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How 'bout we split the difference and go with Gangster of Love?

Verge looks like he's about to Embrace Eternity.

Whereas WE need a #1 wideout.

Jets drafted tackle Mekhi Becoton. Sigh. They over spent for a mediocre offensive line in free agency and then made a Rex Ryan-like "which guy looks boom or bust to me" pick. Plus, I'm hearing that some are projecting him to be a guard due to his size.

I miss sports so much I complained loudly in my parking lot about how disappointing the airliner flying overhead was and went back indoors in disgust just to feel like I'm watching the Jets.

Just finished Trails of Cold Steel 3. Can't say too much 'cause it is the third of four games in the mini series and the eighth in the series as a whole, but wow. Not going to lie. There was a lot of talking at the end, though there usually is in Trails games. At one point I went about 4 hours of nothing but talking. Not a cut scene, mind you, but just walking around talking. There's way less combat in this one than in any of the others. This is a crossover event moreso than even Trails of Zero so newcomers will range from confused to not caring about what's going on. As much as I love the first two, CS3 ranks right up there with Trails in the Sky 3 for me. My favorite new character was Ash and my favorite NPC was Jingo (and her dog, Cerberus). A welcome change to the series for me was spreading the character profiles out enough that you can unlock them all in a single playthrough. In CS2 especially they had a bunch of final pages hidden behind bonding scenes in the last chapter, forcing you to NG+ to unlock all the profiles on a single save. Not that I won't NG+ CS3, but it's nice to be able to unlock all the collectibles in a single playthrough (which I did except for one combat note). They also separated link levels and bond levels into different things which works out great seeing as how I managed to nearly max out both categories for all the characters anyway. The second best new addition was the in game CCG, Vantage. There was a card game in CS1 & 2, but the decks were standardized. Vantage is a bit like gwent in that it is a single player game where you challenge other players and win cards to use to build a better deck. There were a couple of cards that are specific to certain NPCs, meaning they aren't things you can win. I was highly tempted in the dramatic moments before leaving for the final dungeon, with everyone looking very serious and concerned, to go around challenging the other players to a game just for the sheer hilarity of it, but decided not to. Total, the game was about 140 hours of an absolute blast.

How dare someone else be excited about a thing you don't like. Ah, Twitter. You never change.

Not every game lets you play as member of someone else's harem.

I have been racking my brain to find some screenshots within the nearly 500 taken during my (thus far) 130 hours of Trails of Cold Steel 3 that don't have spoilers or require 15 pics in a single post for some context. This is the best I got.

Too bad. I thought that was the best part of the first game.

I agree with both. Prior to TOW I didn't like the idea of using a 3D engine, but given how relatively few bugs that game had, I would welcome it. I would add an optional camera mode that's third person over the shoulder for console players, too. Frankly, POE 3's potential success might lie in how well they manage to increase appeal to console players.

Waterdhavian creatures.

^Not enough manic. Try adding daddy issues.

It's this video:

Skaen is supposed to contact the Watcher in the room prior to the one Thaos is in. You can see it at 11:19 in this video: I haven't done this myself and most people I've seen get this achievement solo the game with a stealthy min-maxed character, avoiding almost all the fights where they can. Such as in this video: The above video is is only a couple of patches from the final patch and aside from some bug squashing there were no gameplay changes in between it and the current version. I never tried to do any of this stuff because the amount of meta gaming involved saps all the fun out of the game for me.

Garbage panda.

I've always preferred xbox controllers. They're a little bigger, weight a bit more, the trigger and bumper buttons are wider spaced, and the analog sticks are place right next to one another. To me, they just feel much better. If I have to use a controller, I use my elite. Keyboard and mouse, though, is my favorite control input.

Is it going to be a cheap, flimsy piece of plastic like the duelshock that felt like they spent 10 minute of R&D making it?

I remember trying everything I could to get her to try.

I have 55 hours in Cold Steel 3 (PC) and I'm still just short of finishing chapter 2. I'm glad that CS3 embarrasses once again the sweep gameplay loop that was set aside in part during CS2. I'd say "I like it," but that's an understatement given that I'm probably going to turn right back around after finishing it to NG+ if only to see all the bonding scenes I won't get to in this playthrough.

Whelp. There goes my parade. Don't mind me, I'll just be in the corner with the dunce hat on.

Everything I know: it's Werewolf Apocalypse instead of VtM. Devs were clear that they're going for more of a action game than a rpg. The character is fixed (eco-terrorist). You can use three different forms, wolf for exploration, werewolf for combat, and human for narrative. Definitely not open world. Last I saw it was scheduled for late 2020 or early 2021 release.

The Legend of Heroes: Cold Steel 4 is coming to North America for the PS4 this autumn and PC and the Switch ports are set for some time in 2021. https://thelegendofheroes.com

That or the People's Republic is in charge of assigning the numbers for each title.

Do numbers mean nothing to you monsters?!