It also works in From’s favor that the games are notoriously obtuse and cryptic. I might have just assumed the quests were never supposed to end. I haven’t even started any of those quests though, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I’m pretty sure it does. When i logged in this morning, i saw merchant icons all over the map, and I’m pretty sure some NPC names.

I like Torrent because it is the closest any game has gotten to giving me Yakul from Princess Mononoke.

Also because I can run up to a roaming boss, whack it, check what effect my attack has on its healthbar (read: none), and then just book it until I gain a few levels.

Nioh lets you pause the game mid action. It takes 2 button presses though, and you can’t adjust your inventory or do literally anything other than un-pause when the game is paused. That keeps the tension and makes it so you can’t reliably use items that aren’t mapped to quick-access, but you can still put the…

I expected the Messengers in Bloodborne to fuck me up so it took me a few hours to look up how to get weapons only to find I had skipped them right at the beginning.

Now when I’m playing a From game I go by, “inspect everything, expect death”.

OK, but it’s not at all the challenger edition situation. It’s the coop multiplayer mode which has a series of really well designed campaign missions and a fun survival mode, and a raid mission for the campaign. It was a free addition to the main game, but it is a solid, if paired down, loot slasher thing.

Better yet, search “Elden Ring Metacritic”, or OpenCritic. You’ll see the score, not be terribly shocked because you’ve played all the FromSouls games, and then you’ll play it just like you intended to.

Like the live action Sonic design.

There are games that have issues on day one. Usually the ones that do are huge releases because the release date is set to appease shareholders, or to make sure the marketing cycle can start at the right time.

It’s also worth noting that the Deluxe edition didn’t include early access when it was first available for pre-order. It was originally just the art book and soundtrack and whatever else is normally associated with a Digital Deluxe edition. Early access was added later, and honestly was the reason I dropped the extra…

Fair point, but I had never played any of the previous games and felt like it was pretty well handled in the new game in such a way that I wasn’t like, “why is this guy so angry?”

You will not be lost. Kratos kills (most of?) the Greek pantheon and leaves to start a new life. That’s what you might want to know that happens prior to this game.

Microsoft is very close to convincing me I also need an XBOX..

So you went ahead and ignored the part where the event raised 3.4 million for the Prevent Cancer Foundation, huh?

He raised 3.4 million for charity during the stream. That’s what I will say.

This is exactly the progression I follow when in a character creator. I don’t set out to make a horrifying teletubby, but I start by looking at all the presets, picking one a starting off point and then proceeding to make micro-adjustments that become a downward spiral and end up with two solutions: go back to the…

Dirt 5 is great fun, and Persona Strikers has some of the vibe of the slice of life aspect of P5, but very little of the actual slog of it. I rented both on Gamefly (which was a subscription I acquiesced to as a means of actually purchasing a PS5), and I sent them back unfinished because I felt like I might just buy…

Soulsbourne with CJ gives new meaning to “Ah shit, here we go again”

I wish they had released Blacklist as cross-gen. By the time it came out I had already sold my 360 (god, it’s been a long time huh?) to get my PS4. I really liked conviction, especially the coop multiplayer bit and would have liked to play Blacklist

If they succeed at recapturing some of that magic, I’m here for that tour.