I’m kinda betting that Sword and Shield won’t get a rerelease since one of the perks of having the game on a bigger console is how much easier and justifiable it is to keep updating the game. If they want to add more Pokemon they always have the option to do so down the line (or have special limited events a la…

I thought maybe this article might mention Poison, a character who’s kind of in a weird place when it comes to transgender representation (or lack of representation since the canon seems muddled).

It’s times like these I remember how weirdly dystopian Steam is. “Buy more games so you can win this cute metagame to be entered into a lottery to win more games” and the unintended ramifications for both developers and customers is something I’d expect out of a too-on-the-nose cyberpunk setting.

This is the second (??) time they’ve used a different graphics style for their cinematics and I kind of wish that was the style of the game proper? Apex doesn’t look bad per se, but those cinematics ooze more personality!

Probably Arena or Mythic Dungeon. It’s team-based PvP or PvE, which is probably what she meant by the “Oh, you got carried” comment.

There’s a lot of other variables at play, but this isn’t going to happen since Trump is up for election next year. The time and effort to move the entirety of your production to another country probably isn’t worth it if a new guy is going to come in and try to end this dumb trade war fairly soon.

This is kind of the same feeling I’m having right now, but as someone who has only ever heard the plot summery, some out-of-context clips, and a lot of fan ravings. I have a Netflix subscription, I kinda want to see it, but I’m 99% sure I’ll probably not like it. Last time I had that premonition it was for Devilman…

I understand that in the city things are going to be more expensive in general (both in terms of material and manpower), but if your charging roughly three time the national average for rent the problem isn’t maintenance and upkeep costs.

Yeah I think the major difference between one-and-done and live service games is that you know going in that you’re paying for the promise of a bigger and better game down the line. You buy something like Sea of Thieves or Overwatch or whatever because you know they’re going to keep updating the game with more stuff…

I mean, other tags include “dragons”, “spelling”, and “capitalism” so I think it's less about genre and more about content.

Yeah, rangers are a weird class. They’re not quite fighters, not quite druids, and not quite rogues. You either have to have a really solid or silly build to make them fun.

And America is also a lot more individualistic. It’s like the “frontier spirit” or whatever where people pride themselves on being more self-sufficient.

I hope the animal happiness systems are a little less strict than the Zoo Tycoon series. I’d spend SO much time on animal happiness because Mr. Lion was not content unless there were exactly 5 rocks, 7 trees, and 10% desert tiles in his cage. And don’t get me started on the penguins! They’d breed until their pen was…

The big difference for me was the exclusion of Portrait Ghosts, those one-of-a-kind ghosts that would hang out in one room and behaved like a mini-boss or a puzzle. Like one was a ghost playing billiards and you’d have to shoot the pool balls at him. Another was a Slimer and you had to suck up his food and waiters…

I'm in kind of the same boat. I didn't grow up on the old CRPGs so a lot of the systems felt pretty clunky and outdated (realtime with pause is my gaming kryptonite apparently). It'll be really good to see Obsidian's take on a modern game.

I didn’t think the problem with Dark Moon was the lack of bosses or puzzles, but the lack of interesting encounters. The original Luigi’s Mansion had a lot of unique ghosts that were basically their own puzzles you had to figure out to suck them up. Dark Moon had an expanded roster of normal ghosts, but you sucked…

It’s called the Dead Body Holding Cell. It’s spooky as heck.

Bethesda RPGs are a gold mine for this type of thing. Train car head man. A secret dungeon dead NPCs teleport to and resurrected so they’re corpses don’t take up memory. Making your character tiny in Fallout 3's baby tutorial. Chests clipped through the walls where you can’t get them so vendor NPCs can keep their…

I think maybe my favorite is how in the original Phoenix Wright trilogy, some returning characters had the same sprites but with slight costume changes. My favorite was Winston Payne, because he always came back with a wilder hairdo (which would get blown off by the end of the case).

Which is weird because I clearly remember people complaining about the lack of voice acting in some of the early games, especially the first Lego Batman game (because it was hard to tell what was going on since it was their first game not based on a preexisting plot or something).