysium I played but I probably won’t pick it up again for a long time, for a couple of reasons: because I have ADHD and the game is just so dense, yes. But also, it’s not just dense but LOUD. It is *always on* in a way that, say, Outer Worlds is also always on, but where OW just…

Started up The Outer Worlds. Really liking it so far, the first big moral choice is pretty well done (and contrary to some below I don’t think it does present any one option as plainly better than the others, it’s more a question of personal belief.) Also I would defend Parvati with my life.

I think I may be ready to pack up my playthrough of Hollow Knight; I have other games to get to, after all! It’s not that I’m not enjoying the game (petty frustrations aside), but the challenges are getting to a point where the frustration starts to overwhelm the fun. If possible, I’d like to beat the Trial of the…

I keep hearing such great things about Disco Elysium, I know I’m going to have to pick it up at some point.

I’m about five days into my first play-through of Disco Elysium and I’ve been loving it so far. I think it’s a testament to the game’s sharp artistic POV and its strong sense of immersion that it keeps ridiculing me mercilessly for playing my character as a spineless moderate (achievement attained: “The World’s Most…

Didn’t want to agree on Outer Worlds, but agree with you on Outer Words. Beautiful aesthetic, good writing and characterization, but heavy on “choices” and light on consequences, and literally 99% of the missions are variations of fetch quests. “Oh I’m just not sure if I could work with her, could you fetch me her pers…

This was a very light game week for me, but it was a nicely retro one. We bought an HDMI switch so that we could hook up our cable box, Raspberry Pi, XBox 360 and PS3 to that and the TV at the same time. We also took advantage of reorganizing all the cables in the family room to also hook up the Wii to the TV as well.

Still playing through The Outer Worlds and I’m loving it so far. It feels like a Fallout game with a lot of the extraneous stuff trimmed off. I know some people liked that hard RPG stuff, but this game is just so much easier to play without all those extra systems and stats to worry about. Also the writing is…

I finished DE last week, finishing off a week plus of almost utter complusive play. It was great! It’s so rare these days, as a bitter and burned out middle age failure, to really fall into a video game and wholeheartedly love it. 

This is a preposterous mischaracterization. The point of Cooper in Twin Peaks is his consummate competence, the very picture of police perfection — in Disco, you’re a disaster of a human being who has to put yourself together piece by piece. You can’t be an ace detective until you’ve earned it, and even then, you’ve…

Honestly, as much as I loved the game, I thought the mystery itself kind of fell apart.