Sigh... I was cautiously optimistic for this one too. I hear there’s no XP again, and there’s no permanent gear either? Part of the appeal of RPGs is improving your character over time.

For now, I can say that while this certainly is not the return to the full-on RPG style for which fans of The Thousand-Year Door have been clamoring, neither does it seem to have the balance problems of the series’ other recent games. Has Nintendo finally cracked the formula? We’ll find out soon.

This game is Game of Thrones S8 meets The Last Jedi. Enjoy your subvertions because oh boy you will need it.

So...you folks knew the spoilers were true?! Wow, this game is going to be the videogame equivalent of The Last Jedi. I hope subverting those expectations were worth it for Naughty Dog lol. I hope keeping this under wraps and turning a blind eye to the DMCA abuses to keep your access was worth it to you guys lol. What…

Maybe I’m cynical, but I have trouble believing that we, as a society, can function without any sort of policing whatsoever. If the ultimate answer is that caring about serving your community effectively and justly means resigning from serving as a police officer, doesn’t that just mean that the only police officers…

The basic idea here is that the show is about good people, and we want to see them do good things. I’d like to think that being a good person and an American cop aren’t mutually exclusive.

I completely agree with you about the weirdness (and baselessness) of wanting to present Depp as a blameless victim in this whole affair. He quite clearly has some dangerous violent and abusive tendencies, and a lot of Depp stans and MRA types completely ignore that.

Sounds like he was completely wasted, and ranting to a friend after being the victim of physical abuse. He definitely has substance abuse issues, which he needs to address.

I don’t think there’s any misrepresentation. There are a lot of people (me included) who did not in fact buy the game because of the direction and I don’t think it’s particularly negligible. Internet reputation absolutely has an effect on the real world, that’s why companies often fear (or resents) it. The fact that…

An important thing to always try and remember - Nostalgia is more important than quality. 

Eh, the free update doesn’t add most of the old pokemon, GTS only works on the phone, and you can’t transfer a lot of old pokemon to the Sword and Shield unless they’re compatible, so a lot of what you said isn’t entirely accurate.

Paying a monthly fee for a fucking save file?

Yeah, this is some level of bullshit. It’s almost the same price as NSO, and doesn’t have the features to justify it. Why does adding the GTS and Wonder Trades suddenly make it 3x more expensive than Pokemon Bank?

I was reluctantly okay with Pokemon Bank’s $5/yr cost just because A) Server costs aren’t free, and B)…

The fact that this isn’t included for free with Switch Online is utter bullshit. And if they’re going they charge 3x what Bank cost, they could have at least included a way to battle people Unlimited style.

XIII has way more than a few glaring issues. Almost every aspect of the game is flawed.

Another frequent complaint I hear about the game pertains to its structure. Talking with fans about Final Fantasy XIII often elicits an accusation: it is an extremely linear experience. This is true only insofar as features like the world map have been removed, and the ability to backtrack is often cut off as the…

Why do we need to go back in time to rehash a bad game yet all the while attempting to make it “not so bad” 10 years later?

It’s particularly dishonest because of the two groups, they are the ones fighting for one group to have less. Nobody is harmed if the entire dex is included. In fact, everyone gets more stuff. A rising tide and all that.

While Dexit made me stop caring about completing the Pokédex (which is something I’ve tried to do not only in every mainline Pokémon game, but the spinoffs as well), there’s a whole host of other issues in Sword & Shield that made them the most disappointing titles in the franchise for me, which is sadly becoming a…

Yeah, it was.

I’m on the author’s side of the issue, and the whole time I was thinking that. Definitely not trying to sooth any wounds here.