Why is it so offensive to have someone who hasn't played Pokemon in years cover a Pokemon game? The demo was a glass house to demonstrate the game's features; it's not a freaking tournament-level demonstration. I think having someone a bit unfamiliar with the new aspects of the series is a perfectly valid way to…

He clearly hasn't played Pokémon in years, which only makes me wonder if he was the right person to cover this to begin with

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Game of Thrones meets Pokémon, but really, better. Suikoden II's story is one of the most emotionally resonant I've found in a video game, and its "Oh, holy shit" moments are pretty much better than anyone else's "Oh, holy shit" moments. If you like stories about friendship and betrayal and all that jazz, this JRPG is…

Not Robin Prime 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5.

Clearly if you ask the scorpion to stay its blade, it is beholden to oblige.*

*special Journalism privilege

Schafer: But imagine if you put a rocket launcher in, and then you ran out of money and you needed to take the rocket launcher out, and then everyone's sending you hate mail.

No, man, Dust is totally a valid fifth attack button.

As a HUGE fan of Guilty Gear X and XX, allow me to retort with this: BlazBlue was shit.

Based on evidence. Again, if they were planning on doing what all the hopers and dreamers assert, all they had to do was say so; not scrap everything and go back to square 360. Their actions are telling to me.

They didn't offer anything of the sort. All they would have had to say was "We're doing a Steam thing" and 90% of the people bitching would have gone silent and I would have pre-ordered my Day One package. Instead, they did a full 180 on every core design choice they'd been riding on up to that point and reverted…

LARRY, STAHP IT.

If someone says they read books, the reaction isn't, "Oh, so you're a reclusive shut-in who can't speak to other people and has a poor grasp of reality because you spend all your time in fantasy worlds."

...No, I'm saying 90% of the content found in the game, and the resources used in its creation, came from the last version of the game. I'm probably being generous.

I wasn't dismissing it; saying what I said fit my narrative. I actually think the HD remake is both timely and awesome.

In this context, it makes no sense for him to disclose this. I don't know where the source is for the snippet, but I can't imagine both parties willingly let this be heard unless this was part of a public court record.

Could be. I think with both parties being the subject of the information, both would have to consent. I don't see why he'd voluntarily share this information himself since it doesn't particularly cast him in a positive light, so maybe it was a court order.

The Wii U is not "nearly ten year old hardware".

Remember, third party support was pledged, but when that support ended up being lazy ports of old games everyone already owned and they didn't sell (and Nintendo didn't let Origin take over their digital distribution platform), they said there wasn't a market and shifted to the PS4/Xbox One (all this within the first…

Haha, it's funny because their sales are still fine. They're a bit behind their Wii sales, which broke all sales records that came before it. So...

I think it's hilarious that everyone expected them to push out ten million units in the first six months. Come on. I think the Wii U's still handily whipping the PS3's…