Rivals Direct 3
I’m Dan Fornace and for those who aren’t familiar with us, it’s April Fools Day and that means our team just spent a massive amount of time on an elaborate holiday spectacle. This year, we came back with our third Rivals Direct. But because we constantly have to keep one-upping the previous year, we couldn’t just simply do another plain, boring direct. We had to push ourselves to the limit.
And that’s how Twitch Plays Rivals Direct was born. The fans who joined in the Twitch Stream were able to influence the direct itself and even play both Rivals and Creatures through voting in chat.
Rivals Direct 3 - Condensed Good Version
We also returned to the world of Lovers of Aether but two years have passed since our last visit so instead of Aether High, we stop at Aether University. Adam Carra was the host again but this time as Adam Capybara as he found himself inside the Lovers world. Viewers helped Adam make dialog decisions, complete minigames, and navigate …
Horizon Zero Dawn went on sale, so I figured I’d finally get it on PC (I’ve already played it on PS4 at release, but I’ve been itching to play it again). Right after launching the game, it not only puts you straight into a cutscene, but you can’t pause during this cutscene either (or skip, for that matter). You’re stuck watching this intro cutscene (which goes on for a good 3 or 4 minutes) with whatever default quality the game chooses, and you can’t pause/skip it.
Obviously in the end it doesn’t matter - it’s only the first time that you boot up the game and you can change the settings once it’s done. But as an end-user this is such a frustrating design choice (I don’t know if it was done this way for a specific reason or if it just ended up that way) and it’s crazy that we still get games that do it.
I just got three lol.