Computerchairgeneral

Honestly, you can play DS3 before DS1. Yeah, there is some lore stuff that won't hit as hard if you haven't played DS1, but it's not a requirement. If you're used to Elden Ring DS3 might be the easier game to get into. As for the Remaster vs. the original, I guess it comes down to how much you care about the multiplayer component since the Remaster probably has a larger player base.

Yeah, mostly just lurked on Reddit, but here I feel a lot more comfortable engaging with the stuff that gets posted. Since the communities are so much smaller it feels like leaving a comment actually means something instead of just getting drowned out in the noise.

Pretty decent lineup all things considered. Although now I'm wishing I hadn't impulse-bought Alan Wake Remastered a few weeks ago.

It's crazy that over the last few weeks, the FTC has become one of the most credible leakers in the games industry. Curious to see what else will learn before this is over.

Honestly, I'm surprised The Old Republic is still running after all these years. I remember a lot of skepticism when it launched, especially with EA trying to position it as a "WOW-killer" given how successful other games that tried to do that were. Maybe it was just bitter KOTOR fans, but I remember a lot of predictions that it was going to crash and burn right out of the gate. Still, it's a shame that people are getting laid off. Hopefully, they can find other positions in Bioware/EA.

I've been working through all the demos I downloaded during Next Fest so I can expand my already overstuffed wishlist. Between that I've been working through my second playthrough of Deltarune, finishing up all the stuff I missed the first time.

Sonic and Knuckles- This was probably one of the first games I ever played, which is what makes it special to me. The game and the Genesis I played it on were hand-me-downs from a cousin. I never managed to actually get very far, but for a while, it was my go-to game to play after school.

Spyro the Dragon Trilogy- A few years later I got a PS1 for Christmas and Spyro the Dragon was the game I got with it. Like S&K for a while it was the only PS1 game I had so I was constantly playing it and replaying it. Spyro was the first video game franchise I actively followed and begged my parents for. Then Enter the Dragonfly happened, but at least by then, I had Ratchet and Clank.

Elder Scrolls III Morrowind- This was my first real RPG and open-world game. Go anywhere and do anything has kind of become a Bethesda marketing meme, but my twelve-year-old self was floored by the fact that I could actually do that. It was the first game I had played that let me just ignore what the game wanted and let me wander around and make my own fun, which amounted to me wandering around and reading every book I could get my hands on to learn about the world.

Persona 4- Not sure if this technically counts as a childhood game since I was around seventeen or eighteen when I played it. For some reason up until P4 I had convinced myself that I didn't like JRPGS that much. I had played a few growing up, but none of them were really my favorites. Honestly, I probably would never have picked it up if I hadn't seen gameplay on youtube. I had sort of stereotyped JRPGs as all looking like Final Fantasy or something like that and Persona was just so different that I had to pick it up. Ended up loving it and the Megaten franchise, which got me into JRPGs in general.

This is starting to become a running theme with modern AAA games these days. Not surprising given how much costs and the scale of games have increased. Still, I wish companies would hold off on announcing games until they had something that could reasonably release within a few years.

KOTOR memes? A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

Shame. I have a lot of fond memories of watching past E3s, but then again it was only a matter of time after other companies began adopting the Nintendo Direct approach. It just makes more sense to pick your own date for a presentation and dominate the news cycle.

Honestly? Yeah, I probably would have stuck around. I think if they had given more notice then the protest would have been a lot more muted and you wouldn't have seen as many people jump ship for the fediverse. Although, it's not really anger or spite that's been keeping me on the fediverse and away from Reddit. When I learned RIF was shutting down I was more annoyed than anything else. But every action Reddit has taken since then has convinced me that it's just going to become a worse platform as time goes on. Yes, the fediverse is hard to navigate at first and a lot of sites are struggling under a user base that was never expected to grow so rapidly. Still, I appreciate the smaller communities here and I've been more active here in a week than I was during how many years I've been on Reddit. There's a novelty to figuring things out that I never really had with Reddit.

I don't think there is a definitive answer. I know Neil Gaiman wrote the first few thousand words of what became Good Omens, but after that it gets murky. Pratchett wrote, or rewrote, a lot of Crowley, but I remember reading that they traded characters back and forth during the process. I think Gaiman has said that he doesn't really remember who wrote what now, but he does take credit for any scenes with tentacles.