TheMightyEthan

Yeah, but the literal flaming eye was incredibly stupid. Like, it was fine when it was just what Frodo was seeing when he wore the ring, but once it became clear that it was actually like that in Mordor, and not just a metaphoric representation, it was stupid.

First Switch game that doesn't support TV-play.

Even if it fails to build on what came before that wouldn't make it a bad game, just a mediocre one.

Get a Vita or PSTV and play Persona 4 Golden. That's the one that got me into the series, and I don't even like JRPGs.

Yeah, it's Persona 5.

The embargo on previews breaks today, and so I was hoping Digital Foundry would have a performance comparison between the Switch and Wii U versions, but nothing so far. Weirdly, Eurogamer doesn't have a preview up at all, even though all the other previews went live an hour ago. The previews are super promising though.

GOH, where are you seeing that you need a pro controller? Everything I'm seeing is saying the joycons are serviceable, though not quite as good as a regular controller.

Multiple sites are reporting that they're having problems with the left joy-con desyncing when it's not plugged into the tablet. So that's a thing. Hopefully it's a software problem that can be patched, but as a lot of people are pointing out even if it's a software problem there's no guarantee Nintendo designed the thing in a way that allows them to patch the firmware on the controllers.

Turns out I misunderstood the thing I saw. I thought the controllers were going for $20, but they're actually going for $35. That's no low enough for me to impulse buy it.

According to the articles I've seen you can order them to move to certain positions, and I'm unclear on whether or not you can order them to attack specific targets, but you definitely cannot order them to use specific powers.

Previews are out. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-02-22-four-hours-with-mass-effect-andromeda I'm still excited, but it does sound like they completely abandoned the more tactical combat of the previous games in favor of a run-and-gun shooter. You can't even control your squadmates' power use.

Yeah, I would just be getting it for couch gaming with M/KB games, games with actual gamepad support I would continue to use my 360 controller.

Steam Links and Steam controllers are super cheap at GAME and Amazon right now. I'm thinking of getting a Steam controller, how well do they work for M/KB-only games like Civilization or Shadowrun?

Why do I care whether the system's dead or not when I already own it?

What's even better is that there's already a game (Dragon Quest Heroes) that's bigger than the internal storage all by itself. You can install your own SD card, but Jesus...

Halo Wars 2 It was really good. There was some stuff about the plot that I didn't like, but ultimately that just comes down to framing for the missions, and the missions themselves were great.

Hard to be too much of one.

I came in here to post that same video Mal posted. Guerrilla showing other developers how to do PS4/Pro cross-versions right.

Also then you're getting away from the plug and play ease of console games. Although I suppose you could have a single option on each game to tell it whether you prefer graphics or performance, and the game could do all the specifics automagically.

With the Switch Nintendo is finally joining the 21st century and tying your digital purchases to your Nintendo account rather than to your specific hardware. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-02-17-nintendo-switch-eshop-will-finally-link-purchases-to-accounts-not-consoles About fucking time.

There's a new Vampire: The Masquerade game called We Eat Blood that appears to be along the lines of Lifeline, where you're playing via text messages. Looks neat, but it's $5.

I would call any scent designed for women a perfume, any scent designed for men a cologne, and any unisex scent would be called either perfume or cologne based on whether a man or woman was using it.

I don't think it's cheating to use a free trial of a service to user the service...

Yeah, I've got my eye on this, though I'm not quite sold yet.