My online experience has been terrible. It’s really disheartening to learn that being able to beat my kids at Mario Kart does NOT mean I’m a good racer after all. Currently at 954 coins. (Although, honestly, I am improving slowly - for a while there I was around 920!)

I’m very satisfied. The Switch is working out wonderfully as a family console and a handheld. I hear a lot of people talking about how there aren’t enough games yet, but there are more than enough for our needs. BOTW alone has eaten up hundreds of hours of my family’s time, while Fast RMX and Binding of Isaac…

Same here. This thing looks fantastic, I want it - but it’s about a year too late and I don’t have an extra $150 to throw at a thing just because it’s real pretty.

I keep it turned off because I can’t even SEE 3D. This would have been a perfect machine for me if it had come out before I bought a New 3DSXL. But I did that, and now I have a Switch, and this is just the most frustrating announcement I’ve ever heard from Nintendo.

Switch $300. This $150. Not 1/3. I get your point but I’ve heard this “it’s 1/3 of the price” thing on other sites and it annoys the hell out of me. It is exactly 1/2, let’s not just round off $50. Fifty bucks is not a hell of a lot of money, but it’s not pocket change either.

No, you guys, it’s okay, racism is a thing of the past! All my cottage-cheese-colored friends said so, so it must be true.

Well, like a lot of other people I have a knee-jerk reaction of wanting to sneer about pretentious hipsters, but I just can’t do it, because these guys seem to feel the same way about the vinyl as I feel about books.

One thing I don’t get is gamers complaining that WWII “has been done already” and therefore this game couldn’t possibly be exciting.

Yeah, I think a lot of people are overlooking or unaware of the fact that Okoye is NOT Ayo’s love in the comic. This doesn’t sound like Ayo is being changed, yet. If anything, it sounds like her relationship with Aneka will be done in the next movie.

You know Aladdin isn’t historically a Middle Eastern anything, right? The story of Aladdin was added to the 1001 Nights by a very white French man, it has never been found in any Arabic text prior to the French “translation”, and it’s now considered very likely that he made it up himself.

You don’t have PS4s in Europe?

I love how Real Gamer Dudez keep moving the goalposts for Switch. First it was “ho ho, poor Nintendo keeps coming up with wacky concepts that no one cares about, lol the Switch is gonna bomb”. Then the Switch came out and literally hasn’t stopped being sold out for the last six weeks, so the song became “ha ha,…

I find it especially interesting that the only person here who has played the game is Heather, but a bunch of dudebros who are going by screenshots and marketing blurbs are 100% convinced their opinions are more valid than hers.

Call me crazy, but personally I blame all the people who voted for Trump.

It happens. I’m in my late forties. In video game years this makes me roughly as old as the Roman Empire. When I was waiting in line to buy a Switch on launch day, most of the people in line with me hadn’t even been born when my first Zelda game came out (Link’s Awakening).

Not coast to coast, but I took the Greyhound from NYC to Austin a few decades ago. I only recommend this to aspiring young novelists in search of horrible real-life experiences to write about. I have been riding public transportation all my life, in several different countries, and nothing is as bad as the cross…

I was unaware of how amazing the Atlus games generally are when the original version came out. Since then I’ve burned hundreds of hours with Etrian Odyssey and SMT titles on DS and 3DS. I won’t let this one slip away.

I saw the Gerudo clothes in a guide to the various clothing and armor Link can wear, and my first reaction was I WANT ALL THE PRETTY CLOTHES. Sucks that the outfit is tied into a problematic scene - but then again, it usually is. I overheard an episode of Criminal Minds last night (while playing BOTW) that was your…

If anything, that opening really leads the reader to believe there will be at least one drunk guy, an assault rifle and fifty gallons of blue paint in the story. But no, we get a shark in a shopping cart. Pfft.

I don’t even remember what the 3DS sounds like because I fell for the 3DS Home themes. I usually stick with a Zelda theme but have used Xenoblade Chronicles (nice art, great music) and Hatsune Miku. But I can live with the Switch’s minimalist menus for a while, since I’m sure they will launch a theme store soon.