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I was told to get the bear armor but I worked so hard to find the griffin armor! But an excuse to run around the map more—yes, please. Read more

I never play gwent. There was a quest that asked me to play gwent and I just ended up stabbing everyone :( Read more

I keep thinking “I should finish The Witcher 3 before Yakuza 0 happens,” but that’s a tall order... Read more

During the cutscene for one quest dialogue some woman got stuck in the background and just...glared at me the whole time while twitching occasionally. It was bizarre. Read more

I don’t like fantasy much either, which was one of the reasons I held off for so long. I do zone out a bit once all the names and fantasy stuff starts flying around too much, but I like it! Read more

I’m late to the party but I’m still at the party! Read more

Yeah but then where does it stop? S.T.A.L.K.E.R? F3AR? Watch_Dogs? It’s a steady slide into chaos. Read more

Hitman’s always been a weird one—most of the fun in the design comes from when you’ve learned a level well enough to pull off some rad kills, but it kind of suggests 47 is a time traveller. I think the Elusive Targets are the closest the game comes to what it’d really be like to be a hit man, and that means no sneaky Read more

I feel this way about looking up maps when games don’t have them in-game, like The Long Dark or Day Z. Re Day Z, a friend of mine decided she could look at a map online but only really zoomed out, supposing her character had basic knowledge about the area but hadn’t spent much time there. I thought it was a really Read more

Ooh... Questionable but still fair. Also: mostly how I boss fight. Read more

That’s a really good question! Looking at walkthroughs does make me feel like I’m cheating, but I hate scanning every last crevice for collectibles! But then if I get an achievement I know I only got because I looked up a walkthrough I feel a little bad. Read more

I think speedrun exploits are kind of cool! They’re often really creative, and they require a really in-depth knowledge of a game that always impresses me. Plus they seem in service of a different goal than ‘winning’ the game—they’re sort of on their own level, in my mind. Read more