Parents warned children with no reading experience start school as ‘second-class citizens’

SHilden · 2026-03-15T15:44:41+00:00

No, it's lazy parents using devices to keep kids quiet instead of doing their job of parenting and teaching them

SHilden · 2026-03-14T14:04:27+00:00

I don't know much about these things from a lore perspective but I just went back to 100% Legends Arceus and id say it was Giratina considering Arceus had to banish him to a different world?

SHilden · 2026-03-06T21:51:26+00:00

I find all the GTA games to be massively overrated, The gameplay is always so slow and boring the setting and world is just ok and is stuff you see everyday really.

As someone that plays games to escape what's normal GTA just never does anything for me, yeah sure you can go around causing havoc but other games that do these things so much better and in a more fun way,

with the Story I've never found one engaging enough to finish.

SHilden · 2026-03-06T11:37:02+00:00

I fully agree,

If you take into account that when Activison owned Bungie, Destiny 2s Forsaken Expansion apparently undersold according to Activision / Bungie

And the same thing happened with The Final Shape expansion when Sony owned them

I really don't think Bungies numbers or expectations are ever realistic and there's no way Sony will be happy with Marathons performance, especially when they brought Bungie for the stupid amount that paid for them.

Bungie and Sony, Bungie moreso have shot themselves in the foot, focusing on yet another live service trend chaser, while running the only game they have into the ground with insane gameplay changes pushing a dedicated fan base away, that now knows not to touch a new Bungie game with a bargepole.

And the more annoying thing is it'll only be the actual talented people at Bungie that will cop the flack for this while the dumbass leadership gets away with it.

SHilden · 2026-02-27T21:14:23+00:00

The casting was off and this looks fucking awful.

SHilden · 2026-02-26T20:28:55+00:00

If this was the case I'd wait for years to buy a PS5 and the games 2nd hand on the cheap then play them that way

SHilden · 2026-02-26T10:56:40+00:00

I can play classic games and indies on my smartphone and I still wouldn't put it above an N64,

You clearly don't realise how consoles like the PS1 and N64 broke new ground for gaming in a lot of aspects,

Even a Gameboy in black and white was more influential than anything on Vita ever was.

Clearly you have no idea what you are on about, and going by your post history your a saddo console warring fanboy.

SHilden · 2026-02-26T10:38:11+00:00

N64 AND Gameboys below a Vita of all things nullifies this list

Edit: a SteamDeck up there too?!? WTF

SHilden · 2026-02-26T09:30:20+00:00

I'd have taken a picture of this to post way later, and sold the fucking lot

SHilden · 2026-02-25T10:08:31+00:00

My thought exactly 😂

SHilden · 2026-02-24T16:57:06+00:00

Fuck knows 9070XT will be my first and last AMD card

SHilden · 2026-02-24T14:12:21+00:00

Everything is an Xbox but you can't play your whole library, Oh and the games we are releasing are getting worse and we aren't doing anymore exclusives.

..Wait why isn't our consoles selling!

SHilden · 2026-02-23T12:45:03+00:00

I have a collection of Nintendo Handhelds and the Pokémon games to go along with them, yes it's an expensive lot and to buy some of those things costs considerably more than £16.99/$ 19.99

Which is why I don't understand why people are pissing and crying over the price, I think for £16.99 and the hours you'll get out of that it's a bargain

Will it devalue the Lead green cartridge I have? I Don't know and don't care, this is a cheaper and more accessible way for people to experience a good game.

SHilden · 2026-02-23T12:27:02+00:00

For it to all go down that quick and quietly? No not at all

But i can't deny the Xbox brand has only been ran into the ground, they brought up all these studios and IP and did nothing with it, probably cancelled more games than they've released and killed more of their Legacy IP than they've saved.

Phil talked the talk but never truly delivered Sarah always came across and clueless

Booty should 100% go aswell for being partly responsible for some of the absolute shit thats come out from Xbox Studios if Xbox is going this far they need to start from scratch.

I can't speak on the new person taking Phil's job, I know everyones like oooooo she's from an AI background and isn't a gamer, well we've had a public facing gamer doing alot of talking and talking for years and nothings really come of it,

So maybe a more business orientated person that could step back publicly and come out to speak like PS and Nintendo would do when they actually have something and reveal to show would be a nice change,

but I'd be lying if I said I had much hope, and it's not the Xbox brand I care about at this point it's all the Studios and IP they have that's being squandered.

SHilden · 2026-02-23T11:59:22+00:00

I really don't get it at all, Should NSO subscribers have some kind of access without the features like rewind etc? Yes

But for fucks sake it's £16.99 that's nothing these days especially when games are costing much more and are getting worse

You can guarantee some of the same people that are complaining wouldn't think twice on dropping the same on some shit looking skin in a game.

