Mister Jack

I don't care about any of those games but I do wonder why it's those specific 11 that won't work.

So far I'm up to 49 plats but that one FF7 trophy is just too much for me. Kudos for powering through that.

Now I hardly claim to have played every JRPG ever made, but at least in this console generation I've found grinding to be much less of a problem in JRPGs than it used to be, at least in the ones I've seen. I won't say it never becomes an issue because I'm sure there are still examples I'm not aware of, but by and large I only find myself having to resort to grinding if I'm doing endgame content or one particularly poorly designed boss. It's nothing like it was back in the 8 and 16 bit days when grinding was pretty much mandatory and it damn sure isn't like these western games that try to sell you XP boosters. For the most part it feels like they've figured out how much they need to guide you along the main path when it comes to exp gains. Of course, if you're the type to run away from every battle then that's another story.

Yeah, I'm in the same boat. I got just enough stars to beat it and then immediately moved on to Sunshine rather than going for all 120. I agree with pretty much everything you said. I used to love Mario 64 and I wanted to still love it today but I just don't.

I'm sure he'll be tested again soon to be sure. Still, a negative test is better than a positive one.

Biden has officially tested negative. I was worried with all that yelling Trump was doing at the debate. We don't need BOTH candidates getting sick.

Honestly I don't even like the wing cap. It feels like you're trying to just barely keep a lead weight aloft with some balloons on strings. I get what they were going for with the swooping and diving, but it doesn't always work and doesn't feel nearly as smooth as the cape from Super Mario World. The cap powerup is already timed so I don't know why you have to be constantly sinking on top of that. The camera still manages to be a problem too. I think a big part of it is that the N64 controller's stick was not actually an analog stick despite what everyone says. It was a digital stick with much more restricted movement options. Now that I'm trying to play it with a true analog stick all that extra feedback is either getting ignored or overcorrected by a game that was programmed around a much simpler stick.

I'm glad you said it. I've also been playing Mario 64 and while it's still enjoyable for the most part, I could not divorce myself from the thought the controls were just plain bad by today's standards. Not only are the controls bad, but so is the camera. Just switch from 64 to Sunshine and the difference in feel is impossible not to notice. In fact, I'd go one further and say that people saying it's the best Mario game of all time must be wearing nostalgia goggles. Mario games both older and newer hold up much better today than Mario 64 does. I do acknowledge that it was a landmark accomplishment for the time and it is still a good game, but it sure isn't a timeless one.

Trump officially has covid-19. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. I hope he dies.

Damn he looks way too young now.

You made the right call, man. What I just witnessed was downright horrifying. I'm sorry I watched it.

Jesus Christ, this is the most unpleasant debate I've ever watched in my life.

Well I say that's bullshit and there's no reason the same judge should be in such a high position for potentially 50+ years. The fact they're trying to hastily push through a conservative majority when the writing on the wall says there is a good chance of a liberal shift in a few months shows that it's a busted system prone to being exploited. If Biden/Pelosi/Schumer et al. don't want to expand the court for admittedly understandable reasons then term limits are the answer. Republicans have appointed 15 justices since 1960 and Democrats have only appointed 8 and a lot of it just comes down to dumb luck. It feels like the future of our legal system is just based on RNG and it's a bad way to run things.

If they could at least push through term limits that would be something. Lifetime appointments are way too long nowadays because people are living to be older and older than they were back in 1789.

Yeah, a Supreme Court that increasingly looks like it's gonna have a 6-3 conservative majority for who fucking knows how long. I can't say I have any faith whatsoever in that institution anymore. Hell, even if Biden does win I don't think he has the balls to rebalance the Supreme Court so it'll probably be another four years of nothing getting done. I would love to be wrong but I don't think I am.

And now our president is openly saying on camera that he won't accept the election results unless he wins. When did we turn into Belarus? I'm watching democracy fail in real time and it has me depressed and stressed out on a level that is really starting to get to me. The only way I can see us getting out of this mess without an unprecedented crisis and possibly the destruction of the very concept of free and fair elections in the US is if Biden wins in a landslide so big that nobody but Trump can claim it's a fraud, and that seems like a remote possibility with where things stand right now. Jesus Christ.

Who could have seen this coming? Who, I ask?

I didn't even know they have a new game coming out

I feel like whether or not it can work really depends on factors that are outside of Microsoft's or Google's control. Internet is still shit in this country for a lot of people and there isn't much even Google can do about it on their own. The telecom monopolies have screwed over millions of people in this regard and unless something is done about that I don't see the cloud model being viable on a wide scale.

I have to agree with Ethan. Microsoft, for better or worse, is clearly looking into the future with their business strategy, anticipating a time when consoles and even physical ownership are obsolete. I honestly would not be surprised if there's eventually a day when Xbox hardware no longer exists and Microsoft just shills their subscription on other platforms, especially if the broadband infrastructure in the US ever gets unfucked and they can offer game streaming on people's phones and tablets that actually works.

It's an interesting premise. I like Wanda in the MCU but I didn't think I'd like her enough to watch a solo series about her. This is a good hook, though. I'm in.

I scraped up some money for this, although I'm buying it now mostly because there are only three more games I'm interested in playing this year (Cyberpunk, Crash Bandicoot, Yakuza) assuming they're not terrible. They're still a ways off though and I'm bored at home in quarantine mode right now so I need some shit to play.

I can't justify buying an Xbox for only two games (Doom, TES) and I can't play them on my PC until I get a whole new one because my current one is way out of date. This sucks for me. If Microsoft did this just for Gamepass incentives or even a timed exclusive then I can live with it, but if they bought Bethesda just to keep their games off of the PS5 then it's a pretty dick move.

Hey Mitch, you're a fucking scumbag hypocrite and I hope you die.