I played this game a bit at launch but I only ever played it regularly during the early days of the pandemic. In the evening I’d log off my computer and go for a walk and just randomly catch pokemon while I walked. I never got into the raids or even battling but it was a nice way to turn off my brain at the end of a…

Yeah I mean I barely play it anymore but in the suburb I live there was still plenty of stuff for me to find so I could just play it while I was on an evening walk or whatever. Whereas my cousin visited his parents in a rural farming town with fewer than 700 people and I’m pretty sure he claimed a gym for over a year…

I forget if it was here or somewhere else but I saw somebody mention that you get the Travel Medallions very early in the game I was so confused why I still didn’t have access to them.

I mean, yes, but also if you’re looking into acquisitions explicitly as a way to drive up your revenue, these are things that should be considered.

Ah, Kinja. Y’gotta love it.

Yeah I’m wondering if they just moved their own goalposts and decided they could keep it running with a smaller playerbase.

Maybe, but I don’t think anybody would be surprised if Elder Scrolls VI turned out to be exclusive.

I mean, I do think that Microsoft needs more/better exclusives but I’d rather see them build them internally than taking existing franchises and potentially taking them away from competing platforms. (Let’s be clear, outside of Call of Duty, Microsoft seems perfectly open to taking other franchises and making them…

...I mean, the acquisition would give Microsoft a lot of very valuable IP: Call of Duty, Warcraft, Diablo, Tony Hawk, Candy Crush, Crash Bandicoot, Guitar Hero, Overwatch.

Because none of those are interesting details about how a massive platform holder runs their business that happened to be revealed as a result of this trial.

Exactly. Just treat it like the upgrade from Game Boy Color to Game Boy Advance or Nintendo DS to Nintendo 3DS. Seamless and painless.

Yeah, seriously. The fact that I pull up the list of Xbox games on my Series X and can see games I bought for the 360 over 15 years ago and they just work without any trouble is possibly the BEST thing about the console.

Okay I agree that sounds like a bad idea but it also sounds like something I would very much be into so LET’S ROLL.

I will say that one of the best things about the Xbox ecosystem is that even on my Series X I’m able to just pull up basically any game I had on an earlier Xbox and play it with ease.

$300 is not cheap for a lot of people.

I have made this joke every single time this guy has been mentioned on Kotaku so it’s really more like the 12th time I’ve made it and I’m still laughing.

Practice makes perfect.

Sure but the OP was talking about $5 used copies being something that publishers are fighting against and I don’t really follow their argument.

Okay, to be clear, the context of both my comment and how that assertion has been used was pretty clearly in reference to game mechanics, so while I agree the story and setting has varied quite wildly, it should be very clear that’s outside of the parameters of this discussion. When we are talking about whether the…

That’s fair! I mostly haven’t used gloom weapons because I thought the gloom penalty would be annoying but I recently ran through the last few gloom weapons I had and realized they’re pretty useful. I guess I should farm some more Phantom Ganons.