“... it’s become clear that getting everything without opening your wallet is extremely difficult, and the whole thing feels like a scheme to get players to spend.”

No to your nos. My money is just as green as yours and it’s cheaper and easier to eat out than cook at home—THANKS BULLSHIT BACKWARDS ECONOMY!

For serious. I’m a new parent with a 3 month old. I’ve been to a couple restaurants or otherwise out shopping at places that didn’t have diaper stations in the restrooms, so I took my kid outside and changed him in my car.

Same for when he gets fussy in a restaurant—time to get up and go for a walk outside, because…

Alright, gut reaction passed...

Judging by personal experience: I’m guessing this letter writer is either a junior in high school or an art student. (Edit: Sorry, “fading memory of university,” former art student.)

I’m with you. I start getting depressed in February/March because there’s too much daylight. I actually feel best between late October and early February when it’s cold and dark.

This is such a dickish comment that I want to call you out as a troll over it... and yet, at the same time... I can’t help but agree with you.  :|

They could probably do a Chain Chomp reskin/“Shadow Fighter” version of Piranha Plant pretty easily.

Right, the real hurdle would be dealing with Microsoft’s lawyers to make the agreement. I’m fairly certain that process is more... in depth... than any of the other third parties, especially since they all publish games for Nintendo.

I was a kid in the 80s and a teen in the 90s. We did that before The Internet was an excuse.

... How do you “HD Remaster” a sprite-based game?

I still don’t see why people expected Banjo-Kazooie to be a thing, since Microsoft owns the rights to them now.

I know what I want. I ain’t even sorry. :P

Bandai Namco!? That’s who publishes anime fighters! GOKU CONFIRMED.

I legit want to dress as Fat Slenderman now.

Sweet, dibs on the orange controller and Red Link!

Definitely... but only like in a way that benefits mankind with humor instead of being someone who repeatedly runs a company into the ground and then runs for president as a publicity stunt and accidentally gets elected.

I agree that Coolboarders 2 is a head-scratching decision (best guess here: they couldn’t get the license to use Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 and went with the closest thing to it they could)... but otherwise, it’s got a good balance of different game genres.

Regarding Shenmue III, Sony is acting as a publisher for that title, similar to the recent Spider-Man game. Which is bullshit as far as I’m concerned, but whaddayagonnado?  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Why does Square keep re-releasing the same Kingdom Hearts games over and over on PS4 when they could be making more money porting those games over to the other consoles that will also be getting KH3 (Xbox at launch, Switch later)?