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@billmcneal: NBA Street had amazing music. Good call.

Oh hey, thanks for the shout-out. Also, holy crap, I'm loving those Abby RE2 punch clips. That timing is perfect.

PAM, maybe?

@mems1224: It is a completely serviceable Far Cry. There’s not much really that stands out good or bad, but I generally am enjoying myself.

For what it's worth, I'm enjoying the hell out of New Dawn, maybe even more so than its predecessor, but there's a hugely annoying gate to one of the side characters that requires the player to do a shooting gallery. For the visually impaired, this kind of thing is hugely difficult. I hope that if someone from the industry somehow sees this or my Twitter storm tonight about game sequences like this, they'd use their platform to maybe give it a quick shout out. I just don't think it's the kind of thing most developers would think about unless it's brought to light.

I didn’t want to believe my wife was stealing from her job as a road worker, but when I got home, all the signs were there.

@jesus_phish: That seems like a really smart system. Budgeting has helped me bring down the costs of my gaming habits. Having a clear, well-kept database of my living expenses and things I'd like to get done in the short-term, long-term and simply for fun has really helped me prioritize things.

@jeremyf: I agree, particularly if there's been plentiful coverage to assure you the game is going to be more of the thing you love. But there are always going to be cases like Fallout 76 where no matter how much fans love a formula, publishers will try to foist things on you for a profit or squeak out prodcuts that just aren't up to the quality of the things that came before. And in that regard, it's well worth waiting until the day of the release, if not later.

Also, your point about saving a few bucks is a perfectly valid one too. That Amazon pre-order deal was no joke. Wasn't it like $48 for new games?

Harry Potter is a great jumping off point for anyone getting into reading because it covers quite a few sub-genres along its way to its finish. I don't tend to think of them as personal favorites, but once people figure out what they like about it - or don't - then it's easy to point them in some different directions.

Huh! That would be pretty cool. That original game was ambitious and mostly fun.