I love Final Fantasy VI and Chrono Trigger just as much (and I actually enjoy some PS1 games, like Final Fantasy VII, Xenogears, and Valkyrie Profile to the same degree), and I think playing all the games I mentioned between the ages of 12 and 16 has a lot to do with their staying power for me. I believe a few games…

Well, Joe Buck knows how to Re2pect the greats, of course.

The Witcher 3 crashed six or seven times when I played it for approximately 100 hours on PS4. If the Switch version doesn’t crash at all, I’d say the graphical downgrade is a fair trade-off.

But I won’t be buying the game again, so I won’t know how well it plays on Switch. Playing through it once was enough for me.

I wouldn’t call it sloppy justice: just regular justice. There haven’t been many more obvious situations where a make-up call is going to come immediately, and shame on Sanchez for taking such a close pitch after lying about fouling off the previous pitch when he clearly swung and missed. Sure, strike three was a…

HighAndTight already mentioned it, but left-handed batters have that location on the opposite side of the plate called against them all the time. It’s way too close to take a pitch like that in such a key moment of a game.

I didn’t view it as a make-up call so much as a punishment call, and Sanchez deserved to be punished with a strikeout as much as any batter ever has. You could clearly hear Sanchez lie and say “I fouled it” during the replays, when he missed the ball by at least a foot. The inning should have ended there and my only…

I don’t understand the concept of missing a paralogue. I’m on my final playthrough of the game, and I’ve played every available paralogue every single time. They’re pretty much all good, since they often have better map design than the main game, add interesting lore or character development, and result in some…

It’s only shitty cheating if the team figures out the signs by using cameras or people from outside the team. It’s entirely legitimate if the players or coaches catch the signs with their own eyes.

Well, the Dodgers winning the NLDS won’t exactly shake off Kershaw’s demons at this point. He needs to win a World Series to do that.

It made sense when Madison Bumgarner pitched in relief in 2014 because 1) the Royals were helpless against him in 16 innings prior to that point 2) all the other Giants pitchers that year sucked 3) Bumgarner entered the game in the fifth inning and the team didn’t have enough good relief pitchers to protect a lead for…

Verlander at least had the one great start this postseason, and he has the excuse that he was pitching on short rest to fall back on (in addition to the cushion that nobody cares to begin with because Verlander has already won a World Series).

As a noted Dodgers hater myself, I know it’s possible to hate the Dodgers and feel bad for Kershaw at the same time. Personally, I hope that Kershaw goes to another team and gets the playoff monkey off his back by beating the Dodgers in the postseason.

Scoring one run at any point after the second inning and before the tenth (when the Dodgers needed 4-5 runs) would have led LA to victory. But this failure isn’t as easy to blame on one person, like the two homers Kershaw gave up, so it gets glossed over.

At this point, Kershaw seems most likely to win a World Series (if he wins one) as a third or fourth starter, meaning his team would win more due to his teammates than to his own performance. Winning in this fashion wouldn’t exactly remove the “choker” label from Kershaw (look at David Robinson’s NBA titles for a…

Maybe in other sports, but it’s not going to happen for a baseball player like Kershaw. There are plenty of great players who bombed in the postseason and made it in, anyway, like Greg Maddux (although he at least managed to win one World Series). Anyway, Kershaw is a Hall of Fame lock, so he doesn’t need postseason…

It took me a while to figure out Tropical Freeze’s bounce mechanics, and I died many times in Bopopolis prior to then, but, once I did, it felt so good. I’m not sure why Retro decided on that weird bounce mechanic; that’s possibly my only complaint with the game (other than the Wii U version’s stupidly long loading…

Well, DK64 used to be a messy and indulgent game, but now it’s a classic messy and indulgent game.

Perhaps the biggest shame about this match is that it was a quarterfinal instead of the actual final. If both ladies continue to play well like they have of late and move up higher in the rankings, though, they’ll start playing each other even deeper into tournaments.

I’m a Giants fan, so the Dodgers are basically the only team I absolutely do not want to win the World Series. I can’t get that mad at a team for having a dumb fanbase (although the Braves’ stupid chant collectively making an entire stadium behave like racists is quite atrocious), since every fanbase is kind of…

I wasn’t referring to the caught stealing but to when Acuña was doubled off second after the Cardinals caught a Donaldson line drive to short. It’s hard to tell from the replay, but Acuña started running for third instead of freezing after Donaldson made contact. Acuña was out by maybe 20 feet, and I’m not sure if he…