> IANAL, but I’d assume the patent has to be pretty specific, right?

They do not! In fact, in an early fight you’re assisted by a few NPCs and one says: “Wait, your sword didn’t break? Am I doing it wrong then?” Hahahahha!

I knew this day would come. Doesn’t mean I have to like it.

I’m saving a Miles NG+ for when I finally get a PS5. So maybe in three years if I’m lucky? It will be a retro game by then!

> Sidenote - if you’ve recently got back into SNES collecting...

My Friday HOT TAKE is: Is Fenyx Rising my favorite open world game of the past few years? Do I possibly like this more then BotW?! I’ve said this across other comment threads, but it’s like this blend of the world and inventory design of Assassin’s Creed (but streamlined, thank god); the aesthetics and mechanics of…

I think back before FF7R came out I said I would run through Infinite and Burial at Sea. Got through Infinite but not Burial. Soooo...that means I have to start from the beginning again, right?

Oh man, that’s ambitious!

Comfort games!

You know what? This is fine. This is appropriate. Selling the movie rights for an unwritten book about an event currently in progress. Yessir, this is the natural follow-up to the display of capitalism we’re currently witnessing.

Yeah, exactly. Nintendo isn’t trying to compete with Sony and Microsoft. They don’t need to make a hardware upgrade until their 1p titles demand it.

I put hours upon hours into BotW on my way to beating it, so I am fully aware of how it plays. But systems/mechanics and animations do not a game make and I stand by my initial statement.

Because it’s not a “Blatant Zelda ripoff”. I’m deep into it by now and I really, really like this game. More than I thought I would. It plays like a blend between Assassin’s Creed (Ubisoft open world baseline), Breath of the Wild (some of the mechanics), and Mario Odyssey (puzzles, puzzles everywhere). And that’s…

AC Valhalla, the game that one day may release me. Maybe Fenyx Rising, although I hit a typical Ubisoft bug where the game isn’t acknowledging that I saved Aphrodite: the essence never leaves my inventory and the quest never registers as complete, so I talk to her and always go through the same dialogue. Really…

I like the game! It’s just a damn commitment. As I said in comments on Luke’s article on this topic, it’s a lot of game for a story that may not warrant it.

Ok, but if this is the case, KH2 is a better game gameplay-wise. I found KH3 to be the most mindless hack and slashy entry in the series.

I’m on the same page with Valhalla. I’ve already done so much but there’s still shittons to do! Why!

Still hacking through Valhalla, myself...

I like this, but you’re also crazy.

> “today was another stressful day, maybe I should play Chrono Trigger again because I know that game inside and out and the unknown is stressful”