I was initially unimpressed with Valhalla when you are in Norway. But once I got to England there are times when the game is gorgeous. Especially during the day with HDR enabled. I do think the interior environments are less impressive. They all feel sort of drab and many have a haze applied which increases the…

This seems excessively touchy.  People do realize words like blind have meanings beyond a reference to a disability, yes?

I get what you are trying to say with the eyes, but technically even then your eye is rocking back to look up just like your head has to do.

To some degree this is true even without DLC. Games now commonly have massive day 1 patches and then a bunch of subsequent patches. Preserving games will now basically fall to “pirates” that will have to archive fully patched games.  You can’t rely on physical media for the final full game.

How is this even a question? You play as a character often in first person. Now, IRL, if you want to look up which way does your head tilt? If you want to look down which way does your head tilt?  There you go.  Mystery solved.  Who do I see for payment?

It’s the obvious choice since it is not a consumable. You really have to not be paying attention to pick anything else.

Yeah, I think part of it just what the individual player does. For example, you talk about the missing key. I had a missing key that wasn’t part of a mission, but in the mission you talk about I just paid the guy.  So maybe I would have hit the bug, but I never saw it because I just paid him.

Sure, it might have been a novelty if every written clue you found looked like gibberish scribblings to you and you had to take it to some learned monk or something to find out what it says but... that could also have gotten old real fast.

This was my thought too. Basically just some sort of temp files. Though why would it need that sort of thing for video clips?  And why would a couple of games cause it to decrease?  

That sounds terrible. I have yet to hit a corrupted save. I’ve seen a few more bugs since I made that post. I saw a canoe floating high in the air in the the Vinland section. And a couple of days ago I had to force quit the game when my Eivor got stuck trying to ring the bell for the feast. There was a dog…

You play like I do. I want to be left alone when working my way through areas, but I do summon for boss fights. And unfortunately none of my friends even play these games so I can’t really take advantage of the password based co-op.

I’m actually kind of impressed at how well it does manage to run given the technological gap between the Switch and other platforms. But if I buy the game I’ll buy it for one of the other others.  My Switch is for Nintendo games.  

On the original (and all the Souls games) I played mostly in soul form just to avoid being invaded. The life penalty sucks, but I just didnt want to be interrupted. The few times I did get invaded I would hide and wait them out.  It actually worked most of the time.

It sounds like the first sword has bonus damage when your health is 100% full. But, otherwise (i.e. your health is at anything other than 100%), has the same damage as the second sword.

Their cloud gaming is more of a cherry on top of Ultimate.  And it actually works quite well.  How much you use it though is going to depend on the individual.  Some people have no need to play games on their tablets or whatever.

And the fostering freedom of creativity, is that when they refuse many times to cross platform play when Nintendo / Microsoft have already agreed to it?

The fan on mine could definitely be very loud. It also liked to do a bunch of beeping after power outages and such because Sony’s OSes are fragile crap (still true on the PS5). I didn’t have many issues beyond that, but I also didn’t play it that much. The XBox One was my platform of choice for 3rd party games so…

This is nice and may actually work on a few people, but in my experience most of these people are simply irrational. This is much of the same crowd that thinks virus is a hoax and that being told to wear a mask is the government trying to take away their rights.

Hmm... I’ve only experienced one of those. I got clipped into the ground once and couldn’t get out.  Other than that I’ve seen an eagle clipped into the ground and once I cleared a camp and a key I needed for a chest had disappeared.  I saw it with my raven when I first scanned the camp, but didn’t have it after I…

Yeah, I have a bunch of gripes with that controller. First, yeah, that c-stick was a pointless nub that was in no way an advantage over a proper thumb stick.