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What I mean is that the whole situation is so ridiculous (charging for online partway through the console life) that there are no examples or indicators that we can reliably consult to figure out what Nintendo mean by this. Personally I think they were being vague at the time with their language to adapt a needed. I really think it would be odd (and anti-consumer) for them to charge so long after they released those games, but Nintendo being Nintendo it wouldn't surprise me if they do paywall everything.

Who knows what it means apart from Nintendo... In fact, maybe not even Nintendo right now.

It even says in your very image Ronnie that "most" games will require you to pay to play online, so it's not at all explicit in saying that previously "free" to play online games will now cost money. Also: "Exceptions may apply". I'm hoping they had enough foresight when they came up with that wording to see that it makes little consumer sense to do this.

But if you just want to carry on playing your game online that you were playing yesterday, you can no longer do it. It's just a very strange decision if they do that for games that will be 1.5 years old by that point.

Well the logic would be to not charge for something that you haven't been charging for for a good while. Going on this "logic", tell me the logic behind the reason for me having to pay 20 quid or whatever to carry on playing Mario Kart? What am I getting now that I wasn't getting before for this money? There is no case for logic here. Business logic sure, for them to make more money, but not for the consumer. If they're going to make new games with fully realised and implemented online elements then that would justify charging from that point, but to shoehorn in a tax to carry on playing Mario Kart after so long seems pretty absurd by me.

Roughly how many of those encounters end without you being pepper sprayed though?

Nope, that's what I'm saying. No company has done this before with their console. It's weird to me that you could have played a game for a year and a half online for free, then they suddenly want you to pay to carry on playing that (now somewhat old) game online.

The whole idea is ridiculous really. Have you ever heard of a company taking away free online from games that have had free online already for a year and a half?

Thanks much for doing this, really enjoyed reading through it.

Given I've already pumped about 120 hours into this game and I'm not really that close to finishing, starting a new game plus is about as appealing to me as taking a cheese grater to the face, but I can see how it will appeal to some.

Just about any monster will still fuck you up if you're using a potion and it suddenly targets you because it will outpace you by far. You're much better off trying to find a bush really.

You can only move fairly slowly (even while "running") after using a potion, and you still have to put away your weapon (other than sword and shield). Honestly though not sure how you could be against that, there's so many quality of life changes the archaic-feeling series desperately needed that this game brought with it. I'm super impressed with this game.

Fantastic, I remember a while back when some remarked that this would always be on handheld because of Japan. Great to see the game doing well as it's much better than the previous games. Been seeing this advertised on screens in London including outside Blackfriars station.

I went to a recording of an episode in the first series (the one with Bob Mortimer). It was pretty cool, but haven't really kept up with watching it.

Yeah I wish it was optional. There's just not enough there in terms of online multiplayer titles that warrant the cost for me, even though it does cost less than the others. There's also games like Smash which in my opinion have always been very poor online experiences. I should point out that I don't care for Splatoon either.

There are no microtransactions in this though.

Great headset, a lot of us on here have it.

Nah, Dark Souls is all about sharing information. You've never seen a message on the floor saying "beware mimicry" or "attack chest" bruh?

Hey, no problem. Always nice to revisit my memories of this game. Ahh, the original Dark Souls. My key tip for this one is to pick pyromancy to begin with, and upgrade your pyromancy glove as much as possible and up your attunement some to carry more/better pyromancy spells. Pyromancy is god tier in the first game, what with the damage output being linked to the + value of your glove and no other stat (so no need to spec for it), and getting charges every time you rest (rather than pyromancy being drained by your mana bar). With regards to stats, I say pump strength up to 40 and equally level vitality to begin with. There is a softcap somewhere there but you will see big gains by doing this initially ahead of anything else. When you get to a room in The Depths filled with barrels, roll around to destroy them to reveal a pyromancer seller NPC. Don't attack the barrels with a weapon as you can aggro the NPC! Give one tap with a weapon to each chest to check if they're a mimic. Don't destroy the chests as you'll only find rubbish inside. Generally speaking, work to find a shortcut back the beginning/bonfire before going into boss fog gates, since you'll probably die first time fighting a boss. Oh and a great tip - in the Undead Parish, load up on arrows and give yourself a little dex (if needed to use the bow), then stand to the right of the bridge to shoot the tail off the red drake without getting hit. You get the Drake sword which is great up until mid-late game.

Tora keeps the attacks on him when you aggro too much as Rex, and Nia heals you. I have had literally no problem breezing through most encounters so far this way.

I'm really bad for that too, I think they don't make it easy for you to swap characters either. The starter 3 work well in attack/defense/healer roles and you can only have 3 characters in your active party so it feels so much easier to stick with them. Weirdly though the additional characters that join seem to be a much higher level, maybe they do that to encourage you to switch out?

This looks really cool, impossible to watch that video without a smile on your face.

I've been playing this game an awful lot, really enjoy it. Such a great game after the disappointing XCX, never understood why they ruined the typical story structure format in the previous game. I've already clocked over 110 hours and don't seem to be that far (most characters around L50). What a game!

Resi 5 is good, get that one. Resi 6 is not.

I think he meant more the bump in sales rather than overall sales was disappointing.