I read this during lunch and tried to think long and hard about any games this decade I played that felt unfairly put upon by the majority opinion. All I have to show for this exercise is God of War Ascension. Was it a masterpiece? Well, of course not. Was it the terribly banal, unnecessary sequel that it continues to…

I think you’re missing the point if you are looking for harder trivia out of Jeopardy. They construct all of their questions like this. The people who come on the show aren’t just unending fountains of knowledge that know the answer to even the most banal prompts; they are just especially smart individuals with basic…

To an extent, I fully agree. This generation of consoles has seen just about every game receive regular updates to the point that it is nigh impossible to start a game without having to wait for it to download the latest patch. The relative infrequency of this on the Switch is part of what has made that platform so…

It wasn’t just me?

It sounds bad when they announce this, but if you actually think about it it makes sense. They have very few first-party games left to release, and getting third-parties to play ball when 16-bit games are for sale elsewhere on the store isn’t going to be easy. If they went monthly, they could easily be out of content…

Frankly, I think people just sound dumb when they say that the streaming future is equally expensive as cable. At minimum, you’re looking at $50 for a bare-minimum quality cable package, or somewhere north of $100 if you want to watch “everything”. Streaming services, meanwhile, are usually around $10 a pop.

I haven’t had to delete games, but I sure have had to go through a number of MicroSD cards to keep it that way. When I bought the system, I got a 32GB MicroSD. I’ve always deleted games before, so who needs more space than 64GB between external and internal storage? That lasted about three months, and then I had to…

The price of games should go up, but unfortunately wages haven’t exactly increased with inflation either so it’s hard for me to earnestly suggest a permanent hike to something like $80.

Personally, I’d be much happier just going back to a schedule with more releases of a smaller size. The exponential increase in the…

Do what you will to Competitive Play, but I still don’t understand what the purpose of Quick Play is if they are just going to continue to make it largely the same as Competitive Play.

I’m going to have to respectfully disagree about “all of them” being pretty good over the past few years. Maybe it’s all of the gray hairs I’ve accumulated, but most of the recent traditional entries have just made me long to play Super Star for the 800th time.

That said, I thought Triple Deluxe and Planet Robobot…

I didn’t think Bohemian Rhapsody deserved a nomination for Best Picture, but “SNL-grade performance”? That seems like a bit of an overstatement.

Yes, it is very St. Louis to bandwagon on a winning team. It’s just a shame they couldn’t show up for the 17 years between titles to keep them around for this one.

The face mask on Jared Goff in the 4th quarter would have set the Rams up with first and goal from the 2. Instead, they had to settle for a field goal. Don’t tell me none of the other calls wouldn’t have “directly changed the outcome.”

If the Rams get a touchdown there instead of just a field goal, the Saints aren’t…

Listen, fella. Aaron Donald gets held on nearly every play. Don’t cry to me about the Cowboys “never getting calls.”

I would love to, but the way that those old Apple earbuds (w/ mic) are wired makes it impossible to use them for chat on the PS4. It has this terrible hum that drowns at every other sound. 

So hostile. Calm down.

I hate to be that guy, but I’m not sure South Park has ever offered up a metaphor that is much as a softball in terms of analysis as the bit about giving up RDR2 and Soy Sauce. The entire plot with Stan’s grandpa was Matt and Tre deliberately beating you over the head with the notion that past generations wouldn’t…

That’s not how value works. Value is an amount agreed upon between consumers and the companies selling goods. Those old games don’t just magically lose value because they are old; they only lose value if everyone agrees that they are worthless and stops paying for them.

Also, being reproduced “voluntarily, for free”…

Try telling collectors that these games just aren’t worth much money any more. $10 for Earthbound is an absolute steal, as was the $10-12 prices for many of the N64 games that tend to go for much more.

I won’t touch on the emulation of the VC, but calling it overpriced is dubious at best. Certainly some games’ value benefitted from their umbrella pricing ($5 for NES, $8 for SNES...), but there were few more affordable, legal ways to play Nintendo’s back catalog.