No, I wouldn’t. But he’s still in the wrong and that’s what makes him a compelling character, not that he’s some kind of fucking role model. I would make, more or less, every choice he made, because they were generally the safer and practical choices. The rare occasions where he did the “right” thing, it went bad for…

because of the relationship that develops between Joel and Ellie we start to forget or overlook those things that paint him as less than heroic.

Are we under the impression Joel wasn’t a shitheel?

Seconded here. I played it for the first time in 2018 (Played through to about the first Route 93 sign on PS3 and then restarted when I got a PS4 shortly after) and the gameplay aged fantastically well (I’d say the same of Uncharted 2 and 3, less so the first, which I also first played then) and the visuals never once…

Haven’t played Ico myself, but I was leaning Shadow of the Colossus. I played the remaster last year (Having never played it on PS2 or 3, my PS2 died before it came out and I didn’t get a 3 until after the 4 was out). Mechanically, it just doesn’t age great for first timers. Like, the concepts are all balling, but it…

So, I’m not the viscerally anti-remake type like some others are, but even I’m a little puzzled by this one. I didn’t play TLoU for the first time until 2018 and you know what? Still looked great, which isn’t always the case with 3D games (So, so many 3D games look like absolute trash a generation later).

We bought some NFC tags on Amazon a week or two ago because we were restarting our island and had some specific villagers we wanted. Didn't realize until today that I already had the bin files for the Sanrio ones, so we made them all this morning. Tool about five minutes altogether. Strongly recommend for anyone who…

That’s.... not a counterpoint? That literally only reinforces my point. It being iterative or new isn’t going to affect shortages if people are snagging them all up because it’s the new hotness.

Right, but what does that have to do with the likelihood of shortages in the next 12 months?

Did I say all?

Cyberpunk is the exception, not the rule, and that has a lot more to do with a rushed product than the limitations of the PS4/Xbox One.

Counterpoint: The PS5 and Xbox Series Somethingorother are both glorified “premium versions” of the PS4 and Xbox One respectively right now. Neither has any real exclusives that are worth going out of your way for and not available on last gen consoles and this looks like it’s going to be this way at least part of the…

This would carry a lot more weight if the Switch wasn’t already less powerful than the last generation’s consoles and still performed well.

A 17" laptop without a numpad is a waste of a 17" laptop.

A 17" laptop without a numpad is a waste of a 17" laptop.

I will definitely buy Avengers when Squirrel Girl is a playable character.

Now it’s, uh, Forspoken, a name that, if nothing else, was not previously spoken for.

God damn it! I literally caved in and rebought HZD like a week ago. I owned a physical copy, but I got my hands on a PS5 digital, so I couldn’t play it. I figured we wouldn’t see it free for a good while, considering it wasn’t in their, more or less, essentials pack.

I’m kind of baffled by my interest in this film. I haven’t played a Mortal Kombat game since the PS1/N64 era and I have a couple free ones from various PS Plus free months (I think that’s where they came from?).

Damning with faint praise. I haven’t rewatched it in a while, but I watched the whole thing in my late twenties (Close to a decade ago) and it was absolute trash.

Not sure if that’s a matter of your inability or if it’s a matter of controller play. I can tank on controller, I can DPS on controller. I can’t heal on controller. I read up on all the target switching and macros and I just cannot do it.