I would rate it above Inquisition but below Origins, going solely by plot, gameplay and characterization. The small number of maps are reused to a point beyond absurdity, and production quality suffered from the insane rush EA forced on Bioware, but the dumbed-down RPG mechanics are still well above Inquisition’s…

I never once claimed to like or support piracy, I just don’t feel the need to actively cheer at the idea of those that do having their expensive hardware illegally destroyed. You, on the other hand, seem to be getting off on imagining their misfortune.

Do you still have to constantly collect 3 of things, or sometimes 3 sets of 3 things, over and over and over again?

This is a fairly likely outcome, especially for those simply following a tutorial with no real clue as to what they are doing.

Nothing like happily wishing destruction of property on people for something that in no way affects you. You certainly seem like a wonderful person.

If you ever plan on taking your Switch online, you should just let the firmware be. If you're just as happy without online gaming, the eShop, etc, then it doesn't really matter, although if you haven't hacked it so far, this seems like a pretty bad reason for doing so now.

I can definitely understand Nintendo being seriously unhappy about this, and fans getting angry for Nintendo’s sake, but I don’t quite get the spoiler argument - it’s one thing if this were a plot-heavy RPG like The Witcher 3, or something like Red Dead Redemption 2, or, heck, even Call of Duty (outside of the MP-only…

Yes, but you didn’t spend a paragraph singing its praises, nor mention even once dropping to your knees in worship of its name.

One of these days, I’ll have to dive back in - I played near constantly for 2 weeks after release, until I had seen essentially everything, and all that was left were random variations of what I’d already seen and done. I remember being really excited when I started encountering the corrupted, overrun outposts,…

CoD has its own audience, just like sports games do; they are for the most part completely separate from the regular gaming market, and will always buy the latest iteration of that franchise, even if the box contains nothing but a blank disc.

I wouldn’t say it’s necessarily a bad thing in general, but it does serve to reinforce the reality that most people have terrible taste.

Maybe they are nuclear-powered bobby-pins encased in depleted uranium (for... reasons) and lined with lead? Sure, the fact they they snap like twigs if you don’t treat them excessively gently speaks against that, as does them not exploding in nuclear for when they do, but I've heard worse explanations. I think.

I’ll admit, it wasn’t a non-factor when I finally decided to frost my living room windows - I had kids walk by the windows more than once while I was playing games sub-optimally dressed (Why can’t they stay off my damn yard?!), resulting in minor panic, even though, by all rights, I should feel free to lounge around in…

Well, it is a universal truth that you can never have enough carnitas in your life, so you got me there.

Corpse Run was effective advertising - I just added a sous-vide thingy to my Cyber Monday purchase list, despite knowing, in my heart, that I will maybe use it once, maybe twice a year at most, and that it will spend 99% of its time in The Cabinet of Forgotten Trendy Cooking Tools, alongside the Foreman Grill, the…

*Nobody* looks cool in VR from the outside, ever. It’s against the laws of nature. If you ever see someone looking cool while playing a VR game, congratulations, you’ve just successfully found a demon masquerading in human skin: now, quickly, call the Vatican, and get them to send their top exorcists before it gets…

Well, I know what I would like it to be, which is essentially the original game, but with all-new art assets, character models, combat animations, etc, mostly- if not fully-voiced, with dual-audio and a full surround track. I’d happily settle for Bravely Default: Final Fantasy VII version.

Well, they could always reboot its development (again) - I’m not sure that’s really been beneficial for any Final Fantasy game, but I also haven’t liked the sound of *any* of the changes from the original that they’ve talked about so far... It’d sort of be like rerolling when all the dice show a 1; it’s definitely not…

This is one of the reasons I have charging docks for all my console controllers - with the dock cables all plugged into a power strip screwed in behind the drawers, which in turn is plugged into the wall behind the drawers, there are zero exposed cables for kitties to play with.

I had to double-check that this actually came with the Xbox, since I’m old and my memory is about as reliable as a 5-year-old’s crayon memos, but look!