If you’re a smoker I definitely recommend using ingestable CBD. Just smoking it makes me want some weed too.

Maybe it works well for the story, but just because Niko doesn’t know about places doesn’t mean they shouldn’t exist for the player to find.

I don’t really mean crazy side missions, more small side content similar to how San Andreas had bars with arcades and pool, horse betting, driving school, flying school, collectibles, dancing, low riding, delivery missions, home robbery. Or how III had a place you could go get bombs put in cars. Small stuff that I think fleshes out the world.

The thing is, GTA IV and V do have some of this stuff, but I think their worlds are getting so big that Rockstar just can’t make enough content to fill them the way they used to. I know they like to push bigger worlds and better graphics with every game, but I think if GTA VI had a map the same size as V with the ability to enter every building and a ton of different businesses and activities populated throughout, it would feel much fuller and more alive.

But that also doesn’t invalidate what you’re saying about GTA IV. If it feels right, it feels right. And that’s the best feeling a game can give you. Fallout 3 is a busted mess with some of the worst shooter controls I have ever used, but maaaaaaaan do I think that game feels right.

Same. GTA V felt like it was the size of a real city, with nothing to do in it.

Meanwhile San Andreas’ map is smaller, really does feel like a whole state, is packed so full of activities that I’m still finding out about new stuff, and you can enter virtually every building in the game.

GTA IV was the start of world emptiness in the series, I wish they’d start designing for gameplay instead of scope again.

If I’m on a T break, I do a nighttime routine to prepare my body for bed. No screens/reading/herbal tea or some such. I also like to buy cranberry juice to sip on - it gives me something to do instead of smoke and cuts down on the anciness surrounding the oral fixation part of smoking. As for sleep - if you’re not quitting to pass a drug test then just take CBD. Seriously, CBD is all the relaxing parts of weed with none of the high. Maybe it won’t make you pass out like smoking a fat blunt, but it will definitely help take the edge off. Then you can kick the CBD after a week or so and it’s a much smoother transition into sobriety.

I don’t know if you’ve played Oracle of Ages/Seasons, but those are two more great Capcom Zelda games.

I saw someone else say CrossCode, and I can second that. CrossCode is the only game I have ever played to perfectly capture the way games felt on the Nintendo DS. Control, aesthetic, everything. It made me immediately nostalgic the first time I played it.

I never even bought it. It looked monetized to hell compared to MK11, and it didn’t seem to offer much more for the increased price. I liked most of the character designs, and of course the game looks beautiful. But that’s not going to cut it for me. All I heard about it was that it added a lot of aerial combat, which I really don’t care to tangle with.