TheMightyEthan

Previews are out. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-02-22-four-hours-with-mass-effect-andromeda I'm still excited, but it does sound like they completely abandoned the more tactical combat of the previous games in favor of a run-and-gun shooter. You can't even control your squadmates' power use.

Yeah, I would just be getting it for couch gaming with M/KB games, games with actual gamepad support I would continue to use my 360 controller.

Steam Links and Steam controllers are super cheap at GAME and Amazon right now. I'm thinking of getting a Steam controller, how well do they work for M/KB-only games like Civilization or Shadowrun?

Why do I care whether the system's dead or not when I already own it?

What's even better is that there's already a game (Dragon Quest Heroes) that's bigger than the internal storage all by itself. You can install your own SD card, but Jesus...

Halo Wars 2 It was really good. There was some stuff about the plot that I didn't like, but ultimately that just comes down to framing for the missions, and the missions themselves were great.

Hard to be too much of one.

I came in here to post that same video Mal posted. Guerrilla showing other developers how to do PS4/Pro cross-versions right.

Also then you're getting away from the plug and play ease of console games. Although I suppose you could have a single option on each game to tell it whether you prefer graphics or performance, and the game could do all the specifics automagically.

With the Switch Nintendo is finally joining the 21st century and tying your digital purchases to your Nintendo account rather than to your specific hardware. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-02-17-nintendo-switch-eshop-will-finally-link-purchases-to-accounts-not-consoles About fucking time.

There's a new Vampire: The Masquerade game called We Eat Blood that appears to be along the lines of Lifeline, where you're playing via text messages. Looks neat, but it's $5.

I would call any scent designed for women a perfume, any scent designed for men a cologne, and any unisex scent would be called either perfume or cologne based on whether a man or woman was using it.

I don't think it's cheating to use a free trial of a service to user the service...

Yeah, I've got my eye on this, though I'm not quite sold yet.

Now I can officially put Gravity Rush 2 in here. I liked it quite a bit. Fundamentally it was just more Gravity Rush, which was all I really wanted. My only real complaint is that with some of the challenge missions they got too far away from just playing with your gravity powers.

That's actually another reason to wait until the second pack comes out: if you get a Switch in the meantime you could get the expansion on there instead.

I thought I was gonna be able to post Gravity Rush 2 in here, but it turns out when the credits roll you still have 20% of the game left...

The closest I've ever gotten to something like that is wearing deodorant.

Evidence keeps mounting that I'm right and Cowboy's wrong! http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-02-10-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-image-confirms-fan-favourite-character http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-02-02-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-fans-in-flap-as-bird-race-appears-to-confirm-timeline-theory

I'm probably gonna break down and get a VR system when the 2nd gen units arrive.

Not gonna do it, wouldn't be prudent.

From what I understood of the ruling (which is admittedly not that much) the jury found that Oculus had not misappropriated Zenimax technology, so there'd be no basis for blocking sale of the Rift.

The part I was talking about with it affecting the end was that the only way to get the best ending was to have galactic readiness at a certain level, and if you didn't play MP it was impossible to get it high enough. Even worse was that the MP bonus decayed over time.

Remind me, is Xandar the planet that the Nova had recently made peace with, or...?

I'm cautiously optimistic for Life.