The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time — Official Trailer | Releases November 5, 2026 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuFfiTEr2yc

Sadly, the ball is not made of adamantium. Still a solid 9/10 for me

Felt a bit different at the time, anyone else play this?

Artist credit: Verdimand

Context: Yesterday Level-5 (a well-respected developer of such franchises as Yokai Watch, Professor Layton, Inazuma Eleven and Ni No Kuni) held a livestream for their upcoming games that was stuffed to the brim with really bad, and really obvious, AI content.

We seriously have to stop accepting the laziness of the Pokemon Franchise that we've seen in the mainline games.

Unfortunately, they know we will still buy it either way.

Edit: I know Gamefreak did not make Pokopia or OoT

I should have separated them better. The connection between the 3 games is Game freak + Nintendo + Pokemon Company

Edit 2: Graphical fidelity does not have to mean hyper realism. Games can be stylized and be high fidelity, without looking like real life. Recent HD2D games are examples of what I would call high fidelity, and they're pixel art.

High fidelity just means quality, care, and style. Beautiful environments, things that make you stop and say "Holy shit", it doesn't have to look like a photograph to do that.

Whatever you make of friendslop games, there's a real silver lining to trend of cheap, goofy indie games blowing up right now. To me it seemed like we had a long stretch of time where everything multiplayer was focused on pvp or some sort of live service grind, but now I’m seeing all sorts of interesting co-op titles pop up.

These chaotic little low budget games kind of reminded everyone how fun it was just to play something silly with friends, and now people want to play together more. Devs are picking up on this and the co-op section in steam is looking better than ever. I personally had a similar realization and I’m playing a bunch of games with my gf and friends now regularly. Recently we had a good few weeks of fun with Mechameleon with friends and I’m pretty much running out of 2 player co-op games to play with my gf at this point. It Takes Two and Untitled Goose Game were our favorites so far and we want to play Water Me & You next when it comes out, it looks similar to It Takes Two but with some base building stuff as well. 

I feel like it was way harder to get someone to try a game like that with you before, everyone was just stuck on their “main game” be it League, WoW, Counter Strike, whatever. Now it's kind of become more popular or cool you could say to play something with your friends, and people don’t just ghost you when you’re supposed to play together.

Has anyone else noticed this shift? It may be just something that happened my own friend group but it feels like a bigger trend.

I broke my right hand, what can I still play?

I've always been frustrated with video game reviews. I think they are greatly muddled by the influence of the American school system. But I realized that there is actually a very simple lens we can use instead. 0 to 5 on a 10-point scale are almost never used. It is practically an event when you see that. Only 6-10 are used with any frequency. So just subtract 5 from the score to see the true score. 3 becomes average or slightly above average, a game that's good and enjoyable with flaws holding it back for example. In my opinion this makes video game review scores make 10 times more sense. What do you all think?

One thing I’ve always liked about Skyrim is how easy it is to completely forget what the main quest even wants you to do.

You can start out planning to finish one mission and suddenly spend hours exploring a cave, joining a faction, finding some random quest, or just wandering somewhere because something in the distance looked interesting.

A lot of newer open world games are bigger but sometimes they feel like you’re just clearing icons from a map. Skyrim always felt different to me because wandering off course could become the actual adventure.

I wish more open world games made getting distracted feel this rewarding.