Ha! No, genuine individual recommendation.
[Was tempted to reply here recommending Mass Effect again - not sure the joke would’ve landed thought :-)]
Playing through the Legendary Edition remasters on Xbox right now - I second this recommendation, they’re a lot of fun.
Triple Click is great! I think it fits what they’re looking for. It is not a ‘news’ podcast, and will often have a sort of ‘theme’ for the week that covers older games too - but they do cover major news, have opinionated year-end lists etc.
Did they update the controls for a modern twin stick controller?
They’re now saying that this was incorrect: the Xbox release will include a disc.
https://www.gamespot.com/amp-articles/starfield-does-have-a-physical-disc-after-all/1100-6515495/
My timeline here - with a few subscriptions to communities on other servers - is also mostly at least three days old. I was assuming that Lemmy activity was just dying off.
Hope I’m wrong!
Such an amazing game. The scope of the world!
It was the second game I played after getting back into gaming during the pandemic, and it’s not an exaggeration to say it’s sort of spoiled me for other games.
I don’t think we’ll see it’s like again for a long time.
C. S. Lewis:
“…to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up”
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/84171-critics-who-treat-adult-as-a-term-of-approval-instead
Early forties here. Also grew up with the Spectrum. In my admittedly slightly nerdy friend circle it’s completely normal. People always talking about interesting games in just the same way as they would movies. People playing games with their kids. Lots of talk about Tears of the Kingdom at our last gathering. I assume for younger people it’s even more normal.
All this is to say, I don’t think there’s a static absolute age cut-off. I think we’re probably the first generation that will see a substantial portion continue to identify as small-g ‘gamers’ well into retirement. If they’re is a (moving, getting older) age cut-off, at 47 now, maybe you’re just on the upper side of the tipping point?
It seems like it’s generally accepted that game 3 is the best of this trilogy, and game 2 the worst, but I’m in agreement with @kid4today@feddit.uk - there’s something about the balance of ‘Rise’ that made me like it a bit more than the rest. I hope you like it!