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Jocephus wrote: now i get it
Excellent ending.

It's a very fun game that doesn't wear out its welcome. I love the superhot chant after beating a level.

IMADreamer wrote:What do you guys know about Kingdom Come: Deliverance? Had a buddy of mine say if I like Skyrim I will love it but he and I don't always jive on games. Curious for other opinions.
It got a lot of press because it was made by supposedly an alt right Gamergate guy . I didn't follow the story very closely so I'm not sure how accurate/fair that is.

The reviews have been mediocre.

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I'm looking at an Xbox sometime next month. What's the go-to review site nowadays? It's been a second since I did any gaming.

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Tambourine Man wrote:I'm looking at an Xbox sometime next month. What's the go-to review site nowadays? It's been a second since I did any gaming.
Giant Bomb is my favorite site, but they don't do many actual reviews. Typically, I used metacritic to get a general viewpoint on a game. I guess if I had to pick a single site for reviews I'd go with eurogamer.net

edit - buy gears 4 so we can play some hoard mode together.

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Michael wrote:edit - buy gears 4 so we can play some hoard mode together.
Dude, I was reading up on GOW4 thinking exactly this. So much fun with people you know. I will hit you up when I get set up. Thanks for the sites...Psychonauts 2 next year.

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Awesome.

If you get an Xbox, they have a thing called game pass. For 10 dollars a month you get access to a ton of games including GoW4 and Halo 5. Microsoft has also committed to adding their future games to the service day 1. For example, Sea of Thieves was released this week for 60 dollars or you can play it on game pass for 10 dollars a month. It makes a lot of sense for someone like you jumping in to this generation late. I'm planning to become a subscriber when Crackdown 3 releases.

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got my first fortnite victory at lunch!

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you two should play "a way out"...plus, you only need 1 copy for 2 people to play coop, online!


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I am way behind the times but I finally picked up a copy of Rocket League this afternoon. The guy who sits next to me at work IM'd me a link to Amazon where the game is on sale for $15 and said I should play it on my train trip this weekend so I bought it. I didn't buy it from Amazon because I had a $20 to spend at Best Buy so I got the digital download for free from there. Of course I don't have the Switch with me to download so I'll have to do that as soon as I get home tonight.

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tlombard wrote:I am way behind the times but I finally picked up a copy of Rocket League this afternoon. The guy who sits next to me at work IM'd me a link to Amazon where the game is on sale for $15 and said I should play it on my train trip this weekend so I bought it. I didn't buy it from Amazon because I had a $20 to spend at Best Buy so I got the digital download for free from there. Of course I don't have the Switch with me to download so I'll have to do that as soon as I get home tonight.

Rocket League is one of the best games ever.
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Jocephus wrote: now i get it
Excellent ending.

It's a very fun game that doesn't wear out its welcome. I love the superhot chant after beating a level.

IMADreamer wrote:What do you guys know about Kingdom Come: Deliverance? Had a buddy of mine say if I like Skyrim I will love it but he and I don't always jive on games. Curious for other opinions.
It got a lot of press because it was made by supposedly an alt right Gamergate guy . I didn't follow the story very closely so I'm not sure how accurate/fair that is.

The reviews have been mediocre.

So I got it and I'm maybe three hours in. There is little direction, the controls kinda suck, the graphics are decent, and it's slow as hell to progress. I definitely wouldn't recommend it. Not to mention it's REALLY Jesusy.

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Michael wrote:Awesome.

If you get an Xbox, they have a thing called game pass. For 10 dollars a month you get access to a ton of games including GoW4 and Halo 5. Microsoft has also committed to adding their future games to the service day 1. For example, Sea of Thieves was released this week for 60 dollars or you can play it on game pass for 10 dollars a month. It makes a lot of sense for someone like you jumping in to this generation late. I'm planning to become a subscriber when Crackdown 3 releases.
Oh, okay, that looks like a pretty sweet deal. Eventually, I could use it like I use Netflix - Binge for a month and then drop it till something decent comes along.

I lost access to my old account, so I have to start a new one. I remember you and joce's GT's, so look for a request in a couple weeks.

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