It is indeed bizarre. For a company in every other way functioning at a top level of game design and sales, they are leagues behind Microsoft and Sony in terms of their online functionality and have been for a decade and a half or more.

There’s no excuse. This online is shit because Nintendo doesn’t have a fucking clue and the fact that they’re charging for it now makes it all the more infuriating.

There is none. Nintendo is 100% completely incompetent when it comes to the internet, and it seems like nothing is going to change that.

I liked the VC, especially since I spent a year replaying all of the Zelda games in anticipation of BotW, but it lacked 3rd party titles. One of my favorite SNES games was Illusion of Gaia and it never arrived. Let alone Terranigma, which I never got to play (and it stutters on RetroPie).

I think all that is much less of a headache than what usually kills backwards compatibility which is getting new hardware to be able to run old games.

Honest question. What is the point of the PlayStation retro console? I have a PS3 and downloaded the handful of PS1 games I wanted to the PS3 hard drive.  It was only $4 or $5 per game. Does this do them better or provide games I cannot download to a newer console?

Sony was thinking “easy cash grab!” They even used an open source emulator instead of their own. The definition of lazy.

Nintendo has done backwards compatibility things other than the Virtual Console, similar to what Sony has done in the past as well. The Wii could play GameCube games (and had GC controller ports on top), the Wii U could play Wii games. The GameCube had an add-on that let you play GameBoy or GameBoy Color games. The…

“He’s not the hero Appalachia deserves, but the one it needs...”

This. The idea that we have to compromise with people who don’t want to know better is exactly why the democrats are fucking spineless. If your granny is voting for Donald Trump. It’s less that the mean old libruls are saying mean things to her, and more that she’s a fucking racist.

The lack of online multiplayer is so bizarre. I’d like to hear the rationale behind it. I understand why Switch versions of games have to be scaled back, and why they don’t have mod support. But online multiplayer, although not as robust as on the XBox One or PS4, is typically not something that gets left out.

And Civ…

If you do, I hope you have a wonderful time. Again, this title is much shorter and more simplistic in execution. Still solid performances, great atmosphere, and some interesting choices here and there.

I’m just glad that we’re far enough away from the halycon days of the late 00's and early 2010's when everybody thought Startup Culture would save us and those “code all day, hustle all night” types can now be laughed at by society.

Thank you for this very timely comment! I was just thinking of picking up a game for the Switch that we could play as a family, including not only the two kids but my notoriously video-game-averse wife (the last one she and I ever got into was Rabbids Go Home on the Wii, like 10+ years ago), and Overcooked was at the…

2 years ago my friend from school bought my girlfriend Overcooked for her birthday, which is in 9 days and I got her the Super Mario Party bundle that comes with 2 joycons. We played it a bit, but we never finished it. It was a tough game to get into.

Salutat~RE6: Shinigami! You can’t escape your DESTINY!

Also, shameless self-promotion but last week it seems I was too late in joining the discussion. I copy pasted a pre-written bit about RDR2 and its simulation-aspects. If anyone should care to read those thoughts, feel free to leave a comment. Thought it was a shame to have it go to waste or maybe that’s too…

I get that some people take that stance. Seems that RDR2 is a game that’s divisive in terms of atmosphere vs gameplay. Some people enjoy the experience, playing at their own pace and making their own fun, others want a more streamlined experience with action and gameplay taking the forefront. I think both points are…

Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition is free on PS+ so I’ve played a bit of that, and it turns out I like it. It’s a very fast, crazy FPS, with an emphasis on recklessness that anticipates the Doom remake, though it takes a while to really rev up- it has the problem where there are a lot of little cutscenes introducing new…

Reggie is one of the best deflectors in the industry today, and I mean that as a compliment.