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@onemanarmyy said:

Same here. Have still not managed to get more than a couple hours in. Every time I try, the incredibly slow movement speed just kills me, and the story and quests just feel so generic video gamey that I just can't.

Another one that is probably going to end up in my "nope" list on steam is Nier Automata. I have done the first playthrough, which I kind of had to force myself to get through the last few hours of, and doing the whole thing again doesn't hold a lot of appeal.

It doesn't help that I'm pushing through to see the great story everyone is going on about, but the first ending did less than nothing for me. Like, to the point where I don't actually know if I was supposed to have cared at all about what happened, or if the complete lack of impact it had on me is intentional and recontextualized somehow later on.

I bought some Calorie Mate after playing MGS3. It was dry, but pretty tasty.

@at93850 said:

You can plug PCs into the TV and play with a controller, so that seems like a false dilemma. I have PC/PS4/XBox all hooked up to the same TV.

After having finished it, my opinion landed at: I think the shrines (and the beasts) feel sterile and repetitive compared to dungeons of Zelda games in the past. The overworld enemies are interesting to fight at first, but I felt little incentive to continue to do so. The annoyances really started to build up: inventory management, durability, rain, weather, basically... all the "systems" they created were mostly un-fun to me.

As soon as I could manage it, I made a beeline to Ganon and had a reasonably good fight followed by a lame anticlimax. Overall, I think the game was very ambitious, but didn't come together into as enjoyable experience as I had hoped.

Convinced my grandfather to buy me a power glove, and then used the power glove. It still makes me mad how much that thing sucked.

It's au-TOM-ah-tah. I too, have no idea why so many otherwise reasonable people are just saying it wrong. This is a real word, and is the plural form of another word that some of those same people pronounce correctly: automaton.

@ungodly: just got to the centipede boss, and agreed on it being real dumb.

Occasionally in souls games, I'll find myself getting lazy and just not giving a shit about being careful or managing stamina. The boss fights in this game are so long and boring that I have a really hard time not being in that mindset from the get go.

I guess I'd say that the levels themselves are pretty good so far, but I have had zero fun with any of the boss fights.

The council's reaction to Shepard's claim about this conversation finally led me to realize that a lot of the political conflict in this game could be solved if Shepard just had a damn cell phone. Keep recordings of all the crazy stuff that happened and then maybe the council wouldn't be all "naaaah, you're just crazy" all the time.

@neoathanasius: If you like Manhattans and negronis, you should try a Boulevardier. It's basically a negroni with rye/bourbon instead of gin, and is ridiculously tasty (probably my favorite cocktail).