Mechanically it’s the absolute height of the series. Story and characters and jokes are bad though, yeah.

I sincerely doubt Nintendo honestly cares to try to compete with, compare, or out-do any aspect of Palworld. They and their second-party companies traditionally look inward to innovate (or not) and that’s why in 2023 we still have great games burdened with things like TotK’s laborious inventory screens and armor…

With all due respect, what the fuck are you talking about?

Suit #1: “Darn, that game I ordered them to make didn’t do so well. Guess I’ll resign in disgrace.”
Suit #2: “Here’s $100,000,000.”
Suit #3: “We’re laying off half the staff. Too bad they didn’t make a better game.”
Suit #2: “What should we try next?”
Suit #4: “How about a full priced game where consumers take part in…

I have made this argument with Soulchads so many times and they always come back with “you need to Git Gud” and “it’s against the developer’s concept” and then sometimes they get into a long-drawn out discussion about how death and rebirth are integral to understanding the games’ worlds.

Yeah I’m gonna go ahead and disagree with a lot of posters here:
This is a completely reasonable take.

I’m going to withhold my personal opinion until I play it, as we all should, but as an adult who grew up on JRPGs I love a good, long one (lol) as much as the next guy, but that means I have to pick carefully because I…

I agree 100%, I’ve made this argument a half dozen times. There’s always someone who comes out of the woodwork to yell “It’S nOt aN RPg, YoU dON’t PlAY a ROlE!” as if video games have traditionally allowed player agency over the story or personal characterization in them (which seems to be the argument at root? I’m…

Todd Howard literally called it “Skyrim in Space” and the obvious implication was that it would keep players enthralled with replayability for years to come.

Yeah I’m gonna assume almost none of that 40 million actually went to marketing because all I ever saw of it was one review.

I agree with you in spirit but the subject bar for the site includes things like “culture” and “anime” and I would argue that it’s reasonable to assume superhero and comic book news has a sizable enough overlap with video game fans to create clicks.
There’s a dearth of comments on this article but at this time your…

Not super stoked for this to be honest at least as far as the combat goes. I like that learning abilities in Remake gave each character a bit of diversity, but in wanting to include both the ATB meter and MP from the original, they created a messy real-time system with two resources that manage to do the same thing…

I mean, if they fit the content profile for multiple sites, why wouldn’t they be duplicated? Otherwise they either pay two people to do the same job or only post it on one site, limiting its exposure to possibly interested readers.

Amazing how there’s no wrong answers on this list and yet

Unless you are trying to run the game on hardware below its specs, that’s far more likely the fault of the game than your computer or its configurations. Ports have been getting half-assed for years now. When I played Jedi Fallen Order, I had a PC that should have had no problem playing it with any setting I wanted…

PC gaming is easier now than it’s ever been; the downside is companies are now lazier than they’ve ever been about quality control. There’s very little in the way of configurations that aren’t identical to the way that console games allow you to change settings, it’s just that a lot of these things just don’t work the…

I wanted to comment that I’ve been worried about the franchise’s future ever since the barely half-assed HD releases of 2 and 3 and the string of outsourced games, but you basically did all the heavy lifting already!

I especially agree with Origins being inoffensive, it treads familiar territory in a by-the-numbers…

Key difference (not that we shouldn’t expect better) is that those are side missions, and from the reviews I’ve read and seen, the main missions in Suicide Squad are just as repetitive.

Somewhere there’s a 45-year-old former jock having the time of his life playing BG3, intensely thirsting over the sexy ladies, completely oblivious to the fact that he used to pick on kids who wore Hook Ups tee-shirts and played D&D during school lunch.

I like the idea in many ways of battle passes not expiring, but it’s not really “you can go back at any time for anything,” it’s “you can spend money on all the things at any time.”
For habitual completionists, this means if they buy the game two years down the road they will still have the option, and thus, the…

To be fair, the SNES was vastly superior hardware-wise compared to other 16-bit systems, and I have faint memories of the Gamecube maybe not blowing the XBOX’s and PS2's specs out of the water across the board, but having some specs that were better. But I think those were the only times Nintendo cared to do that.
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