Is that not exactly what Squadrons was?

I just keep USB-C cables handy now anyways. But, for the Xbox One X, I did very much like having the option of using another rechargeable battery pack, or swapping in fresh batteries. 90% of the time I’d plan ahead and recharge but sometimes I just plain forgot, or played longer than I expected and when it runs dry…

Eagerly awaiting the post later in the year decrying the PS5 for being cheaply made when the disk drive stops working.

I’ll be the detractor here - I only kinda like roguelikes and I disliked Hades. I didn’t hate it. But it wasn’t amazing, earth shattering, great, or even good. It was honestly boilerplate roguelike.

I think I’m the only person on the entire planet who found Hades to be pretty darn boring and same-y as other hack and slash roguetypes. I got it on the strong, strong recommendation of Kotaku and was bored after maybe an hour. 

I have a hard time finishing games too but interestingly you listed all games I actually enjoyed so much I did play through to the end!

“my Arthur has never left an unskinned carcass”

Another controversial pro-tip perhaps, but if you’re like me, and you’re on PS5, make use of the tips cards for puzzle solving. I typically try to solve puzzles myself but get frustrated if it takes too long and just google it. The PS5 has the tips card which often can point you in the right direction, or even just…

Apparently James Veitch was part of the Demon’s Souls dev team

I’m 99% sure I had Covid back in February. The symptoms sound almost exactly the same. At the time, a “mysterious flu” was raging through a school my partner works at, but no one (including me) had any flu test result in a positive. It certainly wasn’t a cold, at the time I suspected a really, really bad flu. The…

You don’t have to parry at all, I beat him maybe my third try just by dodging. As you said the timing is always the same so if you dodge after he punches, you can get a ton of hits in at once.

Your problem is also the appeal of the game. You’re given tools and a general quest and have to explore and figure things out.

I have to admit in the Desmond era I was a huge fan of the modern day story intertwining with the historical stuff. Not AC1, I found “explore a prison” pretty boring. But I enjoyed the cutscenes, and this idea that a modern day doofus was turning into a razor-sharp-senses killer Assassin slowly over time.

I was just thinking about this the other day, so many games come with unnecessary character builders these days, and you end up with awkward “silent protagonist” cutscenes in modern games because of it.

Yeah there’s some real shaming going on lately, specifically for the people who play this game.

That’s just terrible. I’m sorry for your children.

Would you interrupt a sports game to get your kid to do a chore (as the video jokingly suggests)? If not, that’s not “equal footing”, especially if your kid isn’t going to be a professional sports star (using your own argument here). But people respect sports games more than team-based online games.

Oh god I’m glad you’re not my parent. Just because your parents treated you shitty doesn’t mean you need to do the same to your kids. Does that work both ways for you? If the kid wants something for you, do you immediately turn off your show / stop playing a game / leave the grocery store / stop the car to attend to…

I think the short answer is no. I’m an arachnophobe and I don’t agree with this article. I think ultimately, I do agree that we should reduce the number of spiders in games, but not because of people maybe being afraid of them. Instead, I think it’s just lazy game design. They’re like the go-to for both “scary big…

I agree whole-heartedly with Fahey - so many western RPGs are just shades of brown as far as the eye can see, with murky blurry textures and a grimdark atmosphere. I really wanted to like Souls games, as an example, but can’t get past the emo-as-hell setting and world. It feels somehow even more cheesy and awkward…