Video Games

SPEAKING of God of War:

Played like 25-30 hours in the last God of War game and it just never really resonated with me.

It felt like combat had the need to offer me 200 different button combos and I ended up just using 3 of them.

Also the puzzles were less ā€œFigure something outā€ and more ā€œLook for this thing thatā€™s really well hidden among all the graphicsā€

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Some people reporting Xbox Series S at Costco for $199.97 if anyone is looking for a discounted current-gen(ish) console.

Epic Games is giving away a free game every day until December 30th.

https://twitter.com/EpicGames/status/1603427300497915904

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Free on Epic (for 20 more hours):
Wolfenstein - The New Order

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I beat all the Valkyries except Sigrun, got the Muspelheim achievement, but I still can figure out how to get these ā€œAnchor Fogā€ things for the realm tears in Niflheim. Iā€™ve read some conflicting accounts online; whatever it is seems too grindy.

Iā€™ve started playing GOW (2018) a bit because my son is obsessed with it. Iā€™ve determined that the real god is the son. He takes a beating every fight and never goes down, while I get hit three times and Iā€™m dead.

Youā€™re not wrong

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ā€œTheā€ god, no. ā€œAā€ godā€¦ maybe? Stay tuned!

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I had a sliver of health in a fight the other day (still very early in the game - it was right before I met that blacksmith/shop keeper dude for the first time) and just sat there holding my shield up while the kid took on three enemies with his bow and arrow. Once in a while, Iā€™d throw my axe if I had an opening, but I basically just held up the shield and spammed ā€œXā€ in the controller.

Partway through the game youā€™ll see that the kidā€™s exceptionally good at one non-combat skillā€¦

The fight prior to getting the blacksmith is a pretty severe difficulty spike in the early game

Spoke too soon since I got two of those anchor of fog things in the last hour. Just need one more now.

Free on Epic:

Death Stranding

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I bought it for my kid last year, but as happens, he hasnā€™t played it because of his Steam/Epic backlog. I donā€™t think heā€™s even redeemed the code, so he might just gift it to a friend.

Nice been interested in this one for a while

Family Christmas report
Son: loving Kirby and the Forgotten Land
Daughter: loving Animal Crossing - Happy Home Paradise
Me: playing Witcher III but not far enough to say whether I love it or not
Wife: not a gamer

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I might have to finally buy something in the Fortnite store:

https://twitter.com/Giannis_An34/status/1606306204501827587

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https://twitter.com/vr_oasis/status/1608115853886619650?t=o2MMBI_TEIKX_b5MQYAi7A&s=19

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Last night we were talking to our kids about bad words and my five year old said "someone on Roblox called me a noobā€™ as an example.

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