Don’t write off small devs just because huge corpos are assholes

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I will gladly take the customers EA loses

Been playing the entire Battlefield franchise since 1942

Note to readers: 1942 is the name of a game, not the year of release

It’s true, I did play Super Mario All-Stars for SNES.

Hey board of directors! Make me your new CEO and I will fix this problem!

How many kids are going to have their vision fucked up this time?

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Ok buddy

I can get lost and then spend time “progressing” only to find the way blocked and having to backtrack

You mean you GET to backtrack

I don’t understand what a lot of those activities have to do with toll booths

The drinking animation needs a lot of work, or just skip it and have it be instantaneous with a gulp sound

The woman’s head getting bigger from the drink is bizarre and disturbing

The woman spewing liquid out from her mouth doesn’t look great

It doesn’t take very long to look at ratings. If it’s crap it’ll have crap ratings.

Read reviews. Examine promotional materials. Discuss with friends.

Immersion and customizability

Nah they love violence. It keeps the gravy seals as hapless betas.

Sorry, just frustrated to see the same assumption every generation, after ever generation sees massive change. In retrospect, it’s probably new people making the same assumption, not the same people.

SNES was top loading with receding flaps. NES was front loading with a flap cover.

Must I point out all of the changes, or can you do some critical thinking before you argue?

No shit.

Every 5 years, chodes expect each new Nintendo console to be a copy + paste of the previous one.

It’s never happened.

Start with HL2 on normal difficulty. Then do 2E1 and 2E2 on normal difficulty.

Then repeat all of that on hard.

Then you’ll be where I am. Never bothered with 1.

I assume one OLED for the family and then a portable per person

Stop. Don’t buy anything yet.

What do you mean “one portable”? Do you mean a non-OLED Switch? Do you mean a Switch Lite? Do you mean a pair of Joy-Cons? Do you mean a single Joy-Con?

My family has 3 Switches. I bought a launch system, my wife bought another of that type, gave it to our kid, then bought an OLED for herself.

So, you don’t need more Switches than the number of people (unless you’re planning to host Animal Crossing treasure islands, which, you’re probably not).

We had a Switch Lite, but it was redundant since we each had a regular/OLED, so we sold it.

Why not just start with one and go from there? Get the OLED if you’re planning to primarily play handheld, or if faster loading times are super important to you.

… why?

I felt the first Mass Effect was cozier than the sequels, though I never finished the sequels.

Just go back to using the Reach engine

“Catch creatures to use to fight” is a broad enough theme that it should be fair use, and has other precedent. For example, it was done in Bomberman Generation. Why didn’t Nintendo sue Konami?

2 is the only one I completed. I enjoyed it.

The graphical shortcomings might have something to do with there being 100 players in the match at once.

This chapter/season added jetpacks, which are very fun.

And still no Half-Life 3

It’s the same game though

Spear of Destiny or Rise of the Triad would have been better picks

Heard of that one a few times

If you’re open to silly casual games, Untitled Goose Game

Also, I heard Cult of the Lamb was getting a co-op update

What did CoD 4 introduce that Halo 3 hadn’t already done 2 months prior?

If you want to talk about “how do I get up there” in a 3d environment, Doom did it before TR.

Low effort? OP doesn’t say anything about what they dislike.

100 golden walnuts was enough

Skyrim
Mario Galaxy 2
Animal Crossing New Horizons
I changed my mind. ACNH wouldn’t be as fun with no multiplayer. I’ll say Fire Emblem Three Houses instead.

I felt like II had very few modern segments and was worth it

… are we playing different games, or are you a troll?

Stardew has no dual wielding… only one type of attack per weapon. There are bombs, sure.

Compared to Skyrim though?

Asking you to clarify your argument is not me making my own. That’s a straw man fallacy.

Also Skyrim’s combat is much better than Stardew Valley’s…

You can’t think of a game with non-clunky combat, and you still mark Skyrim down for it?