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Fun fact: Except for the goal that England scored, in 120+ minutes of play England did not have a single shot on target.

Open world-ish third person treasure hunting game, reminiscent of the original Tomb Raider games but with even less combat and a greater emphasis on puzzles, research, and exploration. Also, let me make a custom character. Basically, a Tomb Raider where you play a character that's a lot more archaeologist who also happens to be remarkably agile and occasionally has a scuffle with a crazed cultist and a lot less super soldier with an insatiable thirst for Russian blood.

Mandzukic!

I'm playing Hero-U. It's eliciting strong Quest For Glory vibes, as it should. It's made by the Coles, the makers of QFG, and is its spiritual successor. You play as Shawn O'Conner, an aspiring rogue that gets sent to Hero University and placed in the Disbarred Bard (Rogue) class. Unlike QFG, you don't have character classes to choose from, you are a rogue. At some point in the game you may be able to take electives (I'm not far enough in to confirm or deny that) which may allow you to gain some minor skills from other classes (the term class is very fitting here since you are at a school). The main system of the game seems to be time management. At the beginning of the day you have to be in class, at 6 PM you have to be at dinner, and wandering the school after 10 PM is dangerous since you'll get demerits if you get caught (100 demerits is game over?). Between those times you can do whatever you want, but the clock is always running, so there's only so much you can do. You can practice to increase your skills and attributes, study at the library to increase skills and smarts, work in the kitchen to get money, fight creatures in the wine cellar to increase combat skills and get money, play Poobah (a card game), talk to people to get to know them and increase (or decrease) your reputation with them (there is a separate reputation stat for every major character), and solve point & click type puzzles. There are quite a few characters to get to know at the school between the other students and the faculty. I don't know if the game has full on romances, but I'm definitely trying to hook up with Esme (I'm assuming that's short for Esmeralda), a gypsy girl in my class. I don't know if you ever get to leave the school, but outside of the intro scene, the entire game has taken place inside the school so far. Right now I'm managing my time between trying to increase my combat skills, increasing lock picking, earning money so that I can afford the full school uniform (I got the shirt and tie, now I need the pants and jacket) and my full rogue toolkit (I got a dagger, lockpicks, and chalk so far), solving a puzzle involving a ghost dog (I know what to do but don't have the necessary skill level yet), and getting brownie points with Esme. Edit: A word of caution. If you intend to play this game then I hope you have a strong stomach for puns, because the game's cup runneth over with the cheesiest of cheesy puns. Luckily, I am a fine connoisseur of puns.

Hero U

I had said Star Citizen would come out before this, whoops. The new bet is, what comes out first, Star Citizen or SpaceVenture?

I never thought I'd see the day. /wipes away tear of joy

I guess this leaves me rooting for Croatia, not because I particularly care about Croatia, but rather because they're not England and not France.

Welp, the last team I care about is out.

2 clear fouls on France in dangerous position not called in the last 5 minutes. Does a Frenchman have to pull out a gun and shoot Hazard for a foul to be called?

save.us.Hazard

You've never played Planetscape Tournament? Take my advice, Planetscape Tournament 2004 is good, but Planetscape Tournament 99 is easily the best in the series.

I got Trials Fusion free with PS Plus last month and stashed it for later. I saw someone playing it on the ol' interwebs today and thought "that looks really fun", so I downloaded it thinking it would be a fun little distraction from my usual more srsbzness gaming. Turns out, it is indeed really fun, really really really fun.

Even though you've played the game before, you're probably going to need the wiki quite a bit, as a lot has probably changed in those couple years. I've been playing for 50+ hours and I still use the wiki all the time and still don't know how half the stuff works.

YESSSSSSSSS!!! LOL Fernandez

save.us.Subasic

The families of the Russian footballers' being held at gunpoint are breathing slightly easier right now.

FeelsBadMan

I'm so happy with Vida right now that I'm not even going to make a the 90s called, they want their ridiculous hairstyle back joke.

Vida!

Croatia are going to lose this on penalties, aren't they?

Oh my god, how did Croatia not score right there? They will be kicking themselves for that. The post was unkind.

So, out of Russia and Croatia, which team has the better chance to ugly the game up enough to take out England?

Sweden looks THOROUGHLY outmatched. Nearly the entirety of possession is happening around Sweden's penalty box.

I started playing Prey. I'm definitely in to it so far. I get a strong System Shock vibe from the game, which is obviously a compliment.