Alaninho

@Dr_Awkward look at the grass trying to get people muted, whilst calling other people cry babies.

@Liam_Doolan thanks, must’ve missed that story.

atc0005 posted this on Reddit for wider awareness on BL3 and those waiting for a patch:
Randy Pitchford posted the following on Twitter: “Borderlands 3 was not made for Switch 2. I want us to get on that and see what we can do. We need some help and we need some time. Borderlands 4 is everything right now.”

Thank god it wasn’t P. Diddy Kong

@nuke13 You make a good point. Good journalism should be supported. I feel part of the issue now is that the games business and journalism has expanded significantly, and is more competitive than ever. Ultimately, there is only so much of an audience to go around.

@spottedleaf
Ultimately, even if you’re right, gaming and games journalism are businesses. If they put off their core customer base, they lose out on money, and are left with an audience consisting of ultra left wing commentators desperate for their political biases to be reflected in video games. These people spew nastiness veiled as self-righteousness online & obsessively upvote similar comments. Not saying you fall into that category… but actually I am because you definitely do.
@Zeldinion half the things you said are not political. ‘Food’? So a baked potato, minding its own business and waiting to be eaten, is grandstanding about workers’ rights? Your own slant is making you see things through a political lens 24/7. Take a break from it, it’s exhilarating.

@Zeldinion you claim to not have seen anything inflammatory, what do you consider the following, or did you miss it?
“ this complaint is from people who actually support those bad things happening and don't like being called out on it for being destructive. They don't want to see criticism of their terrible, sociopathic, reality denialist beliefs” - courtesy of @spottedleaf
Art isn’t always political, that’s a complete misnomer. There is a place for politics, but you cannot expect people to blindly consume a media that doesn’t appeal to them, which seems to be the argument of some people here. Percentage-wise, games have become more political than ever, and people are entitled to vote with their feet. Whether you agree with their opinions is irrelevant, no one is entitled to a profession purely because it’s “doing what they love”, video games and video game journalism are a business as much as an art.

Can we have a Metroid Prime 2+3 Remastered release before 4 comes out please? I've only played numero uno! Although I doubt it'll matter too much as its not a series famed for its storylines...

@HeadPirate Or just move on and stop worrying about it. Do something useful with your time. I’m wasting mine here too.

@LikelySatan Agreed. I think people hope that corporations will enforce their worldview and opinions, but at the end of the day they exist to make money like you said. If a game sucks it will essentially cancel itself and there’s no need for all the backlash!

@LikelySatan The Pong comment was a joke. I meant your generalisation of ‘boomers’ wanting it banned was a bit off. I’d say that old generation are no worse for pearl clutching than today’s Gen Z, but I’d never say the whole of Gen Z is trying to cancel people for saying things they disagree with, just a minority. It seems to be a consistent thing regardless of generation.

@LikelySatan I know but my point still stands.

@LikelySatan “boomers wanted it banned”. Maybe a small minority, but clearly the majority weren’t against it or the genre wouldn’t have excelled. There was probably a section of people wanting Pong banned for being too violent at one point so I wouldn’t pay much attention.

@CazSonOfCaz You’re the person that apparently didn’t exist (removing all agency from themselves and calling things fatphobic), yet here you are.

Americans are bigger because of all the unnatural ingredients/boosters in their overly processed foods. And in many cases, gluttony / laziness. To deny this is ridiculous.

@Pat_trick C’mon Pat let’s not pretend serious gamers aren’t complete wieners. The crab guy is correct when he says sports are mostly good for you, whereas even gamers will give you a hazy response regarding esports.

@Untempered-Link You’re allowed to be disappointed. For example, I’m disappointed at the lack of F-Zero sequels.

Why are people moaning about this? You get the full functionality of a game for free. If you want your imaginary character to wear a fancy bowler hat, you pay for it. Your social life and relationship chances don’t depend on imaginary pink crocs for your character, nor does it affect your chances of winning. People are so entitled nowadays, this really can’t be compared to the horror of pay2win.

I don’t care about skins but I usually buy a couple of things in game to support the company that provided hours of free entertainment.

@Gamecuber Agreed. Some of the plot points involving tears were a little wonky, and it’s not a perfect game by any means, but the only people who have issue with the politics of the game are those that have strongly held political beliefs and want to see them stamped across every piece of media as ‘the correct and true way’. Some of the facets in the game are clearly good/evil (Comstock and Fink would not be acceptable to many people nowadays regardless of political persuasion), but it’s embarrassing (though not surprising) that a journalist would be offended that a game isn’t pushing the ‘correct’ agenda.

