Strangelove

You can get Super Mario World for Wii U if you use 200 coins on the Club Nintendo website. It sucks that I already had it. I have tons of coins and nothing to use them on. Ugh.

I am literally LMAO. It's a bloodbath.

Over the years Ive really started to actually dislike puzzles in my games. I just hate them. I stopped playing Darksiders because of the puzzles. Well, it was a shitty game outside of the puzzles too. And outside of Wind Waker, I kind of really dislike the Zelda series. I think 2D Zelda is where it was at. Theyre just boring to me. Each Uncharted game has about 2 or 3 obligatory puzzles, but theyre easy as can be and kind of fit into the story. I don't mind that, but I guess as Ive gotten older I like not getting stuck on bullshit. I think there should be a clear separation between puzzle heavy games like Portal 2 and Zelda and games with filler puzzles like Uncharted and Tomb Raider. By the way, Tomb Raider is also an example of my change in tastes. This new one is so much better than the old ones combined. I feel bad for the original fans that this one is so "dumbed down", but I think the franchise is more fun for it. Now if they could write a decent story. Thatd be great. I guess over the years gaming for me has become more about relaxing and less about being particularly good at it. Im not competitive and I rarely ever feel "accomplished" after I figure something out. I will say that Im not completely devoid of challenge. I think the Portal games hit a sweet spot as far as difficulty goes. People shit on them for not being difficult enough, but I think theyre perfect. I personally never got stuck on a puzzle that I had to turn it off or look it up online(well, except for the last puzzle in Portal 2, for some reason I just couldnt grasp it). Usually Id spend a few minutes and once I figured it out id feel like an idiot over how obvious it was. Theyre clever games, I think. Now Resident Evil, Im not sure how to classify those. Before RE4 of course. I like those games a lot, but Im not sure if they did puzzles right or not. A lot of them were just ways to pad out the game with backtracking, I still liked them though.

Good lord. I was going to post this in the awful thread, but I get too much joy from watching it.

OCD isn't something you are, it's something you have, you turkey. And despite what you claim, you probably don't have OCD. Youre probably just an asshole.

He still kills them though. Those pixels had pixel families. I also just realized this isnt really a trope, more of a pet peeve. Oops.

I understand something like that. Ive always been a big fan of games that respond to almost everything you do. But its still the exception to me. Most games don't account for most things, but I never take it seriously. I guess Im really the type of person that gets lost in the game theyre playing. I never really question how things work outside of the game. If the internet hadnt brought up how Nathan Drake is a mass murderer, I never would have realized it. I was too busy playing an interactive action movie. Since I can remember all action heroes murder a ton of people and by the end, theyre still the hero. We still root for them. The 80s really solidified that. Most of my childhood heroes were mass killers. Rambo, Robocop, Terminator, etc. Its fine with me and I dont think im in any way inhuman for being ok with it. I guess my point is that I dont find Uncharted or AC any less fantastical than Super Mario or Sonic. I never question why Sonic's shoes dont rip off his feet the minute he gets super speed or why Mario doesnt have a hole in his pants after he lost his raccoon tail powerup. Is there a point to thinking about stuff like that? Is there anything to gain? And i guess it goes back to people who overanalyze superhero or fantasy movies and dissect them, which weve talked about before. I assume these people simply cant stop themselves. its not their choice, they just cant help but notice the irregularities. Thats gotta suck, not being to enjoy most decent things.

I HATE hearing people bitch or even talk about immersion. Was this even a topic 10 years ago? It seems everything a game does breaks people's immersion. The sci fi stuff in Assassin's Creed, Ellie never being noticed by enemies in TLoU, regenerating health, or even just having a UI. JUST HAVING A UI BREAKS PEOPLE'S IMMERSION. Sorry, but theres only so much immersion you can have. Sorry you have such a shitty life, videogames arent going to fix it. There is no Wonderland to go to. I know that sounds douchy, but I dont really see the big deal. I get immersed in games all the time, but I never pretend Im not playing a game or that Im part of it. Its a goddamn game. Ive been playing these things since I was 4 or 5 years old. Let's just go back to bitching about controls, enemy AI and graphics please.

Getting the best accessory/weapon/item in the entire game by beating the toughest boss first. Makes it completely pointless.

Goddammit, they nerfed the Cat Nip accessory in FFX-2. For those not in the know, equipping cat nip makes every hit 9999 damage, if youre near death. People used to equip the cat nip and the gunner dressphere and then use trigger happy(10-15 hits a turn) and just demolish everything. But now the cat nip also inflicts berserk and slow on the user. So you cant do that anymore. Lame.

Preordered. I'm a tool.

This shit's classy as fuck.

I dont think its about recouping their losses, its about making more money while their "real" sequel or new IP comes out. And to keep the franchise relevant. I guess sort of a placeholder. Otherwise Im sure Borderlands 2 and Arkham City made them quite a bit of money. Its basically what Ubisoft does with AC. And the only reason I talk shit about it is because it should be an expensive expansion at most. But whatever. Maybe its going to be better and Borderlands 2.

Pre-sequel. I'm getting tired of these lets-reuse-the-same-engine-one-last-time games. I'm not saying they are always bad(New Vegas was awesome), but Arkham Origins left a bad taste in my mouth,

I'd complain about the price, but the game in actuality isn't even a year old and still retails for $60 on ps3. Not to mention that it'll probably contain the dlc. And most importantly, we're not the people this is meant for, it's mostly being rereleased for 360 fans who switched over to ps4. So I can also assume that the upgrade won't be huge either. Not like Tomb Raider did it. I'm still getting it though. Just an excuse to play it over again. With a better controller and hopefully 60fps.

I wonder how many teenagers are going to go through puberty while playing this game. It seems like Samus' suit gets tighter and tighter each game while her boobs get bigger. If I were 13, Id probably wank to it, so Im not complaining. Then again, pornography was very hard to come by back when I was a teen with no internet access or older brother whom to steal porn from. Nowadays it's free and ondemand for anyone. You really dont need to jack it to these sort of things anymore. Unless you enjoy that sort of thing. Thats cool.

So Smash Bros. comes out for the 3DS in the summer first and on Wii U in the winter. They really are f**king idiots.

Outkast is one of the few who makes me actually feel good when I listen to their music. This video is also ridiculously awesome. It has to be one of my top ten.

Turns out my internet isnt good enough to run PSNow. God, I hate this country.

You know you're a 90's kid if...

Mercenary Kings has this weird delay when you jump. Its not good. Have the innernet crybabies bitched about this on Twitter to the developers yet to have it removed? This is one time where Id be on their side. I just cant play it like that.