That was my same question. I know there’s a metric ton of them in that area, but it also wasn’t an area I would have ever wanted to come back to or needed to spend extra time in.

100%, most of us that get into the console game own more than one of them anyway. There’s nothing stopping them for competing for the same audience as Sony, but there’s just very little differentiation in what they’ve been offering. For me at least, mostly because I already own a PC and a PS5 - maybe the real play for…

I played through FFVII:R and enjoyed the combat quite a bit. Then I played through it again on hard and was absolutely blown away by the depth and fun and how much there actually was to optimize.

Riju can also be used to clear rocks in a pinch, just costs an arrow.

I can’t believe a GOAT list would be missing the true goat, Goht. God that boss fight was fun, I would boot up Majora’s Mask literally just to go kill Goht while racing around the track as Goron-Link.

Agreed, feels a bit too close to its source material, had hoped to see them take the concept of JSRF and innovate on it, not more or less replicate it.

Every indie showcase is just me hoping that this is the one that will have a Silksong release date in it. Been a disappointing run.

I’d feel worse about this if PointCrow wasn’t such an asshole

The stupid Rod of Dominion in Twilight Princess also stands out as an egregious offender along this trend. It literally does nothing outside of solving extremely specific puzzles.

Actual worst thing about Skyward Sword: the handholding

I mean, both Bayonetta and Snake do have some fairly silly qualities though. They also come from games, which helps make Smash Bros just be a celebration of games, rather than a celebration of various IPs being mangled together.

This move might kill this game off for good, or worse, it might save it.

Slight correction, Nintendo is bigger than Sony Games. Sony in its entirety is 4 or 5 times the size of Nintendo based on revenue.

Because Microsoft is publicly lying about it. No one on Team Sony is advertising a desire for their games to be available to everyone, they want platform exclusives. But Microsoft is trying to act friendly so they can make more major studio acquisitions, while behind the scenes they are absolutely, unquestioningly,…

It is a Persona thing. The “Detective Prince” refers to Naoto Shirogane from Persona 4.

100%. Add to that list Monolithsoft, Intelligent Systems, and From Software. There are so many Japanese studios that absolutely figured their shit out in this very same 2006-2012 era of gaming.

The most apparent reference point for me looks to be a modernized Metal Warriors from the SNES. And that game was fantastic, so consider me intrigued.

It’s totally wild, I think it’s respectable to have wanted better for him. After all, it would have taken so little for him to simply say something like “I don’t stand by any of this stuff I said, I think we were trying to be edgy and push comedy that was on or even across the line, it wasn’t good then and it doesn’t…

He’s aggressively defending this review online, right now, and self-righteously victimizing himself over it. Not sure I’d go with “genuinely good dude” at this point.

Elden Ring is steeped in “lore,” but there is very little storytelling because nearly none of the story happens while you’re there. You are there to experience a mostly-dead world full of stories that have already happened.