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Also, with the bird rune grinding spot it doesn't really matter how much they cost.

How many hours do you have in Elden Ring? I'm at 50-something.

Fire Giant down.

Just rub it in whydontcha...

I agree with a lot of what you said, but I do think it needs some kind of a quest log. I'm not asking for map markers or detailed directions or anything like that, it could be as simple as a record of what NPCs have said to you, so it would still be up to the player to put it together for themselves, just something so you can refer back without having to go straight to a guide online.

Kirby and the Forgotten Land This game is aggressively fine. As my wife said, "there's nothing wrong with it." There's nothing especially great about it either. It's charming enough, but not in a way that stands out among Nintendo's other offerings, it's as close to "generic" as I've ever seen from Nintendo. It's also so easy it fails to be terribly engaging from a gameplay perspective, though if I had young children this would probably be a good game for them. As it is, I was just bored more than anything. Grade: C+

Yeah, we use whine, just never whinge.

I've only ever heard it from you limeys.

Interesting, I really love the HD rumble, and even moreso the haptics on PS5, which is basically the same thing but better.

Does your Switch make a bunch of noise when it rumbles? I can totally see why it would be an issue if the child was like in your lap. Good choice though, that game is awesome.

The save transfer feature was built into the game on PlayStation, it gave you a mission where you had to physically carry your save data to the Capital Knot City to upload it into the chiral network. Because Kojima is a mad genius. Hopefully they did the same thing on PC.

Magical offense, started as an astrologer and have stuck to that basic approach. Though I'm wearing regular soldier armor cause I haven't really encountered many magic-wielding enemies yet so I wanted more physical defense. I'm assuming that will change in the future.

Well that's Godrick dead. One down, seven more to go...

Beat Margit this morning, first time I've ever beaten a major From boss. I think this game may have hooked me.

If you look at the history though NATO didn't silo Russia after the end of the cold war, they did it to themselves. There was lots of goodwill and let's all be friends and everything through the 90s, but Russia didn't want to become just one of the nations in the club, they still wanted to play the superpower and control Eastern Europe, so they rejected integration with the West, and here we are. (Obviously that's a massive oversimplification, since you can't accurately sum up something like that in one sentence, but that's the gist of it.)

I played it on Switch and it was great.

I did Kerry's, but not the other two you mentioned. I will probably do another playthrough when the first expansion launches.

The Touryst I got this game mainly because it's pretty/charming as all get out, and turns out that's the only thing it has going for it. Aside from the art it's a bad puzzle game with worse platforming elements. The puzzle solutions are either blindingly obvious or absurdly obtuse, no in-between, and the platforming is plagued by lack of spatial queues combined with camera angles that make it impossible to tell where you are when you're in the air (there's a reason Mario always has a shadow directly under him). The art is amazing though. It's a voxel style with a tilt-shift depth of field effect that is . It also runs at 8k60 on PS5, made possible by its simple style. It's really lovely to look at. Grade: D+

I did do some of the bigger ones, Judy's and Johnny's specifically, because those felt emotionally important to V, so it felt natural to do those before finishing the main quest, it was mostly the random jobs I didn't mess with. As far as the end goes

Cyberpunk 2077 Beat this last night and I've been cogitating on it, and the more I think about it the more I think it's one of the best RPGs I've played in a long time. I got the Devil return ending, and it left me feeling kind of empty and unsatisfied, but I think it was supposed to, and it really works well. As I mentioned in the what you're playing thread, I didn't do a lot of the side content, because the game was so engaging that I really felt like I was V, and V had bigger properties. What I did see of the world felt really deep and fleshed out, where lots of RPGs feel like theme park towns. It's a shame the launch was such a clusterfuck, it overshadowed a really great game. Grade: A

That was all surprisingly comprehensible and concrete, thank you! I can't wait for Monday, I wish I'd ordered it yesterday...

I am shocked this thread didn't already exist. I just ordered this game, and I want to give it a real shot. I've bounced off every other From game, but I've never played one near launch, and I've never engaged with the community discussion around them, which I hear is a major part of the experience, so maybe this time it'll be different. It's arriving Monday. What do I need to know before I start? Are there any beginner videos anyone recommends? Halp!

Is Elden Ring gonna be the From game that finally hooks me? We shall see.