Except that it isn’t even rudimentary when children younger than us, by your own admission, can speed through it with no effort. Complexity by definition means that the puzzles should be intricate, and a puzzle that can be done by a first-time child player in less than thirty seconds is, by definition, not complex.…

So people hate do-gooders because the haters are inherently selfish and jealous? Thanks for confirming what we’ve known for centuries already, if not longer.

Or, you know,  you could be intelligent and patient and start tracking prices ahead of time, or even when you decide to start looking for something and just wait to get it. Even better, you could just not procrastinate Christmas shopping until the last month before winter.

I’m sorry, but I don’t see it. Those places in RBY were incredibly simple mazes that only seemed complex because the screen resolution was so low compared to later games and tilesets were so limited that it was easy to get lost. I also don’t generally see simple block-moving puzzles as anything more than busywork, and…

Simpler over time? That’s some high-octane revisionism you’re smoking there. Pokemon is as simple as it’s always been; the only things changed for better or worse are generally mindless time-wasters. EXP Share cuts back on easy wild grinding. Bottle Caps make it easier for people to compete in ranked online matches.…

I actually kind of doubt that, since it would have been right after the N64 sputtered its way through its existence. Nintendo was (and is) nothing if not cocksure of itself and its designs.

They understand that perfectly. They just don’t care. These are the people who listen when dickheads say on national TV, “trust no one! you are right to be afraid! your freedoms are being taken away!” all while remaining blissfully unaware that they’re just being manipulated by slightly smarter people into giving them…

Um... you must be pretty ignorant, then, and easy to fool.

By definition, a Remaster is taking the same assets and increasing their resolution, adding post-processing effects, and generally just updating existing assets to contemporary standards. A remake is building a new version of the game from the ground up because the old assets are not usable in contemporary standards…

Uhh... you miss the memo? Sword and Shield introduced that feature and it didn’t meaningfully change anything. Besides, even back during Gen 1 it was more common than not to just one-shot everything in your path, so all this does is make it so you don’t have to run back to a Center when the urge to change things up…

What exactly are they inventing that hasn’t been done before? No, really. Please give some examples so I can enjoy watching people tear each and every one apart as having been done before, with references. I would also be interested in these new technologies they’re inventing, and why every other studio isn’t already…

Says the person who can’t even be bothered to capitalize consistently. Rather like criticizing someone for tracking a little mud on a clean floor when you’re wearing shit-encrusted boots and there are godawful-smelling footprints on the ceiling.

Policies that reportedly won’t retrospectively apply to the conduct of CEO Bobby Kotick.

Look, I agree with your sentiment, but if you think it’s not ok to just release a patch to fix it later, you’re in supreme denial. It’s clearly ok for the vast majority of people who keep buying this stuff.

So what you’re saying is that your take was bad and the best you can do to defend it is “this site is bad so i don’t gotta”. Thank you for confirming that you have nothing to say worth listening to.

I think I’ve had my fill of catching Mara, thanks

Excuse me, but are you trying to say that Nintendo fans have historically advocated for DLC? Are you seriously saying that?

Given the fanart I’ve personally been exposed to, I still feel like no one gives a crap about the story of individual Pokemon games and mainly just think characters are cute and/or shippable.

I think the problem is more that you had to be criticized before you included that other side of it. You shouldn’t be surprised when an entirely negative take that leans hard in a bias generates negative reactions.

I'm guessing you slept through the part about evolving virus strains and how vaccines made for one strain don't necessarily have the same suppressive ability on other strains. I'm guessing you didn't graduate cum laude.