Didn't XY have this kind of system built in? I thought you could either search for exactly which monster you wanted or list your own trade offer? I played the more recent games but don't remember if that was still the case.

I do too, although I don’t remember why...probably because there were so many things crammed into it? It all feels unnecessary, but I think it’s really easy to forget that the original PS3 launched in 2006 as a full-blooded pre-streaming living room media center, so all those other media categories were necessary at…

Same! I thought the Wii U menu was dumb at the time, but it’s so charming to go back to with the Miis running around. And I feel like the Switch menu could largely remain the same if: a) we could pin games to the main row or the top of the giant list, b) sort the giant list in more than two ways (genre would be cool,…

Man, can you imagine a Capcom platform fighter that spanned all their legacy series like Marvel vs Capcom? 

Seriously though. I got a One S late in the generation for game pass and was similarly impressed after spending so long with the PS4's lame UI. Why have Sony and Nintendo decided a single row of unsortable games is the height of UX? The Xbox UI is far from perfect, but the density and accessibility of info and options…

This actually looks...good? I appreciate that it has an energetic art style and flow, unlike the nickelodeon game. VA helps too. Too bad it’s free to play, I’d much rather just pay for it and be done. Maybe they’ll have that option.

I do the same thing, which makes the newer games’ progressions interesting for me. Instead of spending the game trying to create one uber-team that can handle all challenges so I’m avoiding unnecessary grinding, I’m shaking up my team dynamics across the game and have a much deeper bench to choose from once I hit the…

And yet I continue to dream of the day that Eternal Sonata returns through BC, much as its portrayal of real-life composer Frederic Chopin spends the game, dreaming on his death bed of musically-themed emo anime nonsense mixed with the horror of the wars he experienced in life.

Sounds great, but I’d rather play the game where a cat inadvertently pushes the big red button to bring on nuclear winter because it’s fascinated by the bright object, but then through a comedy of errors unpushes it...and repushes it...and on and on, all while the soldiers around you don’t understand what’s happening…

Welp, I’m a little rusty on PC game piracy, but I’d bet the torrent sites are working extra hard right now to keep those original releases and their mods alive and accessible. Nobody should feel guilty about pirating twenty year old games that normally only cost a couple bucks each and have been replaced by an…

I’ll second the idea of taking this chance to focus on retro games. Unless you desperately need to play the latest and greatest, there are hundreds of amazing classics to play from previous gens. Pick up either a PS2 or 3ds and get two of the best and biggest console libraries in one through backwards compatibility…

Draggin' Quest

I don’t get why these gamers are so offended. As others have said, SMT as a series is anti-”heart” - a series that barely has defined characters, more a variety of themes and philosophies with character design and nametags. And that’s not a bad thing if that’s what you’re looking for! SMT originated just after the…

To be fair, a whole swath of the Pokemon fandom turns whole childrens games into miserable mathematical analysis in ways that take countless repetitive hours, this just adds a pyramid scheme on top of it.

My wife has had the 4A for somewhere between 12 and 18 months (whenever it came out), and she’s never had any issues - still runs fine, no freezing or lagging, charge lasts all day. I just switched to the 5A from a three year old Galaxy S9 that ran like absolute horseshit for the last year I had it and needed to be…

“20 dollars is 20 dollars, stranger.”

I’ve been using my launch-era Switch as an emulation powerhouse for the past six months or so, and it’s already run Saturn games well (but not perfectly, so I’m curious to see if this will be a better option). For anyone curious, it’s actually capable of playing Saturn, PS1, PSP, Dreamcast, and even some Gamecube and…

It’s too bad to hear that the game fumbles so hard on it’s themes and characters. It’s surprising because I tend to assume that modern games leaning on Earthbound’s influence must naturally include Mother 3 (a game with actual characters and deeper themes, Earthbound is interesting but there’s not a ton there). Mother…

I mean, I don't like his casting either, but I think I'm still at the "wtf Mario has actual voice lines that necessitate that much acting what are they doing to my boy" stage.

*Nintendo execs take turns doing huge lines of cocaine during brainstorming*