For details of Gorou’s best build — including weapons, artifacts, party composition, and levelling requirements — read on below. How to build Gorou for a support role in Genshin Impact Best weapon: Favonius Warbow Alternative: Sacrificial Bow Gorou’s strengths lie primarily in his Elemental talents, and so I don’t recommend equipping him with a 5-star weapon unless you’re in the enviable position of having a spare Elegy for the End lying around....
Given the nature of appointments at events like Geoff Fest, a lot of my time with these games were speed dates: elevator pitches, a quick twiddle of the thumbsticks, a round of musical chairs as I shifted to another sofa and another game. So, in that same chaotic vein, I thought I’d round-up my faves from the show floor. Please don’t get too comfortable, we don’t have much time....
Repentance is huge. “Sequel-sized,” co-creator Edmund McMillen calls it. The store page lists newness including over 130 items, over 25 bosses and 100 enemies (I assume many are variants), new chapters with a new final boss and ending, and more. McMillen and Nicalis and making this with several of the folks behind Antibirth, a huge Isaac mod released in 2016. A whole lot of Repentance is familiar with that, making it look a lot like an expanded official version....
For those not yet infected by the fruits and beats, Bugsnax is the next game from the developers who made Octodad. There’s an island full of critters that are uh, living foods, apparently. When you eat them, your body turns into them. Why? We don’t know yet. Apparently folks were pretty into the theme song from the initial reveal trailer though, a cartoon-y beat by pop band Kero Kero Bonito....
The Callisto Protocol wants you to learn and experiment with its systems, but it strongly disincentivises this at the same time.
Get the Crucial P2 NVMe SSD - 2TB for £117 (was £166) Get the Crucial P2 NVMe SSD - 1TB for £63 (was £86) So why is the Crucial P2 worth considering? Well, outside of the price - which is crazy-low, by the way - the P2 is a genuinely decent performer. Its sequential read speeds (2400MB/s) are about 4.4 times faster than even the best SATA SSDs from the likes of Samsung and Kingston, and write speeds are about 3....
This isn’t as up close and personal as the first-person House Flipper, but you still have a fair bit of control. As the company owner you buy lots to rennovate them, design the neighbourhood, and then hire contractors to carry out the building work. Your clients will ask for different things and you have to manage their needs, while also choosing materials and even granular things like the number of windows or the type of lightbulbs used....
Every year Graham opens the secret panel in the back of all our heads (with a little screwdriver) and removes our batteries so we don’t cause any trouble over the break. On January the 4th he’ll put new ones in, but to keep you amused until then we’ve left you a little Christmas cracker with a joke inside. There’s one for every day of the break! You can find articles you might not have read, or help cover the cost of fresh batteries, with the RPS supporter program....
There’s also a micro Cavern of Lies in which things get biblical. You can listen on Spotify, or above, or go straight to Soundcloud where you can download it for later. I like to download it and listen to it during walks down by the canal, occasionally startling aging canal men with honks of self-indulgent laughter at our own jokes. And once you’ve startled your very own crusty angler you can discuss the episode on our Discord channel, which has a dedicated room for podcast chat....
The answer, at least from HTC’s perspective, is flexibility. The Vive XR Elite is an all-in-one headset with no need of base stations, and can be worn wirelessly for less demanding VR games or connected to a PC for more advanced fare like Half-Life: Alyx. Fine, but a few other AIO headsets can do that already, including the much, much cheaper Oculus/Meta Quest 2. What sets HTC’s latest apart is both the ease of connecting to a PC wirelessly, over Wi-Fi and without any sideloading shenanigans, while making the battery pack detachable to transform into an downright portable pair of VR/AR specs that can be fuelled from a power bank and hooked up to a smartphone....
In some ways, I’m shocked no one’s made a Metroid-like twinstick bullet-hell shooter with witches before now (and if you have, apologies, please tell me about your game immediately). Putting you in the flying magic boots of a witch capable of shooting spells from their hands is such a great fit for fending off waves of orbs, spells and other beam-like nasties, and marrying it all to beautifully crafted Metroid-like environments is just the icing on an already satisfying cake....
We knew Eidos Montreal were making a Guardians game, and today we saw more than one would expect to be allowed of an officially sanctioned Marvel property. There was a sizzle reel trailer, a developer featurette, and even some actual footage of the game in action. I’m a big fan of the world design, with some proper sci-fi worlds full of all weird plants and giant skull statues. There are also some cool alien monsters that look like big angry blue cow-flowers....
If you go down to The Quarry today, you’re in for a big surprise. Alice Bee: I was a big fan of Supermassive’s original “like a 00s horror movie, but a game!” game Until Dawn, and The Quarry really goes ham in that direction again. A bunch of camp counselors are spending one last night at Hackett’s Quarry before the end of the summer, but it turns out they’re not alone....
Relive your piratey dreams in sweet nostalgia-fest Return To Monkey Island! Alice Bee: One of the first games I got properly obsessed with was The Curse Of Monkey Island, which is in fact the third game in the series, and I worked backwards to play the first two. Getting a new Monkey Island game in 2022 seemed like dreaming the impossible dream - but we did! So this September saw me doing the 2D point-and-click around a group of colourful, imaginary Caribbean islands with Guybrush Threepwood once again....
Fight a monster with too many limbs in epic RPG Elden Ring! Ollie: After my first session playing Elden Ring, I felt as though the Souls formula had always been heading towards this particular point. FromSoftware’s first foray into truly open world games has, rather unfortunately, tarnished (heh) my opinion of just about every other open world experience. If you’ve ever played a Souls game, you’ll be in familiar territory....
Executive producer Lyndsay Pearson has posted a video promising players that Maxis will take a closer look at their current skin tones and add more this autumn. “While we have made additions and improvements and fixes in the past, there is much more for us to do,” Pearson says. “We are making it a priority to release more options this year as well as to address the visual issues with current skin tones, specifically to improve the blotchy artifacts and ashy tones....
According to the announcement posted to Steam, the delay of the Steam Deck dock (try saying that three times fast) is “due to parts shortages and COVID closures at our manufacturing facilities.” It shouldn’t affect production of the Steam Deck itself, as those are made with different parts in different factories. The dock was originally planned to launch in “late spring,” although even at that time Valve had admitted that “it won’t be happening as early as we wanted....
Alongside Valve, CodeWeavers co-developed Proton, a compatibility layer that empowers the Steam Deck’s Linux-based SteamOS to run Windows games. The issue, as far as compatibility is concerned, is that not every Steam game will play nice with Proton straight out of its digital box. Nevertheless, Ramey told the Boiling Steam podcast that folks may be getting the wrong idea, and may be expecting the Steam Deck to be compatible with their entire games collection immediately....
For every aspect of worldbuilding that I enjoyed, there was a bug that had to be overlooked. For every character that I found charming, there was some voiceover that was jarring. For every area that was absolutely gorgeous there was a part of the script that made me extremely grateful for having editors on all my writing. Over and over, I found these flaws didn’t stop me from enjoying the core that I could see underneath....
The latest Resident Evil Showcase was always going to dominate this week’s Headlines & Hot Takes. Firstly, we chat about the Mercenaries comeback and how we think that’ll play out in the upcoming Resi. Also, Matthew’s played the first half of the demo that PC players will get to play in two weeks time, and he has some thoughts. As well as that, we discuss the Mass Effect Legendary Edition trailer that split the crowd....
