williamflattener

Stumbled across a random twitter-person who basically summarized this UPF:

Question for people who have played this: Which power word do you get when you defeat Trico and absorb his soul? Thanks in advance.

It's a damn shame that the dial input games translated so poorly. It's like, when it comes to Breakout, ya had one job. Is that a fair assessment or is it hard to reprogram those controls?

@misterlobo: that fact... is actually fun. Did not know!

I wish it was easier to know why thI value proposition is when they repackage existing tables like this. Are there exclusives here? I'm a Pinball FX man so I am clueless about the virtual-real-tables.

@humanity: but are we sure?

There's something about this setting that fascinates me. We're all summarizing it as "the good kind of dumb," but there's way more to unpack (or ignore).

Here is the state of our escapist hobby: Untold development goes into recreating a real city, with real organizations (or very on-the-nose parodies), caricatures of real residents in all their insufferable gentrified glory, trying to satirize millennials/ internet culture / big data / consumer tech by... letting you use fake shazam and take hell of selfies and just be on your phone all the time. The "removing earbuds to start a conversation" is so striking to me -- a portrait of every young person I talk to.

I can't decide where the boundary is for the suspension of disbelief. It's like when you have two mirrors facing each other: infinite recursive self-examination.

What the hell is Watch_Dogs 2?

@humanity: I'm going to try to give it a shot just because I've heard good things. I have no attachment to the CoD franchise, but people are saying there's some must-see campaign stuff.

The only problem is getting to it pre-GOTY discussions. I've recently gotten a hold of TitanFall 2 and BF1 (thanks quarterly bonus!) and have hardly scratched the surface.

That's the part I don't quite grok. No connectivity, no upgrade potential, just a slab with 60 games--take 'em or leave 'em. Where does this fit into Nintendo's ecosystem, especially with the Switch generating its own hype?

Is a one-and-done piece of hardware supposed to pave the way for their flagship hardware? (This is an honest question, not disagreeing. I'm baffled.)

I definitely mis-remembered how many old NES games used collecting Hearts for currency. This is some Berenst(e/a)in level retcon conspiracy.

Always tough to see FF1 get skipped over (Save states would make for an enormous quality of life improvement) but this coverage really helps answer a lot of questions.

Man! No future downloads. Just brutal.

I went from "I'd really like for my kid to experience this as she becomes old enough" to "This is a $60 bundle of NES games and some sort of dead-end hardware."