I’m surprised they revealed so much about the game in this. The Great Plateau guide and the overview of stuff you can do in the game are expected, but I wouldn’t have guessed that so much post-GP content was included. And while I understand that DLC would’ve been planned out prior to release, laying out what to expect…

Of course he won't be in cuffs. His tiny hands would slip through!

Fair enough. I didn’t know about Paradox’s DLC practices.

Yeah, that aesthetic is not great. I get wanting to differentiate from The Sims in some respect, but a stylized look is the way to go in my opinion.

Sure, Sims 4 has been out for a while. But we all know it’s nearly 10 years old. A sequel feels more like an “when” than an “if”. If a competitor can stake a decent enough claim in the life sim genre before the eventual Sims 5, I could see some serious growth. The biggest factor to me is whether they microtransaction…

I applaud you for using “PSX” instead of “PS1”

Zelda II is super daunting. The (somewhat) random encounters, the tiny health bar, and being thrown all the way back to where Zelda is sleeping every time you game over make it a pain to get through. I made it to Link's Shadow a few times as a kid, but I still haven’t beaten it. One day I’m going to plow through it…

Tin-ness? Abbel jooz?

I think you’re underestimating our capacity to be pissed off.

I noticed that when I checked the games last night. Making you start playing (even if you don’t have to finish a case) in order to download DLC is a weird decision. Oh well, at least I have the extra cases ready to go for whenever I really start each game.

That makes it a little better. It’s still disappointing that you can’t at least download the puzzles, even if access to them is gated.

No.

“And if you want the DLC for Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright, you apparently have to beat the game to get access to the ability to purchase it?”

It really isn’t. As nice as PC gaming sounds, I’ve always had bad luck whenever I’ve tried it over the years. Games either run poorly or don’t run at all. Or they run fine, but I can’t figure out how to install mods. No thanks. I’ll stick with a console, even if it isn’t the optimal experience.

I hadn’t heard of the game until now, but the description had me intrigued. I was all set to check it out until I looked elsewhere online and read that it’s online only. I don’t have PS+ and really wasn’t looking to subscribe any time soon.

If they hadn't changed the ending, I would agree that Samus Returns is superior. The tacked on final boss soured me on it.

It’s a shame they aren’t going to give this game the amount of post release content they had intended, but I get it. Hopefully the sequel will be even bigger, without a year or so spent trying to fix stuff.

100%. I get rushing through it at launch for the sake of his job. But a casual replay years after the fact? I can’t in good conscience trust the opinions of a gamer who would look at a sprawling RPG like this and say, “naw, I’ll just stick to the main quest.” It’s foolishness.

Even if you take the game’s narrative at face value, it doesn’t really feel as urgent as these “main quest only” people say. Vik, your ripperdoc friend, admits he has no idea how long you have to live. He knows it’s commuted, but gives you an extremely vague time table, as if to say, “play the game at your own pace.”…

Well, okay. But I was alluding to the fact that the list has more than 20 games.