BreathingMiit

Take heed: this is what happens with freemium mobile games. DON'T EVER GIVE THEM MONEY it will be wasted.

@NEStalgia you might be onto something there! Yes, here in the UK wealth is a strong indicator of whether you play video games.

Consoles and games are expensive and we don't have an Obama-legacy economy - we were still in post-recession from 2008 when Coronavirus hit.

And yes, rich Brits can be pretty unbearable. Sorry. We have institutional classism.

Most "AAA" games are so loaded with so-called "microtransactions" (of up to hundreds of dollars!! What's "micro" about that?) they feel like free-to-play games. Those games aren't worth $60. They're not worth $10. They can charge whatever they like for those games; I'm not paying.

I'm done with Ubisoft. Their games are boring and they abuse employees.

@Nurfhurder It's been at least a decade since I bought an Activision game, so I can't do any more on that front. A lot of us can't harm them any more with our wallets, so all we've got is our mouths.

If there's one thing Dad loved more than stability, it's a two-stroke motor at full throttle.

The Pokemon Company shills its new method of delivering loot box gambling to children and fans dogpile it because something something disrespecting fans something in the editing? I think the whole silly boiling lot of them can get in the sea.

Pics or I don't believe it.

Not sure why you'd need a video games console to play this?

The House of Lords is surprisingly on to it. Sadly the current elected government of the UK is less enlightened, and fairly unlikely to act on this recommendation, judging by past form.

I wouldn't like to draw any conclusions from this about the efficacy of democracy in the UK so I won't.

Did we ever find out whether a trainer defeating multiple Zeraoras counted as multiple points toward the million?

A cute, irritating experience that constantly nags for money? Sounds like installing a six-year-old on my phone. I'll pass thanks.

Arts, electronic or not, surely require a modicum of originality?

Level scaling seemed perfect to me; but I went to Armor with a bunch of 'mons that I'd just picked up in the Wild Area.

I'm so sick of the whole idea of free-to-start games. Can't we just buy games for a reasonable price and then enjoy them? If they want to get us to dip a toe in with no outlay — that's what demos are for surely?

Games are no fun when they're constantly annoying you with artificial frustrations, then nagging you to pay them to temporarily relieve said frustrations. There are so many reasonably-priced pay-once-play-forever games that I'm surprised anyone bothers wasting their time and sanity on dreck like this.

@BluFloo by that logic all games where you control a character are RPGs.

@Smashfan508 It's okay not to make games look like AAA games. Yes "retro" is a bandwagon that games hop onto in order to have a manageable budget. And yes that's fine, because I'd rather they did that than be uninspired money-nagging endless franchises like so much of the AAA market has become.

RPG? You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.

Please understand