They are different types of games for sure, but if you have Gamepass and you enjoyed the Divinity games then buying BG3 and getting Starfield on Gamepass seems like a no-brainer. Even if you don't get around to playing both for a while (since they are both time sinks) you probably won't go wrong with either game.

BG3 is like Divinity crossed with... well... Baldur's Gate/Icewind Dale which is not a bad thing at all. I like the Divinity games but that kind of RPG in D&D systems is even more appealing for me, personally.

Starfield is also great and I love space exploration RPGs more than fantasy which is an extremely oversaturated genre IMHO. My biggest gripe with Starfield is that it doesn't feel like it broke the mold for a Bethesda game. Even in the opening scene when Barret arrives at the mining base and it's like "hey, let's watch this glassy eyed mannequin robotically walk to within dialog range for our zoom in conversation cutscene". The Bethesda hallmarks are all still there, like cities/buildings as zones with door "portals", etc. They've obviously rebuilt it pretty significantly and added stuff like space combat, but they can't seem to get it into their heads that there are games that just don't have this stuff and maybe there was a better path. It's like they said "okay, we're rebuilding this from the ground up. Now, it's gonna be 'hey, let's watch this glassy eyed mannequin robotically walk to within dialog range for our zoom in conversation cutscene BUT WITH RAY TRACING!'"

Still, I'm enjoying both, though.

Yeah but the PS5s sold out within minutes every time it became available. It's a day later and this appears to still be up on the official store. I'd say your odds are decent if you don't snooze once it drops for the resellers.

I'd give it a day or two. It doesn't look like the pre-orders on the Sony site sold out yet.

@SolidGame_basic:

Yeah, I lucked out this time. I did not luck out back when they did the same thing for PS5 pre-orders (never even got an invite). I had to hunt online retailers for a month until I got an order at a Walmart in one of the many 2-minute windows before they sold out.

Still trying to find a 4090, though. :(

@SolidGame_basic: Thanks. After the fiasco that was the Xbox Series X and PS5 launches (not to mention months of GPU hunting for a 3XXX series card last year) I'm pretty itchy on the trigger for this kind of stuff now.

As of right now the two options appear to still be in stock. The only three things they are selling are PSVR2, PSVR2 with Horizon, and an optional controller charging dock for $50.

I pre-registered and had the browser opened early just in case and sure enough, the store opened 45-minutes ahead of the scheduled time. Placed my bundle order and as of now it appears to still have stock but that probably won't last long. If you got an invite to pre-order, now's the time.

That's been the thinking historically but recent studies have disputed this somewhat. Generally the guidance from the CDC is so long as you keep it to under 2 drinks per day for men or 1 a day for women then you won't suffer the negative consequences of alcohol consumption. More recent studies have suggested that the link between fewer instances of heart disease among moderate wine drinkers may have more to do with diet and other factors rather than the alcohol itself.

@eni232: You can look that up yourself if you want. Like I said, I gave you the benefit of the doubt that it's not what you meant but in the future avoiding name calling altogether is the safer bet.

Exactly, these are all drugs. tobacco, alcohol, etc, are all drugs. The CDC estimates that tobacco deaths account for 480,000 annually including those from secondhand smoke (roughly a fifth of the number of people who die each year in the US).

@eni232: Ease off on the name calling, please. Discussing the issue is fine but you're getting close to slur territory. We get that you don't like weed smokers and I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that "monkeys" was not intended as a racial slur but best to avoid the name calling altogether.