It was amazing when I'd actually gotten to play the game after reading the hell out of the Pokémon Power inserts from Nintendo Power, and seeing my squirtle look like.... a bald man in a puffy vest. The spriting in those games was horrible, so I'm actually quite amazed that someone thought it would be a good idea to…

Well, I think it's kind of fair if it's the most recent project by the studio. Think of it this way; a lot of the people that made all the great games for Id in the 90s are no longer working there. I think people take the line of thinking way too far, but my confidence in a developer certainly weakens when they…

It runs surprisingly well on a modern machine too. Despite the game not supporting curved course sections, or really any difficulty progression, I still adore that game.

I don't think I said I was superior to anyone else because my eyes just happen to have a really good number and layout of cones and rods, or that I feel that way instead of feeling proud of other skills I've built up over the years. But sure, I'm an "asshat", because of that. Okay.

Yeah haha, if you can't tell the colours apart, you won't know you're doing badly. That's the beauty of perception.

I love that hue test. I've taken it a few times over the years, usually after an argument over what colour something is (which is actually more of an issue of semantics than the ability to see colours). I've always gotten 0 on it, and I'm damn proud of that fact, seeing as I work as a creative in advertising.

I didn't realize they weren't supporting 5.1 on the Wii U. That's disappointing.

If 2K doesn't get around to making a gritty sequel soon I'm going to start getting worried about this industry.

There are only two ways someone can judge a console; sales of that console (which only really matter if you're in the business), and whether you are having enough fun with the console that you feel that your purchase and investment in that console was worth it. One of those is objective, and has nothing to do with the…

Your sports analogy isn't working. Sports teams within the same sport can objectively be compared to each other while consoles cannot. You cheer for a sports team because it's a structured competition, and there's something to actually be won. When your team wins, you share in that victory. You cannot compare how much…

So we should just accept that people will be dumb because "it's video games bro"? I don't know, I like to expect some basic human intelligence from fans of a medium I enjoy.

There is never a best choice. Just the consequences of those decisions, and acceptance of those consequences. If you can't live with that, or aren't mature enough to think that way, then you shouldn't be making decisions that cost hundreds or thousands of dollars.

Yeah that material is horrible.

Hours? Usually minutes.

I think the difference is that many (most) modern FPS games are almost entirely multiplayer focused. Usually the single player portion is a 10 hour primer on how to play the game and the mechanics, so when you go online you only get a little bit embarrassed. It's weird, because for most people who buy Pokemon, they're…

Maybe if the game was more quick time event based, this sort of thing would work, but having slow animations restrict the speed of your actions in an FPS feels absolutely horrible. I used to work on a few Half-Life 2 mods back in the day, and I remember a few times the reload animations were too slow, resulting in…

Oh that's really interesting. I really like that idea.

I actually never ended up playing on any servers that charged for the rights to anything like land. But I can totally see that happening, and if you're only given a chunk you'd be building something exactly like this.

Exactly, anyone who's been in a decent server community has seen this.

Yeah the Wii U was more expensive than it was worth up until right now. The Mario Kart 8 bundle is seriously one of the best deals in gaming and if you're going to get a Wii U this is the time to do it.