Just leased a 2024 Nissan Rogue SV Premium. It’s comfortable, has plenty of cargo space when we go on vacation or I need to take my business traveler wife to the airport, and the “semi-autonomous self-driving mode” is unbelievably good. On the highway, I just need to keep a hand on the wheel to let the car know I’m…

This was essentially Ian Malcolm’s argument in the Jurassic Park novels: Stockton Rush got so caught up in whether he could make this sub out of carbon fiber and $50 gamepads that he never asked himself if he should do it.

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I won’t be starting over. I enjoyed the base game (warts and all) and gladly preordered the expansion, but the main story is “Been There, Seen It, Done It” for me. I’ll just respec, run around a little bit to get all the new moves memorized, and jump into Phantom Liberty.

I’ve played games all three ways: on prebuilt PCs, on gaming computers I built myself, and on consoles. At 51 years old, I’m now firmly in the console camp: I want to be able to buy a game and just play it without worrying about what graphics card I have or whether the drivers are up to date or how much RAM I have,…

I use first name.lastname@email.com. My last name is easily misspelled, and mail.com allows me to have an alias with the common misspelling.

I played ST:O for a few days but quickly got annoyed with every mission being identical: You warp into a system, shoot a few ships, beam down to a planet/space station/derelict craft, run through a bunch of rooms shooting people until you recover the Big Glowy Thing, then get an alert that another enemy craft has…

The only reason it was big on Twitch in the first place was the drops, where you’d watch the stream for X number of hours and get a bunch of in-game goodies if your accounts were linked. Once I got the drops, I had no interest in watching any more HL streams.

Bully made you actually feel like you were a student: There were classes (i.e. minigames tangentially related to the class’ topic) you had to regularly attend or be chased by a Truant Officer. The only sleeping spot for the first part of the game was your room inside the Boys’ Dorm. You could only get out of going to…

How about skipping every single Kevin Spacey film? Given the sheer number of quality movies (including multiple Oscar winners) he was involved with between the early 90s and mid 2010s, that’s a lot of great stuff you’d be missing out on.

Look at the COVID pandemic, specifically the RWNJs who proudly refused the vaccines, then caught COVID and died. They were literally less concerned with life itself than “owning the libs.”

I avoided killing a lot of people in WD2...after I buffed up all the “fake police call” and “fake gang call” hacks. Why risk my life and fabulous hair fighting bad guys when I can get OTHER PEOPLE to fight them, then just waltz in and leisurely take whatever I want after they’re all dead?

Stuff like this is EXACTLY why I moved from PC to console gaming a decade ago and never looked back. At this point in my life (51 years old), I have zero desire to constantly be updating drivers, worrying about buying the new and improved graphics card, upgrading my RAM, etc. With a console, I can buy the game and…

When I leased my new Rogue Sport six months ago, the Nissan dealership offered me a free tank of gas and car wash if I filled out the survey in front of them and answered the way they said. Given that gas was about $5/gallon at the time, it was a no-brainer.

Most studios do this now. If you buy a game on launch day, you’re playing the Beta or at best, the Release Candidate. No Man’s Sky, Cyberpunk and Assassin’s Creed Unity were the worst offenders, but all major games are subject to this one way or another. (Although the NMS publishers have done a GREAT job of continuing…

A lot reviewers didn’t like Arkham Knight or Arkham Origins either, but I played both and loved them. I’ll probably really like this one, too.

Spec issues like this are partly why I transitioned from PC gaming to console gaming. When I had a high-end (for the time) gaming PC, whenever I picked up a game, the first thing I’d do is flip it over and see if my rig would run it. Then I’d have to make sure all my drivers were updated, blah blah blah. With a…

It’s definitely not a deal-breaker for me.

Currently, living ships can’t land anywhere except a landing pad.

As someone who loved the Arkham games and pre-ordered this one, I’d already assumed that Batman wasn’t REALLY dead, but was just deep in hiding and pretending to be dead for whatever reason. The boss fight thing is a bit of a spoiler, but Batman’s continued existence isn’t.