Heather Alexandra's discussions

Sort of. The weapon mastery quests helped to equalize the metagame although he’s definitely still useful. Effie and other armored units are a bigger right now in arena at the moment. Read more

I’ve had notoriously good luck with hero acquisition. They tossed us five orbs today and I pulled a five star Jaffar. Having new ways to get feathers isn’t the biggest deal for me considering how much arena I play but I think it will be nice for other folks. Read more

When presented with the choice between being a pessimist or optimist, I’m going to choose the latter. Maybe these games are just a drop in a big ass ocean. But if even one person does some reflection or feels something because of something they’ve played here, I think that means it was worth it. Read more

We can have both. Creators can spread message of resistance in art and folks can march in the street. Hell, creators can march in the street as well. That’s the nice thing about the world; it’s nuanced and not a zero sum space. Read more

Mileage varies for everyone and we all bring a little of ourselves to a game when we play. As I’ve noted in the piece, this didn’t necessarily upset or anger me. I wasn’t in a huff or anything like that. But given the range of reactions and all the great fan works, it felt worth tackling. Read more

I’ve not encountered the home designer so I’ll have to check that out. Some of this definitely comes down to culture but I’m always wary of using that to pass over the chance to examine something like this. Read more

It’s complicated. At the end of the day, this doesn’t make me love Breath of the Wild less, y’know? I still think it’s a great game that I can’t get enough of. Read more

It’s a bad game, Tom. Read more

Of a somewhat different stripe but still pretty nasty in implications. 

Fun fact: Watch Dogs is one of two games I’ve played that I never finished. I stopped playing because of how patently awful it was. The other was Alan Wake. Read more

Availability concerns are economic concerns and not even DLC is assured continued presence in an online store. Read more

I definitely understand the economic concern. It can be a barrier. However, I think if folks are concerned about amiibos, you would have to be equally concerned with regional differences and different consoles. Read more

Feel free to contact me when you’ve done anything impressive. Read more

“The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.” Read more

It’s not irrelevant at all. I think it’s pretty inspiring, truth be told. Read more

Not quite. Many dynamics driven events are emergent but not all emergent events have meaningful dynamics. Read more

Thanks. I remember seeing that thing out of the corner of my eye for the first time and being absolutely stunned at how beautiful it was. Read more

Kirk wrote an entire post about how much it adds to the game. I started doing that once I’d gotten more comfortable with exploration. It’s really nice. Make the surprise discoveries and quiet traveling even better. Read more

Comfortable trillings for when you are traversing the country side. One of the nicer and more appreciated little things in the game. Even if it wasn’t enough for me to mention in the piece itself. Read more

There’s no way an Ubisoft title could feel like another Ubisoft title. Read more

I think Wildlands wants to be a lot of things at once. It wants to be Crackdown, it wants to be Far Cry, it wants to be Operation Flashpoint, it wants to be GTA Online... and on and on and on.. Read more