Not only tough but strategic choices. Do you use an attack to finish off an opponent, knowing it's likely overkill, or instead focus on a heavier target that would be harder to take down, knowing that a weaker character can later mop up the weaker foe...and will that weaker enemy get a chance to at...

Nice! Thanks for the recommend.

The PlayStation 3 is also the era where I got out of modern console games (not including the Switch, though I use mine much more as a handheld). My focus was turning increasingly towards older games as well as PC games. ... This was also the era where consoles suddenly felt like they needed to be c...

Ah Sword of Sodan, I remember it well. Killer graphics at the time of release. I rented it, and collected multiple colored potions as I slowly, agonizingly, suffered my way to the right of the screen. Then the giant boss(es) came in the first (or second) level. Low health, and no lives left, I mixed...

Key point: IF you have a decent PC. But a decent PC that can rival the graphical output of a PS5/XBsX is going to cost at least double the console price, and that's not including a monitor (most people don't hook a PC up to their TV.) Also consider that more and more households have laptops these d...

Yeah, it is getting harder to justify having a console if you already own a decent PC to game on. I would say the Switch still warrants a buy, for the games on it, and some of the functionality (pick up and go, etc.) but I don't see the reason to buy an Xbox at all if you have a PC, and the PS5 is l...

The other thing hurting Capcom, at least, was that they had a lot of trouble rising to the task of producing high-budget titles and making back their investment during the PS3 era. So they went into the PS4 generation having to pick their battles. Lower-cost DS and 3DS titles really sustained them....

A lot of those were heavily supporting Nintendo (and to a lesser extent, Sega) prior, but seemed to really see the strengths of the Playstation platform from a developer standpoint. Yeah, I was gonna say, Capcom and Konami were heavy hitters for the NES, SNES and Genesis as well. For those three co...

Konami does very little outside of gambling machines these days, but Capcom is still in it. They had a massive hit in the form of Monster Hunter World, for example, during the PS4 era. But beyond that, a decent portion of the PS1 era output of Konami and Capcom also was on the Saturn. Ah man, I mis...

They definitely received the lion's share of solid third-party support in that era. A lot of those were heavily supporting Nintendo (and to a lesser extent, Sega) prior, but seemed to really see the strengths of the Playstation platform from a developer standpoint. Yeah, I know Nintendo had really ...