Yep!

https://www.vg247.com/take-a-look-at-this-expensive-dungeons-and-dragons-pinball-machine-that-features-gerard-way

This is pretty cool. I just saw an article about a D&D-themed pinball machine that’s being made and immediately my mind jumped to wondering just how difficult it is to maintain these things. It’d be fun to own one but I have no idea how many other businesses are out there like this one.

I’ll take taxes and a job over being strapped down and drained of blood, tbh.

Hold a “So you just lost access to the employee discount” sale on the Microsoft store.

Not necessarily gaming related, but I remember their early coverage of every new Apple product as somehow more masturbatory than anything MacWorld put out. Then you’ve got their infamous complete mess of a PC build video and everything that followed that. I guess at least they aren’t written by AI yet?

I’m sure the chance at getting some with high lead content makes it taste even better.

It’s great! I’d put it up there with other weird children’s lit like The Stinky Cheese Man and Strega Nona.

IIRC DreamWorks originally tried adapting the book directly but it didn’t really work so they kept some concepts and redid the entire story. Early designs of movie Shrek looked a lot closer to book Shrek.

No one even remembers Merlin

There’s a short story, The Procrustean Petard, where the TOS crew get gender swapped by ancient alien tech. Fem Kirk is basically told he’s (she’s, but the story doesn’t respect pronouns) unfit for duty because he’s so hot his crew and everyone he interacts with wouldn’t be able to resist his charms.

It’s…problematic in so many ways.

It’s probably going to be a bit more like Diablo/borderlands where the campaign was fine but I have absolutely no drive to replay it on higher difficulties. I’d imagine people who are in the same boat will check out the next content drop with the elseworlds Joker stuff and gauge future interest based on that.

I think that’s supposed to come out in about a month?

Also, I wish Sony and Microsoft reported player counts for their respective consoles. Having player data for 1/3 platforms isn’t very helpful, IMHO.

If they hold up on their promise for an offline patch, the AI holds up well enough that it’d be ok (not great) as an offline single player game.

It’s more like a traditional 2d fighter than smash, but you can do that with MUGEN

It’s possible. It’s definitely a game that asks a lot of the player to get immersed in the underlying story. Lots of relatively dense philosophical excerpts to read in the terminals. That’s on top of lore-related text to read which really fleshes out the pretty dark story they’re telling. Then there are the puzzles which might not be everyone’s thing.

The second game improves this greatly by moving the majority of the story out of text and into voiced dialogue with NPCs and a few cutscenes. The jump from the Serious Sam engine to UE5 is pretty mind-blowing in terms of graphics. I think there’s going to be a third one, as well?

If the game can’t suck you in, I’d at least recommend looking up the story. It’s pretty neat.

Aside from obvious ones like Baldur’s Gate 3…

Talos Principle 2 is fantastic from start to finish and makes you feel smart. I’d say playing the first one is a must in order to really enjoy it. The dlc, Road to Gahenna, is skippable. Most people I’ve talked to find they already own the first one somehow and just never got around to playing it.

Viewfinder was also good but felt kind of short. It’s priced fairly, though, so it’s worth a try.

Ghost Trick was really really good on the ds, not sure how well it translates to pc but the reviewer liked it. Some part of its charm was the interaction with the stylus. If it goes on sale, absolutely pick it up.

Nu, it must be the one like Lexx!

I saved a screenshot the last time I saw an article about this. Sums it up nicely…

In terms of looks, I will say the rocky textures are pretty nice. Also they managed to map actors faces without getting that weird bugeye effect so many other games suffer from.