I’m definitely on team built-in battery. I seldom run out of battery for my PS4 controller, since I can just plug it when I’m done playing for the day. Still, as someone who has nothing against controllers with cords, I don’t get why the plug-in cable for the PS4 controller has to be so short. It could easily be twice…

A very interesting and in-depth read!

Like post-modern fiction, though, I find it more fun to read people’s analysis of Metal Gear Solid 2 than to actually play the game. That’s why I can’t really view Metal Gear Solid 2 as a great game.

I haven’t even been sold on the first one yet.

“Final Fantasy VII’s battles included some fun flourishes, like special victory poses for each character, but they mostly unfolded in the same way as the previous six games. Final Fantasy VII Remake says: Screw that. No more turns. No more invisible monsters. Technology has advanced past graphical metaphors.”

This…

It’s not difficult to “tolerate” being with my wife all the time; being alone with her is not making life worse (it’s the opposite), as I wouldn’t have married her if it did. I’m much more concerned about my lack of exercise and our income situation.

The only truly timeless hairdo in the whole movie is Princess Leia’s, which was weird back then and will be weird forever.

I don’t care so much for the Ewoks destroying all the Stormtroopers in retrospect, but I’m in favour of George Lucas’s decision to keep Han Solo alive and stress Luke’s triumph at the end.

I don’t have the time (or interest) to sit through those 17-minute speedruns of Ocarina of Time, so a video like this one is much more to my liking.

Great post! There’s too much in it for me to give it a proper reply. I like the point about nostalgia (I’ll add that if nostalgia was necessary to enjoy games like FFVII, no one would have liked it when it originally came out), and the close comparisons between the two openings. Personally, I’m concerned about how…

Heck, when I replay Final Fantasy VII, I don’t even reach 25 hours before I beat it, and I don’t try to rush through it by any means (however, I do zero grinding). The original is not a long game, and this opening suggests that the first part of this remake will be stuffed to the brim with padding.

And I got the definitive edition for Christmas. I think the DLC is probably best played spread throughout the game (which is what I did) and not after it’s already finished.

I didn’t meant that you’re too young to remember the games. I meant that you might not have remembered them right if you hadn’t played them in a long time. Years, things that stumped me as a kid are not always so confusing now.

On Earthbound: I didn’t have a copy of the guide, since my family got it used, and I didn’t…

You might not really remember how old RPGs are, exactly. In those games, grinding may make up a larger percentage of the overall play time, but older RPGs are mostly far shorter games than modern ones. For instance, I grinded a fair bit in Earthbound the last time I played through it (about two years ago), but I…

This is the way.

I’m not sure if my least favourite is Final Fantasy I, the only offline mainline game in the series I’ve never finished, or XV, the modern master class of bad game design. Personally, I think I don’t like them because I view neither as fun to play, but, sure, I’ll go with the reasons mentioned here.

The word “savage,” furthermore, probably isn’t even that high on the list of pejoratives that Indigenous people want others to stop using, seeing as how hardly anyone uses “savage” in reference to them now.

Hey, she’s one of the hostesses from Yakuza!

I’m probably more anti-random in general than I am against one of these particular types of randomness. Some of my favourite SNES games, for instance, like Super Mario World, Link to the Past, and Super Metroid, have little in the way of randomness, aside from health and money drops from defeated enemies, which…

Perhaps you should have given him a chance?

In any case, I think his Metroidvania series of Boss Keys does too much nitpicking, in general. I haven’t watched most of his Hollow Knight video yet (because I haven’t played Hollow Knight yet), but I got the sense that he thinks that Hollow Knight is the only game in the…

I’d say he’s the best gaming critic on YouTube, as no one else comes that close to him in terms of quality and quantity.