I’ve still got a 1080p one that I bought nearly 6 years ago. Given that I mostly use it for watching comfort-shows on Netflix or playing games, and I don’t have any 4k consoles, it honestly still looks great. And from the 4k sets I’ve seen in stores, it doesn’t make *that* much difference even when you do have the…

Anybody else keep waiting for the bass to drop?

[sees Lightning in the header image]

“...that must be one of the sequels”

I don’t have an Xbox One, so I’ve been having an absolute blast with this. Beyond nostalgia, the game really does hold up. I was worried that mouse/keyboard wouldn’t feel right on a designed-for-consoles-shooter and that using a gamepad would put you at a disadvantage, but I was wrong on both accounts. It’s a great…

This is how I feel about literally every Korok in Breath of the Wild

I thought you were talking about the first movie with Mewtwo

The bigger problem will always be that they’re asking people to purchase $60 games within the bounds of a service that could disappear overnight. And the only benefit you get for that is... a low cost of entry? Except not really, because you still have to purchase $129 of hardware up-front. The value-proposition just…

Maybe I’m weird, but I *always* save manually before ending any play session, even if I’d just seen an autosave animation in the corner. I also sort of enjoy the ritual of “starting up” a game for real whenever I next sit down to play - seeing the title screen, etc. - so I often manually kill games after manually…

Except that the 95% *have* no moral views/vision. So the 5% become the vocal minority.

Capitalism demands the pursuit of shareholders’ interests, which is usually but not always just money. So if 5% of their shareholders are an extension of the Chinese regime, that does make a difference.

Reminder that Tencent (the Chinese state-controlled video game/media giant) owns 5% of Activision.

More and more games have started doing this, and for shooters it just doesn’t make any sense at all. I wonder if they’ll be forced to backtrack eventually or if this is the new norm.

Whenever I see the menus for a game like this, my base reaction is just to feel exhausted. There’s so much *stuff* in there for the player to just casually care about. I don’t even want to start a game with that much stuff.

Let me know when it’s on Switch and I will play the h*ck out of it.

The human race has collectively jumped the shark

Every time I discover a new, interesting spot in Breath of the Wild only to have it reduced to a Korok under a rock, I bonk it on the head with the rock out of protest.

I keep wanting to like mobile games, but I think I just don’t. Even the very best ones feel like pleasant distractions instead of something I want to go out of my way to spend time doing.

If I were him I’d just peace-out from the internet altogether. I don’t think he’s really a bad person. Not a great person, mind you, just a guy who’s made a lot of dumb videos on the internet. But the people he attracts are just... a whole load of yikes. He’s like a human Pepe. I don’t know what else there is to do…

There are exceptions for sure; it’s more just that Nintendo has the only franchises that I’m emotionally invested in for their own sake, and they’re the only ones continuing to have game design that’s head-and-shoulders above everyone else. The playing field when it comes to game design is much more level between the…

Honestly it’s getting to where I’m just over AAA games as a whole (except Nintendo, for now). All they really have over indies at this point are 1) far more content than most people can actually get through, and 2) graphical detail that’s way past the point where I stop caring about it. Add in the $60 price tag and…