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Life in a Medieval Castle by Frances Gies and Joseph Gies, and The Knight in History also by Frances Gies. History books that are, well, exactly what they say on the covers. They're on the shorter side, so not massive time commitments, but that also means they're not large enough to really be...

Nice to see that Larian is continuing their philosophy trying to make sure that anything you could conceivably talk to can in fact be talked to. And with that, we're also seeing that magic users will have a wider utility than just attack/buff/debuff/healing spells.

Yep. If I remember this shit right, werewolves have a love-at-first-sight mechanic built into them--they set eyes on the right person, they fall endlessly in love. End of story. Towards the end of the series, werewolf kid sees boring-girl's baby for the first time, and that shit kicks in. Don't...

So I haven't been paying a great deal of attention to this shit with the ultimate edition. Do you need the ultimate edition to play on next gen? Or is it that the ultimate edition gives extra graphical bells and whistles when playing on next gen?

I've been to exactly one midnight premiere in my life, and it was one of these damn movies (the second-to-last one? The one that ends with the werewolf kid falling in love with a baby, which is literally the only detail I can recall). My sister decided it would be a good idea to drag myself and...

From what I've seen of the beta footage, Hulk is super dependent on his rage mode to feel like the Hulk; it's where the bulk of his tankiness comes from, along with a good chunk of his damage. If you don't use it, he comes off as weirdly flimsy.

Good to see that they're keeping things in perspective.

Although the devs have said they'll be doing something about the screen shake and motion blur (probably just putting toggles in the options).

From what they've showed of some of the costumes, I think looking grimy is just part of Bearded Hulk's aesthetic, which is why the color looks off. He looks fine in the A Day level.

Would've honestly preferred any of the mainline DC heroes, but sure, I'll happily check it out.

Was nice to see the second Control DLC coming out on the 27th. I've been waiting on that so that I could do both DLCs back-to-back.

My sister had a phase where she watched Grease every single day. Then there was Disney movies, but those at least got cycled through somewhat.

The movie rights. Maybe some merchandise rights(?), but not Spider-Man as a whole.

If you're playing during primetime, and especially if you're playing in a zone with a major meta-event, you'll be seeing really solid population numbers. When you're not, players can sometimes be a little sparse; but even then, I don't think I've seen a zone that was completely dead since I came...

Permanent exclusivity would be a weird fucking choice. Even aside from Spidey's popularity, this isn't an Ultimate Alliance game with a roster of 40 or 50 characters; even one exclusive character is a lot of content to lock players out of. And as I saw mentioned in some other reactions to the...

Just got announced that Spider-Man is going to be a Playstation-exclusive post-launch character. Don't know if that means permanently exclusive or a timed exclusive, but there it is.

Hell, even playing the game on a lower difficulty, my playthrough still passed the 100 hour mark. 200 hours for turn-based might be optimistic on even bitch-baby mode. Play on anything difficult enough to result in the occasional failing and reloading, and you might be looking at double that.

Yeah, combat looks somehow smoother and more impactful than even what they showed last month.

From a setting/story perspective, also the next Pillars of Eternity.

Turtle Dreams felt like it was trying to brainwash you, and just doing a very bad job of it. Could've totally been used in some sort of Clockwork Orange scenario.

Okay, having now actually seen the beginning of the show, I'll toss in some additional thoughts: Don't know if the 40k game is going to be anything I'm interested in playing, but it's nice to see Warhammer continuing to establish itself in the video game space. Everwild has a nice looking art...

Only caught the end of the show; I'll have to go back and see the beginning of the show. But hey, Fable's not dead, which is neat. And the Medium looks pretty cool.

People's memories get imprinted on their DNA, which gets passed on to their descendants. Machine gets made that creates a VR simulation out of those genetic memories. There's been a shadow war throughout history between two secret societies: the Assassins and the Templars. The VR simulations...

Watchdogs is one of those games where the term 'ludonarrative dissonance' would get thrown around a lot, and with some justification. Both games had tons of guns (in WD1, you could straight up go to a local gun store and buy a grenade launcher), but stories where it made little to no sense that...

*sigh* Yes it does. Decided I was done with AC, but I'm going to need to pick this one up anyways. Well played, Ubi. Damn it.

Well, that'd certainly be better than EA or Activision, so sure, let's go with Microsoft.

From the sound of it, Ms. Marvel is the "main character" in the sense that the game is serving as her origin story, while the rest of the cast are already established superheroes, but not in the sense that you'll be playing mostly as her. In terms of single player missions. I imagine things...

Here's the trailers and footage from today's livestream. Things are definitely looking better; I don't know if it's going to hit quite the highs of Spider-Man PS4, but I am actually looking forward to it.

Eh, I feel like the whole thing was more the result of a failure in marketing than it was a failure of the actual game. Having a big E3 reveal that not only showed no gameplay, but seemed to be scrambling to find anything to show in its place, was not a good look--toss in some iffy-looking...

They're supposed to be doing a big livestream for the game on Wednesday. I've been guardedly optimistic about the Avengers game (in spite of the deep hole they dug for themselves with the E3 unveiling), but I'm hoping this thing goes well enough that I can actually feel unreservedly excited for it.

They also changed initiative to be based on individual characters rather than team-based. The UI also looked new.

Looks like whoever at Sony said 'expansion' misunderstood something. Insomniac is saying that it's standalone. Probably still not a full-sized game I'd guess, but rather something more like Uncharted Lost Legacy or Infamous First Light.

I don't think they specified. I would guess they largely are, except maybe Athia, since it's still saddled with a project title, rather than a final name.

So, Miles Morales, Horizon 2, Project Athia, Demon Souls remaster... honestly, not too bad.

Seeing a lot of venting on this thing. Hopefully it'll result in a console that's a little less jet-engine-y.

Sorta. The opened with Spider-man: Miles Morales, which is apparently going to be more of a substantial side story than a full-on sequel. Still looks good. Aside from that, I'm liking the look of Project Athia, and while not a graphical powerhouse, something about Little Devil Inside caught my...

And from a quick pop over to the game's subreddit, it looks like this is exactly the case. Apparently Jason Schreier put out a quote calling it an Uncharted: Lost Legacy kind of game--something straddling the line between full sequel and large standalone expansion.

I wonder if that's supposed to be the 'actual' Spider-man 2, or if it's considered more of a Miles-focused side story, since a lot of the sequel breadcrumbs in the first game were more Peter-focused (the Venom hints, the stuff with Yuri in the DLC...). Either way, Spider-man was the shit, so I'm...

Dense, and reluctant to actually explain things. Book one's whole conflict is resolved by an Azath, which doesn't get an actual explanation until like book seven. So until you make it to book seven, book one's ending is, "The bad guy entered the city, and then a house burst out of the ground and...

As long as 60%+ of the screen real estate isn't devoted to hotbar space, I don't mind if a cue or two is taken from EQ2