If you’re playing solo, I think either Samurai or Hunter would be best (Samurai for the self-heal and health boost - or damage boost depending on which perk you decide to activate) and Hunter just because of the focus on staying away from enemies. I’ve only solo’d the first story mission on bronze. Super easy. Silver…

Played a bit tonight. It’s a decent enough diversion from the single player game, but still such a far cry from the main attraction. The game’s at its best when it’s letting you loose on an area to slice through enemies, so the bog standard MP gimmicks don’t really work here (defend your area, hit X enemy with X type…

The thing I’m really stoked about is If I Were the Priest. My favorite old Springsteen bootleg that he’s never even played live since, like 1972, and only (if memory serves) during an audition. The bootleg is just him and a piano, so I’m cautiously optimistic what the full band arrangement sounds like. Seems like the…

Damn. Time for me to take a bite of humble pie. 

Sony said save files will work between systems at the developers’ discretion. That’s the only explicit answer they’ve given. They haven’t said it’s the default as you are describing it. I do hope it will be, but their coyness doesn’t bode well for confidence in the final answer. You’d think if that were the case…

While I’m sure the games that matter to me will work on both, I’m still just waiting to see what games will have save transfers. I still regularly play a decent number of games from 5 years ago, and unless there’s a system-seller game coming out for PS5, I don’t see why now isn’t the best time for me to own an X Box…

I randomly started playing Death Stranding again, and now all I want to do is play Death Stranding. I’m still baffled by how much I enjoy it. On paper, it sounds like it should be the dullest thing in the world, but I find it incredibly satisfying. Trying to make bigger and bigger deliveries (and/or multiple ones at…

I generally do as well, but my six year old only has limited game time per day, and when it’s time to stop, it’s time to stop, even if he’s not at a save point, so he’ll often suspend the game to pick up the next day where he left off. It’s great that he listens, but it also means I can’t play anything else without…

This looks really promising. I played the first game a good bit, and liked it fine, but the fact that everything looks like breath of the wild here does add something to it. I’d like it if Nintendo said “alright, listen, basically turn BOTW into a straight up over the top action game, but still make it feel like…

That’s my take. There are some months where I want to play something new but don’t want to spend the $60 on a new game. Even if the titles aren’t top of the line, dabbling in a bunch of older games or even “just okay” games for $5 a month is still worth it. And that’s assuming the worst for their library. 

For the first time in a long time, I have no idea. I’ve pretty much finished all the games I had and I’m trying to be extra frugal because I have a baby on the way in October. So I might just watch TV or, you know, tackle some basic responsibilities like an average human.

I’m personally more worried about my six year old. I’m convinced the child can ruin things by sheer force of will. I once cleaned out my car till it looked brand new. After one 20 minute car ride, there was gunk caked into the seats all around him. He didn’t have anything with him when he got in the car, what the fuck…

Stress from moving. Jesus. During this pandemic, my wife and I not only bought a house and moved (mostly by necessity rather than “oh now seems like a good time”), we also had a major flood in our previous residence (basement level condo) which had to be fixed before we could sell it, we rescheduled our wedding twice (…

I was expecting the worst after they announced big changes following an E3 premier that had me hyped, but then I read and watched a bunch of hands-on previews and the overwhelmingly positive response has been encouraging.

Seriously, wtf are they even doing with this game? If you want to know why the player base has tanked, it’s because almost 2 years later RDO is still a pretty basic, bare bones experience (with only 1 of the 3 “major” updates adding anything substantial to the game) and yet devs respond to player dissatisfaction with…

I’m more interested in the fact that your son is aging at twice the rate of a normal human. You should probably talk to his doctor about that. (AC Odyssey came out less than two years ago.)

I’m looking forward to it as well, but mainly because my wife is due in mid-October, and Valhalla seems like an easy game to pick up and put down while I’m on late-night baby duty (I’m a night owl, my wife is an early riser, so rather than take turns when the baby cries, anything before 4 am is my responsibility,…

Free upgrade vs their now-second console port you have to buy.

That’s what confuses me about the hardcore “no easy mode” types (which at times overlap with the “being a gamer back in my day” types). So many games had cheats and stuff. They were optional; if you didn’t want them, you didn’t use them. Now there’s all this flexing.

Yes! And actually being able to farm without sitting through two loading screens - just jump to the hunters dream and jump back in an instant. We’re going to be getting a whole slew of new speed runs too (in Bloodborne certainly but other games as well).