I kind of thought we might be getting an announcement of the Switch 2 in place of the traditional September direct, but that was before they announced 3 new special edition switches and 1 new bundle in the space of a week. Feels like a big push for the last holiday of the switch’s lifetime, to get as much out of the…

And like Fallout 4 and Skyrim, folks might choose to get Starfield’s main quest out of the way, then go on to do everything else. Others, however, might prefer to soak up all the sidequests and activities they possibly can, before ending with the main quest as a way to send off the journey.

It seems in this case they actually ignored him.

I think there were only 4 of them plus a port (or maybe more than one port?). But them being a sequel wouldn’t be a bad thing if they were more interesting. I enjoyed the first one but then they all just felt samey.

No no it’s definitely not AI, it’s totally normal for *checks image* trailers to be half embedded in the sidewalk. It also just kind of has that “looks fine in passing but when you focus on any detail it doesn’t look like anything” look that a lot of AI art has.

To be fair for a game of this size with this much anticipation there’s definitely going to be some review bloat. It's the new Bethesda games, people are going to be afraid to give it a low score. Fallout 4 is polarizing, its metacritic scores range from 84-88. Skyward sword is divisive, it's at a 93 on metacritic.…

Hard to get a good read on this from these reviews. Not sure if I’d generally enjoy it or be bored out of my skull. I think I’ll have to give it a try for myself when it goes on a good sale.

I suspect Nintendo is using AI for the voice of Mario. Nintendo is all about saving money and delivering big profits.

This isn’t the first time they’ve done a very simple red Mario Switch, that just seems to be what they want to do with Mario for some reason. There was this one for Odyssey, which is even plainer:

I haven’t cared about a 2D Mario game since the original New Super Mario Bros but this looks genuinely fantastic. Have an open mind.

I love that they kind of made it an MMO? I’ll probably play offline because I don’t want to see other players all over the place but it seems like a feature a lot of people would enjoy. Just like the first trailer the dynamism and enemy variety are really blowing me away, and I’m so glad they’ve finally moved past the…

That doesn’t really explain why they leapfrogged over the Galar starters though instead of putting the Galar starters in back in 2019/2020. I’m thinking it’s because when the SwSh DLC was coming out they hadn’t even put in gen 6 yet and were still implementing 5, so they didn’t want to skip over 2 whole generations…

First guess I got 3 of the 4 categories right, and my next 2 guesses were correct in all categories but the fish was wrong, and I got the right fish on the fourth guess. With such a small pool of answers and so few variables it’s not particularly satisfying.

Incineroar is Alola. A handful of Galar Pokemon are in Go, but only a handful (The Skwovet and Wooloo lines and Falinks, a few regional forms/evos, and 4 legendaries). The vast majority, including the starters, aren’t in Go yet.

Still so funny to me that they just skipped Galar starters for now. It also feels like a misstep to do that when (at least) 3 of the upcoming DLC Pokemon are based on Galar Pokemon. I guess they can release the whole Applin and Duraludon lines at once? Same with Sinistea and Poltchageist (although technically…

In five hundred years, when historians are sifting through the history of the medium, are they going to be looking at the Last of Us and all the subsequent photorealistic games and say “Oh, yes, that’s the look that defined videogames, the stuff that looks like movies.” No! Videogames will be defined by pixel art…

“It’s an art form” doesn’t mean “there’s nothing nostalgic about it.” Nostalgia is definitely plays a part. That doesn’t mean that’s the only reason that people could possibly like pixel art, but it is definitely a factor. I’m also not saying people will stop making them or buying them, I’m just saying that I…

This really doesn’t surprise me. I’m not saying nobody young can enjoy pixel aesthetics but I feel like most of the appeal of pixel graphics is nostalgia. There are a handful of modern games that use pixel art that I think are genuinely lovely (like Iconoclasts and Sea of Stars) but I think most pixel games don’t…

I dunno, I kinda feel like the entirety of Pokemon Go is “lukewarm leftovers.” You say there’s no sense of it building towards anything but even when there is I feel like there’s never any excitement anyway because it’s always so obvious what it is? I can’t remember the last time I read a single line of dialog Willow…