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on November 21, 2025
<br>As you can see, there has been a diverse line-up of video games to be thankful for this past year. Let us know one of your favorite releases of 2020 in the comments below and share how it may have impacted your life in any way!<br><br> <br>The other most commonly recommended bow for Diona is the Favonius Warbow. You’ll see this debated against the Sacrificial Bow or the Stringless for many of the bow users in Genshin Impact because it has a lot of perks to offer. Just like with the Sacrificial Bow, you can pull this using your Wishes in the Standard Banner, Featured Banner, or Weapon Banner, so which of these two rivals you pick depends on your personal preference when building up your Di<br><br>Americans celebrate Thanksgiving every November. It’s a time when families gather, friends reconnect and communities unite. On Thanksgiving you also announce what you're thankful for in life, so several of our writers decided to let everyone know exactly which video games they're thankful for. These thanks are comprised of releases from Thanksgiving 2019 to Thanksgiving 2020 and made up of a variety of reasons. Read on to see the titles everyone decided were personally meaningful enough from the past year to make the list!<br><br> <br>Although this trait will rarely be useful in combat scenarios, it can be useful during exploration. If there’s treasure on an island you’re not quite sure you can swim all the way to, activate Kokomi’s Burst and walk to gain some distance first. Once it runs out, remember that she also has a passive talent that reduces your Stamina consumption while swimming . Between these two abilities you should be able to conquer the sea and reach your destinat<br><br> <br>Thanks to the steady Cryo DMG that Diona can apply to opponents with her Burst, she can act as a decent catalyst for teams that utilize the Melt Reaction . These teams employ Pyro DPS characters alongside Cryo supports, and herein lies a secret synergy: Diona’s shield actually possesses a 250 percent Cryo DMG Absorption Bonus , which will work wonders against the Cryo enemies that Pyro characters typically prefer to fi<br><br>A game I'm thankful for in 2020 is one that was met with universal critical acclaim and extremely-divided fan reactions: The Last of Us Part II. There are elements of this game that can be legitimately criticized, but personally the good outweighed the bad. But while I would argue this is overall a great game by most objective standards, I'm thankful for it because of more personal reasons. The original game was a topic of deep discussion with my other half so naturally we were anticipating this release. Playing through the game together was a good bonding activity and led to hours of discussion about the character choices and the storytelling approaches used in The Last of Us Part II.<br><br> <br>You won’t get any Energy Recharge with this weapon, though, so you’ll have to get Thoma to a level you’re satisfied with in terms of energy and stamina. Another route you could go is building a team around him that has energy team boosts or restorative abilities to make up for this l<br><br> <br>With obvious elemental affinities, the Mages themselves aren’t too hard to deal with. The issue arises with their shields. Even when attacking with the right element, Abyss Mage shields can be absurdly tanky, especially at high levels. Taking the time to chip away at these shields has fatally distracted more than one player in the middle of <a href="https://Www.Genshinart.com/articles/genshin-impact-6-0-banners-new-characters-free-5-star-and-anniversary-rewards.html">6.0 rewards Genshin</a> Impact’s endgame cont<br><br> <br>Or so you’d think. Even with speedier characters out foraging, most people tend to log in to Genshin Impact around the same time every day. At the very least, players tend to wait until all their expeditions are done before claiming them, rendering any time saving a tad m<br><br>My normal taste in games leans towards arcade and action, but this year has been one where the extra focus to hone in on pinpoint-perfect reflexes just hasn't been as available as I'd like. Instead I've been taking it easy, using gaming as a way to relax and escape into a more manageable world. The game that I'm thankful for this year is SnowRunner, which doesn't have an enemy anywhere in the whole world but instead requires the player to use its tools to complete a huge series of jobs across hostile terrain. While sorting out the controls takes some effort, once learned there are a huge amount of tools available to tackle even the roughest wilderness. Mountain tracks carved by streams, muddy bogs, rivers frozen solid and snowdrifts that even the highest-traction tires can't get a grip on all stand in the way of delivering Cargo to Place. You can tackle the challenges with brute force, careful plotting of the optimal route or relying on the winch to basically drag the truck to the goal, but there's always a way if you're patient enough. Few events are timed and just about everything is optional if you decide that a particular job feels like a bit much. There's pressure in navigating the tougher areas, of course, but otherwise SnowRunner is a game of choosing a task and tackling it however you like, driving across the beauty of a wilderness that's just barely been touched by humans. It's challenging, sure, but also relaxing and satisfying, and I'm thankful there are games that let me unwind into a simpler, more-focused world.<br>