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Look, I can't tell you which games are the best for you to buy -- that's massively subjective and everyone's tastes are unique.

The finale to the latest Star Wars trilogy is out now, so here's your opportunity to go wild and talk about the movie to your heart's content in the comments without worrying about spoiling it for the entire Queue crew.

I love Dungeons and Dragons.

I have felt kind of like I'm failing the group in that we haven't seen either a dragon or a dungeon in the past few sessions of the Blizzard Watch Dungeons and Dragons game.

This all started when I was given a copy of Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus by Wizards of the Coast, and while I do think it's brilliant, I wanted you to know they gave me one up front.

I'm on record loving Owlcat Games' Pathfinder: Kingmaker.

Any time I play a game and discover it has fishing, I automatically start comparing it to other games' fishing mechanics.

When last we left our intrepid band of somewhat merry adventurers, Liz Harper, Anne Stickney, Cory Taylor, Joe "Lodur" Perez and Deb Montague (along with Mitch "Mitch" Mitchell, who won't be joining us this weekend unfortunately) were still exploring the mysterious island they found themselves stranded on after waking up in a volcano lair, being chased by a dragon made of lava, having an altercation on the beach with a bunch of Kobolds, and now, after a run-in with a mysterious shape shifting individual with unclear loyalties they've spent the night in an ancient building.

I don't know if the term closed world makes any sense per se, but considering that The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim ushered in the term 'open world' and it's become synonymous with a certain kind of gameplay experience -- also known as sandbox games -- I thought I'd talk about whether or not gamers are finally ready to embrace games which don't subscribe to that philosophy.

I haven't finished The Outer Worlds, and that's because I have a lot of stuff to do before I fly out to California this week and so this is less a full review and more a preview -- for full disclosure I'm up to level 19 or so and stuck in pretty deep into the world Monarch, or Terra 1, after starting out on Terra 2 and the Groundbreaker.