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22.) Horizon: Zero Dawn This game was pretty impressive overall. Playing through the DLC right now, but the main game was interesting pretty much the whole way through. Has a bit of the Ubsioft signature "Climb a tower to reveal things to find in the open world" shit but it's not overdone and I actually WANTED to find the stuff because the world was interesting enough for it. Combat is where the game really shines though. All of the machines are really well designed and function differently, and they're really intricate. There are so many pieces you can knock off of them to disable their abilities or stun them or whatever and it leaves you with a lot of choice in how you approach fights. Story was really interesting too. Trying to figure out what happened to the world that it ended up the way it did. After credits bit was also really interesting and makes me hope they'll continue it at some point. Felt like there were only a couple shortcomings in the game but they were only minor gripes. One being that basically every vendor is pretty much exactly the same so even as of the beginning of the game you can buy basically any weapon and gear you want (just gotta farm up the money/mats for it) and then don't need to change anything for the rest of the game and crafting materials are almost TOO prolific. I maxed out my inventory pretty early one and spent the rest of the game just selling excess stuff for money that I pretty much didn't need.

I didn't mind Iron Heart. Followed her for a little bit when she was heading the regular Iron Man comic and it was pretty decent. Interested in seeing this. Would be cool if they pull Pepper in on occasion too like they did with her in the comic. Really wish they could have got the Fox stuff and established Doctor Doom before they axed Tony though so we could have also had him trying to be Iron Man because I absolutely loved that story arc.

I suspect he may have a drug problem though. Happens to all the greats.

Have to say this is one I kind of wish I had got on PC now that I have mine working properly again. When there's a lot going on in combat, the PS4 chugs pretty hard. The visual effects when the enemies die are really cool and look amazing, but the PS4 does NOT like them. XD

You can if I remember correctly. If you're playing on console, I think it was down on the d-pad if I remember correctly. Only problem playing so many games at once is I get controls mixed up sometimes. I think you get the power right around that point. Easily the best one in the game (not that the others aren't good too) and I recommend upgrading it before most of the others (except maybe health and energy as needed). Especially if you aren't a fan of the shooting as it auto-targets enemies and after upgraded will one-shot almost any normal enemy. There's only a few enemies that it's not as useful against (a few can dodge it), but there are ways around that.

I'm loving this game. Haven't noticed too much issues with the shooting myself, but I don't honestly use it much at the point I'm at. Have you got the telekinesis thing yet? Once you can throw shit at enemies you almost don't need the gun anymore with the right upgrades and mods. Still lots of Overwatch and Anthem for me. Still slowly working my way through Persona 4: Golden (can only play when wife is asleep so I don't spoil it for her so I don't get a lot of time with it). Making solid progress on Horizon: Zero Dawn, and have also started Control. Absolutely loving the game. Combat gets intense, exploration feels really meaningful, and the story is interesting. Feels like a super serious version of Warehouse 13 with the mysterious "What the fuck is going on!?" tone of something like Lost or Legion. Main shortcoming I've seen so far is the map is kind of garbage. It's not the worst in game map I've ever seen, but it's pretty far down on the list. Looks nice, but isn't terribly functional. Hoping to finish at least one of these before next week when Greedfall comes out since that seems like it will be a much more involved game.

It was a little vague, but they clarified in the comments on the tweet pretty quickly.

It's not a "Get it free on this day or else" kind of thing. Just from that date forward, if you have Forsaken, the Year 2 DLC will be free (ie: It's basically part of the full purchase from that point on and not a separate add on). So if you bought Forsaken on Steam when it's available on Oct. 1st (which will still be discounted), you would still get the Year 2 DLC with it for free.

Interdasting.

New patch 1.40 Anyone who has the game, if you haven't tried the cataclysm stuff yet, now is the time. All events in side it are up, all Javelin armor from the event is up, gear reward chests bought with the currency from doing it are all available this week so you can go for whichever type you want (new guns, melee weapons, and new/upgraded support gear), etc. This patch also increases the vault storage by 100 slots which was sorely needed. Also, the cataclysm is home to easily the best cosmetic in the game. Can give your Javelin grabbit ears.

