methinks the C in MC stands for something else.

Would really like a new PSP generation. The Vita nailed the playing console games on a handheld thing

That hunch feeling may be true for actual hidden items and secrets that you don’t need to move forward in the game but the hidden blocks that simply impede your path don’t necessitate such thinking. The only clue you need is that you are seemingly stuck, blocked from progressing. The first couple times, people may be…

I also felt that Dread seems awfully straightforward for a Metroid title. That said, I also thought I got soft-locked one time, so I reloaded the save. Then I realized after retreading the path that the game was very carefully leading me to one particular route, and that I couldn’t deviate from it in any meaningful…

If they removed Luis’s “ballistics” line, and I assume Ashley’s offended reaction to it, I think that means that Luis now only ever interacts with Leon, and we can now headcanon that he is in fact a hallucinatory character that only Leon can see.

All the stories around the launch of Xbox are pretty fascinating. I’m surprised there haven’t been books written about it.

For what it’s worth, if you’ve got a Switch, Nintendo’s online service includes the original Metroid and Super Metroid.

The game got a lot of flak for being unrelentingly dark as fuck during a time when a lot of Americans were depressed due to living in a mismanaged-to-hell pandemic.

Hoo boy. I genuinely hope you’re doing okay lol. I was upset about your initial comment (like many others here), but seeing how you owned up to the mistake and tried to remedy it, I gotta give props.

The English language really needs a word other than “they” or “them” for these people. Referring to a single person as “they” or “them” gives a Golem (Lord of the Rings) vibe like they feel like they are multiple people or something which I believe is a whole other thing.

Thank you from approaching this froma sensible viewpoint. Yeah, it’s a nuanced one and a very case-by-case basis. Knowing your target audience and their knowledge base is important, but I think it’s also good to NOT assume what your audience does or does not know.

I feel like because this is a Brian article folks are getting confused: Utada is Japanese like Pitbull is Cuban. We talking about the English language here, Utada is just as American as Japanese. There’s no translating going on there!

Maybe they could build in a suspend feature that would allow you to save and quit and then it gets deleted when you load it so you can’t save scum but could still take a break?

I think there needs to be a smart solution. I can kind of see both sides of this issue. Challenge is important to some people, it’s one reason why Souls games are so popular. There is a sort of satisfaction to being something both punishing and rewarding. Having done a 6 hour run yesterday, it was quite thrilling. But…

> You seem to be assuring sighing up there that the request is just for a save/resume, not an actual manual save point system.

This isn’t the same situation as something like, say, Sekiro where people complained it was too hard and needed an easy mode.

this is a Perfect solution and doesn’t compromise the integrity of the artistic vision i feel.

My guess is, like so many other things, people aren’t actually reading the source complaints and are just filling in the gaps with their own assumptions. Aka basically so much of what has been wrong with media and people’s interpretation of it this past decade.

Nah its more of a people are sick of fragile snowflakes and incompetent “bloggers” playing game reviewer and crying about how there needs to be an easy mode and how everything should cater to everyone because rather than a game just not be for “them” its they’re entitled to play every game....

I feel like a lot of the Series’ improvements over last gen are like that: decidedly unsexy, but in terms of general quality of life, actually pretty impressive. Like Microsoft was working overtime to make sure you didn’t really notice the changeover in generations, which is... kind of thankless and boring in terms of…