BreathingMiit

That dude looks like a swole Pertwee in his ruffled shirt.

If I'm going to send it for a wonder trade then it gets named HONKERS. Otherwise no.

No way. William Hartnell made that character. I'm not sticking around to watch that clown Patrick Troughton ruin it. The show will be cancelled after half a season; mark my words.

@Raffles

> Having been used to the luxury of a SeriesX, and a gaming PC with a 3070, I do find it hard to play stuff at less than a locked 60.

Cudos for expressing your observation as a you problem.

Emu? Later. Anne bear Nick.

This is bad news for GF. Not the type of review the studio would want people to be reading a few weeks before release. Given that Pikachu is richer than Mickey Mouse, you'd have thought they'd have been able to buy their way out of a situation like this?

@TowaHerschel7 I would like to hope that the meaning of that point is that they don't want people harassing their staff by making personal attacks on individuals over social media. The wording could certainly do to be a lot more explicit about that, but maybe it was lost in translation. I'm making this assumption because:
1. It's reasonable, in the context of protecting their front line staff, and
2. I don't have skin in the game, unlike you, so I can understand your concern.

Amazing for 2 weeks' work.

Doesn't look substantially different from Farmville.

Are all switch games eligible or just recent ones?

So I get to play Nintendo AND there's no Facebook or Twitter? Sign me up.

Why do people care so much what other people think of their games? My kid and I shared a great time together wrecking up the Pokemon champion with our Infernape and our Dialga, and that's all that matters.

What an astounding waste of time. These are the guys who haven't found time in the last eleven years to make a sequel.

Western box looks like it contains a game 900% more fun than the Japanese one. Loving Michelangelo's gritted teeth.

Now watch Square Enix blow the $300M on NFTs.

Still seems to leak memory a bit .. or perhaps my problem is just too many followers. Anyway I've put it back on the back-burner because it's still a bit janky and I just had it freeze on me near the end of a dungeon run. Couple more patches required, I think.

@Daz1380 Strong disagree. There's room in my life for games at all levels of graphic tech. If it's fun, count me in. Given that so many "AAA" games these days are designed to frustrate players into making in-game purchases, I am finding myself increasingly drawn to simpler games like this.

It feels like it isn't quite in a finished state. Like it was released early, without the last couple of QA passes. If I had my time again I'd wishlist it, and get it on offer in a few months, when it's hopefully patched up.

Japanese one is a hot mess but at least it looks like fun. The Western box has so little content in its design that it's almost completely without value.

@SuperDan64 > God will not be mocked.

The strange thing is that I've seen Him mocked several times.

I won't be buying the game because JKR is a rotten human being.

Can't we just let things stop when they reach the end? Don't get me wrong — I've loved Xenoblade since the opening frame and XC3 is giving me some great entertainment. But the series is built to draw on its exotic locations and otherwordly lore, and that's a well that runs dry after you've clubbed your four-thousandth bunnit to death.

The people who started the Xeno series have shown that they are really good at making up an original new game setting. I want to see what they do when they do that again.

So much keyboard parenting going on here.

@BloodNinja > If the worst of Britain's problems are loot-boxes, I may have to move back!

Sorry to disappoint. But Dorries is not the talent to solve our bigger ones.

@dkxcalibur The culture Secretary has literally nothing better to do.

@BloodNinja I don't know how much you know about the UK government, but honestly it would be much better for them to spend their time on this than literally anything else on their awful buckshot cruel populist authoritative ignorant agenda. The only pity is that it is destined to come to nothing.

@BloodNinja Yup, you're deliberately ignoring the point I was making about the potential and scale of the problem. And you're carrying on as if the gub'mint is gunna come in your house and take your precious loot boxes away. They're not; they're just trying to help parents.

@BloodNinja Did you ever spend thousands of dollars of your parents' money on X-Men Whateverblast? Or just a few coins?

@SuperCharr > We don't need the government making good decisions for us. Anytime I see a loot box mechanic in a game for real money, I opt out of that game. I've done this for a few games that I wanted to play but it's worth it to me to stand up against these grimey business practices.

Agreed, as far as you or I are concerned, the appropriate response is to not buy the games. Which I find super easy, because games with loot box mechanics are designed to be frustrating not fun. This business with the government is nothing to do with us as players.

The issue at hand here is one between the government, children and parents. As a parent, I know there are many of my peers who don't understand the predatory nature of loot boxes. Dorries is raising these issues, and the prospect of government oversight, to help those parents determine inappropriate material for their kids.

Not sure why so many non-parent adults have so much to say here.

@BloodNinja > There are no groups. Only individuals. If an alcoholic program helped someone, it did it's job.

Gaming changes. When they add elements of gambling, known to be addictive, to games, they change its nature. When they blur the lines between slot machines and video games, they're changing the nature of games. There will have to come a point when games are enough like gambling that we'll have to conclude that they share some features and some dangers.

@AndyMK84 I don't oppose the regulation of loot boxes. Though it pains me to say it, Mad Nad is right to raise concerns.

I oppose imposing regulation on things when we don't like them. All this "how can gamers not want loot boxes when they're so icky?" is the wrong rhetoric and it's missing the point.

@BloodNinja >There are no groups. Only individuals. If an alcoholic program helped someone, it did it's job.

Nonsense. If the program does more harm than good across the community then it should be stopped.

@AndyMK84 I hate loot boxes, but "we don't like it" isn't a good reason to get the government to take them away. "They're harmful to people or property" is a good reason.

@Paraka Thing is, a lot of parents simply aren't experts in video games and can't be expected to be. You and I have grown up with video games and we know what to be careful about, but a lot of parents who are in their 40s and 50s now don't have that experience. As far as they're concerned, if it's got a pokemon on it, it's safe for kids.

Video game companies know there's an opportunity to exploit there.

@Piyo Better that Nintendo pull the relatively tame money grubbing tricks of two generations ago than they commit wholeheartedly to the avaricious cons of more recent years.

Come quietly or there will be. Trouble.

I hope ReedPop don't lose so much money on E3 that they end up cancelling their websites.

Tempting to go for the DLC but I'm very concerned that this game is going to run like a lame slug on Switch. Square Enix have not proven themselves good custodians of our trust in the past.

I hate amiibos. As if microtransactions weren't bad enough.

@electrolite77 Don't do it. Doom Eternal is just not worth the money.

Ubisoft have protected sexual abusers for years now. I'd be happy to never hear from them again.

Didn't know he was a fellow Bristolian! I'll have to check out his wares.

WE HAVE CRAB NEWS ON WEDNESDAY NOW? RAGEQUIT!

@AlienX Nuu metal was very of its time.

> none of which we're going to share here

Boo!

Most of the pokemon I trade are named HONKERS because that word was banned in some other game and it made me giggle.

@ShadowofTwilight22 If Ubisoft are doing nothing with IP they own, I would think that a change of ownership would be a hopeful event.