so Nintendo is very conservative when it comes to what additional content they release. Nintendo has never been one to drown consumers in purchases for a single IP, they tend to do a flash in the pan and then leave it to rest a while and instead focus on another IP

Nintendo has a cellar full of bottled lightning.  

so Nintendo is very conservative when it comes to what additional content they release. Nintendo has never been one to drown consumers in purchases for a single IP, they tend to do a flash in the pan and then leave it to rest a while and instead focus on another IP (mario is kind of an exception unless you measure…

Pre-Odyssey, 3DWorld was easily my favorite Mario platformer ever.

It being a modern Mario game, I’m betting it’s a locked 60. I think most first party games you don’t have to worry too much about, but especially Mario games.

It doesn’t look as graphically intense as Odyssey, and that bent over backwards to lock it’s framerate to 60fps, doing some really smart things to achieve it.

True, but I feel like a meaningful number of reviews must be tendered, and copies sold to make bottom 10 lists have any meaning. I could write a terrible game in commodore basic in 5 minutes, but what good would a list of 10 of those be? 

Really? Because if ever there should be a year where we should be happy to get anything at all, it’s this year. We got two new consoles, the games listed above plus Last of Us 2, Animal Crossing, Hades, Ori, Flight Simulator, Fall Guys, etc. In addition to FF7, we got remakes/remasters/re-releases for RE3, Mario 3D…

Gave the free version of World of Warcraft a shot after being away from the game since 2010ish or so. Really wasn’t feeling the whole new player “Exile’s Reach” experience. It does a better job of mechanically teaching new players the ins-and-outs, but I feel like there’s less character and replayability than what I…

Yeah, it kinda sucks that the conclusion of the article is “hey, this game looks a lot like Advance Wars, except it’s brutally difficult and not really enjoyable to play”

No it’s just shiesty MMO promotion which is unfortunately, par for the course. The Lodestone is a mess, the entire XIV backend is a mess. It’s a beautiful game with awful, awful services transparency. I say this as someone with hundreds of hours of XIV, I love the damn game so it’s particularly frustrating for folks…

Well said.

And just to be crystal clear: My goal with this blog was more to express befuddlement that IMD, a significant annual event, wasn’t given the same due as previous events, like Earth Day or whatever the hell Bunny Day is. The last thing I’d ever want to do is try to convince you not to stop liking something…

It really saddens me that everything in this game is being analyzed through some sort of min/maxing lens. It’s not just Kotaku. Unless a seasonal event or new bug type brings with it a new get rich scheme, it gets bashed as a waste of time. In an entire game about slowing down and appreciating the changes that come…

To say that it was worth it is a gross understatement. It’s some of the most generous DLC I’ve ever seen. Five new characters. Five new stages. A ton of new spirit battles. And a crap ton of new music.

perhaps Nintendo’s reluctance revolves around a fear of creating a divide between casual and competitive players

Can’t say for sure. By a landslide the longest part of game development is the planning phase and building the initial tools.
Making the actual game doesn’t take nearly as long, so if all iterations are built in the same engine with the same tools, we might see them coming out more quickly than everyone thinks.

lol really? How hard is it to set yourself a reminder the day before the renewal? If you’re too lazy for that, then oh no, it’s a whopping $5. I guarantee you could use the support site and get an automatic refund if you requested it. Literally no reason to not give it a shot other than not owning an iOS device, or…

There are a number of very good games on mobile, but I agree with you that almost all of them have the ‘kill some time’ mindset about most of them, which does make sense, as mobile phones have evolved to become a device to take the place of pulling out a book or whatnot. Most of the games made for such devices are…

You’re correct in that you can do either on both versions. The difference is incentives though. The two options are not equally difficult. I mean, it’s entirely possible to level to 60 doing nothing but killing boars in classic. You can skip every quest, every dungeon, every elite boss group quest, etc. Is it easy?…