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It's a definite maybe. Depends on reviews.

I'm most curious whether Kratos dies, the kid dies, or in a surprise twist, neither does.

Instant death in almost any character action game. If I die, I want it to be because I was defeated, not because I failed to learn about and dodge the one-hit-kill attack. I've run into this with NieR: Automata, Nioh, and the God of War remaster recently. Oddly enough, I still love those games. Well... except the God of War remaster. The camera angles are driving me mad.

Deus Ex is one of my all-time top 3 games, but those Hong Kong voices. Yeesh.

Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines is Deus Ex with vampires, relevant character select, and better voice acting... yet that sewer level. Has there ever been a good sewer level in a video game? I know it's cliché at this point, but just avoid sewer levels. Oh, and it had a lot of bugs that kept anyone from enjoying this masterpiece at launch, but the unofficial patch has removed almost all of them.

Rain in Breath of the Wild. Weapon durability as well. I didn't hate it, but it was set to low. It could have easily been double or tripled. Yet even with those problems it's such an amazing game.

I can go on for a while, but that solo fight against Wiegraf in Final Fantasy Tactics. There are known ways to cheese that fight now, due to a very particular AI bug, but when that game came out, that fight was a run killer. You either had a solo Ramza build that could take him on, or you restarted your game. I think the first time I played the game I build Ramza as a calculator, and I had to restart and build Ramza into a ninja to win that fight.

How is PUBG on consoles these days? Is it running somewhat okay yet?

Meh.

If you consider Fortnite a ripoff, then it's ripoffs all the way down. PUBG is not exactly original. They're also swimming in money, so I don't feel bad for them. They'll be fine.

The 9S section is a lot quicker that the first playthrough. The game also goes a little off the rails, and yeah, there are some plot twists. However, not everyone is going to react to this game the same way, just like some people don't get Catcher in the Rye. So if you're not really excited to see what happens, don't force it.

This. It's been a slow, painful process. The short version is that they lost the edge in quality and innovation, but they are recovering, slowly.

I have a Sony 4k TV. It's good; not great. I'm happy with it.

I just recently learned that Netflix bought the international rights for its release, so I get to watch it for free at home in a month or so. I'm kinda stoked about that.

Even fans of Kingdom Hearts will admit that the series goes pretty far off the rails at times. It's fairly easy to have a laugh at, and even those that love the series will poke fun at it.

That said, Giant Bomb does have a lot of blind spots in their video game preferences.

I'll give it a shot - eventually. The backlog has grown quite a bit recently. I'm not sure if I'll like the style, but I loved FTL so much that I'll give this game a chance.

Both Dark Souls and Bloodborne reminded me heavily of Castlevania, so I think it would almost come across as a cheap copy in that style.

A NieR game in that style would be neat, but it would never happen.

...Final Fantasy XVI, why not?