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Yes, while having something like 10k work visa applications open.

Shovelware: the week

I enjoyed Endless Legend but I'm personally more of an Age of Wonders guy. Dial back the Civ a bit and crank up the HOMM. I'll probably try 2 since it's on game pass, didn't realize that was happening.

They set us up the bomb

That'd be waking up an hour early, doable but I'll pass. I'll watch the highlights after I drop the kids off at school and get back to my desk. Besides getting my normal sleep, the other major perk is getting to skip through all the anime, which is probably going to be every game - including Forza if you consider half the people's liveries.

Oh man my wife and I loved DRG, and she loves Vampire Survivors... definitely going to have her try this one. When I saw the first trailer for this I just assumed it was a twin stick kind of game, not a game like Vampire Survivors. I guess the hint is in the name, flew right over my head.

To the Moon is the most emotional game I've ever played, by a lot.

Viva Pinata 3 🤡

@Fiendish-Beaver it's not a good game solo, the magic is the coop chaos. This isnt something like Remnant 1/2 which shine in co-op but are still very good solo. More like Vermintide or something like that but even more skewed to coop imo.

That said, I never play co-op games outside my friend group, but this game really got me and I'm needing to play it when they're not on. I've been playing with randoms and the community is really great and welcoming.

@Fiendish-Beaver Microsoft says things all the time, when there are things to crow about. That's why they haven't said much for over 10 years. The best we get is made up lies like folding gold into game pass and saying game pass grew 15 million subscribers or whatever horsesh** they were feeding investors that quarter.

1) Microsoft threw in the towel

2) imagine blaming tariffs for this, the console should have gone down $200 before Trump was even elected. MS gave up, all but stopped producing these, and is just squeezing a few bucks out of poor saps replacing their broken units.

3) the series s I got from Verizon for $150 is looking like my fastest appreciating asset, nevermind my 2 launch series x.

I'm judging the "I have to restart every few hours" guy.

For the King 2 is a great coop game. Like getting friends together for a board game.

I don't like ESO but I really wanted to see what these guys were making.

@Markatron84 I understand it. Some people play games for the challenge. Climbing Mt Everest would be less appealing if there was an escalator.

Let's GOOOO been following this since they put out a 10 minute gameplay video shortly after announcement and it looks incredibly fun.

Ok but whose fault was TFLO?

Mine was an impulse buy a few years ago when Verizon was selling them for $150. No regrets.

I've never understood the appeal of Mega Man.

Totally addicted to spreading managed democracy in Helldivers 2, I've got friends online every night playing. Unlocked impossible difficulty last night. Got the Halo warbond and back up to 500 super credits now towards the next one.

@masofdas it's implied because when timed exclusivity exists, the developer almost never talks about rival platforms until that agreement is over. Yes their language makes it possible but it would be a weird one.

I do think articles saying it's confirmed are jumping the gun, even though it's most likely the case

Haven't played a Monster Hunter Stories game yet, I'm interested.

I find both Josef Fares games and Hollow Knight (have not gotten to Silksong yet) to be simultaneously very good and wildly overrated.

@Kaloudz it makes sense and I fell for it 😂

This is really cool, thank you guys for covering it.

@Kaloudz for me it peaked in D2 Forsaken but yeah

This Star wars thing looks like it's in its death throes tbh.

I forgot they made an AVGN game... I guess it's time to try it. Can it have as much profanity as him playing the NES ninja turtles game?

Will def dl this for my daughter, she's not as into paw patrol as she was but she still likes the games.

Was a fan of DAO as a (inferior) successor to Baldur's gate but the sequels weren't great, and Skillups review of this one was enough for me to know I can safely pass

@Kezelpaso do you know why Crimson Dragon isn't on this list?

My Thursday group just started Clans last week. We better step on it! It's surprisingly polished compared to Mercenaries, tons of cutscenes.

Same group did Dead Island 2 a while back and Darktide was an every night game for a while. This might be a bad month for great coop games!

Will get to it eventually but I'm obsessed with Helldivers right now

@smoreon I consider several games on the list sins but yes I could have worded it better.

Goldeneye was maybe an ok game for kids (violence aside), but if you had access to a PC it was an unplayable dumpster fire. A year of playing Quake with WASD+mouse controls, and then having a friend ask you to come play Goldeneye with them, was pretty awful. It was a very different time for console FPS. 30 years later everything still plays like Quake, consoles had a few more years to get there.

Confidently incorrect, if you were around at the time you'd remember it absolutely was Rare.

https://www.giantbomb.com/avatar-support/3015-3874/forums/rare-will-rebuild-the-xbox-360-avatar-it-has-the-t-439318/

@smoreon you can't go listing Rares sins and leave off the avatar system revamp they were responsible for.

Final Fantasy Tactics is 1 of 4 Playstation games Ive owned in my life and I'm very much looking forward to replaying it.

@TheGameThrifter all of them keep failing upwards

Helldivers 2, pretty addicted. I'm even playing with gasp randoms which I never do.

It has to be Hexen, had a blast reliving it and also played a little Heretics while I was at it for the first time.

Now, best game of the month and possibly year for me is Helldivers 2. I just can't suppress the urge to spread managed democracy.

No, my wife got bored and didn't finish it. She got to the part in the jungle before tapping out.

I already played it and loved it (understatement), but I could see Infinite Wealth coming to game pass.

@Kaloudz I never heard of these either! But I didn't have a C64 or these other systems. I had a Colecovision and my cousin had Intellivision II, and my neighbor had a TI-99, so I'm more familiar with those libraries.

The hype was justified. Most of my gaming is co-op and Helldivers 2 is easily in the pantheon of greatest co-op games. Its just pure fun. I do agree it's not visually striking but as you go up in difficulties it makes sense, the wide open battlefields with absurd numbers of enemies and nuclear sized explosions going off everywhere, you have to give up detail to achieve that. But it seems to run nearly flawlessly to me, I couldn't say if that's the case without vrr though.

@IOI if it's any consolation, the pc improvements now are helping the next gen "console" get off to a better start.

@FarmDog08 they will never do this because it hurts their business model. It's a first person game, you can't even see the skin yourself. The customers are paying to make other people see the skins. They're going to cater to the people paying, not the people complaining.

@Fiendish-Beaver I feel the same way, I only played the Skyrim DLCs 10 years later with the remaster. I rarely replay games.

That said, Starfield has the most interesting New Game+ in the history of video games, so if there ever was a game to replay for DLC this isn't a bad choice.

Had a blast with this last night, me on Xbox and a buddy picked it up on Steam. Can't wait to get a full crew together.

Side note, man the purple alien faction is so much harder than the bugs or robots, holy ****. Like at least the equivalent of 4 difficulties higher.

Hard to watch the hour of Squadron 42 intro and feel like current consoles are some kind of endgame where no improvements are necessary.