I even played Dolphin on my hacked launch day Switch for a while before I got a Steam Deck, which is a more direct slap in their face. If only there were a legal and marketable way to access old games on modern consoles...like a console, but...virtual? But who would even do such a thing.

A lot of these could be explained with “hey, even some of the least popular Zelda / Metroid / Mass Effect / Final Fantasy / etc are still very good games, as the benchmark for quality within their series is high compared to their genre.” At the very least they get a lot right, including gameplay fundamentals,…

As someone who was at Prime Star Wars Age (10) when Episode I hit theaters, I always thought Jar Jar was fine. He’s far from the worst thing in those movies (Anakin’s dialogue often takes that trophy, and the clear issue is the writer’s room), and he’s only really a major presence in Episode I from what I remember.…

[Game] now updated to include ray tracing!

Not every transition through a tight space is for loading. I’m replaying FF7R and there are quite a few different moves like this with the characters squeezing and ducking through gaps. Yeah, it might partially be to help hide loading times in some areas, but they also create boundaries that enemies can’t follow…

I mean, on the one hand, yeah, Sony certainly could - they own Bungie, who could hypothetically be given the resources to make a more traditional CoD competitor that would probably at the very least look great and have strong gameplay and matchmaking. On the other hand, Microsoft has had roughly a decade since the…

I’d imagine not. Not only do most subsequent releases in a series like this anecdotally drop off in sales after the first game regardless of quality, Prime 2 & 3 aren’t nearly as fondly remembered as the first game. Prime 3 also heavily relies on motion controls, which would be an issue. Plus, if most of the point of…

I mean...I can somewhat see his point and I’m sure you can point to these issues as big challenges in the 360 / PS3 generation, but hardware challenges don’t even begin to explain Square Enix’s really mediocre output and big stumbles this generation. Infinite Undiscovery, Last Remnant, Star Ocean: The Last Hope, FF…

They’ve very rarely rereleased a DS / 3DS game on a non-DS system, with the only exception being the small selection of DS games on Wii U’s amazing Virtual Console. Beyond that, the vast majority of gems on those systems are still trapped there, which is why the announcement of the Etrian Odyssey collection and Ghost…

What, no Ridge Racer Unbounded? Everyone’s...favorite...game they forgot existed if they even noticed it in the first place?

Considering this is Rocksteady’s first game in quite a few years, I’m curious how much their survival as a studio is riding on this game being successful? It’d be a shame if such a great studio dissipates due to this mess of a game.

“...also, we’re happy to announce the Skyrim Special Anniversary Commemorative Starfield Announcement Edition, with an extra bit of new content made by modders, now available for $70.”

I had the same thought, but then I realized that I’m pretty sure EA Play is only with the higher tier of Game Pass, so this seems to mean that even people on the basic tier have access to it now. Still not a huge win, but not a big deal anyway.

G4 was always a really strange microcosm of what marketers in the 90s and 00s expected gamer culture to be - very heavily catering to the teenage boy demographic, weird cringey humor, and a very Us vs Them mindset towards just about everything. Plus, it was never even useful game reviews. I seem to remember their…

While they’re at it, can they hire a new marketing team? The insane release schedule for the last year where they kicked genuinely interesting games out the door one after the other with little fanfare or logic really boggles the mind, and I’m sure they’ll release a statement saying most of them underperformed.

It’s certainly original, but having coincidentally played it for the first time the other day, there's nothing redeeming there. Aside from the weird premise it lacks any of the charm or energy of games like Katamari or Gitaroo Man. It's just boring and also really pervy towards the teenage girl.

I thought it might be as simple as the fact that a kiss is easy to edit out seamlessly, while how much of episode three would even be left if you cut out the gay romance portions? I doubt it would even be coherent.

Even if I didn't already own two versions of this game, I wouldn't care.

I had no idea they were charging $40 for this mess, I figured it was closer to $20 since it’s just a straight port. Ballsy move, especially since I’m pretty sure the PS3 release with both games was $30.

This might be a good time to recommend everyone just go play Arkham Origins instead, since it seems like a lot of people skipped it at release and it's very well regarded now.