Recent content by Gralian

Honestly, Index is not required. Steam VR works just fine on Vive and even on Oculus Rift. Valve has also confirmed Alyx will work on rift. Sure, rift is not the ?900 premium experience of Index but it works just the same and I doubt things like refresh rates would be that much of a bother...

I'd really like to play it. There's a fair few VR things i'd like to try, actually. Stormland, Asgard's Wrath and Robo Recall along with Half Life Alyx among other things. I've loved my PSVR and got many hours of joy out of Beat Sabre alone and more recently Audica. Also Thumper and Blood &...

Y'know, oddly i kinda felt the Mad Max open world game felt pseudo-assassins creed. Wide open area with towers you need to access to unfog the map, collectibles, missions, janky combat - it felt pretty AC. Or rather, i guess it felt pretty Ubisoft. Although if you did find a bandit camp, more...

The rise and fall of lootboxes is a pretty interesting tale that will be spun through this console generation and the next, as is the great lie of "live service" games. I also think we can declare this generation the end of the console wars and when the guns fell silent. In a world where we...

The scout troopers and commanders / heavies are quite reactive in combat and it's fine when you engage the enemy, but if you look at them outside of their aggro range they just stand there motionless in odd, often awkward positions. The game is fine when you're on the move and triggering...

I think Cal just feels really stiff to play with in general, but it's most noticeable in combat. Actions feel slow and unresponsive, nothing is smooth or graceful like you would expect for a Jedi. This is made so much worse in the first few hours of the game when you have no abilities beyond...

I didn't think about how Gamefreak would have been forced to shift focus from 3ds / handheld to home console mid production, i guess that would make sense in regards to the uneven quality. Having said that though the switch is nearly 3 years old. Additionally, devs are given devkits to work on...

Oh boy, seeing blurry textures on a pokeball of all things when i caught something was enough to make my eye physically twitch in discomfort. No-one needs glossy 4k pokemon or anything, but blurry textures on something that untaxing is kind of unforgivable, especially when the textures in...

I'm enjoying it. But i might be a little biased because it's set in the UK and i live in Dorset. Honestly, i like the quality of life improvements, the towns feel lively and i like how Pokemon waddle about in day to day life and actually look like they have an existence outside of forced...

It's a good time to be sure and i'm always down for some star wars shenanigans. I do wish the main character was a bit more nuanced, personally i am quite tired of the "i fart rainbows" and the "i kick puppies" tropes for light side and dark side jedi respectively. I get they are coming off...

To clarify, i always try to get 100% achievements / trophies etc in a game before i move onto a new one. I guess what frustrates me is when a game touts lots of really interesting ways to murderize people (or to use neat powers, like in Dishonoured) but then requires you to go the whole game...

What's that, a choose your own adventure style game you say? One with multiple ways to solve encounters? Lots of fun weapons, cool gadgets and awesome powers? Wait... You have to play stealth to get the good ending AND you're forced into a pacifist run the whole game for an achievement...

The Witcher 3. I love the witcher games. Seriously, i even read The Last Wish. Twice! But when it came out, i got SERIOUSLY distracted by sidequests. Then life happened and i forgot where i was, what i should be doing, who anybody was, who the bad guys were and why i was looking after what...

I find character creations difficult, i tend to make horrific creations that i regret, so more often than not i'll go with the "default" option or some variant thereof. Exceptions to this are when the character creation is truly exceptional, like the delightful Code Vein. You don't even have to...

Take it from someone who recently had divorce finalised. It's not always your fault and sometimes people just fall out of sync. There could be numerous reasons she is not happy with the relationship. Understand that it doesn't necessarily have to come from you or be something that you personally...