This sucks. If you ever played this game single player it took *forever* to get the coins to get new courses. Playing online showered you with coins, suggesting the game was balanced to force you to participate in online activities (even if were the only one playing) . If you buy this game after the online modes are…

Well, no. It’s not serious. It’s a fun blip to keep the audience engaged while everyone who works on the site is on vacation. 

Metal Gear Solid 2 for the PS2. I remember in the PS2 days, everybody complained about unskippable cutscenes. I never skipped cutscenes, even when a game’s cutscenes were atrocious. Yes, it was annoying to have a checkpoint before a cutscene so when you died you had to watch it over and over again. But the bane of my…

I had no idea people played “mains” in fighting games. I had characters I was best at but when I was a teen playing fighting games we made an effort to play everyone and then ended our session with best character versus best character.

You know, this blows my mind. I play Overwatch and average of three hours a week, and I’m on PS4. I would say only 1 in 10 matches in Quickplay has anyone using Microphones at all. Now granted, that’s Quick Play, but my experience in Comp (about three hours total— I found it too stressful) wasn’t *that* different.

When…

I don’t even use a bike mount. I leave my phone on in the pocket of my backpack and wear headphones but turn off the music. I listen to podcasts, and when I hear the sound of a Pokemon nearby, I stop and check. For shorter rides I don’t even bother with the backpack, I just stick it in a pocket and slide it out and…

On the NES version my friend and I, sick of this game and having already moved on to the SNES, plugged in the Game Genie and got all the way to the Mouser boss and could not continue. We don't know why, but even cheating we were unable to put a dent in its health. I don't know how it's possible to beat this game.

Awesome! Just want you to know that I look forward to Worth Reading, and when I realize it’s Saturday or Sunday and I didn’t see it, I’ll go a Google search to see if I missed it. It’s been a while of me checking and getting nothing.

Listen, I know it’s cliche to jump in the comment section on Sunday Comics and complain that none of them are funny anymore, but week after week I read them and think the same thing, and I am amazed nobody else says this: I hate the way Penny Arcade looks nowadays. I mean, look at that last panel. Look at it. I…

THIS HAPPENED TO ME AT THE END OF THE GAME!! I had never used any Stealth boys during the entire game and had like, 20 of them, so when a character offered me one to help with one of the final missions, I realized, oh hey, I could probably use them through the entire thing. And I did, completely successfully, until…

What kills this game for me is the music. I have it for PS4, and I am sure it’s the same for the PC: It’s this ambient, absolutely aimless nonsense, and I cannot understand who would want to play a game that can get this fast paced with this music for meditation. Why can’t I have the option to hear remixes of the…

I went to play Street Fighter 4 on-line. It was one of my first fights on-line, and my rank was clearly 0 or 1, or whatever the beginning rank is. One of my first fights was with someone ranked level 5. I could hear him on mic. Before the round he was screaming with such anger that he kept being matched up with these…

I’ve never had anything particularly egregious, but I do remember back before the Dreamcast launched, this particular Gamestop employee wanted to get me to pre-order, and would just outright lie about things that were going to come to the Dreamcast. The one that sticks out the most is him saying “Final Fantasies 10,…

Hey Patrick? I’ve missed the last couple Worth Readings when they’re posted because they haven’t been titled “Worth Reading”. Is there any way we can return to that? Worth Reading: and then the title? Because as it is I’ve been on Saturday thinking, did Patrick post a Worth Reading? And then doing a site search and…

Mine aren’t crazy but:

It took me a bit, but I realized what I don’t like about the new presentation. It’s not the actual band singing the song. It’s distracting. In the previous games, the band was cartoony, so there was a disconnect— it didn’t have to be the original band making the music because it’s some silly cartoon characters I put…

I'm so, so glad that the silent protagonist trope is going the way of the dodo, because it has bothered me ever since Ocarina of Time. Now, obviously I don't want Link— or any game starring a character that used to be silent to suddenly start talking. But essentially in every single game with a plot in it, a question…

One thing that never gets addressed about this particular topic: The American police force has become bloated way beyond their capacity to react to reasonable threats.

I want to ask: How many GTAs have you played? Because I've played all of them, and I'm exactly like you— I can't be bothered with the senseless violence. GTA3? So many hours just running around trying to cause chaos. I'd do a mission, then immediately see how long I could last without dying, seeing how many stars I…

I always assumed for the show floor or press demos they just have fatalities set to "high punch" or something like that so people could see them, seeing as how they're a huge selling point. Do they not do that when you play it at, say, the E3 booth?