Probably? Possibly, at least. But a number of fans of the old ‘Metroidvannia’ style games, like myself, are worried that even if we get a new Metroid, it will be more of a shooter than a side-scrolling action-platformer.

That looks fantastic! Makes me want a 2D Smash Bros game, and increases my desire for a new [”HD”] 2D Metroid game.

Yes. It’s always so infuriating to spend a bunch of time getting everything juuuust right, then once you get into the game world... bam, that massive, glaring, OMG-how-did-I-miss-this error.

The worst is when you don’t really notice until you’ve put several hours into playing the character. And there’s no easy way to…

He really is OP though. Perhaps less so on the consoles, but on PC he’s an absolute beast in the hands of anyone at least good with him. A tank with a VERY hard to avoid, pulling, instant-kill move? That’s bad to begin with, but then he can also self heal (the only Tank who can, and it’s quite potent), and his Ult is…

Control Center has the flags too close, and like no one uses at least half the map (the main room where the control point usually is and the outside walkway). A single charge from Rein or boots from D.Va gets you most of the way between the two flag points. Pair that with a Lucio and a good DPS to help take out…

He’s a great figure, but after having him in hand I have to say that he’s definitely overpriced. He should have been around the price of Hot Rodimus (MP-28) or Ironhide (MP-27).

Still though, if you’re a huge Beast Wars fan, I think he’s worth it.

Personally I started where Dvana suggested— with the first collections of Robots in Disguise and More Than Meets the Eye. The comics are absolutely fantastic, and that starting point sets you up with, basically, the end of The War and the beginning of the post-war stuff. Which is what I was most interested in. If…

Yes! Roy, Lyn, and Ike are all great characters! I mean, I loved Awakening (Fates less so), but the older games were great too. I’m really glad that the top-ranks aren’t just filled with characters from the recent titles.

Mostly DOTA2, I believe. Sometimes other MOBAs, Hearthstone, or Overwatch.

Was originally mostly about TF2, IIRC.

It’s not hard to understand, most of the time, even though I don’t play or follow most of those games.

To be tolerant of an ideal/belief that is inherently intolerant, is to allow intolerance.

You have to be intolerant somewhere, either in allowing a group to be so, or in the suppression of them. Better the latter, I think, in that it benefits the larger whole.

It’s sort of like killing a murderer is still [morally, if…

The idea that tolerance should include being tolerant of intolerance itself is very prevalent, for some reason, despite being obviously contradictory when you think about it.

It’s where the idea that people should be “free” to spread lies and hate comes from. And the more recent trend of having to be “fair” or “equal”…

There’s no contradiction in that. The idea is that either gender should not play a role in how something is marketed (as seen in “action figures for boy, dolls for girls”) OR things should be marketed to both genders equally (instead of Superheroes largely being marketed ONLY to boys).

The current division is VERY…

It’s been a good while since I watched a 30-min show on TV without fast-forwarding through the commercials, but that’s pretty close AFAIK.

Most half-hour US shows are, what, ~24 minutes? So IIRC you get two or three commercial breaks of just a few minutes each. Plus the credits either squashed or fast-forwarded (or…

Robotech will always be special to me, because it was one of, if not THE, first anime I watched, before I even knew what that was.

That said, Harmony Gold have since been absolute shitgoblins about preventing the Macross franchise (of which I’m a big fan) from getting any US releases.

As a guy, Blizz has screwed up or just not explored so many cool characters. I’m not actually sure if it’s disproportionately more towards the ladies or not, but it’s so bad.

I mean, it seems like it’s more female characters getting screwed, but that might just be because on the whole I like more of Blizz’s female…

That’s great, but it’s more to the point that she’s able to enjoy the games despite them not actively marketing to her. It does nothing to discount that those games almost exclusively court young men as their audience. Great to hear that your daughter has overcome that, though! She should play what she enjoys, not…

Indeed. I’m thinking troll. Because every woman gamer I know well enough to talk about such things absolutely has at least one big story about getting shit for playing video games. Especially “boy games”.

See also: Comics, Superheroes, even sports. Basically anything that’s ‘traditionally’ a “guy thing”.

I mean, heck,…

$60 is the MSRP, the price suggested by the manufacturer. You can find various controllers for less from various retailers, but the same should be true for the Switch, in the future.

Btw, finding a $40 XBox 360 controller is not the same as finding a $40 official Xbone controller.

Been gaming since I could hit the buttons on a controller. First console I had was the NES, followed by the SEGA Genesis. The JoyCons are just fine. Which I say from having personally used them at the NYC Switch event.

You can have them one in each hand like the Wiimote & Nunchuck combo, only with a full set of…

“- Gets 3 hours game time on battery (which will probably be optimistic)“
Isn’t that the minimum? Plus the Switch should really be looked at like a laptop— you generally want to have it plugged in. It’s portable, not mobile.

“- Can’t even output 1080/30, much less 1080/60"
While not every game will run at max settings, I…