I feel the same way about Zelda... it’s wild to me the amount of effort people put into trying to shoehorn all of these different stories together into one coherent narrative, which involves multiple branching timelines and is frankly a hot mess... how about we just treat these as they are meant to be treated- as…

I’m still bummed GameStop basically killed ThinkGeek.

Maybe Jeff and the TGA people should read Handmade Pixels by Jesper Juul before they go off half-cocked giving out nominations to “indie games” without defining what that means. The book provides a pretty good insight into how people construct the notion of what an “indie game” is.

This is the nature of software development and games. One game can be more fun, look better, do everything the customer wants, but be 100x worse in the way it’s built than another game.

I’d say when it’s a reasonably significant improvement while still being authentic to the original.   Ducktales HD remake is a SUPERB example.

The fact that even in Canada, the prices of digital copies of games can be more expensive than physical copies is also baffling to me.

We have had CoD on an annual release for longer than that, and during the same period we had 7 Assassin’s Creed games, 5 Far Cry games, none of which really came close to being GoTYs or anything like that, while both games in TLOU series did.

“if I’m playing a no-stakes match to unwind after work”

Where “console wars” are concerned, I often see people talk about the switch as if it’s some sort of supplement to an Xbox or a Playstation. Something to be purchased in addition to, not instead of, one of the other consoles.

Update: I’m playing it now, the dpad and analog stick are both equally usable. ZL and ZR don’t seem to do anything. So outside of the Home button, you should be good to go!

Sounds like AC Mirage is a solid return to the roots of the franchise type game since it came out.

Avengers was one of those games where I was wondering why they even bothered making it a live service game considering the focus was on the story.

As far as I know, they haven’t announced anything in that regard yet. But I believe the NSO SNES controller works with any Switch game that can be controlled with the buttons that controller has, so if the new SM RPG lets you navigate with the d-pad and doesn’t require the second triggers you’ll probably be in…

You get that shit too?? I thought it was just me lol, I have no idea how the idiot algorithm looks at a search for miniature detail painting and decides, “oh he must be looking for nasty-ass pimple popping” instead.

So it’s the same god awful remote streaming they’ve always had? Got it.

Yeah as far as I can tell, it’s using the exact same network protocols as the existing Remote Play phone apps. There is a niche market of people who are fine with the latency but want a bigger screen, better controls, and for it to not tie up their phone (and are willing to pay $200 for it), but I’ll admit it’s a…

“Like, oh yeah, that’s everyone else’s business, right? No. Where’s that energy with men?”

“but FFXVI is all but impossible to read at times. If you think this text was small on a 50” TV, it’s inscrutable on an 8-inch screen.”

For the love of God I don’t understand why they didn’t include streaming from the cloud. I can only guess they don’t want to cut into their console sales, but for a lot of people, not including the author, this device isn’t useful. 

In my experience, it’s not that the parental controls are necessarily always easy to get around, it’s that the kids are so much more tech savvy than the parents implementing them.