The Vita failed for the same reason most other non-Nintendo failed.

As the owner of both a Wii U and a Vita, I have no regrets about buying either one. Are they the best systems? No. Did I get my money’s worth out of them? Absolutely.

Part of that is because the two series have very different styles.

Agreed. While you’re the camp it should act like everyone’s in the active party all at once. It’s very annoying having to swap people out just to level them up, or to swap items between characters.

Time will tell whether the latter half of Frieren’s first season will maintain its pace as a thoughtful slice-of-life fantasy series that takes its time to meditate over death and the beauty of life or if those foundations will give way, transforming it into yet another action-centric fantasy anime in an…

That was a very long and winding way of saying “it’s a Bethesda game, you should know what you’re getting into by now.”

Agreed. Isaac was hands down the best and most interesting character in the later seasons.

On normal difficulty, Friends has almost no downsides. Party members might bet mad if you use it on them, but NPCs don’t care in the slightest. It’s crazy OP and there’s no reason not to use it whenever possible.

Cloud of Daggers is hilarious because there’s no saving throw against it. It’s just straight up damage, all the time, every time.

While large, in person events like E3 have been waning even pre-Covid they still have value (IMO.)

Seriously. Not that I expect every game to have every possible accessibility option, but you’d think super basic things like “subtitle font/color” would be standard on a modern AAA game.

This feels like one of those situation where the expectations are so high that no game can possibly live up to that much hype, and even if the game is amazing some people will still be disappointed that it wasn’t somehow even better.

How does one run out of Theives’ Tools? They’re freaking everywhere.

“because many lifeless bodies overlap each other like flesh pasta”, is not a sentence I expected to read today.

I agree that the romance feels artificial. Inclusion is important and I completely understand that ‘everyone wants to bone the MC’ is the simplest and easiest solution, but it does make everything feel less real and more game-like.

Interesting. I’ll have to try that. I’ve been playing with a controller where there’s no keybind for that.

For the love of Bob, please add an “stop moving” button. I’m am so tired of my party members killing themselves walking through MY OWN AOE trying to automatically regroup after combat ends.

It is kind of weird how many normally standard, basic features are missing from this game. That people are looking to mods for things  like “WASD movement” or “remap controller buttons” in a brand new AAA game in 2023 is just insane.

The series is a product of its time. Problem is, that time was 15 years ago. I’m no longer in my 20s so those people who could have been my friends in 2007 now feel like dumb kids, and the readers who are that age now don’t have the same nostalgia factor for all those references from before they were were even born.

There also just wasn’t time for it. In order to fit six books worth of story into a sub-2 hour movie they have to hyper compress the story and cut basically ALL the filler, sub plots, character development, etc.