I haven’t played it but everything I’ve read about it is mixed. It doesn’t seem like people think it’s BAD just that it’s not Zelda-y enough in some cases. It got great reviews and sold well but people thought it was too linear and the motion controls were wonky at times.

I read about this when checking out Breath of the Wild. Because BotW changes the formula so much I was looking at why they may have done so, and yeah... if they’d taken all the criticism from skyward sword and said “let’s do the opposite in these cases” they would have gotten BotW.

Video game sales are a great way to get games. That said, I don't have anything i'm looking to buy this sales cycle. I have a few things i'm playing now that are keeping me busy and the backlog is pretty strong due to past sales

I have picked up a few xbox one games, a ps4 game collection and a few games from Limited Run Games (they will arrive in a few months). I should avoid the sales like the plague.

But the plague is so pretty...

M backlog is ridiculous but I keep building it. Even still, I’m not really hyped about getting anything but I’ll be watching for things I can’t resist.

I don't know which is bigger, my comic backlog or my game backlog.

What comics are you into? It’s been a while since I read them seriously. These days I mostly just kinda half keep up with the Star Wars comics.

Star Wars comics most definitely. A lot of different Marvel comics, Batman, Wildstorm, Saga, Paper Girls, Ghostbusters... When the Star Wars comics switched to back to Marvel, it was my gateway drug back into comics.

The Vader series (both of them really) are so good. Probably my favorites. I like most all of them though. The ones that came out around The Force Awakens were top notch.

I like them all too. Doctor Aphra, BeeTee and Triple-Zero are the best.

Yeah, last I read Triple-Zero had her basically as a slave because he'd found some logic that let him break free of her being his master. I need to catch up on those. She's the only one with a comic who wasn't in any movies or shows isn't she? It's well deserved.

Yup. Her first appearance was in the first Vader series.

Ah sorry, I was asking if there were any other comic series other than hers that starred someone other than visual media characters. I'm pretty sure she's the only one, unless I've missed a new series. I'm not counting Tales from Wild Space, since the "leads" are really just storytellers for other adventures.

I loved her in the Vader comics, and that quality has kept up in her own series. She and her murder droids even have action figures now. I hope she shows up in some of the visual media, though I'm not sure where it would work. Favreau's show maybe? If she started working for the rebels at some point, and then stayed on with the New Republic, she could be quite the ally.

Speaking of Star Wars, I don’t care about the Battlefront 2 multiplayer but Origin is also having a summer sale right now, and BF2 is $17. That was th sweet spot I was waiting for to nab it and play the single player campaign.

Wooooooow this game is beautiful. Everything looks like it should and it’s better optimized than your average game. It just works, it works really well, and it looks damn good doing it. The mechanics for shooting are really well done. The mechanics for flying still make me long for the flying missions to be over but they’re much improved over the first one.

Mostly I’m really enjoying seeing the canon perspective of someone in the Empire who sees the second Death Star blow up and has to deal with that. She knows that Sheevy was a moron and his hubris destroyed them but still loves her Empire and wants it to succeed.

So far I’m really digging the story and most of the gameplay. If you’re like me and you’ve been wanting some single player Star Wars for what seems like forever (it’s been a while), now might be a good time to snag this one.

Beware. It’s a 70gb download.

Phew, windows 95 is safe!

I think I am one of those people that have a nes classic and snes classic and don't play it enough. I am ashamed. :)

Hell no. :)

The Spider-Man continues to blow me away. I can’t wait. Based on what we’ve seen before I don’t think it’s going to be heavily corridor based like this gameplay trailer may suggest. There are some segments of the Arkham games that show off the awesome grappling hook and gliding action as well.

But at the same time it could be that they needed to restrict the world a bit to make the web swinging seem believable. I remember previous spider man games that didn’t require you to be anywhere near buildings but modern gamers might balk at that.

The Last of Us Part 2 looks so beautiful. And those situational combat tricks were surprising. I enjoyed the first one, I need to actually finish it.

Anothe standout for me might be Ghost of Tsushima. That game is gorgeous and if they can pull it off it will be something I can imagine tossing s lot of hours into. An open world samurai game? That’s just such a fresh idea.

Death Stranding, man... I get the idea that you can play that game all the way through and still not have any freakin clue what you just played. In terms of plot that is. It looks compelling but at the same time offputting depending on my mood.

Control looks pretty solid. Like a freaky sci-fi third-person action game. The powers they showed look pretty unique.

The Resident Evil 2 Remaster looks great so far. If you can even call it that. I guess Remake is a better term. The graphics are done so well, and it looks like some jump scares are in our future.

