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Well boys, this has officially peaked: (On the off-chance they actually fix it, Sony DMCAed their own trailer.)

I will say that I really like what they're doing in place of the usual 'fuck-tons of PoIs' design philosophy. Having smoke clouds, animals, and the wind guide you around rather than the usual compass or constantly checking your map is a nice touch. And while I'm not personally likely to...

Season 1's now airing on SyFy, for anyone else that hasn't bothered with a DC subscription.

Depending on what burns you out, maybe consider a Lone Wolf playthrough. With the naturally slower pace of turn-based combat, I personally felt like dealing with a full party in D:OS dragged on a bit; only having to deal with two characters helped with that. Also meant that I only had to keep...

Currently doing my first play through of Pathfinder Kingmaker. This honestly might be one of my favorite rpgs that I've played. It's so damn refreshing to play an rpg where you're not the prophesied Chosen One (which feels weird to say about a game where chapter one ends with you becoming a...

Well, Alfred the Great is supposed to be the/a antagonist, so timeline-wise we're looking at the mid-ninth century.

Pretty much agree (although, I would personally go pure historical, rather than bothering with making the gods manifestly real). I really liked the AC games--hell, they're basically the reason I became a giant history nerd--but the whole Assassins-vs-Templars thing (both narratively, and the...

Having both (don't need WH1 installed, just in your Steam library) gives you access to the 'Mortal Empires' campaign, which essentially combines the campaign maps for WH1 and WH2 into one giant campaign map, with all the factions of both games playable.

1491 by Charles C. Mann. A history book of the pre-columbian Americas. Obviously, with the limited written records, this isn't a narrative like history books usually are, but more of a "here is the current state of the archeological scholarship, for the layman" book. Still, a really interesting...

I'm looking forward to the game, but yeah, it's sounding like letting the game get a few patches under its belt before diving in is a wise move; lots of weird bugs still hanging about, and as an early access it's not quite feature complete. Happily, I've got a massive backlog of games I want to...

Currently revisiting Spider-Man PS4 and playing through on NG+; just finished the main story in my last play session, so I'll be moving into the DLC tonight. Considering the slightly bullshitty nature of the enemy types introduced in the DLC, I expect playing through on the highest difficulty...

I'd agree with that. The endgame stuff in EQ held no real appeal to me (granted, I was casual as fuck, but nevertheless...), nor really the chasing of carrots, it was the whole feeling of, 'here's this full fantasy world, go experience it,' that it had. But it seems like devs have felt little...

Not today, at least. They opened the stream saying that they were just talking hardware today.

Even if you're not in to Assassin's Creed, there's AC: Black Flag. The closest thing we've had to date to RDR2-but-pirates. Nothing like sailing the Caribbean while your crew is belting out sea shanties.

For anyone who didn't spot it, Larian did an AMA on Reddit a day or two ago. Here's a compilation of the info from it. All classes and subclasses from the PHB will be present in the game, including multiclassing. The story will actually have ties to the previous games beyond simply being set in...

Good to hear. Icebrood has been fine to run through so far, but seeing a nice big chunk of content drop all at once with some new features is going to be really nice.

Gatherer of Clouds by Sean Russell. The sequel to The Initiate Brother, which I've posted here previously. Asian-themed fantasy, where the Chinese/Japanese mashup Empire is being invaded by the setting's Mongols. As I mentioned for the first book, I was surprised at the lack of action...

That robot film was like watching a fever dream; holy crap.

If you include the development history, Conker's Bad Fur Day was pretty goddamned weird. It starts out as Conker 64, the most saccharine, kiddie-focused game you can imagine about cute little squirrel characters collecting birthday presents in a pastel world, and then somewhere along the way...

More info on character options, among other things. So if that's accurate, we're still missing six races and two classes from the final lineup. For classes, I'm guessing druid, and probably bard will round out the class roster. No clue where six more races come from; gnomes, half-orcs, and...

We got a list of the classes and subclasses we're going to see in the early access. Link Fighter - Battle Master, Eldritch Knight Wizard - Evocation, Abjuration Rogue - Arcane Trickster, Thief Ranger - Hunter, Beast Master Cleric - Life, Light, Trickery Warlock - Fiend, Great One And just to...

Well, we got two good game-based movies with Pikachu and Sonic, so I guess we were kinda due for this. And really, Jovovich's character is named Lt. Artemis? Going nice and subtle here; was 'Hunter McHunterlady' not available for some reason?

That was the best possible ending of this demo. Gotta love alpha builds.

The sheer quantity of salt in the stream's chat over turn-based is wonderful to behold.

I grew up on Sonic, so my inner eight-year-old demanded I see this. And yeah, this was actually fun. Surprisingly fun, considering the fucking horrific Sonic they were going with before the reaction forced them back to the drawing board; I wouldn't have expected enough good decisions to have...

Apparently they're going to be announcing a specific date next week.

Need a better shot of the cowl before passing judgement on that, but the rest of it has a very Arkham Knight aesthetic to it; I like it so far.

You fell off Goodkind after only three books? Assuming you read them in order, you fell off at the point when they were just middle-of-the-road fantasy, and before they take The Turn and become a true trainwreck. Although watching his hamfisted attempts to suck Ayn Rand's metaphorical dick did...

Okay, I had nothing going on tonight, so I bit the bullet and decided to go see this, and it was ... actually reasonably fun. Definitely worlds better then Suicide Squad, and better than the bland-as-fuck trailers portray it. The movie's seriously carried by Harley and Black Mask, with the...

Really need to get around to Kingmaker at some point. Of course, I'm in the middle of finally playing Pillars 2, so I'm going to need a break before I'm ready to take on another lengthy isometric RPG, but hopefully I'll manage it before the sequel actually makes it out.

Considering the fact that the twins look like a pair of coked-out skeletors nowadays, you can't really be blamed for missing the family resemblance.

Okay, you can't just throw in a "Remember the troops? Remember the first responders?" into your commercial as a total non-sequitur and expect it to work. It has to actually tie into your service.

The fuck is the peanut making dolphin noises?

Dragonlance was my introduction to fantasy, and for that matter to 'grown up' books, as I would've been in grade school when I first picked one up (Reavers of the Blood Sea, specifically). Aside from the main trilogy, and anything related to Raistlin, I always especially like the Kang's Regiment...

Yep. The basic rule is 'don't helicopter parent'.

The Initiate Brother by Sean Russell. Honestly picked this one up on a whim because I liked the cover art. It's an Asian-themed fantasy story set in a fictional hodgepodge of Chinese and Japanese cultural elements. The titular character is a Shaolin-style (or DnD-style, for that matter) monk...

I've read that book on India. It's been a while, but I remember being happy with it, and particularly with its balance of time periods covered. I've found that these sorts of overarching national histories can sometimes fall into the trap of over-devoting word count to modern history--if I buy a...

Oh yeah, it may very well end up being a good Diablo-clone--the whole skill-deck thing looks like an interesting twist on the formula--and if it is, I'll probably have a go at it, but they were bullshitting pretty fucking hard when they announced this as an MMO. Speaking of which, this thread...

The one that immediately comes to mind is Two Towers. Gandalf vs Balrog in free fall was pretty strong.

Yeah, that one hurt. Thankfully, they're all still doing their own things on Youtube and/or Twitch. So, may as well add them to the list: Pat puts his Twitch stream recordings up on Youtube under Pat Stares At. Matt's at Matt McMuscles. Woolie's at WoolieVersus. And Liam puts his stream...