Yep, I remember doing it in Motorsport 5. Still a fun feature that not necessarily everybody knows about.

Haha as a Playstation 5 owner, I promise you, Sony’s process is anything but straightforward and consumer-friendly. The amount they charge to upgrade games to PS5 is all over the place, and the process is never straightforward (you often have to install the PS4 version of a game just to export your save and load it in…

For sure, it’s not perfect, but a whole hell of a lot more original Xbox games run on the Series X/S than will ever run on Nintendo’s N64/Genesis emulation, at no charge. The list is too long for me to reasonably count. https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/xbox-360/games/backward-compatibility/play-original-xbox-games-o…

Pulling the trigger early would be excusable, if they hadn’t also had the gall to charge so much more for N64/Genesis games than the entire rest of their service. The former feels like a corporate mistake, the latter feels like a company that thinks its customer base are a bunch of saps who will pay them whatever they…

What other games’ DLC could they possibly loop in, though? There’s no way they’d add Smash’s DLC, because it adds up to around $60 and still sells like gangbusters. Maybe Splatoon 2, but I don’t think Splatoon DLC is much of a draw. I can’t even think of any other first-party titles that Nintendo does DLC for.

I mean, it wasn’t THAT much of a hurdle. You had to open up one extra app, that’s it. And $1 to upgrade to a Wii U virtual console is extremely cheap. It’s not as nice as doing it natively for free, but by Nintendo standards, it was pretty generous.

It’s not THAT strange, really. When Nintendo is failing or having a hard time, they do consumer-friendly stuff to build back good will. When they’re successful, like with the Switch, they turn into total assholes because they can’t imagine a world in which they’re no longer that successful. Microsoft and Sony are the…

I mean, games I bought on the original Xbox back in the early-aughts will run if I put them in my Series X. I don’t think it’s totally unreasonable to suggest that emulated games we purchased digitally on the Wii U ~5 years ago carry over to hardware that’s only one-generation removed.

Don’t get me wrong, the pricing on this N64/Genesis addition is ridiculous, and I’m not going to pay it. But with the NES/SNES games on the $20 tier, I do kind of like having most of the must-play games from that era in one place, rather than being asked to buy them all over again for the third damn time. If Nintendo…

I own a Switch. Metroid Dread was flawed but mostly-great. It’s also the only especially great game I’ve played on the Switch since Mario Odyssey. Everything else is an old port or a third-party game that runs better on every other platform. Nintendo has been extremely half-assed over the course of the Switch’s…

Not 100% on this, but I’m pretty sure that as long as they’re still hosted on the Xbox servers, you can re-download without issue. I know that’s typically how it works on Steam when games get delisted.

For what it’s worth, I don’t think this applies to all TV shows. You can like a character, and even intrinsically root for them to do bad things, and still want a series to pay off their actions.

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If you were to put them into “tiers,” 1, 2, and 4 are in the high tier, 3 and 5 are in the mid tier, and 6 and 8 are in the bottom tier. S7's weird because the first half is high-tier level, and the second half is bottom tier.

Trust me, though, if you thought S3 was bad, you have no idea how much worse it can get.

It’s frustrating too, because this ISN’T a defense of Dexter’s final seasons. It’s actually an astute article about a number of things people forget about Dexter’s back-half because seasons 6 and 8 are so bad. The headline is just intentionally worded to be click-baity and get angry comments.

Edgar Wright was attached to Ant-Man for 8 years, so unfortunately, it wasn’t something they “quickly” figured out. He was hired back in 2006, two years before Iron Man even released, so the whole concept of what a Marvel/MCU movie even was shifted while he was on it. They hired him for one story and vision, and then…

They hired her before she even shot Nomadland, though.

That seems really hard to believe. Makes you wonder if that’s the way the books are going, but it seems like it would be pretty pointless to spend that much time on her journey only to kill her off before the last season.

I know this is kind of your whole point, but it really is strange that Disney would greenlight a Boba Fett series and, instead of following his adventures planet-hopping and going after bounties, make it about maneuvering politics while ruling Tatooine. I get that The Mandalorian kind of fulfilled that need anyway,…

I’m sorry, I don’t understand the “Buzz Lightyear is a real person who inspired the movie/show that inspired the toy” take at all. Buzz Lightyear is clearly a fictional character in Toy Story. This is a movie about that fictional character. Toy Story does not take place in a universe where there is an actual historic…

It doesn’t feel all that necessary in Deathloop, since the game autosaves between times of day. You’re only ever really spending about 20 minutes at a time in a single area. I’ll often just hop in and make some progress during the second half of my lunch break.