“...and if Sephiroth’s Wing Form appears at 69%, the crowd will yell NICE and you’ll have the ability to wavedash for the rest of the match. The team was skeptical, but I really pushed for this feature.”

I don’t think they ever pulled AC Unity, but that probably allowed console reviews and footage before the release date.

Sammmmeee. That was fascinating to hear. It was also adorable to have him specify the frame counts for a couple of attacks and then catch himself, saying “oh wait, I shouldn’t say stuff like this, I’m making a party game” and the crew laughing. The man’s a treasure.

I was surprised that they chose to translate and port the NES original when the SNES FEs are supposedly better games and surely have aged better as well. Maybe the explanation is that another one is coming 3/31...

And they all wonder why Nintendo continually doesn’t want to acknowledge their scene’s existence...

I mean, sure, be an apologist for the major corporation’s massive fuckup that’s the messiest major release in a generation. I don’t remember hearing about the other major open world releases having dicks out glitches, T-posing and disappearing characters, game breaking and system crashing bugs, and probably the worst…

To be fair, even the base PS4 has pushed some amazing graphics over the past couple of years, punching far above its weight with Last of Us 2, RDR 2, FF7 Remake, God of War, Death Stranding, Horizon Zero Dawn, Resident Evil 2/3, etc. And Cyberpunk looks and runs like shit compared to all of them on the console. After…

I finally finished the Link’s Awakening remake this morning, which was a delightful little palette cleanser, and I’ll likely wrap up Age of Calamity this weekend since I get the sense that I’m 80-90% of the way done.

Personally I’m a big fan of the Low Poly mode that PS4 and Xbox One users are currently beta testing. Bold move to push the retro aesthetic that far on a major AAA game!

As someone who loved The Witcher 3 quite a bit...probably not, which makes me somewhat sad. The Witcher is such a nuanced and empathetic series underneath it all - it’s a cruel and bleak world torn apart by selfish wars and human greed, but Geralt is still able to (if you choose to do so) act kindly and make his world…

Using internet wizardry (Google Maps) and advanced sleuthing techniques (the measurement function), it looks like the area, which is still very much in construction in GMaps but shares the same outline, is approximately 56,000 sf (very approximate, given the weird shape of the footprint). This happens to be almost…

Even though I loved P5 (and am currently playing it again through Royal), up until recently I wasn’t very excited about a musou sequel. But now that I’m deep into Age of Calamity and absolutely loving it, I’m incredibly hyped for this!

The PS4's drive didn’t even recognize CDs (audio or PS1), so I doubt they changed that for the PS5.

I’d be so curious to visit the alternate timeline where the Wii U sold decently (probably with a different name) and got a sleeker revised model along the lines of the DS Lite, because I feel like so many issues with the system are based around the object itself. But a system with that concept with industrial design…

We had the same experience - so many evening car trips, and so many AA batteries lost to those shitty snake lights. It’s too bad the US never got the Game Boy Light (literally just a Pocket with a backlight), I never liked the Color’s screen palette so it would have been a great B&W option instead.

This is probably a controversial take, but...OG Game Boy (The Brick). Don’t get me wrong, I probably used mine for literally thousands of hours over countless replays of Pokemon Blue, Yellow, and Gold, but beyond that series and Link’s Awakening, worthwhile games were surprisingly few and far between for a system that…

I know, it seems...surprisingly underwhelming stylistically? Especially for the long-awaited sequel to such a trailblazing and stylish game. The whole time I was wishing it was taking more notes and cues from Persona 5.

Between these issues, the apparent UI quirks and inefficiencies for even simple tasks, the coil whine, the dearth of truly next gen games, and the constant supply issues, (as well as, you know, the global economic depression and pandemic) it really feels like the PS5 came in extraordinarily hot and would have really…

“Keep your politics out of coverage of my military game depicting historical fiction centered around the political machinations of a decades long political conflict between the world’s two main political superpowers, which depicts the political chief of one of those superpowers front and center in the plot and…

*Sony fanbois who roasted me in the comments months ago when I expressed skepticism that loading times were going to abruptly be a thing of the past just because there’s an SSD now* “HOLY FUCKING SHIT THIS MAGIC MACHINE LOADS A MEDIOCRE LOOKING CEL-SHADED LAST GEN GAME IN JUST UNDER A MINUTE!”