To me it felt like the Sony E3 presentation catered more to solo play experiences compared to the Microsoft E3 presentation. For that reason, I am probably more excited about what Sony is bringing to the table compared to Microsoft.

That seems to be pretty typical. Almost all of Sony’s exclusives seem to be single player and I love them for that.

https://kotaku.com/swinging-through-new-york-city-as-spidey-feels-effortle-1826773221

This description of the demo involves pretty free reign to swing anywhere in NYC suggesting that the corridor worry isn’t going to be a problem.

It's not like "Watch paint dry simulator 5000" is ever going to make it to the top of the charts. In general, people will have to dig for the crap.

I think, anyway.

But back in the early days of Windows 8/10 you could open the app store and be presented with just a flood of garbage. You can still get bombarded with crap but it's gotten better. I think Steam already having a massive following and full of good stuff will help keep the crap at the bottom.

I think this is a reaction to their recent attempts at curating some things (like dating sims) and getting backlash. This is the easy way out but it may be fine as long as their ranking algorithms can keep it in check.

If you go through the discovery queue you will see a lot of meme games and asset swaps but if you’re browsing through they don’t show up if you click on a game genre for example.

I liked the part where I was right and we're not getting any new Elder Scrolls content or announcements this year!

When you went to your fridge did you play Skyrim?

Nah, my fridge is still powered by the ice delivery man.

Anyways, Elder Scrolls Blades looks really fun. I signed up for the beta and they didn't have the iPhone 6S as an option. It was all iPhone 7's and higher plus Androids. They let me select other but I wonder if it requires a much newer phone than I have?

Alexa Skyrim: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07D6STSX8/

Travis, I did too.

Thanks Travis, that's great news. Gonna watch it with the stack of other videos

It's showing they are at least listening and thinking about it. They might be making a game that's not meant to be played by yourself or at least right away because private servers aren't coming at launch.

> I don't know what you mean about it not being a game for me.

Sorry for the confusion there. When I said "not mean to be played by yourself" I mean't it wasn't to be played single player by yourself. This game does seem to be a multiplayer game and that's cool with me. I'm not sure if i'll get it yet, but it's interesting. I think I want to know more but playing a Fallout game with friends does sound neat.

> For me it's just about being able to have fun playing a game without a troop of assholes wrecking my fun, and that's where the questions still lie, as for what kinds of things are planned to prevent that. He did specifically say that griefing is something they're spending a lot of time working out, thus it's hopeful news.

Yeah that's big for me too. I don't want to build a base and have people smash it up. That's why we have Cheerful Ghost private Terraria servers.

LOTS of people are saying great things about Rage 2, which this and Elder Scrolls Blades are the two games i'm most excited to play soon. Fallout 76 looks interesting but i'm not sure i'll actually play it when it drops as I haven't finished Fallout 4. I was addicted to Fallout 3 but I just didn't have a similar experience with 4 even though I enjoyed what I played.

https://www.gamesradar.com/i-played-the-rage-2-demo-four-times-in-a-row-and-it-got-better-and-smarter-every-time-heres-what-i-learned/

Sounds like they are going the Blizzard route.

I bet this is just for the beta:

"A: The B.E.T.A. will be available on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and on PC (via Bethesda.net). Stay tuned for exact timing for each platform here and @Fallout on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Please note that the B.E.T.A. for Xbox One will begin first, followed by other platforms."

I'm fairly sure they will push to Steam as they have for Quake Champions. It's a pretty big store and they'd miss a few sales if they didn't. Might be an interesting long term goal for them but in the case of Blizzard they went from box copies to selling it on Battle.net so the transition was pretty seamless.

Is this going to go the way of the Neo Geo X?

I have the X.

I haven't put much time into it. I enjoyed it last time I played with it.

I like this collection of games and if it reviews well i'll pick it up. In the video the controller looked a bit cramped which isn't a great way to play fighting games or Metal Slug.

A new Star Wars Game, Jedi Fallen Order was teased. No details, no images, nothing. But it's a tease!

Battlefront 2 is getting some Clone Wars content and a lot of other changes that many have been wanting.

The question about Anthem is which part of Bioware is on it. Andromeda was a game I thoroughly enjoyed and nearly-if-not-entirely completed to 100% completion, but it wasn't as good as its predecessors and missed the mark for many gamers, to the point where they canceled planned DLC (I was majorly bummed by that). I wonder what lessons they've taken from that experience.

Oh, and DICE is bringing Battle Royale to Battlefield, because of course they are. It would be more surprising if that DIDN'T happen at this point. It's the cash cow. I'm waiting for Tetris Battle Royale.