The unarmed point is one I’ve made before, and I really like the idea of.

Like in MGS V, it’s still viable to get into fights if you’ve got no weapons or only have the water pistol, because the game was designed with an excess of hand to hand combat options.
For me, that lead to a lot more fight variability which is…

That’s not my point at all. Patches and bug fixes are great, as is new free content, and those are things only available to us in the modern era of games.

But it’s also a double edged sword, and with the specific case of Animal Crossing, you can’t celebrate holidays without an internet connection to install the updates…

I don’t think so, as that collection contained the original Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2 which mechanically are even clunkier. It was more likely that it would have been either a direct port of the PS1 game (with shoddy PS1 graphics), or a ton of work to get it up to the fidelity levels of the other games in the…

Yeah, that’s definitely an issue long term. If the Wii is anything to go by (online services in games, and the shop have shut down, but things can still be downloaded. It’s confirmed that will have an end date in the future), the Switch has til at least 2031.

Nintendo has never been big on long term game conservation,…

I don’t see it as quite the same. I figure it was the devs finding a way to give themselves more time to work on seasonal features while also making sure (for the first year at least) those seasonal features weren’t “spoiled” or shown off early.
As someone who doesn’t use time traveling in AC, the biggest change for me…

Yeah, idTech is no good for open world games like that, UE4 is pretty bad too. You’re right that it’s better for them to stick with an engine designed for it, as rickety and old as that engine is at this point.

UE5, might be good for open world projects, but it’s too early to tell. It seems like they’re designing that…

There’s also a memorial for Matt in the new Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2. The gym in School II was renamed after him. It’s now the Matt Helsom Memorial Gymnasium

“Drop it before it’s toxic” is really solid advice.
When I was going to an actual gym, one of my coworkers wanted to use me as the one to push them to go. That, combined with him being unable to healthily workout around me (he tried to match/compete with me, even though it was injuring him to do so), it made going to…

Actually, I don’t think it quite works that way, and with the source, I don’t think it would be an issue. I think the bigger reason to choose PS2 is there’s less hurdles to deal with than PS1. You’re sort of on the right track that the PS2 would have more processing headroom than the PS1, meaning it would be easier to…

I get what you’re saying and I agree to an extent, console gaming hasn’t been as easy as “just” plug and play for a while.

But also, I do tend to choose console gaming over PC gaming most of the time, because console gaming bullshit is less of a pain to deal with than PC gaming bullshit. I know if Digital Foundry does…

This game has been really great, I’m shocked. It’s practically all I’ve been playing the last week, and it just absolutely nails the feel of playing the originals back in the day.

Outside of minor gripes (most of which you mentioned here), my only issue is the apprehension that they’re going to shoehorn in…

You can pull this off with almost any passive 3D TV as well, if you set your mind to it.

The way I did it with mine was I took two sets of glasses, put both left eye lenses in one pair, and the right eye lenses in the other pair. Then when you go into the TV’s 3d display options, there are typically options for how to…

The originals were, Guerilla Radio being the easiest to confirm as it was in the intro for THPS2.
I remember making fun of the censored versions back in the day, but after having played the games so much, the censored versions are nostalgic in their own way.

This game is just grand. I’m loving it so far.
It’s hard to put into words how all the quirky art style changes, weird mechanics, and earnestness in it’s themes all clicks into a cohesive whole, but it leads to a game that’s really soothing and optimistic.

Well worth picking up if you’re at all interested. 

That’s the same read I have of it. The Empire has made some mistakes (the player’s attempted execution, concessions to the Aldmeri Dominion with the White-Gold Concordat), but the Stormcloaks are terribly racist, and Ulfric and Talos worship in particular are being exploited by the Thalmor to destabilize the Empire.…

Man, I’d love a proper Switch MH game, even if it’s just the older school MH engine with some of the MHW QoL changes added.

I don’t think we have confirmation either way, but it’s likely that MHW2 has been in development while Iceborne was ongoing. I think MHW2 is more likely than another expansion.

The previous ones look to be the Playstation button colors, so it was probably using the same PS themed assets at first. Either way, they obviously are putting thought into the localization, which is nice to see.

You’re right, this is true, but I still think it’s a valid example in this case.

There wouldn’t need to be federal guidance for “lunch shaming”, and wouldn’t be cases of poorly run schools getting caught doing it (and becoming national news stories), if “Lunch debt” in general wasn’t a thing. Lunch shaming It’s…

NASA’s entire budget since its inception (a sum of about $680 billion) is less than the Department of Defence’s budget for a single year ($721 billion). That doesn’t account for inflation, but it still puts into perspective how royally fucked our military budget is.

All that to say, 10% of the military budget would…