sorry for not posting sooner. Gears 5 has released so I've been playing that a lot this weekend.<br/><br/>Its... actually kind of decent for a AAA game.<br/>Its still got stupid cards for horde mode to level up your characters, but you cannot dump real world money into getting game effect boosts so that's good. No reason to fuck over horde mode grinding.<br/>Story is pretty good too, and on the hardware side, I bought a razeon 7 mobo and a 1080ti card last... year? I think and the game is rock solid on ultra settings across the board at 60fps with the capacity to run at 120fps if I wanted to open it up and do so.<br/><br/>Gears 5 is good as long as they don't pull a Red Dead Redemption and drop in real world currency patch nonsense to skirt past dumbass game journos. We should be ok at least until after christmas, because even though its september, I'm betting Gears 5 is gonna be a christmas title too.<br/><br/>also kicking myself because there is a xanathar guide invocation for tome locks that would be really really good to have. I would be able to sidestep sleeping entirely and gain 8hours to study and do things while the rest of the party slept, but I'll have to wait until level 4 to flip my invocations around.