Oh yeah I felt the same about FTL. There was just so much buzz around it, and I liked XCOM and I liked Rogue Legacy, and this was a thing that was kind of both of those things. Like you, it took me quite a while to wrap my mind around it, but once I did I couldn’t put it down. Sadly I always had to play it muted or…

Every year I make it a sort of resolution to play a game I normally wouldn’t have played, read a book I wouldn’t have read, and watch a movie or show I wouldn’t have watched.

My second son, now 20 months old, is OBSESSED with the Street (my first kid preferred Gabba), especially Elmo and Cookie Monster. I try to lean toward Cookie just because Elmo’s voice drives me crazy after a while.

It makes sense. As long as the name “Call of Duty” still moves millions of copies, why not pack it full of stuff and see what sticks? Ubisoft does the same thing with Assassin’s Creed (though nothing they’ve done has reached the polish and staying power of CoD’s zombie mode). It’s a viable strategy. This way they…

I reinstalled drivers and restarted my PC and it ran perfect at 60 fps, everything cranked to the max. Played about an hour, then it crashed.

Same for me. Flapped about the city, saw the frame rate dip a few times, then it crashed. Hooray!

Picked this up for $5 during a Steam sale a couple years ago. I heard good things, and I really wanted to like it, but I couldn’t make it past two hours.

I caught one of those deals from cdkeys that was offering the game plus the season pass for just $36 two months before release. I wasn’t sure how it could possibly be legit, but I bought it because that’s an insane deal.

I generally turn off everything but the map in AC games. I’m not sure which one turned off the outline in Unity, but I enjoyed it more after that. It made the combat actually tense, because I had to watch their animations to determine the best time to block and counter.

I’m feeling you on this Luke. I think Rocket League hit me at just the right time.

Great post Stephen. I played Rogue two or three months ago and just recently finished Unity, and man, I thought Rogue was so much better! Unity looked incredible, but I didn’t have much fun with it. I think it was the unpredictable stealth. I never felt like I was in full control of any situation. I liked that sword…

The game port is bad. I just got a new video card in. I was hoping back when I ordered it that I was going to get to see Batman on medium then see it on ultra. The old card I was on low to medium settings and it still didn’t run great. Now with my new card I can crank all the settings up to the max. It SHOULD run…

I play every Uncharted game (and the Last of Us) on the easiest possible setting. I’m not there to be challenged, I’m there to play a pulpy action movie.

Same here. Playing at 1080, with AA off and everything else on low. Had some stuttering in an early cutscene, but it’s been fine ever since. Of course it now looks like a late-gen PS3 game, and not the graphical powerhouse I was hoping for, but at least it’s playable.

No mention of Peg + Cat? My 3 year old son loves that show.

I just gave up on this game this weekend. Part of it is I'm not in the right place, and part of it is that dissonance.

I think this is an excellent fit for you Patrick. Looking forward to some thoughtful stories.

Can't say I've read any of Brandon Sanderson's work, but that's going to change ASAP (any starting suggestions?).

Yeah...she was such a badass when she came into the game, then just kinda sucks. What they should have done was switch her and the dwarf. Make her the crazy badass hunter and the dwarf the one who needed saving. But they went for the easy tropes instead. Oh well.

Cool. I hoped that when I came across her in the story we'd end up seeing her in DLC. Wish it was actual story DLC, because she gets a raw deal. Introduced as a mysterious badass, then gets saddled with that damsel-in-distress-oh-please-settle-down-with-me Talion crap.