Carighan

Same with that CEO. "Things happen". 🤷

Disgusting!

Especially if you watch people game there's 0 chance you missed the big ones this year looking at the awards, those being CO:E33, Hades 2, Silksong, DS2, Split Fiction and MKW. They were all streamers and youtubers were doing (and kinda still are with Silksong) for months.

Assuming you play on PC I'd near-universally recommend it. This is because if the dodging/parrying mechanics do annoy you, your only option is to change to Easy, which also reduces enemy damage by a ton and makes the game boringly simply. Mods allow you to have the slightly more lenient timings of Easy but the HP/damage numbers of Normal, which for me personally was a nice combination as I got frustrated parrying the later bosses.

Where were you looking then?

Not at any of the 159 positive reviews opencritic has aggregated? Not at any of the >5000 positive Steam user reviews just in the first week, either? Neither any of the ~60 positive reviews on GOG, either?

Where exactly did you look?

I'd say it's a "good weird-game" instead of a "good, weird, game". Which granted it shares with the first game.

Oh wow, you entirely missed Death Stranding 2, Hades 2, Hollow Knight Silksong and Clair Obscur? The latter basically took over the entirety of all gaming discussion and news for ~2 months.

I mean not a bad thing in itself, helps to play games not just read about them. Just surprised that in particular CO:E33 went by you, my grandma heard about it even though she could not associate the name because mainstream TV news had a short bit about the music in it.

I dunno. It's a very well-made game, but also kinda... understandable not on the same level as Hades 2, Silksong of Clair Obscur.

Plus it got a GOTY nomination or two, I bet. Which just doesn't put it high enough though.

It's the expected result if your big ol' artificial intelligence wannabe is ultimately just a stochastic word combinator.

Plus eradicate his name from everything. Remove "Trump" from any building his family owns. Redact his names from donations and fundraisers, anonymize them. Basically remove him from history. Undo anything he did and make sure people cannot even know something was undone.

Honestly if they add a test you have to pass to install anything even from the Play Store and this test blocks my mum, I'm all here for it. 😑 Some people ought to just not be allowed to install apps.

I wish we had a pricing-point for the VR headset. I'm still considering getting a Quest III and break it open a bit, since the hardware is so damn good. This seems marginally under it (monochrome instead of full-color etc) but running SteamOS instead of Android sounds amazing.

But I'd need more information on it first - and granted, knowing if ever it releases over here. 😅

I'll definitely get the new controller if possible though. Still rocking my original, and it's still the best way to play mouse-centric games on the couch, I prefer it over a lapboard with an actual mouse.