Heather, I am so happy I read this. Not only do I 100% agree, but now I don’t have to feel so alone on this!

I even heard some went to Carbine, which made that cool-and-immediately-killed sci-fi MMO, Wildstar.

Not exactly - as much as I like Metroid and the Prime series, the franchise tends to be their under-performer. Now couple that with all the time and effort of making a Wii game go on Switch (not just with creating emulation, but reworking from the ground up if needed, new assets if they don’t have good textures,…

It’s pretty pricey, even used.

down and X on the Playstation 4

And if these marks are like that (some are found only past a tough boss, some become impossible to find after certain story beats), that would be a bad way to give incentive to Easy mode players to do more in their playthrough.

Time consuming tasks that can be considered more a chore than a fun time can also detract from the experience one would expect of “easy”.

I don’t think someone having to find more or all of things in a world and take photos of them as some Herculean task that’s punishing them for not being ‘hardcore’ enough.

I think the bigger story here is that Breath of the Wild, a launch game on the Switch, is still showing up in top 20 lists almost 2 years after its release.

You could play all 532 Kingdom Hearts games leading up to 3, and still be completely lost.

It’s so dang good! The construction is incredibly well thought out, and makes Namco Museum, Ikaruga, and SNK 40th all really nice in handheld.

At first, this bewildered me. Smash, a family-friendly Nintendo game that doesn’t even have blood, felt like a strange and incongruous context for that sort of wanton insult.

same - I really enjoy the combat stuff in the series but the story is about as comprehensible as our tax codes...

Paper Jam came after Sticker Star and was much, much better.

Already sold out -_-

Already sold out -_-

I feel like Double Fine was a flashpoint for this new kind of attitude. That Gamers felt that EA ‘ruined’ them and they going independent was a complete and utter triumph...only to see Broken Age broken into two parts, delays, issues with budgets, etc. hit them hard.

(I don’t think it’ll ever put GameCube games on the service, though. There’s far too much money to be made doing “HD remasters” of those games and selling them for full price.)

I feel like the issue in XIII is the class switching was very limited and constricted, offering very little in terms of strategy. Then, there was the inclusion of ‘you can pick your own actions’ hamstrung by the fact that combat went so fast, trying to pick actions versus using ‘auto’ and getting the right result…

Now watch: when Destiny continues to still be Destiny, and Gamers no longer get to blame Big Bad Evil Publisher as being the sole source for all bad choices surrounding it, what will said Gamers do? Who will they blame and slather hate on?

And Final Fantasy VIII is still ignored.