Sounds like they showed a trailer at D23 for the Black Widow movie as well, and revealed a poster for it online. Looks like Task Master will be the villain for it. Not really sold on the mask design, but I'm interested in seeing the character regardless. Also looks like we'll see the Red Guardian (played by David Harbour).

Yep. I think the intention was to artificially pad the replay value so you need to play it multiple times to "see" everything, but the game is NOT good enough for that to be anything but fucking infuriating. So glad I looked into it before playing because going into it blind would have made me rage quit it pretty fucking fast.

One of my theories since the beginning is that they would flip them at some point (even if only temporarily), but yeah; a Luke on Degobah/Anakin on Mortis style force vision thing is what I'm honestly expecting. Edit: Thinking on it some more, another possibility that I thought of is possession. Is there any precedence in the old EU for a force ghost possessing another Force user (or person or anything in general)? Because another possibility is some Darth Sidius possession shit going down. >_>

Also, one of my favorite scenes :

If you haven't started/got too far yet, I HIGHLY recommend this one. Includes maps for each area, specific time goals to make sure you're still on track, and calls out trophies and stuff, but doesn't spoil important story points at all. It's the one I used and was pretty much perfect. https://www.trueachievements.com/walkthroughpage.aspx?pageid=5914

And that isn't even its final form. Lightning Returns is hardcore anime bullshit through and through and it doesn't try to hide it. Hell, the opening cinematic is basically an atypical anime duel between Lightning and Snow in the middle of a rave. XD I think you'll enjoy it from a story standpoint (still nothing I'd call great, but it keeps your attention well enough). Gameplay has a really strong (if artificially generated via arbitrary time limits) sense of urgency too, but it can be more frustrating than actually fun if you don't have a good handle on it. Combat is decent. Feels like a mix between X-2 and XIII and ends up being more interesting than I was expecting it to be overall.

As well as Ms. Marvel, and She-Hulk. All 3 of these could be really good if done right. ?

That idea reminds me (at least conceptually) of 'Wes Craven's New Nightmare'. XD

I'm curious if they're going to adapt, continue off of, or just flat out ignore the Matrix Online story. It was (at least originally) canon and continued the story straight off of the last movie and revolved heavily around whether Neo was actually dead or not (had major events involving Morpheus demanding the return of his body from the machines and the machines confirming they did not recycle his body but refusing to return it, etc. ). Shit got a little weird at points, but it was an interesting vehicle for the story.

21.) Erica Saw this came out when I was watching some Gamescom 2019 stuff and remembered being interested in it when I originally saw something about it and saw it was only $10 so decided to grab it. Basically an FMV "interactive story" game, but MUCH higher production quality than you typically see with the genre. First play through took me a couple hours roughly which I was expecting. Ending I got was a bad one I'm pretty sure, but it did leave me wanting to play again to see if I could get to the root of the mystery so that's a plus. Only awkward part was the controls. You have the option to download a phone app and use your phone to control it, otherwise it uses the PS4 touchpad exclusively and feels a little clunky. May try the phone app for the next play through since I feel like that might function more smoothly. Interested to see if the mystery pans out with a better ending, but the experience was pretty solid either way. As long as it doesn't wear itself out before I see everything there is to see I'll be happy.

Binge? It's literally just a single, near-movie length episode. Was hilarious though. Glad they got Jhonen Vasquez to write it. Tied a lot more to the original series than I was expecting too and references stuff from it. Was expecting a random one-off thing that could be from any point during the original, but it continues off of it.

Oh man, I remember when that was first put out a few years ago. Think I watched it a few times in a row.

I just found out about this game a couple weeks ago myself and have been watching stuff on it since. Seems like it's trying to pick up the ball that Bioware keeps dropping and I'm looking forward to seeing if they can manage. It's weird how little attention this is getting for how ambitious it seems to be. There have been a few games like that lately that I've come across. Are you sure it's the same people as Vampyr? I know it's the same publisher, but it was DontNod who made Vampyr (same studio that did Life is Strange), and I don't recall anyone leaving them and going to Spiders (their most recent games were Bound by Flame and The Technomancer I believe). They are both French developers though so it's possible.

They're apparently FINALLY starting to relent on some of that shit. There's a couple things that finally went cross play and PUBG is getting console crossplay soon too. Baby steps I guess? XD