At what point has my attempt to avoid such practices and try to purchase physical game releases (when possible) that are complete before patches make me some sort of digital Amish? When will there no longer be any game suitable for that criteria and I choose willingly to just live in the past, repeatedly playing the…

My favorite is as I’m turning the corner of a ruin I’ve been hiding behind to ambush a Guardian, a Yiga archer appears. Then, three Moblin skeletons appear out of the ground. It’s basically Nintendo giving you the ol’ Blue Shell to remind you that they still control the world you’re playing in.

I am pretty sure DrFlimFlam was planning an “emergency session”, but I’ve not heard details yet.

Good call on noticing Horizon: Zero Dawn’s release quality - Breath of the Wild was the same - where the disc version was ostensibly complete and playable (I didn’t complete the BotW before the first patch, so I cannot vouch fully for that, but I can imagine it was).

If there’s a game missing, I’d strongly suggest writing your own item as above! Start with, “I liked Horizon: Zero Dawn because <insert thoughtful reason here>.“ and please elaborate! It will not go unnoticed, and can certainly be published with the next article on Dec. 22!

I liked Bury Me, My Love because it made the waiting in a mobile game meaningful. Many mobile games restrict your play by adding timers - they are often intended as “pain points” to encourage paying the developer some real money to remove or speed up those timers.

TONIGHT...#Wii U# MK8 on the 8th is OFFICIALLY OVER. There will be no more Wii U scheduled racing for Gameological because creating Tournaments was intrinsically tied to Miiverse. I’m sorry I didn’t think to create a permanent Tournament in time, but it’s appropriate to give the reins over to Switch and embrace…

Interesting, as Gerudo was Number 3 for me - the Goron Beast seemed to be the most daunting, as it required special power/equipment just to start the path to it.

I’m definitely going to look into Stories Untold, by the way. Like Bury Me, My Love, I’m digging these “experimental adventures”.

Not much time for long-form posting right now - you know work is whelming when you wish that Friday hadn’t come so soon...

Understood. We no longer even had sideloading as an installation option, and really, despite a used market that does need some attention, our work doesn’t allow us to properly play anything more than one of those shareware demos that boasts advanced fuzzy logic. Thankfully it’s a portable app with a transferable…

You are very brave and dedicated to not only pay up front for the Player Three DLC, but also willing to handle the microtransactions that come later! They always tell me the gameplay loop is very rewarding, and though NPC add-ons were incompatible with my version, I do get the sense that I’ll miss out on buffing…

I both love and fear this weekend - Thanksgiving is always a good time to eat with family and enjoy the bustle of a dozen conversations on wide varieties of topics. I’m going to take a couple of board games (like Pandemic and six-player Settlers of Catan, just in case, but our family doesn’t usually get into them…

I could have even imagined she followed through with the destruction of her planet with subtly increasing reluctance until it was too late - and she was forced to watch her home be destroyed, tipping her into a state of panic and failure that she simply passes out to flashes of death. Her awakening in the infirmary…

Matt,

I’ve been debating all weekend whether to post something or not, and I’ve even discarded this message a couple of times, but I think it needs to be asked: Do we really need so much vulgar slang in our headlines and articles? Reviews for both Wolfenstein II and Battlefront II both managed to squeeze an F-bomb in…

All of the discussion surrounding the latest Pokemon editions has kinda made me glad I waited until Pokemon Moon to get started in it. I’m on the third island and, while the sheen has worn off to an extent, I still think it’s easy to pick up and play. It’s been in and out of my 3DS lately because of so many other…

Nah, but narratively they accept there’s not much left to cover with the Assassins, so I can imagine them working on something in the same engine that explores a different motivation for stabbing and climbing and killing and living in a gorgeously rendered and heavily researched past.

Hooray, Patrick! Thanks for the review, and I really like this perspective - Just as the real Assassins dissolved in time, so must this series, and frankly this would be the perfect way to end it if they didn’t need the money and they finally created a mode that properly explores the historical setting. I’m very…

I can imagine that the thespian in him was fascinated by the way a game can also be a performance, and I’m sorry he passed before he had an opportunity to experience what is capable with today’s technology and narrative creativity. Tacoma would have been a good one for him; the way it eschews faces for basic human…

Agreed that the 50cc and mushrooms worked as well as it did, and the racing was still pretty close. Thanks for coming out and whipping all of us! It makes any victory I manage all the sweeter...