Have you played the recent Metroid 2 remake on 3DS? It’s pretty excellent.

True enough. It’d be great if Zero Mission was a bit more accessible now. I genuinely don’t know where to find my old GBA, and I think I gave my DS to a friend when I got a 3DS. 

Feel free to call me a wuss or whatever, but what Metroid needs, IMO, is a friggin’ MAP. I’ve tried to play it a few times, and it’s not fun. Way, way, WAY too easy to get lost - largely because everything looks the same.

I know it’s not likely to fuel a million Tumblrs, but how can you not love Pharah’s Enchanted Armor skin? I’ve been rocking Possessed since the first Halloween event, and I think it’s finally been unseated. 

I’m sure banks will happily accept mortgage payments drawn on ‘exposure’ and ‘gamer goodwill’, right?

Well... I’d probably buy Borderlands 2 on Switch. 

At the risk of sounding like I’m pinning blame here, Borderlands 1 and 2 were Gearbox, while the lion’s share of development on the Pre-Sequel was 2K Melbourne, I think.

Sure, when you’re just falling. But when you’re diving towards the ground, face first, and can land with enough force that the shockwave knocks any bad guys within 15 feet to the ground, it’s pretty clear that we’re beyond plausibility.

I’ve been replaying the Arkham games lately, and one of the best parts of it is not having to worry about dying because I fell off some random building I’m climbing trying to find a Riddler trophy.

Every one of those WiiSports songs sounds like it should be playing at the Chao Garden In Sonic Adventure.

I liked a lot about Pre-Sequel - the story was fine if, by necessity, non-essential, the characters were interesting, and Cryo weapons were a great addition.

If this was a real MMO, Emilie would show up to the dungeon run 45 minutes late, with no consumables (I thought the guild provided flasks!), and not remembering that she’d swapped specs for PVPing until after you pulled the first boss.

Man I loved Skies of Arcadia. Exploring and finding the discoveries was a blast (and I thought it was kind of funny that you couldn’t actually get credit for discovering the world was round, since your rival would take credit for it while you were stuck in Main Plot Hell), and I loved loved loved the ship battles. 

“Goodwill from gamers” will buy you a cup of coffee, if you also have $2 on you.

Man. That’s the good stuff there. I had to read this twice to realize it wasn’t real.

Because what usually happened is it asked to install the update and you were busy so you clicked ‘Install Later’ and then it was later, you were still playing a game, there was another popup which you didn’t because of your game, and it timed out and started installing because it assumed you weren’t around.

All things considered, at this point I’d say anything Rocksteady does is a day one purchase for me. 

I’ll be honest, this line

So to be clear, what’s immersion breaking in a historical game ISN’T single soldiers wiping out entire brigades of enemies, surviving RPGs to the face, respawning after death, fighting the same battle over and over, zombies, health packs, being able to pilot any enemy or friendly vehicle you find without any training, …

This is a genuinely cool feature. It’d be great if they’d implement it in older models as well - my mom got my dad an Apple Watch last year, and I’d absolutely be telling him to turn this feature on if he had access to it on his older model.