Here's What Was Awesome on Waypoint This Week

And sitting in that room, I suddenly realize that there has been a quiet disconnect for me: For Hay, as for Far Cry 5, the pressure is new. It appears when the world is less at ease. It fills your mind with possibilities of violence. This is what the game's trailer does, as it mixes a touch of Seven with a splash of True Detective season 1: People are pulled from their homes, driven from their churches, forced into baptism, threatened with violence. These are the dark thoughts of the pressure, the fear that something terrible could happen at any moment.

But I do not remember a time before the pressure.

Rime bears the hallmarks of a passion project, which is to be admired, and it's certainly not a bad way to spend an afternoon, as share-button pretty as it is (and that extends to some beautiful music, too). But all the while, the sole answer to your why of the experience, why am I pushing onward, for what purpose, is met with a stony silence.

Endless Space 2 feels like what would happen if I were encountering a Civ game right now, for the first time in my life, with Civilization VI. Its clean and welcoming interface, coupled with a decent contextual tutorial, makes it easy to find your footing and start making straightforward decisions that seem like they would add up to a strategy.

Like in Endless Legend, this short and accessible on-ramp immediately dumps you into an open-ended and seemingly unstructured strategic wilderness. Every technology and development choice you can make feels incredibly useful and powerful—wow, look at those numbers climb! You can see your empire improving turn-by-turn.

In fact, all of this is so rewarding that it obfuscates how much you probably suck.

I suppose the best way to put it would be that we try to include things that we find interesting, no matter what. Personally, it's interesting for me to learn about characters and people that aren't like me and to represent them in games as best as we can. At the same time, we value diversity. I think it's healthy and stories are better off for it, so it's a filter we apply as we work. An 'international space station' with only white dudes would have been boring and dumb.

He chose Peru because there were fewer tourists, and he could live on roughly $30 per day, which gave him a way to balance his depleted savings and rising debt.

"The whole experience was surreal and I didn't really know what to expect," he said. "The first thing I noticed was how strange it is to start a new life from scratch. Not only do you say goodbye to all your friends and family, but you can't even talk with strangers anymore, either, as very few people in Peru speak English."