@burbigo Only problem with this site, I don't have it with any other site. Main problem is caches I guess because whenever I clean the history, it resolves for some time.

@dmcmaster Youtube Video

Heck yeah dude this is great!

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-03-02-the-last-of-us-part-2-secures-a-record-13-bafta-nominations

@burbigo Yes. Uploading it to the cloud saves it there, but if you want to use the save on the system, you must redownload it to the console on the associated profile. RE5 doesn't do server side progress. It's all based on your save.

Yes, Your Grace Ignore the godawful pixel art, this is a short cool strategy/kingdom management title akin to a medieval Papers Please where you manage a kingdom. The game loop is simple and satisfying, your subjects ask you for stuff and you decide what to do, this while managing your resources, establishing alliances and dealing with family issues. Your end goal is preparing for an incoming war. Your decisions have a deep and subtle impact and I have to say, if at first the story seems lacking it slowly starts to draw you in and by the end I was 100% in, really emotionally engaged with the events and consequences. And damn does this game can become a fucking tragedy! 😢 Sadly the art style is really poor and so is the sound design. Still, easy to recommend since it's on Gamepass. 7.5

@dmcmaster I can definitely agree that the series can be split up into smaller trilogies or thematic trilogies as you put it, but without digging into Patrice's brain—I am fairly certain he was going for something between a psychological "mindfuck" piece of fiction mixed with a historical thriller. Then the feedback from Assassin's Creed came in and Patrice kinda split the difference between the modern day thriller plot, and the Renaissance storyline with a more typical open world game design. The action focus in AC2 is prevalent as opposed to the ancient-espionage vision that AC1 had. Those changes were especially noticeable in a post-Arkham world, so they needed to up the pace and smooth out the combat. All this to say, I think the "vision" of the series was one thing (thriller, mindfuck, espionage, stealth), but Ubisoft and Patrice switched gears really quickly into something that works better as an open world video game. -- So I guess the question on Game Thrasher was: Has Assassins Creed Betrayed its Roots? I guess I am arguing Ubisoft abandoned it's roots waaaaaaay before AC Origins. I don't think they "betrayed" it, but by having all of these smaller trilogies they definitely don't make this series trademarks easily identifiable other than climbing towers and haystacks.

@miserableperson Bloodworth's review is already posted, it sounds pretty cool. Youtube Video

I am not a big fan. I'll check it out probably but wouldn't care if it wasn't released for another 10 years.

@el-shmiablo Sword and Shield wasn't too bad outside the Wild Area, which they clearly struggled with. Diamond and Pearl Remakes are outsourced to a dev studio who have only assisted on games and made Pokemon Home before this, and I agree those games look awful. I want performance too, but everyone keeps making damn open world and musous, which will inevitably end up really ugly or really poor performance, because people don't accept "less enemies on screen at once" these days. @bam541 I'm really not sure how BotW did it as a launch game, but I'm sure having twice as long of a dev cycle as those Pokemon games sure helped. Even then, there were afew hitch areas at launch and Korok Forest still does it bad, plus the Master Cycle Zero actually breaks the game, because it wasn't designed for you to go that fast period. The two Switch games that just feel like magic to me are Dragon Quest XI S and now Monster Hunter Rise. Both of those I just am in awe of. Those devs must know something about the hardware others just don't.