Worth noting that you might be successful just walking into a local store.
Stopped at my local Best Buy on my lunch break and there were still 5 of them just sitting on the shelf.

Worth noting that you might be successful just walking into a local store.
Stopped at my local Best Buy on my lunch…

The biggest incentive they have is more or less preventing their own players from jumping ship to a competitor’s system. We’re at the stage in this console cycle where people more or less own the systems they’re going to own, but if you were a PS4 owner, and you had a bunch of friends who were scattered across XBoxOne…

Brute Justice is good, but Alexander (Rise) is still my favorite from that whole raid series.
Soken’s Primal soundtracks are always the best though. Shiva (Oblivion) is one of my favorites, and [Name redacted for spoilers] from the latest patch is pretty amazing too.

Am I the only one who thinks the Battle Pass / Event Pass is kind of dumb?

I guess if it were the only game I was playing that would be one thing, but it just seems like a bad deal to pay for the privilege of unlocking things, but then never getting some of the stuff I potentially paid for if I don’t manage to level up…

Primrose, all the way.

“....Go pleasure yourself” is still my favorite line.

Honestly, I liked their approach to the Splatoon DLC. Difficult enough to be challenging to people who had already mastered the basics, but with an out (Marina’s hacking) for people who just wanted to get through the thing and unlock their outfits and Octoling.

The only thing locked behind completing the whole thing…

So, just like how every pixel art RPG is an “RPG Maker Game”?

This shit is all over the place at Otakon too, but they make it even worse by claiming that some tiny subset of boxes will win you a free PS4 / XboxOne etc.

So then not only are you preying on people that think they’re getting a discount or going to get something worth slightly more than what they paid, but at that…

I guess the question would be, what sort of games did you grow up playing? As someone who grew up with sprite-based RPGs this is exactly the kind of game I want. I think the melding of sprites and pixel tiles with 3D models and lighting looks great, and I’m glad that combat isn’t entirely bogged down in complicated…

That depends on how much you like your story delivered by indirect storytelling. The main Splatoon 2 campaign is just sort of a rehash of the original Splatoon singleplayer, with a vague reason for going through and eventually fighting the final boss.

What the Octo Expansion gives, is more lore than direct story, with…

I fought the final boss of the Octo Expansion last night, and oh boy was that whole ending sequence great. From the moment you realize what you’ve been building toward, the whole story goes dark and off the rails and I loved every bit of it.

There’s no Access program at all currently offered for PlayStation or Switch users.

You know, you would think that despite having their marketing campaign ready to go for a specific point in time, that they would have changed those plans when they realized their barely functional tennis game was going to be going up against Mario Tennis’ release window.

So there’s a bit of noise here about how “exclusivity helps competition” and to some extent that’s true. Platform exclusives like Super Mario Odyssey, Horizon Zero Dawn, Halo 5, etc, all entice consumers to choose your platform over another, or to draw in consumers to become a multi-platform owner, so it’s worth it…

I’m all for this. It looks like a fun little diversion that will hold me over until the main game releases next year, AND it makes the things I’ve done in Pokemon Go relevant.

I find the joy-cons super comfortable to use, in split mode, because my hands and arms can basically resting in whatever position is most comfortable.

It occurs to me that if they wanted to make Star Wars into a fighting game, they should have picked Bushido Blade instead of Tekken. That same “one hit and it’s over” tension because lightsabers.

The wording on the site seems to imply this bundle is meant for people who already have a Switch, and want to add a second to their household. I’m guessing the implication is that they’ll take turns charging.

Failing that, it’s just a USB Type-C connection, so it’s not too hard to find something that will charge it.

The biggest problem with Xenoblade 2's combat is that every single thing is a gigantic HP sponge unless you pull off the Level 3 Blade Combos. So there’s no reason to do anything else in battle other than building up to your specials and triggering them as quickly as possible.

The worst part about Star Ocean is that they have a huge setting to play around in, and every single game ends up with “Someone’s breaking the Prime Directive again, ohohoho”. Like, cool it with the UP3, and stop forcing the party into situations where everyone fights with medieval weapons. Tales has long-since moved…