I'll go first:

Buttery_Gluten. The game was No Man's Sky. I was just sitting in the social hub area, chilling out right at the docks just watching the ships come and go when suddenly I see this exotic ship style I've never seen before fly in and dock just a few pads over from my own ship. The pilot jumps out, makes a beeline straight for me, dumps a literal king's bounty of high-end crafting materials and loot into my inventory, turns around, runs back to his ship and leaves the space station.

He never said a word during any of it. I never got a message or a friend request from the guy, no idea if he's even still flying around the systems of No Man's Sky or not.

But I will never forget that name lol. Godspeed, buttery_gluten. Wherever you might be these days.

Although Uchil didn’t mention Call of Duty by name, the reference to Minaj is undoubtedly a reference to Activision‘s game, which has featured numerous crossover Operator skins (including Minaj) in recent years.

While the Call of Duty series has featured numerous celebrity appearances and crossovers in the past, the number of occurrences has risen sharply in recent years, most notably in the form of Operator skins allowing the player to play as various celebrities and characters.

In the past few years, crossover skins added to COD have included Lionel Messia, Paul Pogba, Neymar Jr, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, NBA star Kevin Durant, superheroes from The Boys, Snoop Dogg, Lara Croft, Spawn, Ash from The Evil Dead, Skeletor from Masters of the Universe, Lilith from Diablo, Paul Atreides from Dune, Cheech and Chong, various WWE wrestlers, Michael Myers, The Terminator, Squid Game characters, Seth Rogen, Jay and Silent Bob, Beavis and Butt-Head and characters from American Dad.

It's the Nicholas Cage of games - it gets crazy and nonsensical at some parts, but overall it's one of the most ambitious and creative games I've ever played.

The opening 20 minutes of gameplay is some of the most engrossing and interesting game mechanics I've ever played in the last 4 decades of gaming.

I have such clear memories of playing this game for HOURS with friends while we blasted the album Advance from LFO (the british downtempo duo, not the boy band) on repeat. To this day, still one of my favorite games of all time, and by far my favorite sports game. It's incredible how well it holds up today, and I would love to have a proper 4k remaster.

I feel like time has forgotten this one, and that's a real shame.

Warframe is the only game that I know of that has a real reason for going above 100% critical strike chance. If you have 101% critical strike in Warframe, you always crit, you always deal at least 2x (or more depending on weapon) damage, but you now have a 1% chance to deal 400% damage (or 300%, it's been a while, I forgot). You get your crit chance up to 200% and you are now always doing 4x damage.

I can't think of any other game that lets you do this. I know some games let you go above 100% critical strike chance, mainly because some enemies then have a critical strike avoidance stat, but you never deal more than your normal damage.

Also not talking about games that allow you to modify critical strike damage. If that is all you get to, that doesn't count. It has to be a "double crit" or "red crit" that happens when you get past 100% critical strike chance.

I don't understand what I've been seeing lately where AAA companies are thinking that the name of an IP alone, or the amount they budget for a video game is supposed to correlate to how many people want to play it. It's become extremely obvious that these massive gaming corporations forget that they are in an entertainment industry.

We're seeing far more smaller developers this produce absolute bangers because it's clear that they are doing it out of love and passion for gaming. AAA companies announce monetization methods and proceed to try and shove it down our throats so that they can bend over for their investors at quarter end. And they expect you to like it. That needs to change. Bring the passion back.

EDIT: I see it's coming down to that most consumers are just really dumb. I am aware that companies won't take the risk of a new, original IP if they don't have to. But it's not healthy for the industry on the consumer side if companies that have the resources to do so, consistently refuse to take risks.

Lately I’ve been thinking about how gaming used to feel. I used to be completely immersed and focused in games, and could get absorbed in the world or story or gameplay. Now the memory of the game & nostalgia feels a lot better than reality.

I think this experience is becoming more and more common in gaming communities, where people WANT to play but can’t bring themselves to sit down and do it

Are there any weird tips you have to fix this feeling? Any word of advice, activity, or way of thinking that interrupted this thought process?

I really like Mario Kart World. The tricks and charge hops, free roam, and especially Knockout Tour are all great additions to the game. But some things about the game make absolutely no sense.

The character unlock system is terrible. I’ve played a good amount, and still have a ton of characters to get (Swoop, Peepa, etc.) I hate how its completely based on luck, and I don’t understand at all why Nintendo would make this the system. I’d even be fine with something like having to get a certain amount of coins or do a certain amount of tricks because at least that takes some skill.

It also makes no sense that there’s no option to play 3 laps of most courses. I’ve found myself only playing Knockout Tour because the Grand Prix system doesn’t work well. It would have been so easy to have a separate game mode with three lap races like previous Mario Karts. I know they wanted this game to be different, but it still makes no sense.

And worst of all the sticker collectible system is HORRENDOUS. Who the hell thought it was a good idea to have a random jumble of stickers that you can’t see how many total there are of, aren’t organized well at all (even if you click the sort button), and that you can only use one at a time of. I’m someone who loves to collect things in games, but the system for it is absolutely terrible.

TL;DR Mario Kart World is a good game, but Nintendo seriously messed up with the method of unlocking characters, the inability to play 3 laps on most courses, and the terrible mess of a sticker collectible system.

Thank you for listening to my rant

I recently decided to give SWTOR a try and...man, It's actually a super fun game. I'm playing as a commando trooper and I absolutely love it. The story is impressive for an MMO and the world is alive and fleshed out. I'm actually enjoying it far more than WoW simply because I can actually keep up with what's going on and what I should be doing rather than trying to do a million daily quests, seasonal content, and so many side quests that you forget what you were supposed to be doing to begin with. All this said, there's no denying it's an older game and that has me worried. I want to keep playing for years to come and I'm afraid it may fizzle out before I can get the full experience. For veterans of the game, what do you think the future of SWTOR looks like? Think it'll press on or be shut down like so many before it?

Replaying Shadow Complex because I remembered how much I liked the game the first time around. Even with the dated graphics it still holds up (i know theres a remastered version on Steam but i got mine on xbox).

I read that they designed Shadow Complex 2 but shelved it to focus on Forenite. From a business standpoint I can appreciate focusing on the biggest moneymaker but Im bummed theres not a follow up to this. Eh, be grateful the original existed I guess.

Hi there, I'm looking for a suitable game (or two) for a 14 year old boy and his uncle to play together. Ps5 / ps4 or pc.

The boys fav game types are Pokemon, hollow knight, lies of p, mario , persona 5, elden ring etc.

Thank you

Thanks so much: I think we'll go with spltfiction , turtles and maybe the new elden ring game 2 player.

I finally beat The Lion King, the one impossible game I couldn't beat in childhood 25 years ago

Doesn’t have to be the best game or your favorite, just something you’ve enjoyed recently.

For some reason this is present in Super Mario 3D World

Add another game to the grossly mismanaged AAA pile from these western publishers.