A great article on one of the most intelligent, charming, and life-affirming games I’ve seen in a really long time.

Or if he could just grab lucio in one hand and squish him to death!

I’d love to see him get some kind of secondary fire.

Big fan of the psychology of this - I think you hit the nail on the head. It will make D.Va players more consistent instead of... well... big divas.

Or caution tape to carelessly barrel through.

That’s why what people have been saying for nearly 20 years. Snooze.

No potions?!?! That is hard.

You’re talking about the gamergaters, ok

Didn’t you read it? They could be subject to fines or imprisonment.

The Last of Us’ multiplayer managed to be as equally devastating and pathos-filled as its campaign. It’s quite a feat for a AAA game to add gravitas to multiplayer deathmatches, but it’s been done flawlessly before.

The last “arcade brawl” cut everyone’a cooldowns in half, so of course Ana could theoretically put you back to sleep a second after you woke up. The counter to this is playing Reaper and entering wraith mode every couple of seconds, or just spamming with any other character who happened to get a ridiculous OP with the…

Her up-B changed from the whip to the rocket-heel-roundhouse thing. It’s a much better move but yeah those shoes suck.

So - I’m normally a hardcore advocate of Mother 2's soundtrack, but that first DK Country 2 track you posted sounds like the best of Earthbound early and late-game ambience with a sick-as-hell beat. Nice.

I think games criticism is VERY important, especially in games like Bioshock/System Shock. This author is not damning any one way of making a game. Just comparing them. We need to be able to have a conversation about games in this way if we are ever going to learn how to make better ones, or at least ones still worth…

Also, Nintendo saved the entire video game industry in the 80's by putting quality of games before quantity of games. There is little doubt in my mind that mobile gaming - which epitomizes quantity over quality - is not as big of a threat to Nintendo’s appeal as you might think.

This is verbatim what everyone said about Nintendo after the SNES and GameCube. Every 10 years they always seem to do something incredible and simple that makes them a necessity. Don't understand the biters.

I don't understand what you expect from Nintendo - the Wii was literally the greatest gimmick of all time. The company built its fortune on gimmicks for over a century.

In Earthbound/Mother 2, there's an apartment building that asks you a yes or no question that is also a Beatles pun. Also there is a literal yellow submarine.

What makes this joke stand out is the female perspective, not that the setup is the same. Not really stealing if she’s improving/ riffing on something that’s been on urban dictionary for years. Male comedians do the same.

Lol this post is so angry, and antsy. It’s written with such defeat, “I get that it’s an important issue, but fucking stop.”