Thursday Next

I've deliberately not watched it since I want the new Zoids to be a surprise for me. I cannot wait for this to launch.

Or streamed a la Stadia.

I feel the opposite. AoC has sated whatever desire I had to play musou for a considerable time.

Pun intentional?

Yeah, it's a monster. I'm sure its resurgence and my working on it is entirely coincidental.

Not sure if that is aimed at the situation or me, but either way. *shrug* Them's the breaks.

That hasn't happened to me yet!

Oh man, I remember that. That was frustrating af. I've beaten the first boss. I was worried I wouldn't enjoy it as much since you can't grind for levels like in Souls games, so you can't brute-force difficulty spikes by getting OP, that said I accidentally went back into the 1st boss arena on a subsequent run with just the base pistol and whooped it, so I'm obviously getting better at the game even if my avatar is no more powerful. I'm currently in the second "biome" and enjoying it a lot. Not made it to the boss yet.

- FY2020, CoD franchise drew in $3bn revenue, there are about 35 sovereign states that have a lower GDP than this franchise. - Q1 is up 40% year on year. - Call of Duty as a franchise is not "one game" any more, it's a mix of Call of Duty: [Annual Title], Call of Duty: Warzone and Call of Duty: Mobile, so it's not as much of an "all eggs in one basket" thing as the headline suggests. https://twitter.com/BenjiSales/status/1389681856933728256/photo/1 Also, Activision Publishing, Inc. is not just Activision. It's Activision, Blizzard and King. So there's also WoW, Overwatch, Diablo, Hearthstone, Candy Crush, Bubble Witch all in the stable.

Just acquired this myself. Seems to be a roguelike, Soulsbourne, space-horror-shooter. So I think I will like it.

It's an emerald, not a ruby. Otherwise, that would have been my choice.

Ha! Good question... Final Attack + Revive would be nice, although Heal would be more topical.

Was quite surprised to get the ok for an FF themed ring, and a rendition of Aerith's theme playing during the ceremony. It must be love.

Also also... a wedding ring...

Got a new whip, not being delivered till July ish though. Also a bike.

Completely agree. I get that there is an aversion to risk and that you remakes/masters are a way to mitigate that risk by polishing a successful formula and minimising costs, but it is artistically bankrupt to do so. Demon's Souls was good, as was FFVIIR. Things like the RE1,2 and 3 that update gameplay for modern tastes make sense. "Remaking" just to make something already pretty shiny even shinier just feels like a waste to me.

Sekiro and Bloodborne aren't really that hard. Persistence will get you there in the end, especially with Bloodborne, since you can just grind souls till you are OP. Platformers on the other hand you can't brute-force, you have to get better.

I hate when a game has trophies like "Save three team mates from nearly but not quite dying, while they are carrying a pistol and a sniper rifle, you have an SMG, and the person shooting them is using a thermal scope, in one match." So not only do I have to be doing something correctly, but so does someone on my team, and someone on the other team, oh and it has to happen three times in a single match.

Or "Get. That. Scum. Make. Him. Pay." from... 2 I think.

Oh it has the *best* worst dialogue. "Where's everyone going? Bingo?" "Ah! I have an idea. While you're here, why don't I introduce you to "It"? "It" will keep you busy."

I chose a pretty good time to rejoin, this long weekend has seen 5 twitch drop campaigns so I now have a veritable fleet of ships without having to do a lot of grinding for credits.

It's weird, on paper it should have been well received. Solid story, some new mechanics (flying jackals and that), Jon Snow as the antagonist (when he was a thing). I just think that we got unlucky that the anti-space thing became the favoured opinion to have and it snowballed from there.

I'm over 20 hours in. Found a habitable place now. Only has occasional boiling rain but otherwise is fine. Now I can get down to the busy work of crafting stuff in relative peace. (20hrs including my old save that is)

I'm trying No Man's Sky again after ages. Things have changed a *lot*, it also feels like there are no hospitable planets like anywhere. I just want somewhere that isn't actively trying to murder me so I can set up a base.

I don't get why people liked that game (the plot was utterly impenetrable) and yet hated Infinite Warfare which actually had a decent story (even if I feel like it borrowed rather heavily from Killzone, Helghast politics stuff).