@Gamecuber I think Kate is actually upset because Infinite didn’t portray the Vox as goodness and light, and she was looking for affirmation of her own political beliefs that were then quashed (Daisy not being the hero). Even though history has proven that often uprisings result in opposite extremes often being just as bad…

The DLC shoehorned in the story about Daisy being coerced to pander to people like Kate because they got so upset about the realism in the story.

“ We’ve lost track of how many times we’ve played Picross on our Switch during a major social event”

You guys are real party animals, sounds like the social event of the year

@GalvanizedGamer I’ll take more notice when they become more than allegations then.

@GalvanizedGamer You sound like a career victim. Most of the users here are workers in some form, yet if you’d read any of the well reasoned comments above you’d realise that people don’t ALWAYS have to take the side of the worker, because sometimes -shock- workers can be at fault. Workers can also be lazy and incompetent at times, and when they get fired do they come out and admit “Yes, it was my incompetence that got me fired.” No, they paint themselves as a victim. For workers to truly have rights they can’t be unfireable, because that benefits nobody.

These companies have a responsibility, Bowser has a responsibility to ALL of his employees, and therefore has to uphold the standards and success of his organisation.

I’m not saying NOA are definitely right in this case but the FACTS above suggest they had sufficient justification, otherwise wait for the verdict.

Unquestionable shilling/loyalty for individual workers is just as bad as doing it for a company.

@Serpenterror Different kind of cross-breeding going on in prisons!

If nothing else it brought us a Crowded House reference.

@Bunkerneath Beats doing it in real life, only bedwetters will be upset by doing it in a game (as with GTA)

Looks a lot like Snowboard Kids.

@SearchingS as per the article “While this version costs full price on other platforms, owners of the existing version have been able to pay for a cheaper upgrade option.”

@Ralizah I imagine they have a heavy veto on any decisions so there won’t be loads of creative freedom. You’re right though, Ubisoft did a good job, it makes me wonder if Nintendo should’ve contracted out some of their sports games.

@nessisonett kids can be pretty annoying to be fair.

I actually really like the old SNES-style tracks, they are always the purest racing.

@NinChocolate Obviously it’s a shaming word, and if people are lazy then they should be shamed (not commenting on the veracity of the accusation in this particular case).

Inazuma was a nice mix of football and RPG, although as with most Japanese games I wish they’d focus on the skill aspect more than the levelling up / cut scene bollix.

@Pk-glitch Probably because 99% of games reviewed are for Switch nowadays.

@icomma You shouldn’t pretend to know what the reaction should be, clearly you don’t have your finger even on the pulse of this community.

@Rykdrew All tracks are hard if you play online against experts! 200cc changed it up too.

@Rosalinho I guess there’s nothing to stop Goomba driving with his feet… the winged version might have more chance though!

@AlexanderDaniels Definitely Birdo, silly me for assuming they’d included Birdo ahead of Lesser-Spotted Baby Rubberised Green Tungsten Peach and Quokka Mario.

Booster Character Pass next, with Mario characters (none of this Nintendo all stars bollix thanks).
Pauline
Wiggler
Hammer Bro
Dixie Kong
Professor E Gadd
Toadsworth
Boom-boom
Pow-pow
Kamek
Captain Toad
Monty Mole
Chargin Chuck

@tendonerd It’s not a simple equation, and each pro/con won’t necessarily have the same weighting. Some cons may be nitpicks, while others could be gamebreakers. Weird that people are so confused by game scores, they’re just a rough guide anyway.

One of the best story games of all time. Lots of film noir references also (Casablanca being the most obvious).

@Banjo- Agreed, the SNES tracks are the purest “racing” in Mario Kart, sometimes they can seem out of place with the 3D tracks. As such, a retro cup with only SNES tracks would be great. Bowser Castle, Mario Circuit, Ghost Valley and Vanilla Lake/Choco Island

@Dragonstar If you don't like the comments, then don't read them. Other than that, let people try to vent frustrations at Ponzi schemes in this world and STFU.

Bad Cat AIDS: The Game

Pretty sure Don’t Fear the Reaper is 70s. Not sure they thought this through but I appreciate a couple of the more unusual choices, although it’s definitely cheesier than the movie soundtrack.