It sucks, but I guess it beats the alternative...

Wow that’s brutal. Even in the original Lost Levels you could get infinite lives on like 1-1, which told me everything I needed to know about what I was in for. NOT having the Lost Levels 1-1 to farm lives and with such a small store of 1-up mushrooms is a troll of the highest order.

Obviously, nothing is hard for this person.

As an addendum to your great point. I love the naivete of such a claim.

I am often surprised people have a different take than this one. Like you might very well be right in a narrow singular view of the world, but if it were ACTUALLY true that we can’t be manipulated and everyone is 100% in control and responsible for their own actions, then you’ve just put the lie to every highly…

IDK, the Wii was one of the sleekest products, launches, and marketing plans in gaming history at least. Do we not remember random Japanese guys showing up everywhere saying “Wii would like to play.” The small, relatively simple case of the Wii and its crazy pulsing blue light. The hyped motion controls promising…

I’d need to look into the numbers, but I’ve heard this as a theory for why this current cycle has been so long. The disparity happened a bit by chance like they all do, but then a few too many Eastern teams sucked at once and it’s become hard for any one Eastern team to fail consistently enough versus other terrible…

We want OUR players to be great. And measure that by the number of titles they get US...

I mean I’m old enough to be there when people realized that just about every commercial for a board game had a white boy shout out “I win!” It being the late 80's and the internet wasn’t quite the place it is now, people simply got rightly chided for it, and things are different now.

Huh, sounds like a fascinating game design that didn’t work out the execution. The meteor angle is interesting, though the doomsday I find more interesting is a comet colliding with the moon. So no Armageddon style impacts, but a steady rain of...rain. The problem being that a comet can have more water in it than all…

I’m not sure if you intended it or not, but it’s Lonzo Ball that is getting drafted, and presumably making that money.

Really any politically complex setting. A Mechwarrior game focused on the REAL powers of the universe would be fun. Being able to send a black than black spy team to compromise a recalcitrant underling or give a curt nod to the right person to unleash a real deal ninja clan to kill the war leader of...let’s say the…

Oh, I had assumed that was WHY such a massive undertaking involving multiple alien species started off pretty much on fire. Huh, I guess I’ll have to play to figure out why so many things went wrong with the Initiative.

In better hands, the story of an aging 1930's pulp action hero trying to navigate the sci-fi governmental paranoia of the 1950's could have been fascinating. Both on how he is a relic of a bygone, simpler time, and how the new era kinda sucks. Especially with a nod to the aging actor (and audience) in a newer era of…

It’s a weird thing with loot. You jump through some insane hoops to get it, but often by the time you do, you are either at the end of the game and so don’t really get to enjoy the fruits of your labors, or other things you did to get there have already basically made you a god in the game.

Until the very last movie made that difficult, I always assumed Skynet won. We only ever had the word of killer robots and a brainwashed soldier with PTSD that humanity won. My theory being Skynet always won (and going by the track record of success in the modern day, outside killing Connors seemed pretty good) and…

It’s a Legend, so I’ve always thought the games were retellings outside the obvious sequels and things like Link’s Awakening that clearly needs a standard Zelda game before it.

Oh yeah. I think there was bathtime Megatron and he was talking to his minions and its gaze shifted. Just a hilarious thing, especially given the costs of CGI at the time.

Isn’t that more comic Megatron then? Bayformer Megs makes some talk about caring for his people, but then gets dozens of no named Decepticons killed.

I liked how his T-rex head was animated. It’s staring at Megatron as he is brushing its teeth.