This trailer is making me very aware of a lot of video game logic. Sulfer-infused rocks are more viable than tinder, rats are conspicuously absent from stealth grass, only certain special rocks can be used in the sling. It’s not the games fault, I just can’t help but notice

I singled out Kyle in my town and send him letters asking what it’s like to be an NPC in a video game, and what happens when I turn the power off. He usually replies about how much he likes trains

They are small, but it bugs me that the two worlds just can’t be kept separate. There’s no reason for the overlap. I don’t enjoy the PvP at all, and so I just don’t do it, but between the Call to Arms milestone, various catalysts, and occasional quest step that make it a requirement, you miss out on non-PvP content by…

I think the clamshell design is the reason the 3DS is superior in portability in every way. It’s pocket sized, protects it’s own screens, and was billed as a portable system, so the games are designed with portability in mind. The Switch requires more protection and doesn’t have that sort of on-demand convenience. And…

According to my mom, they’re all pronounced ‘Nintendo.’ NES, SNES, Genesis, Mega Drive, Saturn, PlayStation, and this one Tiger electronic football game I had are all pronounced ‘Nintendo.’

I still largely enjoy the raids, but (especially in Destiny 2) I feel that there is too much hinging on small mistakes, and there is no room for recovery or comeback. This might be why Vault of Glass remains the best raid of them all, as it deals with the natural mechanic of the games (go to location, shoot things at…

Destiny 2’s Whisper of the Worm quest is a recent example of that. The quest i super-tough
“*is super tough”. I only do this so you guys know I’m reading the whole thing

This made me think about how many crossed wires there are when it comes to creating difficulty from a fail state. My Destiny 2 clan was trying to…

>Hide behind mother’s grave in order to brag about not learning from experience
>Rely on the “it’s the way we’ve always done it” excuse because change is scary
>Call everyone else a pussy

Well at least I know how far it’ll get me if  explain that I haven’t existed for 10,000 years ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You gleefully passed over the part where it’s not limited to your body. Just a pile of statistics I came across:

Between secondhand smoke, the foul odor, the associated medical costs and dedicated resources, and the litter, it never really ends at the smoker’s lungs, does it?

When the remaster came out, I spent about 5 days getting the platinum trophy for it, and as I watch this, I can barely say I’ve even played the game at all

Unless Nintendo is advertising Splatoon 2 as a slanted and unfair game, hackers subvert the value of the investment. My $59.99 plus tax buys a different experience than what Nintendo sold me when hackers rewrite the rules and conditions, and while I don’t know about you, I value my every minute

It’s the social features that are doing me in. An external chat app was a bad idea by itself, but more so when compared to apps you could be using, such as Discord. And nothing feels worse than getting rolled solo on a team of paste eaters by a clan of pub stompers

I think Nintendo’s halfhearted and hands-off approach to online has really crossed from amusingly naive to negligent and insulting, especially with paid online looming ahead

I think the reason I dislike the Mania/S3&K is both for the point you brought up (can’t reward both exploration and speed) and the fact that, when there’s predetermined points that lead to special stages, you have to take someone else’s route through the level to get them, instead of taking things on how you want to.…

I think it maintained a few features of past titles for the sake of nostalgia, and it worked to its detriment; a lives system still feels pointless, some of the later bosses don’t feel like they reward clever playing or game mastery, and I’ve personally never liked having to hunt down special stage entrances. Mania is…

If you mean the boss of Titanic Monarch Zone, his shield drops while he electrifies the four tendrils that support him. After each phase, he’ll warp you away where you’re attacked by one of the Hard Boiled Heavies. You just have to survive for a while before being warped back for the next phase

“people in 2018are...”

That looks less like Bruce Willis and more like John Candy