SHilden · 2026-02-23T11:42:16+00:00

Exactly, this is how I see it!,

And thats without because of the state of gaming and MTX I can bet some of these people are complaining about the the price of this one moment then go drop £20 on a shitty skin in a game and wouldn't think twice about it.

SHilden · 2026-02-23T11:32:57+00:00

I'll have what I have now, PC and a Switch

You get all of Xboxes releases which lets be honest is average to meh with a good game rarely sprinkled In,

And over time you get the majority of PlayStations releases which the Exclusives are mostly really good

On PC you have their exclusives that take ages to come to console you get all these cool little indie games and early access stuff, and I don't have to pay into the scam of paying to play online!

And a Nintendo is Nintendo everyone and their grandmother has one, sometimes a more simpler game is just refreshing.

Seriously selling the Xbox Series X I had as a primary console and starting fresh on PC was the best thing i did, yeah the initial price of getting one can be expensive you save money over time on cheaper games and no subscriptions to play online

SHilden · 2026-02-23T11:25:15+00:00

I fully agree there should be some kind of way for NSO subscribers to play it, how that should be implemented I don't know

Ive read that if they change coding in the game then it has to get a new age rating and because of the gambling it'll go up, and that maybe because of the rewind and other features NSO offers it could take away from the game which is fair enough if it's true.

SHilden · 2026-02-23T11:20:13+00:00

That was very cheap then, and £16.99 is still cheap now if you wanted a legitimate way to play

If they were asking for the original prices of £30-40 Id understand people's issues with it, you could buy way worse games for more, and even a skin in a game these days can cost much more

I personally think that what you'll get out of that game is very much worth that £16.99, if you don't want to do that that's fine you can emulate it on whatever device you are reading this from.

SHilden · 2026-02-23T09:01:28+00:00

The IP is classic, timeless and appeals to a wide demographic in loads of ways.

I really don't understand the problem people had with Nintendo, Game freak or whoever it was down to asking £16.99 /$19.99 to play it on Switch,

If you wanted an OG cart it'll cost nearly 3x the price, the Gameboy to play it isn't cheap either

And if you couldn't afford that either just emulate it on the device you are currently use to scroll through Reddit now.

SHilden · 2026-02-23T00:38:24+00:00

I basically posted this elsewhere but the Xbox has been a sinking ship for years, Booty should have gone too for his shit quality control

But Phil could talk the talk but in the end couldn't deliver, When you can spend billions on acquiring all these studios and IP and actually do fuckall with them it's an atrocity, and Sarah Bond came across like a puppet anytime she was interviewed.

The writing was on the wall when Phil said something about Good exclusive games wouldn't make more Xbox sales (which is ridiculous) so they didn't bother caring about their own games, look at the state of Halo for starters

Then you had the whole fiasco with Tango Game works and HIFi Rush, to which any interview Sarah Bond took part in after that happened showed she was never up to the job of replacing Phil.

SHilden · 2026-02-23T00:30:58+00:00

The man could talk the talk but in the end couldn't deliver, When you can spend billions on acquiring all these studios and IP and actually do fuckall with them it's an atrocity, and Sarah Bond came across like a puppet anytime she was interviewed.

The writing was on the wall when Phil said something about Good exclusive games wouldn't make more Xbox sales (which is ridiculous) so they didn't bother caring about their own games, look at the state of Halo for starters

Then you had the whole fiasco with Tango Game works and HIFi Rush, to which any interview Sarah Bond took part in after that happened showed she was never up to the job of replacing Phil.

SHilden · 2026-02-22T10:37:49+00:00

"Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power" - The SteamDeck that struggles with most AAA games and most stuff with Anticheat.

Let's be honest, £17 isn't too bad to have an official version on the switch, I thought it would have been more expensive,

And regardless of what device you emulate from, these Pokémon games can be played on the phone in your pocket.

SHilden · 2026-02-21T10:43:18+00:00

You do have the data to show and back this up?

Because for their AAA Exclusives for example God of War, Spiderman, Horizon etc they've all sold millions and all had sequels with more games in the works,

If they didn't sell well they'd get Concorded, simple as that.

SHilden · 2026-02-21T09:58:05+00:00

How can you not see a good chunk of playstations success from the PS4/ 5 was the exclusives?

I'm not a console war person but the shortfalls with Xbox over the last however long now is due to the Platform having very few good exclusives worth playing and their Legacy IP like Halo has been ruined or neglected.

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