I know it’s a highly unlikely outcome, but how wild and insane could it be to have new storefronts on consoles like the Xbox and PS5? I mean, they’re basically PCs anyway, so adding Steam / GOG / Itch / etc sounds fascinating to me. Or perhaps a Microsoft store on PS5 and vice-versa out of spite?

I’ve very much been in a “re-experience the JRPGs of yesteryear” mode for much of the past year, so I’m currently playing both Final Fantasy XIII and Xenoblade Chronicles 2, and I’m enjoying both much more than I expected for very different reasons.

I’ve never played it (also a coward) but I’m so surprised that a game so successfully centered around a brilliant systemic AI didn’t release as a 6-8 hour game with a semi-randomized rogue-like side mode (like the Prey reboot’s DLC). A shuffled space station layout with different tools and paths each time could’ve…

Like others have said, I hope they don’t try to give him a comic book-esque death, but instead handle him more like a living person. Maybe you say that T’Challa was secretly battling an illness as the actor was in real life, or you say that the process that brought him back to life in the first movie wasn’t meant to…

Thanks so much for sharing this. I got Pfizer shot #2 Sunday afternoon and had a very similar reaction. That night every joint in my body ached and I couldn’t sleep most of the night. Monday I had an intense headache and fever, which turned into the rapidly fluctuating body temperature through that night, meaning more…

I definitely picked up a used PS3 for $40 online and then supported my amazing local games store by getting most of the exclusives I care about for another ~$70, but I don’t feel compelled to financially support Sony for any of this nonsense. It’d be a different story if the announcement ended with “...and we’ve also…

As someone who prioritizes retro gaming and preservation as much as many modern features, their original announcement had actually soured me somewhat on the idea of getting a PS5 anytime soon, so if anything this reversal just puts me back where I had started.

My understanding is that the PS1 and PS2 emulators on PS3 are simply plugging different game isos into the PS1 and PS2 Classic official emulators, and the compatibility rate seems to be very high. Similar results on PS4 as well with those PS2 Classic frameworks, which means they should likely work without much issue…

Persona 6: Oops All Dancing!

If it is high on your list, then I’d actually recommend playing the first few hours at some point. In my mind the game was at its best at the beginning and at the end of disc one 50 hours later, so if you just play the first 5ish hours you get to see a lot of the highs of the game as well as a great cross-section of…

I see them the same way. My earliest gaming memories are of the SNES, so it’s always been important to me to have that system as a constant in my life. My original SNES is still kicking, but it’s frustrating to have to rely on converters and adapters (I’ve tried so many at this point) to get a decent picture on modern…

That’s what I’d hope for at least. There are these little bits of greatness in there and the core concept (a conflict between characters across countless generations) is incredibly intriguing, which make me understand why people are fascinated with this game. It probably has more big ideas than nearly any other game…

Cliff notes are liked condensed study guides you can buy for common high school or college classes, or about specific books taught in those classes. Basically condensing a ton of information for rote memorization and removing everything else. The video game equivalent of the way that Xenogears handles some major…

Thanks! I remember having the option to buy a Super NT when they first released as well, but I think the money was a tough sell at that moment. Naturally it wasn’t until it was out of stock for months at a time that I started to feel the itch (and in the meantime, try nearly every other method of playing SNES games on…

After years of trying and putting it off, I finally finished Xenogears last weekend. And I gotta say...I’m not sure it was worth the 70+ hours, it’s kind of a fucking mess across the board. I’d heard plenty about the second disk’s abrupt transition to abridged scenes, but that always gave me the sense that it went…

Nice! I somehow managed to get an order in for a Super NT after waiting for what feels like forever for them to restock (and for an excruciating half an hour while I had to wait in the checkout queue and worry that my order was going to be cancelled, even though I clicked it at 10am on the dot). 

Seems more like delayed marketing for Far Cry or another Tom Clancy game.

The best numbers I can find show PSVR at about 5 million units since release, with PS4 currently at about 115 million units. I’m not sure saying that an expensive hardware unit that was chasing other existing trends (similar to the Move), was never supported that well, was a pretty mediocre VR headset from my…

“Sony and Nintendo try to innovate, with more or less success, with each console generation...”

“Come on baby, I know I’m a huge fuckup who does the bare minimum and just gets stoned all day instead of being a functioning person, and I know I’ve barely changed in any measurable way and am still a huge fuckup compared to anyone else, and yeah I’m also pretty problematic and think I’m way more interesting than I…