Don’t most people stop playing Candyland, Chutes & Ladders, and other 100% luck games once they get old enough to handle games that involve decisions? “Equalizing randomness” implies that it’s there to offset a small gap in skill to keep things interesting- those two games are completely random, with Candyland having…

I spent a few days resetting for a Shiny Virizion once. It was an amazing feeling once I finally got it, but I’ll probably never deliberately hunt down a shiny legendary again.

Except he’s not able to stream, for obvious reasons. This pretty much forces him to be anonymous if he wants to actually play. I don’t know what his motivations are, but it could be that not getting to stream kills his motivation to be a troll.

I’ll just leave this here.

And it always bugged me how Naked Snake/Big Boss in the prequel games was basically identical to Solid Snake. I always thought someone else should have been voicing BB, since he’s deliberately NOT genetically identical to Solid Snake. If anything, MGS3 should have felt like we were playing as Solidus.

There are dozens of us! DOZENS!

I saw the title and thought “Oh great, another dark and gritty reimagining of Mario.” But this art is actually really good, it actually still feels like Mario while offering a very different look at that world.

And yet my immediate response to VALERIE was “To defeat the Huns?”

Batman v Superman draws heavily on Frank Miller’s best known Bat-opus, pulling lines and scenes from the seminal 1986 alt-universe story.

Maybe I’ll get flak for this, but I always thought someone other than Hayter should have been Naked Snake/Big Boss. The fact that people on the Internet routinely treat him and Solid Snake as the same character just reaffirms it for me.

(For anyone wondering: Solid Snake is the protagonist of the pre-Solid MSX titles,…

They often do, but the parents don’t always listen. And since there’s no actual violation of theater policy going on, all you can do is direct them to their seats and be prepared to call a manager when they come back angry in 20 minutes.

Sometimes certain movies will be enforced more strictly. Passion of the Christ at…

I worked a few summers in a theater about a decade ago. It’s amazing how little people know about movies going into them. Ratings mean nothing to some people, but my favorite example is the people who went to see Cinderella Man (which is a depression-era boxing movie starring Russel Crowe) thinking it was going to be,…

When I saw this, my first thought was “If Dogsong doesn’t show up in the comments I will be EXTREMELY disappointed.”

The characters are savescumming on a meta level, though. Because they’re using knowledge from alternate timelines to solve problems, they’re effectively saving and restarting from various points.

For local multiplayer, I’ve read elsewhere online that it also supports LAN play. Sure, it requires 2 WiiUs and 2 TVs, but presumably it would also let you play your friends without forcing one of you to the gamepad & dropping the framerate.

I suddenly really wish this game had stage-specific interactions, like Injustice. Because I want nothing more than to grab a Magikarp from outside the ring and slap my opponent across the face with it.

Exactly. It’s an unfortunate side-effect of the world she’s crafted, but saying “magic has existed for most if not all of human history, and magic-using humans are keeping their society a secret” is going to have some implications. Magic users have to have existed in every society, which means that there’s an implied…

And when everything’s playable...

Cyndaquil is probably the closest. Snout is a bit longer than a hedgehog’s, but it fits the “small spiky rodent” build.

Correct, most do. Which is why Capcom promoting one that does not is a problem.