It's actually the oldest recorded name for the kingdom ; merchants from (present-day) Marseilles passed through Gaul and perhaps Britannia too, and recorded the area's name as Albion. As a result, it was also almost the name for the country of Canada, too, until they changed their mi

While the quest objective may seem simple, getting the Tangy Berry itself is a different story. They can only be obtained from the rare and difficult-to-defeat Golden Seedling enemy. Players can also buy them from a vendor in Metal Island, but this area isn't typically accessible until near the end of the game. Upon this quest's completion, Team Snakemouth will receive the recipe for the Tangy Carpaccio, which heals the entire party for 12

This added level of customization makes each player's trip through Metal Gear Solid 5 as a personalized Venom Snake unique, as everyone will decide that different options are important. Missing out on certain loadouts by the end of the game can be disruptive, but overall, the ability to invest in items is a huge part of MGS5 . Then there's the recruitment feature that fuels this entire system, by picking up enemies to bring onto Snake's side and gain their benefits to unlock better equipm

Throughout the marketing leading up to Death Stranding 's release, and within the game itself, Kojima Productions made it perfectly clear that the themes of the narrative are meant to be focused around making connections. In this case, it comes off as strange that players are told to leave the Mules behind due to them becoming addicted to delivering and impulsively trying to steal cargo. Players really should be given the option to help at least these people by taking them back to a city and working them click through the up coming page their addiction before transitioning them towards reintegrating into soci

Genshin’s not an MMO either, but it does take a variety of lessons from the genre. It has shared spaces and co-op events. Its world is designed as a progression tool of its own — hard level-gating ensures that you can’t progress through the main story without becoming intimately familiar with the area it takes place in. The fact it runs on a regularly updated individual server even plays a role here — logging in and seeing I have mail from Mihoyo reminds me of the startup UI for Final Fantasy 14 or World of Warcraft. It’s a game where every day brings something new, where you can pal around with mates in multiplayer areas or become friends with new folks who seem sound. Sure, Genshin caters to a single-player experience for those who want it — but if you’re after something a bit more sociable, especially in times like these, Mihoyo’s got loads of that for you as w

Maybe it’s just me. I enjoy playing Final Fantasy 14 the odd time and liked Runescape when I was a kid, but aside from that I’m not a big MMO guy. Fable, though... Fable’s different. I remember spending entire days with friends just traipsing around Albion in split-screen, causing as mighty a ruckus as humanly possible. It’s probably the most enthusiastic I’ve ever been about playing a game, at least in terms of actively responding to it — laughing, shouting at the screen, calling NPCs names befitting their animated and imbecilic selves. I think having at least some online elements — preferably the exact ones I assigned to Genshin above — would allow us to really tap into that same experiential nostalgia that made Fable what it was. I don’t want loads of fetch quests tied to MMO grinding — which Genshin has lots of, but fortunately doesn’t force you into — or to have some leech come up and steal my loot after taking down a massive dragon lad or whatever. But I do want to be able to share the experience of playing Fable with other people, because that’s always what made Fable special, and different from other games. It just gave you and whoever you were playing with this mutual, magical sense of joy. Regardless of what Playground does with Albion, gnomes, and Reaver — _ please _ bring Reaver back — I reckon I’ll be delighted with the new Fable game once it lets me play through the story like the previous ones without locking me out of its unique form of co-op delinquency and debauch

The Red Dragon unleashes a stream of lightning fast rounds into foes. It comes equipped with the Lucky Charm and Devastation augments. While the Lucky Charm augment was covered in the previous entry, the Devastation augment inflicts causes its user to inflict increased damage on oppone

BW: It’s pretty cool. We’ve been working on this for years now, ever since Mark Doyle floated the idea to me at a convention. For years I haven’t been able to tell anyone what we were working on. Now I can. So what’s it like? It’s a big relief. I’m very happy DC went along with the idea to pick the numbering up at 151, to signal that this is a continuation of the long-running series. It’s not a side-story, it’s the main story, which just happens to be continuing after a protracted br