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I have to say *knock on wood* that this is the most bug free Bethesda game I've ever played. Maybe I've just been lucky so far, but I don't think I've really experienced any glitches so far. Even Ass Creed Syndicate crashed on me and had a little bit of weirdness. After the trauma that was Skyrim on PS3, this is good news.

Bookmark this thread, Ethan. At some point next year when the NX gets unveiled one of us is eating crow. Spoiler:

Once again the Xbone is holding the PS4 and PC back!!! Really what they should have done was eliminate 3rd person because anyone who plays a Bethesda game in 3rd person is the worst. That would have freed up a button for wait.

Yeah, fortunately a chair or couch is never too far away, but it's still kind of stupid.

HE'S IN A BANDANA, FOLKS!!! GAME OF THE YEAR!!!

YOUR MOM ISN'T REMOTELY CONVINCING!

All the signs point to a 2016 release. The Wii U bombed, they don't want that thing sitting on shelves as the main Nintendo console in January 2017.

How does one put a bandana or goggles on Dogmeat??

I'd wager the reason the game got delayed was partly to polish and refine it (or fix it??), but also to coincide with the NX release at the end of 2016, they'll Twilight Princess the game.

Oh, anyone with a Vita and a PS4 copy of the game needs to remote play it. Ho-lee-crap it's SO GOOD. This is THE game for laying in bed, playing on Vita, and wandering around.

I got to level 11 last night. Last mission I did involved the Memory Den which we've seen in trailers. I finally got a decent outfit that isn't various pieces of Raider gear hobbled together, so that's nice. Once you figure out how crafting works, it's a lot of fun to go around, clean up Sanctuary, plant some crops, build new structures, etc. I'm not crazy about how you level up. It's entirely too perk based, and honestly not too many of the perks seem better than just upping your SPECIAL stats.

No, I think it opens in sequence 6, not sure if you never go into it in sequence 6 but it stayed open for me the whole way through. I'll spoil tag how to find it, without spoiling what it is:

I was referring more to the fact that all last gen, the PS3 ports of Bethesda Studio games were a total after thought. Skyrim was especially crappy. It's to be expected this gen that the PS4 version would be best, but as someone who platinumed Skyrim on PS3, it's still awesome to hear.

Wait the PlayStation version of a Bethesda game is better than the Xbox version? What a time to be alive.

To me it felt like the true successor to the Ezio games. Very few glitches (though I did have a crash last night), no microtransactions besides speed up XP for 2 hours and stuff like that, likeable characters, decent enough story, and nice world. What's cool is the huge amount of side content that feels like it could be main missions. The coolest part of the game is actually a super secret sequence, that you should hopefully just discover naturally. The ending boss fight was super lame, I wish developers of these sorts of games would realize that final boss fights aren't always necessary.

What's that Pikachu lookin' mothafucka beside the baby form of Pikachu?

I just completed a little gem called Assassin's Creed Syndicate. What a game. Probably my favourite Assassin's Creed game... so what I'm trying to say is.... GAME OF THE YEAR! Wait, no. But it's OK.

I don't know if you can say you beat New Vegas until you get all the endings.

Wow, Japan got a ton of new footage.

I just plum don't get Ethan.

What? No... it can't be...

A couple thoughts on Syndicate... a follow up, if you will, to my post in What are you currently playing. I'm kind of thinking this might be the best Assassin's Creed game. Yes, 6 years after AC2, there's still issues this series hasn't worked out, but this game fixes literally every wrong I can think of from Unity, while also taking the series a few steps forward. Though that doesn't mean there isn't annoying/frustrating things. First, the side stuff. Unity's map was infamously cluttered but most of it was just collectables, chests, etc, very little actual side content outside of the murder mysteries. This game has some of that but also a ton of side missions that feel more like actual missions, complete with stories, side objectives, and cut scenes. This is when the game is at it's best, as you get to chose which character you want to play as, unlike the main missions which force you to be either Jacob or Evie (usually Jacob). I have the sneaking suspicion that up until a year ago Jacob was the only playable protagonist, and after the backlash about Unity not having a playable female character, especially with Elise being way better than whatever the main character was called, they switched it to make Evie playable as well. But unlike GTA5 which used multiple protagonists to do some really cool missions where your perspective would switch and you had to make decisions to use each characters strengths, this game does nothing like that. You start a mission and the game makes you one of the characters and you're stuck as that character for the rest of the mission. This sucks, for instance, last night I infiltrated some giant mostly impenetrable bank in a main mission as Jacob. But there was some locked doors and chests that I couldn't open because that is a stealth skill the Evie excels in, the game encourages you to develop Jacob as a fighter. Wouldn't it be cooler if you had to go in, unlock and set things up stealthily as Evie while Jacob fought off guards? Just a missed opportunity. Most of the main missions still centre around Jacob which is a pity because Evie is 10000000x better. Evie plays how an assassin should, stealthy, quiet, throwing knives, all that stuff. Personality wise she's better, she's cute, smiley, bubbly and nice. Jacob seems very much like Edward Kenway from AC4, without any of the charm. Yesterday the game did what could maybe be one of the coolest things in an Assassin's Creed game. It's not a major thing, and in fact I think it's possibly to entirely miss it. But it is very cool! The game does what Unity tried to do with being more open, letting players approach missions from different ways for different results, especially for major assassination missions. But the game just spells everything out for you. In the bank mission, it gives you a bunch of options to do, but the side objective is just "use the secret path" once you discover that, you don't need to do anything else, the secret path leads you right to the person you want to kill. That would have been way better if it was up to chance to discover that secret path. It's weird that this is maybe the best game in the series and nobody is playing it, but I don't think Ubisoft have anyone to blame but themselves for that.

There was some rumours about her leaving, but there were rumours last year too. I don't think anything was announced or confirmed. I'm hoping she stays at least one more season.