Code Vein is pretty mediocre if you’re not into anime, I think. If you do like anime, it’s excellent though (in the same way something like My Hero is excellent. It’s predictable, but you’re having fun. Ya dig?) The gameplay really opens up after a couple levels, particularly once you unlock a few blood talent trees.…

It’s not anime-style, but part of why I had so much fun with Ghost of Tsushima was that Jin Sakai got to do some hella anime stuff, and looks like he’s about 35.

When I first heard about this, I was hoping that this would be a spiritual successor to Code Vein, which was an excellent Souls-like. Disappointed to find out that it’s not, but I hope the Tales fans have fun with it!

Every Supergiant game deserves a spot on this list. I listen to Transister’s OST whenever I really need to get some work done. It’s just great chill music that doesn’t have a lot of singing to distract you.

Wait, did this always have such a star-studded cast? Lmao

Well you see, he needs all that extra money because he’s being taxed so heavily! If you pay Bobby $100 million, he only gets, like, $70 million of that!

Unfortunately Gondor fell. Not to orcs, mind you, but to fires in early 2020. Turns out global warming is deadlier than Sauron.

Maybe Bloomberg, since that’s where Jason went? Can’t speak for their non-game coverage though, haha.

Who spilled the Steam reviews into my Kotaku comments?!

We should call this the “Gamepass Factor”. Don’t require a constant connection to your servers if you’re launching free on Game Pass! It has 23 million subscribers, a large number of whom may flood your servers on launch day since it doesn’t cost them any extra cash to check out every game on the platform.

Similarly, Crucible also had a really smooth ‘launch’, but other than that first day hardly anyone played. And look where that went...

Yep. Red Dead Redemption in particular is a great comparison. It has it’s own problems (story/gameplay pacing, wonky controls, development crunch) but absolutely one thing that it got extremely right was looking amazing and running well on older tech. I played it on my original launch PS4 just fine. I couldn’t tell…

Look, I’m happy for the Super Monkey Ball fans out there. Y’all never get much love.

Also we kinda already got our Han Solo simulator with The Outer Worlds, IMO. Like it’s not 1:1 but it’s pretty damned close.

After enjoying The Witcher so much, I’m optimistic for this. I know they’re fundamentally different projects with totally different sources...but Netflix did well once (at least IMO) so I’m hoping they’ll do well again!

Same! This comment thread reinforced to me that even though I’ve been heavy into gaming for nearly 20 years that there’s still big personalities that I’ve just missed. I gotta check out Giant Bomb, or maybe Nextlander instead!

I’ll check it out!

I wonder what you think my age range is, haha. I’m 30.

Love this bit at the end. They’re not trying to be the heroes, they just want to contribute to a new normal of inclusion, respect, and happiness for everyone.

Well if it works for them then good on ‘em. I’ll have to check it out. Was just kinda turned off by how “2012 paid online magazine” the site looked, haha.