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The honest answer is yes for the majority of what's available. The model for most mobile titles is explicitly designed to extract money...

Gothic II, which I first attempted around 2003 and found completely impenetrable. The skill system wasn't explained, the enemies near...

Not for years, and I can't pretend that's changed. There was a decent independent shop near Piccadilly in Manchester that I'd visit on a...

Digital Foundry for anything technical — frame rate analysis, console comparisons, that sort of thing. It's one of the few outlets that...

Mostly single-player so I rarely encounter this directly. The few times I've ventured into multiplayer over the years the experience has...

For me it was the moment Arthur starts writing in his journal — sketching things he's seen, jotting down observations about the people...

Sixty pounds is roughly where my tolerance ends, and frankly that's already a significant ask. What I won't do is pay full price for...

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 would be the obvious pick if it hasn't been covered already. Beyond that, anything with an active modding...

Nothing particularly impressive. Dell 27" 1440p IPS, mid-range Ryzen build I put together in 2021 and haven't touched since, a...

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 is the right answer if you're talking about something that actually runs at the same time as it looks...

The fundamentals Tyler described work across the whole FromSouls catalogue, not just Elden Ring. What I'd add is that Elden Ring...

The restriction-based challenges are the most interesting, I'd argue. No-fast-travel, melee-only, specific loadout — anything that...

I missed the no-trainer restriction announcement entirely and didn't realise until halfway through the second boss. Made it considerably...

I keep a shortlist of three or four games I've committed to actually finishing. Sounds more organised than it is — it just means I've...

Fell asleep at the keyboard during a Dark Souls run a couple of years ago. Woke up to the death screen, no idea how long I'd been out...