I grew up with Oregon Trail II, myself!

Eh, it can be both. They can simultaneously want to actually make sure they sell stock while also recognizing that fans will be unhappy if they don’t get to play the game near the release date, especially when so many people are stuck at home.

For one thing, it’s not immediately apparent that GameXchange is a video game store; while Kotaku is a video game-focused site, they write about board games and card games as well, and GameXchange could easily be a board game retailer instead. For instance, we used to have a store here in Arizona called Game Daze that…

It’s a good idea for protecting yourself if you’re sick or immunocompromised. Thing is, the CDC has explicitly said that masks and gloves won’t do much for healthy individuals. I completely understand the impulse to use them, but with the shortages that are happening, we really should be leaving gloves and masks for…

Eh, if you’ve gotten everything you need but realized you forgot three things, I don’t think that’s a huge deal; it doesn’t necessarily mean that they will need to go back right away. My family got most of what we needed at Costco, but we realized we’d forgotten ground beef for the dog, for instance. Going to the…

In a pinch, regular ol’ bleach can work, and iirc, rubbing alcohol can as well. If you’re not going out and you’ve already sanitized stuff, soap and water will be the most important. Hang in there!

That’s what baffles me. This isn’t an apocalypse: you can still go to the store to get food quickly, you still most likely have electricity and water, and so on. It’s about staying home, not doomsday prepping. Oof.

It’s probably a mix of things. I was actually running low on paper towels, 409 spray, toilet cleaner, and hand soap as a result of normal daily life, myself. Other people are probably stockpiling because they’re scared and aren’t listening to what actual experts are saying. Some people probably bought things they…

This is a completely sensible cake! Such a misnomer, haha.

I just saw red, holy fuck. What kind of bullshit is that. Before you even mentioned anything about the “”””””cure””””””, holy FUCK. The most purposefully ignorant actions ugh.

Eh, I wouldn’t say it was a slur, but that’s just splitting hairs haha. You’re right that plenty of people are being fucking morons, though. Someone in my neighborhood was full-on having a children’s birthday party a few days ago in their backyard, and you could hear it was pretty crowded. I can at least understand…

Oh, shit. I knew about the gay couple changes, but I didn’t know about much else. I’ll have to do some research to find out more--that’s exciting. Thank you!

Eh, on one hand, I agree that it’s a bad idea not to have ported the original (and they’re clearly feeling some pressure to, if other comments are anything to go by), but at the same time, Persona Q and Persona Q2 were released on 3DS with no other Persona games on those handhelds, and SMT4 was on 3DS despite SMT3…

Oh shit, did they? Do you happen to have examples? I don’t want to spoil myself on the Royal-exclusive content, but I don’t know a lot about localization changes compared to the original Western release.

The gameplay is wonderful imo. It’s similar to the newer Persona games in that you need to exploit weaknesses, but instead of getting a second turn, hitting a weakness can trigger combos that can get longer and longer and eventually migrate onto hitting other enemies. It feels fluid and looks dynamic, and eventually…

I don’t think they did, no. The PR manager for Atlus West said at one point that P5 and Yakuza 0 were Playstation exclusives, but I don’t see that as the same thing as “it will only ever be Playstation stop asking,” especially since they’ve said more recently that there’s interest.

In fairness, we’re getting Persona 5 Scramble on the Switch, so there’ll be some representation of Joker there. Atlus West has said, too, that a Switch port of P5 is possible while people keep expressing interest. I do think it’s a missed opportunity for sure (and it makes me wonder if Royal was partially a deal with…

Nobody is saying you can only write what you are, and nobody is saying you’re invalid as a Latinx person if you’re fair-skinned. What we’re saying—and I say this as a pretty dang light Latinx myself—is that the author is claiming a heritage that she did not grow up with, is not connected to, and does not actually…

The point is, someone that grew up culturally white and appears white isn’t the best person to write a book like this, especially when plenty of Latinx people of all shades have spoken out against it and its inaccuracies.

Oh, I’m not saying that VII was better or worse. My point is that VII demonstrably left a huge impact on the medium and the genre. Unreliable narrators were not really used back then in gaming, nor were complex characters; they WERE used, but VII helped to popularize them. It’s worth codifying it as groundbreaking…