I like lemon cake.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a patent Microsoft just hasn’t been willing to license use of.
I remember when the Sixaxis came out. It was missing vibration. It was because Immersion sued Sony (and ultimately won) over patent infringement of rumble motors. Sony ended up having to pay somewhere around $100 million.
I can’t comment on this title in particular but if you load it on your PS5 and receive a toast which reads something to the effect of “when playing on PS5, this game may exhibit errors or unexpected behavior” then it means some part of the game is absolutely fucked up but still “playable.”
For example, Star Ocean: Till the End of Time messes up very late in to the game on the PS5 where a space ship environment zooms very far out, the controls become locked in such a way where camera control doesn’t work, and directional movement controls seem arbitrarily mapped. While someone more patient and talented than I may have been able to navigate through that issue, I couldn’t proceed until I continued the game on my PS4 via cloud save transfer.
I thought the protagonist was great. It was a man coming to the realization that he wasn’t so much a heroic renegade as he was a malicious bad guy.
While by no means required, getting an extra set or two of navigation rulers can be really helpful. You can just put them together at different lengths so you don’t have to mark and move a bunch of ships out of the way when you only want to move forward at a speed of 2 but the 4-end of the ruler is getting in the way.
I used to play Armada competitively.
Armada is a fabulous game with a rich set of lists to choose from due to the objective-based gameplay. The Rebel side is losing options with a lack of squadrons but that’s fine.
If you want to find a list that may be competitive, you can check here: https://armadawarlords.hivelabs.solutions
Note that haven’t played Armada competitively since 2017; so, things may have changed since then. However, back then, there was, in my opinion, a big problem with how tournaments were played. Because Armada is such a long game and because players expect swiss rounds (read: a full day of gaming), tournaments couldn’t determine top 4 by W-L record alone. So instead, they implemented an 11-point scoring system which heavily favored tabling your opponent. As a consequence, competitive lists tended to be nearly identical.
That may have changed since then. However, if not, understand that you may have to adjust lists you find to suit the models you have. Regardless, the game is brilliant and a ton of fun. I would wager you will have a blast with what you’ve purchased.
You have to take stock of your goals for the evening. E.g., does the game need to wrap up at a certain time?
I’m someone who doesn’t mind playing a game for literal days. However, if you need the game to end at a certain time, then that means there’s an implicit time-limit on play. That, to me, strongly suggests you want to keep the timer in play.
I would make the decision up front that the timer will be in play and decide for yourself what a maximum timer duration could be for your time requirements. Then, I’d announce it to the group ahead of time and allow the group to discuss what a reasonable timer duration should be.
As an aside, time limits like these are often not arbitrary and are part of the rules for game or experience reasons. Bullet is supposed to invoke similar feelings to a bullet-hell shooter. Removing the time limit, to me, seems like just choosing to play an entirely different game. A significant part of the game is being able to make decisions while under the stress of a time limit.
Similarly, I view the timer in Cosmic as intentional. The original Eon edition called the cards “Compromise” cards. I believe the intention was to force a compromise (as in, neither player necessarily gets an optimal outcome) I think it hurts the game to allow players to be able to entirely analyze the situation in order to make an objectively optimal decision.
I have the original and I think it’s delightful. Everything looks exactly like an old timey fast food menu.
Gale Force 9 2019 Dune. Avalon Hill 1979 Dune had been a staple among my group for decades and GF9’s update just made it better without destroying anything that made it the classic that it is.
You haven’t lived until you’ve won a game of Dune with a Bene Gesserit prediction victory after carefuly machinating the course of the game for seven turns.
It was straight-up free (as in: no tiers, just free) for a long time to early adopters of the Nvidia Shield. I can’t remember when it was introduced but I think it was with the first iteration of Shield TV.