Most of my “quick bails” were free games or demos that I wasn’t actually that interested in to begin with, where I spent twenty minutes in them before I decide to pass, and there are plenty of them. But they were free so whatever; it’s the ones I paid for and thought I’d enjoy that hurt.

I wouldn’t let your disappointment with Hollow Knight hold you back from this. They’re very different games. I’ll give you some of my early thoughts on the Dead Cells, then compare it to my experience with Hollow Knight (which for all its wonderful strengths, was a game that I ended up walking away from):

I’m sure the popular opinion is the one expressed in this article, but I loved Mr. Brooks. I thought Costner’s flatness was perfect, and the way he and William Hurt played off each other was pretty sinister. For Costner to do more would be to throw their dynamic off balance. I’d read somewhere they actually planned…

Oh yeah, totally. And I do hope you enjoy it! (I mean, I never want someone to have a bad experience.)

I didn’t play NMS until the Next update. After about ten hours (which I’m sure is not really enough time for the game to open up) my early impression is that this is the perfect chill-and-grind game, but parts of it feel pretty cumbersome. I know, based on reddit, there’s some divisiveness among players regarding the…

Oh man, Mad Max may have been a by-the-numbers open world game, but I had a blast with that one. I don’t know, I just found it infectious and fun.

This turned into a big rant. But it’s already written so I’ll just throw it out there anyway. The TL;DR is: I think it’s worse than everybody says.

Scout owner here, just wanted to chime in and also express my love for the bike. Not great on long rides, but if you do a lot of country or mountain roads, it’s perfect.

I’ve always kind of thought Paul was bonkers anyway. So many times he wrote shit that made me be like “Um, are we stemming from the same Jesus?”

I still don’t know how I did this, but back when I still drank, I got shitfaced in downtown Key West on my last day of vacation. I blacked out in the cab right after realizing I’d pissed myself, and when I came out of it I was flying over North Carolina. I somehow managed to not only make it through security, but…

This one does:

They’re really cramping his style.

More so than the first longer trailer they put out (which looked liked Western GTA way more than it did RDR2), I think this strikes that more human-focused tone that RDR had. That said, I’m still a little meh as well. I’m not totally sure why. Possibly a defense mechanism to keep my hype in check, haha.

Anyone know how many people die or have extreme allergic reactions every year from touching something that was also touched by a hand that touched peanuts? On the surface, it kind of seems to me like they’re trying to prevent a problem that nobody’s really had.

This seems really staged to me. Like, obviously so. Mainly because I doubt they’d let him ramble on for almost ten minutes, shitting on the awards show, only to remove him at the very last second. When I read the article (and other articles about this), and saw comments, I was like, “Oh man, he went off script!” but…

I have experience with multiple pregnancy clinics due to my job, and can say that I’ve come across two distinct types:

Seems like the reviews for this game overall are split into “this doesn’t take the political stand it could’ve - lukewarm reception” or “they improved/revamped everything from past games - enthusiastic reception.” Probably inevitable (and even understandable) given the context of the game, but much harder to parse as…

The first time I entered one of the afterlife sections, I literally stopped and went “Oh my god.” It was stunning. As much as Ubisoft loves sticking to a certain (and sometimes crooked) sense of realism in many of their games, things like Curse of the Pharoahs shows how good they can get when they play with reality.…

I know this is real and all, and a real person is really badly injured...but at one point I started laughing because it just seems like something the Onion would write.

Damn man. BSB and Vicar Amelia are my biggest bottlenecks in this game so far. My first time against Father G was tough, but since then he’s been a breeze, and most of the mid-late game boss fights I’ve won in 1-3 tries. But 120 hours with this game over a few different characters and I’m still a chump next to those…