Congrats to All! Nother great week in the books! See y'all tomorrow!

I’m just as excited for MP4 as you are, but let's be real - the Switch's momentum is definitely not dependent on a Metroid game. You could say that about the next Pokemon game or a new Zelda, but the Metroid franchise is actually a very modest success compared to Nintendo's core IPs. On top of that, it's just not very…

I’m definitely a fighting game fan, but I just never consistently found these games too enjoyable (they feel stiff to me). I love the detail they put into the characters, cutscenes, etc. but I can’t be bothered to play them much. So like you, I just watch most of it compiled into Youtube vids haha.

I still hold out hope of Frost coming back - even if she didn’t even survive her own ending in the one game she was in.

SNK has been pretty open to their characters appearing in other games, so slightly more possible now than ever before, but it’s hard to put any trust in Capcom’s fighting game division at the moment.

What’s the chances of CVS3 happening?

I mean, great for him? I won’t feel sorry if he gets another ban after being warned once that abusing alcohol on a stream violates the terms and conditions. Even if his first violation was a joke. But I guess he’s allowed to throw his stream into the metaphorical gutter.

This is absolutely stomach-turning. Any time someone tells me “rape culture” doesn’t exist (and yes, I know, “well, actually” brigade, she wasn’t raped in this instance), I point to shit like this; a woman can be assaulted—in the US, Japan, or anywhere else—and the onus inevitably comes back to her, even if her…

The English VO of 12 is one of the best parts of it next to the music and world building. Fran and Balthier were every reason to play that game turned up.

Guess it’s just another one of those days that I’m embarrassed of the culture surrounding my primary hobby. What is wrong with people?

Tetris Effect being one of the best games of the year. We needed a new Tetris game like we needed “Mortal Engines” (we didn’t), but what a phenomenal game it is. Who knew the best way to liven up Tetris was to give it a Lumines-style makeover? An extraordinary audiovisual experience on top of Tetris, which is…

God I hope I never have to read the name Bowsette ever again... still one of the weirdest media trends of 2018 by far. 

As a giant SF fan, I knew from the start that this pile of garbage has nothing to do with the games I remember from the 90's and early 00's.
It’s all business and no passion at capcom these days, it’s going the way of the konami.

A garbage game gets garbage ads. Neither are worth talking about.

That’s because Detective Pikachu’s Pokemon were designed by professional artists with a lot of experience in both Pokemons design and converting 2D figures into realistic models!

This happens to be my field of work too. It takes a lot of iterations to find a good balance between realistic 3D models and cartoon figures,…

‘Made by the creators of the original Fallout’ I felt that sucker punch from here, dayum!

It’s just too bad that these games never actually deliver on any sort of meaningful deep story or characters, it’s always just goofy over the top anachronistic action set to the backdrop of a serious issue.

I want this one to be different but I highly doubt it will be.

It never makes sense how companies that suddenly get a lottery ticket somehow DECREASE their community efforts. Are they allergic to hiring new people? I mean, sure, hiring someone just to work on a free community project is pretty insane, but hiring a new team to work on other IPs, traditional and profitable but…

“Everyone disband out of frustration”

That’s the mentality now thanks to these tools. I’ve seen makeshift groups in Vanilla all the time. And you know what? We’d still finish the god damn thing. Most people in the group had already invested around 30 minutes to make the group and travel to the dungeon. They were not…