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I'd have to buy it, but that could be fun. Word 'round the campfire is that it's going to be free to play on Steam over the weekend.

I hope the voice acting is placeholder because holy smokes it's bad. Still, any game that features Świętowit has my attention. Also, I like how colorful it is with many colors being brighter or a lighter/different shade than expected.

I'm up for Sword Coast Legends co-op, don't care if I'm player or DM.

"Nothing can change the nature of a man. Except MCA. Vote now!" "What can change the nature of a country?"

To me it reads as MCA being tired of the management responsibilities that came with his position and the creative limitations that come with the business reality of maintaining a mid-sized independent development company afloat. Sounds like he wants to be an independent contractor for a while and enjoy the freedom on not being tied to a single company. Of course, as with any interpretation, I could be way off.

Goetia may be the enemy. On the other hand... Before you ask, yes, I absolutely went out of my way to get a screenshot of her ass.

Are we sure he's not just going on "vacation" again?

Finished Bound by Flame. It was a pretty fun game and it took me about 20 hours to finish. I'll probably play it again in the future and make completely different choices and do a completely different build. I went with a full warrior and heavy into pyromancer build, completely ignoring ranger skills. I'll probably do a full ranger build in the future.

Full demon awesomeness:

Because Shin'en is a Nintendo developer, always has been. They've been around for over 15 years and have done, I believe, 1 total game for a non-Nintendo platform. I wish they'd develop for other platforms too. I'd love to see what they could do for the horsepower of a PC, but it is what it is. As it stands, they used an array of clever tricks to make a great looking game that moves really fast and with a super stable 60 FPS on the limited hardware they had to work with.

I unlocked Supersonic League (essentially 100cc) in Fast Racing Neo. This game sure lives up to its name. Even in Subsonic League (50cc) the game is really fast and becomes a blur when you hit the boost. In Supersonic League your regular top speed is about the same as the boost speed in Subsonic and boost just ridiculous. You kind of have to have the courses memorized because stuff comes at you so fast that it's almost impossible to react if you don't know what's coming up. I can't wait to see what boost looks like in Hypersonic League (150cc), that's going to be straight up ludicrous, but it might take me a while to unlock it. I also reached what I assume is the final act in Bound by Flame. My character is pretty damn powerful now and only boss tier enemies are a real threat unless they have me face a really large number of the strongest regular enemies. Going full demon is definitely the way to go if you want to play a battlemage as before the mana pool was too shallow to effectively pull it off, but after the demon transformations mana regens fast enough that you can use magic liberally.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiPOywK2O5o Hold your head up high Raise your fist up in the air Play metal, louder than hell Louder than hell

Fast Racing Neo

I scooped up Fast Racing Neo. My thoughts on the game: It's exactly what I was hoping it would be. It is the illegitimate love child of F-Zero and WipE'out". It's set up exactly like Mario Kart: 4 circuits of 4 tracks each at 3 speed classes. Even on Subsonic (50cc) the game feels holy **** fast. I can't wait to unlock the faster classes. I'll try to get some screenshots, but it's hard because the game is so intense, but the game looks AMAZING. Standing still you can see a good bit of jaggies, anti-aliasing is something they surely had to sacrifice to get the game to look this awesome and run at rock solid 60 FPS on the WII U's hardware, but at speed you'll never see it and the tracks, lighting effects, everything looks freakin' awesome. I don't know what manner of dark ritual Shin'en had to do and how many virgins they had to sacrifice to make a game look this great and go that fast at rock solid 60 FPS on the Wii U's hardware, but god bless them. I suspect they used some motion blur and depth of field tricks to make the game feel like it's moving faster than it actually is, but the feeling is all that matters.

Getting my demon on Cons: I can no longer wear a helmetPros: Massively increased mana regeneration I look awesome Hopefully this is not the full extent of the available transformations. I want to go maximum demon.

Having seen the pre-order and deluxe edition/DLC plans, I'll now be waiting a year to get the XCOM 2 Complete Edition for 50% off, which is generally a good idea with Firaxis games anyway.

Well, Toussaint is supposed to feel really out of place with the rest of the world. It's this duchy where everything is bright and cheerful and they have no standing army to speak of, yet everyone leaves them alone and leaves them to their own devices, including Nilfgaard, even though they are technically part of Nilfgaard. Makes you wonder what's really going on beneath the surface. Given the title "Blood & Wine", I wonder if it's vampires?

For what it's worth, Pani jeziora translates to Lady of the Lake.

To be honest, I've barely touched the main plot. The little bit of main plot I've gotten so far has come sporadically. You're given some direction at the very beginning; plant a probe at this location, go look for the missing team, they were last spotted here. After that, the orders given to you are extremely general, basically explore the planet, gather resources, plant probes, look for other pieces of the ship. There are side missions that will give you specific places to go and specific things to do, but the overall general directive is just "explore". Along the way you stumble into things or an event will trigger based on some criteria that will then advance the story. I don't know if it becomes more structured at some point, but it's mostly do your own thing and explore and stuff will happen at some point. So far it's not a very story driven game, like a Bethesda game except it's an awesome looking weird alien planet instead of boring familiar looking stuff.

Mostly Xenoblade Chroncles X. This game makes the land area in Skyrim look tiny by comparison. I've only just made my first forays into the another area of the game called Noctilium. The area you start in, the area around New Los Angeles, is called Primordia. It's mostly a plain, though it's pretty hilly in some areas and has some fairly tall rock formations, including some that seem to defy gravity, though gravity seems like it's a lot lower on this planet than on Earth, judging by how high you can jump. From New Los Angeles, which is located in the southern center of Primordia, going northwest, it takes me nearly 20 minutes running in as straight a line as I can at full sprint to reach Noctilium. Noctilium is a lush jungle/swamp area filled with huge colorful flowers and gargantuan... vines, I guess, that you can run on top of. It's all types of awesome looking. There are 5 areas in total, I guess I could call them continents, though that may be overstating their size a bit. Large islands, I guess. I can't wait to see the other 3, but I'm only scratching the surface of Noctilium. From what I've read, the estimate of time to complete the main story is between 70-80 hours, and well over 200 hours if you want to do and explore everything. Besides that, I'm still playing Bound by Flame. The game sure does make you travel down the same paths again and again. I've gone through the same 3 areas of swamp 4 or 5 times each now, it's starting to give me scary flashbacks of DA2. Luckily, the combat is really fun, so hacking through the same bunch of beasties in said swamps is enjoyable. Still, I hope I get to move on to a different area soon.