There are plenty of other newer third-party games, but most are either indie titles that exist on other platforms, or games from bigger publishers that have to be heavily scaled down from the other platforms. If you look at first-party, Nintendo has done very little to support the Switch, especially after it became a…

It’s funny, because the Switch has basically made the Wii U obsolete (other than the same games being cheaper on Wii U), but at the same time, the Switch has been doing virtually nothing but coasting on the Wii U’s library. Having owned both, I’m extremely annoyed at the Switch, yet I’d still definitely recommend one…

It feels weird to call last year “dry” when it had one of the best release slates of the entire last generation. The Last of Us 2, Ghost of Tsushima, Doom Eternal, Animal Crossing, Hades, FFVII Remake, Half-Life Alyx, Miles Morales, Demon’s Souls...if that’s a dry year, then what the hell was 2019?

It was done in JJ Abrams’ Star Trek, but yeah, the Terminator heroes-fixing-things track is probably more common.

Right. I just meant that, as someone who bought the Digital Deluxe version at launch, the 80s stuff is just a costume, so any issues you have with his face are still there.

It’s just a different outfit. None of the models themselves change, so it just looks like old guys wearing the clothes they had when they were younger.

The DLC isn’t new, it’s just the stuff that came with the deluxe edition. I know I’ve had it since launch. So they’re basically giving anybody who bought the deluxe edition the upgrade for free, and saying that anybody else can upgrade by paying the cost difference from the base game. That’s a pretty decent deal,…

I did the same thing. What a crazy deal! I already owned basically every Pro game I wanted on another platform though, and that’ll all go away when Stadia implodes soon, so I just cancelled before my free month was up. The actual tech behind Stadia has gotten pretty good, though.

The business model is 100% the biggest problem with Stadia. Nobody wants to pay full price (or more!) for a game that they only own in a cloud. Especially when that cloud is run by a company notorious on giving up on its initiatives.

A streaming alternative to Game Pass was a smart idea, but I think Microsoft is…

I just posted this separately, but reading your list...DAMN. Yeah, no question. a seminal year for any virtually any genre you can imagine.

I’d go with 2001. Halo, Grand Theft Auto 3, and Metal Gear Solid 2 all came out within a month of each other. Right there you have the blueprint for basically all of modern AAA gaming. Smash Bros Melee released in that window, too. Just absolute madness.

Notice how everybody you mentioned is dead though. The problem with this lack of curation is that everything being made and greenlit as “content” is just being made to fill out whatever genre or demographic is being underserved according to Netflix’s algorithm. They couldn’t give two shits about whether what they’re…

So are we actually going to fight the Kree in this one, or are they going to find some lame excuse to make all the enemies AIM bots yet again?

All in One is currently $25 on PSN and $30 on Amazon. Asking $170 for those same games on PC is fucking insane.

They get extra points for giving Link a Beavis reflection in the mirror at 46 seconds.

Eh, Vegas is about a 5 hour drive from where I’m at in California, and Santa Fe is about 15. That’s a huge difference.

Their installation in Santa Fe is AMAZING. I’ve been hoping that they’d expand and do something on the west coast for a while, so I’m excited to hear about this.

The wild thing about this defense is that it actually REINFORCES the idea that Giuliani was instigating the mob. In Game of Thrones, a “Trial by Combat” is in lieu of court. It’s basically saying “fuck this attempt at justice, I’m going to have my guy try to kill your guy, and whoever wins is right.” So the closest…

Yeah, it really was a breeding ground for talent. Steve Carell was already a pretty big name when he was cast (this was after The Daily Show and The 40 Year Old Virgin), and Ed Helms was pretty recognizable from The Daily Show, but virtually everybody else you listed was an unknown at the time. It launched a bunch of…

This “The Office wasn’t a hit” theory that younger viewers seem to be throwing around is just so bizarre to me. No, if you put it next to CBS’s numbers at the time, it wasn’t that huge, but nothing on NBC was. It was still a BIG show in the cultural zeitgeist, and easily the most successful thing on its network, hence…