I need to give it another shot, maybe after AC6. It could just be that I’ve had my fill of MH for now. 

On the note of complexity in MH, I have to say that Rise might have too many systems going on. I loved MH4U and MHW, but I’ve struggled with Rise. Part of it is going back to the static environments, no doubt. I still don't get how Rise is supposed to be the most "welcoming" game in the series. It's likely just me,…

I went to a small liberal arts school, and they had a “Sports & Fitness” major primarily populated by athletes. It had no professional certification, and I never understood the purpose of the degree. At the very least, the athletes should have directed toward the education degree for P.E. teachers, giving them a solid…

Perhaps not American or Canadian, where all of the infrastructure is built to require a car to get around? 

Try some custom bindings or make your own, replacing gamepad inputs with keyboard commands. The touchpads are extremely versatile for making games like this playable. 

The Federal indictment is not directly connected to The Insurrection; he is not being charged with inciting a riot. Rather, the charges relate to multiple obstructions of the electoral process, based on testimony of administration officials, communications records, and, yes, Trump’s self-incriminating social media…

Absolutely. Near the end of its lifespan, and even into the N64 era, a first party or “premier” 3rd party SNES game (like SF Alpha 2 or Marvel Superheroes: War of the Gems) went for $60 ($116.00 in today’s money). Most PS1 games were $40. PS1 owners typically had far larger libraries than N64 gamers in my experience.

It was always the Saturn that called out to me at demo kiosks because it was such a white whale in the wild. I don't think I knew anyone who had one. 

From what I get, it’s not as simple as two players in the same general spot in the game world. Co-op in this game allows for players to be in totally different places in the game world, so the system has to be able to render split-screen independently, which is a big ask with a game of this scope. Then, or course, you…

It doesn’t reach the height of LttP, and I found ALBW it to be the easiest Zelda I’ve ever played, but the nostalgia of revisiting that map does a lot of heavy lifting in my enjoyment of the title. 

GoW seems to have a crashing problem on the Deck lately. It works, but, as you said, not well. Another PS exclusive that runs well and is a good handheld experience is Days Gone.

LTTP and the GB/GBC games need to be higher. Even when Link’s Awakening originally came out, it's level of sprite work and art was very impressive on the system. With it and Super Mario Land: 6 Golden Coins, Nintendo did a phenomenal job of splitting the difference between NES and SNES-level sprite work. 

I’m disappointed to see Super Noah’s Ark 3D and no other Wisdom Tree games, particularly their batshit-crazy Zelda-like “Spiritual Warfare.” It was actually kind of compelling for the time because it took the Zelda template and laid it on a modern city; it was the first game that gave me the ability to sort of free…

I mean, this is a fairly new market/industry for the FTC to wrap their heads around. The fact that Microsoft is involved makes them 100x more suspicious given past antitrust suits, and gaming has only recently (last 15 years or so) reached the point where a first-party console manufacturer acquiring a third party…

Are my fellow elder millennials telling their kids to do this?

I know we scoff at AC games getting bigger, but it would be really cool to see them add very slim strips of the east coasts of Florida and Georgia, up to Savannah, to the game. There was a good amount of pirate activity here, and Blackbeard Island, where his treasure is said to be buried (never found) is about 20 min…

Iced tea hack:

Yeah, he’s in the game and you get his outfit. My current character looks like Naked Snake and is accompanied by "Lara Croft," "Sam Fisher," and "Solid Snake," although I might replace him with as close of a facsimile of "Doom Guy" as I can conjure up. 

My favorite aspect of RPGs following the template established by Japanese developers is the streamlined nature of leveling up and gear. Outside of games like Souls-likes where optimizing a build is essential and fairly straightforward, I really don’t like having to make incremental decisions when levelling up. Thank…

Until there is an ARM chip that can handle x86/64 applications completely, I don’t see Nvidia supporting any console other than future Switches. Intel is the only other company besides AMD that produces x86/64 based APUs, but AMD has dominated the iGPU/APU market for 15 years or so.