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That's just business as usual for the franchise. :eyes:

The downfall timeline, since it's a thing Nintendo made up on the spot with zero basis in any of the games.

The only thing I tend to keep in mind is how consistently incompetent the monarchy is. They're typically portrayed as idiots with no foresight, no record-keeping, and whose military forces crumble at the drop of a hat.

War. War never changes. The year is 1992. Wolfenstein 3D hits store shelves. While technically the third entry in the Wolfenstein series, the first two entries are but whispers on the gentle brush of gaming history. Fresh on the market with weapons to wield, floors to descend, and Nazis to...

Looks like the goal was met! It had me a bit nervous by the end, but I'm glad I was able to throw my few bucks at this game.

That I is.

Today I did a little fleet managing at my fleet manager job by reassigning a driver to pick up an assigned load after the original driver called off work sick. I consulted their dispatcher's board that contained all the relevant information on who to use and what loads were assigned to them...

In a world where AMD and Nvidia quit jorking each other off and produce meaningful upgrades? A new GPU. I'd like to get something more powerful, but the Nvidia 40x series just felt like a waste of time when I've got a 3070 in my PC.

Maybe the real backup was the friends we made along the way.

It'd be nice to have a bit of continuity for once. The Deku Tree is a big immortal tree right until it has to exist between games.

Despite being knee-deep in Dragon's Dogma 2 I've decided to pick up a copy of the System Shock remake. It's been on my radar for a minute now and I decided to take the plunge after I spotted it for 50% off on GOG.

I'm not lucky enough to be in the path of the total eclipse, but it will be cool to see even the partial one. Feels like an event each time.

Dragon's Dogma 2. Like the first game this is a bit of a weird one. It's mechanically fun, but can often be obtuse in its design or frustrating it's repetition. It's got some great combat and exploration mechanics, especially the returning ability to cling monsters, but that combat is often...

I tens to be a back sleeper. I'll sometimes roll on my left side when I'm shifting around and trying to get comfortable, but I'll always shift to my jack in the end.

I tend to be a creature not habit. I settle on something I like and tend to stick with it. Heck, I'm such a dull creature of habit that I will seek out a restaurant's menu before I get there so I can order right away without having to waste the server's time.

It feels like cheating for how new it is, but Cyberpunk Edgerunners. It's incredibly animated, incredibly paced, and unbelievably sad.

Gotta be Link, since he can apparently make potions from a bunch of intestines and bugs he found on the ground.

It depends on the streamer. I'm not really interested in watching someone play a game so much as I am interesting commentary and interactions. It has to be the sort of streamer who can entertain me without being the focus of my screen.

Helldivers 2 and Dragon's Dogma 2 are my current obsessions. They're both great in their own ways, but there's a certain chaos to HD2 that not many games can replicate.

I think the caves could be fun, but I think it would have been nice if we saw differing themes throughout, like how Elden Ring mixes up its own side dungeons as caves, dungeons, and tombs.

Many, but probably Elden Ring. That's a game that blows your expectations out of the water with how big it is. You'll spend dozens of hours in game and think, 'There's no way they could drop a whole other region on me,' and then the game reveals some huge secret area you didn't know about before.

Usually, no. The old Xbox 360 days of racial and homophobic slurs being hurled through cheap pack-in headsets ingrained in me that voice chat with randoms is to be avoided. When I'm in voice chat it tends to be with friends and is usually done through an external client like Discord. Until the...

Since I'm 31 now that'd put my halfway mark at around 2008/2009-ish. My favorite game from that era was definitely Dragon Age Origins. It was Bioware's last big hurrah into the realm of complex RPGs, since from Mass Effect 2 onward their stuff would be streamlined and simplified per the EA...

A great sphinx looks upon the hapless adventurer who has wandered into her nest.

And yet another notch on the belt of why the digital gaming hellscape is bad. :eyes:

It depends. Most of my stuff is wired (barring my earbuds, since phone companies suck and my Pixel 7a lacks a headphone jack), but I do use wireless headphones at home. There's something freeing about getting up to do the dishes without breaking the rhythm set by whatever video essay I'm watching.

Heck, I'm sold. That's some great looking sprite work. Consider me your newest Kickstarter person. o7

Me discovering a cyclops can actually catch itself if lured to a broken bridge and made to fall. :eyes:

I don't think there's any world where I'd prefer motion controls over standard button stuff in a third person game, especially with the Switch's primitive gyro motion controls.

Well, that's what they've been doing for decades now. Zelda has always been a series of incredibly disconnected games. Even the direct sequels try their hardest not to be.

I'll believe that when I see it.

Might I recommend checking your controller? I don't recall having any significant issues with the game's controls. Heck, it felt to me like controlling Link was more precise in BotW, since stuff like jumping used to be automatic half the time.

The real question is will the next Nintendo console have betters specs than the Steam Deck, a portable gaming PC that can run modern PC games and that will currently cost you $350? :eyes:

I remember Saints Row 3 doing it before. I'd rather a proper demo, but the character creator is very in depth.

Actually, both BotW and TotK have a higher Metacritic rating than SS.

He got better.

Turret sections are one of those trends from the seventh generation of gaming that seemingly came and went alongside the brown cover shooters with chest high walls and chonky space marines. Video games that were previously high (or at least medium-well) energy would come to a halt, freeze the...

I guess in terms of pure collectability, but it doesn't feel good from a content and price point perspective. It's asking players spend $60 on a gussied up GameCube game with a fancy hat. I'm sure people will, because Nintendo, but I'd still point to emulation as a superior option. Nintendo...

Woah, we got a badass over here.

Hey, if people keep buying these $60 graphical touchups then Nintendo has no reason to stop. :eyes:

So I'm taking that Pokemon Z announcement as a sign that the Switch U is heading for some sort of release next year maybe. I'm basing this mostly on how bad all the open world games on the Switch have looked even though the system can run Breath of the Wild, so they're probably waiting to show...

I finally got a washer working in my apartment. It's a slightly smaller one that has to hook up to the kitchen faucet, but it works. Man, I miss the luxury of living on a barracks or a dorm and just having a laundry room down the hall. ...now I need a dryer. Probably should have thought about...

Are you sure?

I love the idea of fighting games. Seeing skilled fighting game players in action is like seeing people gaming on a level that I just can't attain. And that's why there are story modes so people like me can beat up CPUs. \o/

I guess I sort of see it as self-evident. I'm not a fan of Ganondorf just being a hat you can pass from one nameless villain to another and expect it to hold any sort of weight. If it isn't the same Ganon then it takes away from the weight of a perpetually regenerating ball of hate.

I bought a friend of mine a copy of Helldivers 2 so they could spread managed democracy with me. A worthwhile sacrifice.

It'll definitely be nice to see an Epic Mickey rerelease. It sucked that the game has been trapped on Wii for so long.

Probably Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring, or Undertale. As much as I like the franchise I don't think anything Zelda-related can quite match those games in my mind.

While I'm not going to deny one's preference for a particular era of games, the gaming remake is t super new. We've seen it before with stuff like Mario and the Resident Evil 1 remake.

Helldivers 2 has been one of a few games absolutely consuming my idle gaming hours. It's the satirical hyper-fascism of the first Starship Troopers film in video game form. It's the ODST that Halo never gave us. 9.5/10.