The finger wag from the Days Gone director about buying games at launch for full price kinda reminds me of a few years back when Capcom was making horrible decisions and greenlighting bad ideas for games. I recall some executive saying something about the spin off action-oriented Resident Evil games (Operation Racoon City / Umbrella Corps crap) being made because RE5 and RE6 were highly successful action games and they expected those to sell equally as well due to the genre. They also made a quasi threat around the cheap Devil May Cry HD port to PS4/PC saying like, "the future of the franchise hangs in these sales." That kind of guilting and handcuffing fans isn't what developers or publishers should be doing. Just let them buy it at their own merit and pace. Some people stop gaming for decades at a time, then come back to it. I'd hate to find out they cancelled a series I love because I was too busy with life to buy it right away. Ultimately, if you want me to buy a game at launch you need to completely sell me on it. Days Gone should consider itself lucky launching in Q1 2019 among other single player games and before the Fall / Christmas rush. Back in the day there were multiple games in the same genre launching at the same date head to head, vying for your dollar: NBA Live vs NBA2K vs NBA The Inside Guitar Hero vs Rock Band Call of Duty vs Battlefield vs Halo FIFA vs PES Gran Turismo vs Forza I think if a game like Days Gone only has x-amount of fans, then why get pissy at them for the cancellation of the series cause they didn't buy it right away. So shortsighted.

I think Red Dead 2 is going to prove to be very influential, particularly in the AAA sphere. I think it's the first game, aside from perhaps BOTW, that truly captures the "living, breathing world" that so many games try to capture, so I think it's influence will be felt quite a bit in the coming years. I think we've already seen some of its influence in AC Valhalla.

@jdincinerator He was gaining on Verstappen, ended up making a mistake that put him in 8th place with a broken front wing and a lap behind but was incredibly lucky with the timing of the Russell and Bottas incident. Then went from 8th to second which was a great recovery. But he would never get to 2nd if not for the restart.

Biiiiiiig smash-up on the first lap. xD (Johnson and Grosjean are intact.)

@jdincinerator if you have some left over time from the first run, you can do a second run as long as the timer's still up. Even pausing will not stop the timer.

Just finished ICO (PS3 remaster)... and I can't believe how good this game is! There's no better example of a game's quality being more than the sum of its parts. First of all, Bluepoint must have done something with the controls and such, because I think this controls way better than TLG and the SOTC remake. I can't believe that the OG version would control like this. I never got really annoyed during the platforming parts, and while "controlling" Yorda around can be a bit finicky, it never gets worse than slowing me down for a few seconds. Same thing for the camera. I was surprised about the fixed cameras at first, but it turned out great for me. It made the game look way more cinematic without bothering the gameplay too much. The castle's atmosphere is top notch. It feels empty/deserted, but in this sinister kind of way. It would have been so uncomfortable for me to explore on my own. It's also backed up by very effective ambiance and a handful of creepy tracks. The design of the castle is also pretty great, especially considering that all of castle's sections feels like they're actually connected and existing in a real world. Story wise, it's definitely Ueda-san's most minimalist work. I really like that Yorda's personality is mostly shown through her mannerisms, like shaking her head frantically when I keep bugging her to follow me up a path she can't take. I also love that I can see the main character and Yorda asleep on the couch whenever I return to the game after loading a save file, it's super cute. I think this is a unpopular opinion, but Ico is easily Ueda-san's finest game for me. I have no noteworthy complaints about it. Absolute masterpiece. (10/10)

I feel like if I never played games, it would have been harder for me to be empathetic to people, or to see from others' perspective. Even back when stories in games weren't so well executed, I think I grasped a lot from the experience of being put into various situations and having to deal with obstacles to progress. I think the biggest example of this is that I tend to think a lot about how people would feel about something I might do, and that's related to my experience with RPGs like Dragon Age Origins and Mass Effect, and a bunch of visual novels, all of which I played at a pretty young age. With games, even if I'm only there to act things out without making real choices for the story, there's just so much more that I can take away from the experience, and I have rarely been as engaged when I'm watching movies or reading books. It's like when you learn how to do things better if you actually try to do them, instead of just watching or reading instructions and calling it a day. I also got into photography because of the photo mode trend that started during the last gen, which is honestly one of my favorite parts of that generation. I found out that I really like messing around with view angles, composition, and all of those other technical stuff, and games are so perfect for it because it's so easy and immediate to see the results of what I played around with. I was gifted a mirrorless camera not long after I really got into photo modes as well, which pretty much seals the deal on my love for photography.

@bam541 Well, you still have time. Good luck.

7 is best by far. follow by RE2 remake. Didnot liked rest of them. although waiting for Village and it will took best spot. First person is best thing happened to RE franchise.

@shoulderguy I forgot about those flashback scenes! There's some endearing character moments there for sure. There's also some really beautiful environments during those scenes, like the night time one in the forest.

I finally got Ichiban Holdings to the #1 spot in Yokohama. Damn, that took a while! I'm in Chapter 10 currently and honestly? The game's been fucking good, pardon my French. I'm retroactively changing my last year's GOTY list now.

Wasn't trying to make a Top 20 or whatever, but by the time I had listed out all my favorites and ordered them, it kind of resembles one with some obvious omissions, which are great games, but just don't mean quite as much to me personally. Yoshi's Story Pokemon Snap Mario 64 Mischief Makers Snowboard Kids Snowboard Kids 2 Mario Kart 64 Banjo Kazooie Harvest Moon 64 Star Fox 64 Ogre Battle 64 Gauntlet Legends The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards Bomberman 64 Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon Clayfighter 63 1/3 Chameleon Twist Cruis'n World San Francisco Rush

My man Cesaro! With all this hype and push now on him, he's suddenly basically the biggest face now on SD, sweet. That UFO spot from WM got shown like five times throughout the episode with such a high praise. Which was totally earned, of course, such a cool moment. Then they started this Reigns feud but with a detour called Rollins first. Which is actually propably the right way to do. Let's lay the foundation for this current run now in a solid fashion and then see where it'll lead. The Uso match was a good one. I love that Corkscrew Uppercut every single time I see it, such a beautiful move when executed like that.