In fairness, It was undoubtedly bad for them. Because 25 years later they scalp happy meal cards and have unrealistic expectations for the franchise, like “have as much content as the DS games if you’re going to charge 50% more”

So to use a separate example.... the Comics Code Authority. Self-Imposed by the industry following the publication of a psychiatrist’s book. Devastated the comic book industry by forcing publishers to stop making horror stories, never letting the bad guys win, so on and so forth. Tried (and almost succeeded) to block…

-somewhere in Kyoto, an executive is trying to determine if Nintendo can C&D a building...-

Sometimes its gonna be the one thing that gets you through it that you never expected. When my mom passed, the only things I had were Gundam Build Fighters and Kerbal Space Program. Without those 2 things to distract me, I don’t know where Id have ended up.


As for Pokemon, Ive been having a decent time catching up on…

I will just post my go-to games:

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective

Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon

I cannot say anything more than I already have.

I dont get that argument. There are many regulars who dont bother with putting a profile pic. He himself has been posting regularly since 2016 or earlier, i just couldn’t be bothered to skim back further. Its like picking a fight on twitter with someone because they only have 3 followers.

My only addendum to the video game price debate is how wonderfully inconsistent it is. During the cartridge era, you could see a sports game or a big RPG go for 80+. Then the PS1 era happened and I got Chrono Cross on launch day for 40. Budgets ranged on big titles from 1 million dollars on Dragons Crown on PS3 to…

In fairness to people who dont like the sticker shock. Pokemon wasn’t 60 bucks until LGPE in 2018. The most you paid for a mainline pokemon game pre-Gen8 was I believe 50, and that was if you got the pokewalker with it. As for the N64 games, my memory sucks so it was probably somewhere between 50 and 70 for the…

the 2nd game one definitely rides the line very hard. The scenarios are laughably unrealistic. He drives into a scene in a tank, then takes a phone call and launches missiles at ProJared in one of the “bad ends”.

I started playing EverQuest 20 years ago.
Im still playing EverQuest now.
not much has changed.

I hate social media. It turned schoolyard bullying into a 24 hour business, has tanked people’s self esteem, and has singlehandedly made MGS2's meandering codec calls into prophecies. Waiting patiently for another Carrington event.

well, im not so much worried about Regen so much as I am the more unorthodox examples, like Fistweaver Monk, or the Inquisitor/Channeler in EverQuest 2.

>Fistweaver
Has normal healing tools, but also does excellent healing when they get in melee range and kick the shit out of the boss themselves.

>Inquisitor
Has…

my heals are slotted as

/ac “Regen” <mo>
/ac “Regen” <tt>
/ac “Regen” <t>

Mouseover healing is the greatest thing in the game mechanically, so I will always sing its praises. my rocks are also designated in the same way.

yep, just the 2 types. I understand that they dont want to rock the boat too much, but I cant help but continue to be salty at Yoshi-P for every healer they’ve added being shield healers, and not learning from any of the myriad of western MMOs that tried something different.

>I don’t understand why people get so mad at folks who say Pikachu is their favorite Pokemon. People are allowed to like popular things. At least they don’t like Pyukumuku or something awful like that.

Bad form. Every Pokemon is someone’s favorite. Even Palpitoad.

As the king of the SWSH haters......optimism? I'm worried still about the potential lack of platinum content, but porygon z in the trailer makes me think we'll at least get the platinum pokedex. Which is a start. The world map looks good, so my fears of them gutting mount coronet have been handled ....for now.

unfortunately ive had experiences with both the tryhard elitist douchebags and what I would call the ‘toxic casual’, who will become hostile the moment anyone tries to provide input. A good place to look at such issues can be present in the Mentor system. Yes, theres good ones out there, but at least a solid…

Turn Based still has a market, but it took SE a really long time to realize that. If they had, they and Neverland couldve made the Lufia 2 remake...you know.... good.

Lesson for all of you developers out there: when a game is loved primarily because of its turn based combat and dungeoneering, dont turn it into 3d…

>they should call them dragon fights

In a weird way, you’re kind of already right.
Blame EverQuest’s over-reliance on Dragons as raid targets for the first 2 years of its content, but raiding guilds in the MMOspace have been using the concept of DKP (Dragon Kill Points) for 20 years. Not as many dragons anymore, but…

Hiroyuki Sanada is one of my favorite Japanese actors. Go watch Twilight Samurai