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Beta launches tomorrow, for those that got in at a high enough tier.

I've mined pretty deep in Steamworld Dig now. I figure I should be getting pretty close to the end (or bottom, as the case may be) seeing as I've purchased almost all the upgrades available and, by all accounts, this is not a very long game. I have a feeling I'll finish the game tomorrow.

That made me think for a bit. I don't think I've played a baseball game since... the 80s on the NES. I wouldn't mind if the made a baseball game for the Wii U, but not a super realistic one, I'd like a Nintendo'd up game, like they've done for other sports, like golf and tennis. They probably have something like that in the Wii shop, but I don't want something with motion controls, I don't want to be waving a Wiimote to hit the ball or whatever. I want regular controls, maybe also something using the gamepad touchscreen, swiping to put motion on the ball when pitching or something like that, but otherwise regular analog stick (or d-pad) and physical buttons controls, but with a Nintendo spin on it, all colorful and charming like. It would be pretty cool to field a team of koopa troopas, maybe have Bowser as the catcher. Fun stuff like that, but not a mini-game as part of a Mario Party or whatever, a full fledged game with team management, stats for players, the whole shebang.

I'm glad my moments of weakness tend to be a lot less expensive than yours. In a moment of weakness, I pre-ordered a Samus amiibo. I almost wound up getting Peach and Donkey Kong too, but my willpower kicked in and held me to getting just the Samus amiibo... for now. Hopefully they make a Bayonetta amiibo in the future. Also, Mallo from Pushmo would be cool too.

I don't own an Oculus, but I do know that there are games out that support it. I own (at least) 2 games that support Oculus: Euro Truck Simulator 2 and World of Diving. Here is a list of games and applications that support Oculus. I'm not sure if all of these are out yet or what the rating numbers mean.

I have to be honest. This won't be a popular opinion here, but it's how I feel. I was never a fan of Icewind Dale, or Icewind Dale 2, for that matter. I thought thety were easily the two weakest entries of the Infinity Engine games. While the combat in them was good, better than BG, BG2, or PS:T, the story... ZZZZzzzzzzzzzz.

Metallica, before they sucked:

As ridiculous as it is, and it is ridiculous, Saints Row 4 is one of the smartest parodies I've ever seen in vidya games. It pokes fun at absolutely everything, including itself, and it does so without ever being mean about it. It does it while paying loving tribute to the things it is parodying. That's a rather difficult razor's edge to walk: making fun of something without trashing it.

While this is definitely a divisive subject, personally, I'm glad Saints Row ditched the gang warfare stuff from the first 2 games and went full-on ridiculous. The more absurd the games have gotten the more I've enjoyed them. While Saints Row 2 was a great game, had they stuck with that formula the series would never have been viewed as anything more than a cheap GTA knockoff. While the series is still considered a GTA-clone to some extent, it's no longer trying to straddle the fence between cartoonish and realistic, like GTA does, it's gone all out ridiculous, and I'm glad, because I like ridiculous.

"Brilliant nonsense" is pretty much the perfect encapsulation of what Saints Row has become. I could write several paragraphs and not come up with a more dead on description of the series.

That is the logical way to do it. First destroy us economically, then the extermination via military force will be that much easier.

I'm playing Steamworld Dig, a really fun Digdugtroidvania, on the Wii U, and World of Diving, a super chill diving simulator, on my PC. I also noticed that the new version of Grim Dawn (b20) just came out. I gave it a quick spin, but I'll mostly wait for the Arcanist class to be added (supposedly really soon) before I play the game extensively again. I'll likely jump back into my Neverwinter Nights and Pirate Creed games soon, but I needed a bit of a break as both of those games are just so long that I can't do them straight through. Hopefully I can finish both of those before Wasteland 2 comes out. Once Wasteland 2 is released, everything else is taking a back seat (ideally my plate will be clear at that point).

And thus the Great Robot Slave Uprising of 2031 and the Extinction War 2032-2034 were set into motion.

The ending to Enter the Dominatrix is pretty much the greatest ending in video game history.

We will all be living in Russia soon, GOG is just preparing for Putin's imminent conquest of the globe.

Wait Call of Duty is in 39 days? I always forget how fast they print this stuff out... The next iteration is only 35 days after that.

If there's any type of game where tentacles make perfect sense, it's a diving game, what, with squids and octopuses being native to the deep blue. I've yet to see either, but the game is far from finished, so cephalopods could be added in (or I just haven't noticed them yet).

World of Diving. It's an early access game, so it's incomplete and needs some polish, but it's pretty fun. It's a super chill game. Nothing to kill, no one trying to kill you, just swimming around in gorgeous underwater areas taking pictures of marine life, exploring wrecks, that sort of thing.

Moar underwater pictures