I loved Dragon Quest XI, but (vague spoilers ahead) there’s a point about ~60 hours in that feels like a very natural and cathartic end to the story - after a major loss, you rally your group and defeat the big bad through the power of friendship, and it’s great. But then...the game just keeps going. And it does two…

God yes. Even worse, you could tell the writers thought they were so fucking clever when you were going through the endgame time loop.

I played the shit out of Marvel's Super Heroes vs Street Fighter. It's absolutely broken, but I just loved how over the top it was. 

It has to be said...I WANNA TAKE YOU FOR A RIDE!

It’s hard to say for sure, and I’m certain that far more intelligent people than me will spend the next few years asking what happened. My personal theory focuses around this: the GOP, a radically reactionary party whose electorate has zero apparent interest in policy in favor of just ‘stay in power, fuck the libs’,…

I would also add another point - is there a game there you desperately want to play now and can’t play elsewhere? For some people, that will be Demon’s Souls, but for me, that’s quite a ways off in the future, most likely God of War Ragnarok or FFXVI (assuming those two don’t also blend into PS4 like the other launch…

Or at the very least Prime Trilogy to hold us over.

At first I expected the Series S to be spared from the file size increase, since it shouldn’t need 4k and other ultra high quality assets. But apparently that’s not the case? Surprising if so. Hopefully Microsoft and publishers are able to differentiate between X and S files in order to prevent wasted file space and…

So I’m really curious what happens if you try to play the Syndicate disc in a PS5 - does the game launch but run terribly or with some level of bugginess? Or will Sony implement a blacklist of games that aren’t allowed to launch? (The PS TV functioned this way with a very restrictive list of games, some of which were…

“Visit the in-game store, an incredibly detailed recreation of a rural Walmart, to upgrade your weapons and loadout in your crusade against tyrannical government rule and encroaching socialism using funds from your weekly unemployment check! Fight conservative bias on social media by integrating your Facebook account…

In addition to the gross and awful abuse at the company, I’m also disgusted with the political underpinnings that have come to define a big chunk of their output in the past few years, especially in Far Cry and the Tom Clancy games. Those two series push forward some dangerous and disturbing ideologies without ever…

So true, their environmental and world design is excellent. And the monsters look great too! But that only further highlights how much the characters look like ass.

Seriously. I’d been getting the itch to try the original two NMH for the past few months since I bounced off the first pretty quickly in the Wii days, and there’s no good way to play them otherwise, so this is pretty great.

I loved Bravely Default (up to the infamous time loop) and enjoyed Bravely Second, but man...that’s not a flattering trailer. If they’d like to delay a while longer to redo some (all?) voice animations, clean up some character animations, and add some more polish to the visual design, I’m totally fine with that.

I remember Bravely Second having a feature where you could opt into a series of additional fights after you finish the first one, which resulted in bonus exp and rewards. Combined with the fast forward and other QoL features, it made grinding a breeze and kept it interesting. I’m sure they could incorporate something…

I mean...this game is one of my favorites of the generation and one of my all-time favorite action games, and it’s certainly great looking thanks to the magic of the RE Engine. But would it really be that much better with ray tracing? I genuinely don’t think so. The majority of the environments fall somewhere between…

Cameron: “Okay, yeah, so I guess it’s like...I dunno...aliens, but...blue and...cats? Yeah, cats, people love cats. On dragons. Versus the army. In space. But it’s like a love story too. And a commentary on colonialism. And because it’s me the studio will give us the most insane CG budget, so it takes place on a…

Same, I think I was in college before I figured it out.

I’m in the same mindset. I’ve got boxes of legendary Pokemon in the Bank that I’ve never used accumulated from generations of games. They’re often some of the least interesting Pokemon to use, as much of my enjoyment is that factor of building a team from scratch and seeing each one power up and evolve, whereas…

I absolutely agree with everything you said. In my own personal experience, Sword and Shield greatly reduce the friction that’s been inherent in the Pokemon experience (building teams, leveling up, etc) which, along with taking away random encounters and a few other changes, feel like a huge step forward for a very…