Going to recommend King of Tokyo to anyone looking for a new board game. It’s fast-paced, easy to learn, and far more fun than it has any business being.

Going to recommend King of Tokyo to anyone looking for a new board game. It’s fast-paced, easy to learn, and far…

The games having aged poorly has nothing to do with graphics. The games are glitchy, the types are unbalanced, inventory is a mess, the menus are slow, sleep is far too powerful of a status (as is freeze, but since there’s no reliable way to inflict it that’s not really a concern), the lack of breeding and renewable…

I love how the addition of the notched tails implies that every previously seen anime Pikachu was male. I’m just imagining that the group of wild Pikachu that Ash nearly abandoned his own to (thinking he would prefer it there) was the Pikachu equivalent of a gay bar.

The New 3DS may not technically be required to play Smash Bros. for 3DS, but the experience is so vastly improved I could never go back. The game is so blatantly pushing the vanilla 3DS to its limit that I almost wish they had made it N3DS exclusive. It’s a much smoother experience, and the C-stick for smashes is…

Same here, which ended up bugging me when we got to the Ganondorf poster (since the character didn’t exist in that design until Ocarina of Time).

Given the number of replies you got that didn’t get it, I just wanted to let you know- I got it. I felt you deserved some acknowledgement.

It’s worth mentioning that, in the old EU, Luke and Vader still dueled once prior to their meeting in Empire Strikes Back. Unless Splinter of the Mind’s Eye was removed from canon prior to the Disney restructuring.

I’m honestly not sure what the real-world standard for war crime responsibility is. But while Leia’s presence may have made Alderaan a target, Tarkin made it clear that he wanted to demonstrate the Death Star’s ability. And since “Dantooine is too remote for an effective demonstration”, he clearly wanted a populated…

I really need to start reading the new comics. Everything I’ve heard has been fantastic.

Luke destroyed the Death Star. Vader did not destroy Alderaan.

And it was the 1st in command who gave the order to fire. When Tarkin found out Leia lied when faced with Alderaan’s destruction, Vader’s response is basically “Yeah, told you it wouldn’t work.” So we know that he personally saw no merit to the plan. The most you can say is that he didn’t stop it, which even then…

Even without going for the Pokédex, you’re still out the trade evos playing solo. Maybe I just like Gengar too much.

Given how reliant the Pokémon games are on trading, I think most people will realize having that be functional is much more important than having a 100% pure port. I'd rather play a modified game where Alakazam/Gengar/Machamp/Golem can actually be obtained than an exact replica where they can't.

And then everyone will realize how poorly these games have aged.

I’m as big a fan of this franchise as they come, but let’s be real people- completing your Pokédex in Red/Blue was a CHORE, since you couldn’t breed your starter you had to either trade with your friends as you kept up a similar pace, or start one…

I don’t disagree with the notion that this is very much a question of informed consent (and that the victim here very clearly was not able to give that), but I have a problem with that analogy. In your hypothetical, your husband and the masked man are two distinct, actual people. What’s giving people trouble in this…

I am 99% sure we’ll see Pokémon Z announced, actually. Given that Zygarde’s new formes have been public for a few weeks now, it’s pretty clear that the next game will be the follow-up to X and Y.

No doubt this Direct will lack the charm that only Iwata could have brought to the table. Still, the show must go on- Nintendo still has projects to announce and games to release, and the Direct is a great way to keep fans informed of what’s ahead. I hope they honor Iwata’s memory with this one, but ultimately the…

You know, for a while I was OK with the lack of slopes on the logic that it breaks the ability to swap between styles, since classic SMB didn’t have slopes. Then I realized- why not just add slopes to that style? People who don’t want them won’t use them, and the styles aren’t already 100% consistent with their…

What’s the standard for levels being removed from Mario Maker? I had two levels that fell off- both of which not a single person had beaten, although I didn’t get that many plays. They were two of my more recent ones too, so I assume it’s some combination of plays/stars(maybe if people can beat it?) and not strictly…

Yeah, someone definitely has their head pretty far in the sand over this. It makes sense for something like Big Hero 6, which was an American property with Japanese references/influences. But to be willing to import actual Japanese media yet strip out anything remotely Japanese from it is a contradiction I can’t quite…