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Or at least they shouldn't have killed him off; kept him around for the sequel. Would've been great to have him hamming it the fuck up as the primary villain for a movie.

In other circumstances, I'd be inclined to think this hyperbole, but . . . that would actually explain a lot of things.

After loving Control when I played it, I decided it was time to circle back and check out Alan Wake. Still early in the game, but so far the gameplay is functional, but nothing special, but the tone is great, and what I've seen of the story so far is good. Also love that they got themselves a...

I don't know if it's so much that dungeons are dynamically generated, but rather than the dungeons that become available in the game world are dependent on which nodes develop on the server. At least that was the impression I was getting.

The game get's easier as it progresses, until it doesn't. Avoiding spoilers here, but you'll know you're getting to the Bad Part when you're told to head to a place west of Pitax. Someone had malice in their soul when they did the encounter design there.

Yeah, the fact that they've already iterated on the spell animations is worthy of kudos.

Well, both the Diablo trailers look good. And given that Diablo is just about the only thing Blizzard puts out that I care about nowadays, I guess I'll call it a good Blizzcon.

And even if you're inclined to go the completionist route, you should still just skip all the water PoIs in the Skelligge map. Trust me on this.

I don't mind having a lot of abilities available that you can pick and choose from to make a build out of, but Christ I don't want to go back to the EQ2 days of needing to have 60-120 skills on screen to play the game right. One hotbar; maybe two hotbars with the design intent that you have one...

If you haven't found them already, head over to a wiki and look up where you find the party members Jubilost and Ekun. You can only get them during Troll Trouble, and they (especially Jubilost) can be really easily missed if you don't hit the right zones during the quest. Just tossing that out...

Still kinda annoys me that they're using "Tank" as the actual in-setting term for them. Couldn't have gone with something that feels a little less metagame-y? Guardian? Knight? Soldier? Legionnaire? Hoplite? Damn near anything?

Yeah, it gets outright said in Civil War

Eh, Bethesda's MO is radio silence until a game's ~six months out from release--honestly, that they did any sort of announcement so far out is more unusual for them than the fact that we haven't heard much since then. Wouldn't be utterly shocked if, now that next-gen is now out on the market...

Cathay was a big surprise. Wouldn't have placed money on any of the Far East cultures showing up, and certainly not as one of the launch factions. To the best of my knowledge, they've never even had an unofficial ruleset in White Dwarf for the tabletop, so this'll be the first faction that CA...

And those are mortal chaos knights in the foreground, rather than bloodletters or something like that. Assuming that's real (and it probably is), then it looks like the Chaos factions will probably be the united forces of each god, rather than just being daemons.

There were two teasers today, but I'm just grabbing the last one. The first three teasers were showing four constellations associated with war, trickery, hedonism, and death (so, the Chaos gods), with this last one showing the constellation associated with the bear god. I'd expected for a while...

Another good game that falls in that category is Nox; played the hell out of that game back in the day. One of the few games I know of where things like class choice seriously changes the story, which is something I always like. Last I checked, you can still pick it up on GoG.

From what some of the Total War influencer-types have said, this might be the first teaser for Warhammer 3. No real info in the teaser, but people who have checked the lore have pointed out that the constellation mentioned in the trailer is one that's supposed to be ascendant in April--possibly...

I'd personally say that it'd probably be best to get something like Baldur's Gate or Pillars of Eternity under your belt before trying Pathfinder. Pathfinder feels like it sorta assumes that you will have familiarity with these types of RPGs in general, and with the DnD ruleset in particular...

Yeah. Kingmaker actually has incredibly granular difficulty settings, letting you tweak the difficulty on just about every possible parameter individually. You can in fact put kingdom management on autopilot if you want; I think it just also disables any achievements tied to it. If you do decide...

If you like Pillars, then pick up Tyranny at some point. It's on the shorter side, as RPGs go, but the setting's great, and so is the magic system. The shorter length is also tied to trying to make more distinct narrative paths through the game, which is good if you want to do multiple...

Much like all the Japanese Godzilla movies, when you get down to it (well, the human part, at least; most of the movies didn't have an airship). That's how you know it's a proper Godzilla movie.

Christ. If we're going to continue doing this online-only thing, at this point I wish they'd let me just get on a fucking waitlist or something. I'd honestly rather sit in a digital line and wait my turn at this point than have to try to jump on the fucking Add to Cart button before the bots.

The fact that we live in a world where Sonic the Hedgehog could theoretically win Best Picture almost makes all this coronavirus shit worth it.

Don't know if I hated it quite as much as some here, but this was a weirdly made movie. It really does feel like it was made in the 80s, and ends up being campy in all the wrong ways (that scene of her flying in particular was so bad that I started feeling sympathetic embarrassment from watching...

Blood of Empire by Brian McClellan, book three of the Gods of Blood and Powder trilogy. This, along with the previous Powder Mage trilogy, is set in a 19th century-style fantasy setting, with muskets and sabers, and mages that get their magic from gunpowder. This particular book was okay, but...

After seeing it got a large patch recently, decided to hop back onto Stardew Valley and play farmer. Great game for when you're looking for something chill.

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It's Act 3.

Yeah, if you wanted to sum up the difference between Aquaman and the Synder movies, it's that Synder pretty clearly approaches these movies from the viewpoint of, "I know, this comic book shit is stupid. Don't worry though, I'm going to fix it and make it mature and cool," while Aquaman was made...

As I understand it, the game didn't pass certification on PS4/Xbone, but CDPR essentially promised that the day-one patch would bring it up to snuff, so Sony and Microsoft gave it the pass. And the patch apparently did no such thing. Hopefully this will serve as a little lesson for the console...

Guessing that's more of an alpha thing than anything else. Testing more complex encounter types without needing the full level progression.

If they can at least make the siblings the same race, it'll be a step up from the last one.

Yeah, Season 2 is easily the roughest, story-wise (I'd say even the Personal Story ranks higher, and that's not going to be winning any awards for the writing). But at the same time, Season 2 (and the Season 1 recap cutscene) is also where you get just about all your context for the core NPC...

Owen Wilson in a role where he's not playing some scruffy rogue-type with a mop-top is so fucking weird. It's like seeing a physical law of the universe being broken.

So have they actually said yet whether Crimson Desert is MMO or single player? They were vague as hell on that when the game was announced.

Yeah, sounds like Deep Down to me. And if that is the game you're thinking of, that one's dead. Super dead. Even if Capcom's keeping quiet about it and just hoping people will forget it existed.

Huh. Those numbers are actually higher than I would've expected for just about all the games (except maybe the pop on EQ2...). It's no WoW, but considering that I would've halfway expected to find out Daybreak was circling the drain... Maybe there is actually a little hope that that hinted-at...

On a geologic timescale, if ever.

Nah, it'll be up for free until the next story chapter, which in this case means that it'll be free for a long fucking time. They're doing something weird with this chapter where they're releasing it incrementally over the next five or six months (and still counting it as one chapter), and the...