Agree about the player custom character during dialogue. The facial animations are terrible considering the face options are predefined. Other characters though look great IMO. Not TLOU2 level face capture but fantastic for an isometric RPG

If you pre-order and then cancel, would you keep access to Soap in Warzone?

I don’t really see how what you’re describing relates to patient gaming – isn’t patient gaming moreso to do with waiting until games drop in price, then getting them patched up with all their DLC?

Skill Up is a good one. Digital Foundry also has a weekly show that covers news, which I find is well done.

You can also create an RSS feed from any subreddit by adding .rss to the URL. I check r/games from feeder a few times a week just to see the top news stories.

Tom Scott would be my top pick for quality YouTube not tied to a specific hobby. His videos are great.

Aparently not – the store page doesn’t say it requires a third party launcher (which it says for EA and Rockstar Games), only that you’ll need a battle.net account, which you could create online. A journalist has also confirmed this on twitter, although I don’t have a link right now.

It’s quite similar to Obsidian, if you’re familiar with that.

It’s a notetaking app that lets you visualize how your notes are related to each other, and gives you plenty of options for formatting.

It’s quite neat to play around with, but probably overkill for daily note taking, unless you appreciate the UX.

Yeah I really don’t understand this why specifically the gaming communities seem to suffer from this problem more than others.

Perhaps it’s not reported on as much in other hobby circles, or it’s a confirmation bias on my part.

Regardless, it’s really disappointing that these communities have this ‘there I go death-threating again’ stigma growing against them. Absolutely disgusting.

Yeah CD Keys is the only one that I buy from. I’ve never had a real problem, but sometimes preorder keys don’t arrive in time to preload on Steam.