The Syndicate

Probably MGSV based on your post. And ya, I've picked it (MGS) up, a few days after it came out, and I've barely put a dent in it. From the sounds of what people have said about Mad Max, it's a solid game (I wasn't really expecting it to be as well received as it has been, but I kind of wonder how much of it it just people loving it because they loved the movie), but isn't nearly as long.

You can get houses without the Homestead DLC, I guess I wasn't sure exactly what he meant. I thought the Homestead DLC just added a new one (or several) you can buy, and increased the customization of them.

A rogue-ish class (using a bow primarily) or pretty much straight magic-user with a few throw-away points elsewhere are your best bets. Fighting dragons with melee really blows, since it's the only set up where you have down-time against them (and a fair bit at that). Until you're pretty much done with the game, then just use the book glitch (unless they ever fixed it? but I doubt it, since bugs are part of the fun) to max out everything and try whatever you want.

You can get a homestead in a bunch of places, but (IIRC) they're attached to quest lines for the most part, or they cost a fair bit.

Made wrote:Been playing a lot of rocket league recently. I finally bought mass effect 1 and 2 and would be playing those but tv problems has left me xboxless.

I played so much rocket league last month I'm 1 trophy away (the driving 500km one, that you can only get by playing off-line, although they did just fix it in the last few days someone told me) from platting it.

Enjoy the Mako when you get your TV working (and by that, I mean it's awful and you'll hate it). And the elevators. I don't care what people say, long-ass elevator rides are not better than loading screens. But other than that, excellent games.

I (sort of) finished Arkham Knight last night. I don't do any additional riddler stuff in those games other than what I do in a normal play-through, but I do pretty much everything else (I didn't finish disarming mines, because I was getting sort of tired of the batmobile fights, and that's even with me enjoying them more than the general consensus seems to be). There's some DLC stuff and a bunch of the AR challenges I'll go back and do at some point, but I'll probably wait until a bunch more DLC is out and then just pick up the stuff that's actually good when it's on sale.

Then I traded in some games today that I'm done with, because they were offering an extra $20 or $30 if you traded in 6 games, so I picked up Witcher 3. I haven't played the first 2, but I'm a fan of what they did with the DLC (16 weeks of at least 1 small bit of DLC every week, that doesn't cost anything beyond the price of the game. You know, actual fucking DLC, not micro-transaction bullshit), and it seems widely well-liked. Plus, there haven't been a ton of great RPGs (Dragon Age: Inquisition was ok, but the first is the only one I think was a really good game, Bound by Flame was surprisingly not-that-bad, I haven't picked up Bloodborne yet, because I don't like the Souls games, and while I think based on the faster combat Bloodborne may be more my speed, I'm not really willing to buy it at full price) yet this gen that I was especially interested in, so hopefully it will be good.

If you aren't in a hurry for Mass Effect though, and own (or are considering getting at some point) a current gen console (if you'd be buying them for PC it doesn't matter), you might want to wait and see if the potential (there are rumours but no guarantee) remastered collection comes out (it would be 1-3 with all of the DLC. You can get 1-3 for 360/PS3, as a collection, but I know some of the more important DLC isn't included).

Also, if it does happen, maybe they'll have fixed the Mako and you won't have to experience the worst thing in the entire series (including 3's ending).