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Not the worst game ever by a long shot, but certainly a valuable lesson (which will be repeated in the release of innumerable further entries in the FFVII "franchise") in being careful what you wish for.

@cainhurst94 Las Vegas is notoriously rife with shiny hunters

Yeah, same — I dug out my old PS2/3 controllers a year or so ago and some buttons either weren't working or were weirdly spongy/unresponsive. Having freshly-manufactured official controllers (or at least a perfect replica) would be fantastic. Then again, I managed to procure one of those 8-Bit Do DualSense dongles that rendered this all moot anyway

I'd be very curious to know where they're being sold — are they all from the same place, I wonder?

@ShadowRJ Just looking at the comments from another Ecco article on a sister site, the pendulum of opinion seems to have swung dramatically against the squeaky finned fellow. I don't think it was the best game ever made or anything - it was certainly unique, and a lot of effort clearly went into making it, but given the steadfast, unquestionable levels of adoration that seem to get laid upon some sacred gaming cows, Ecco is leagues away from being the most egregious example.

It's been a VERY long time since I've played it, but did the PS1 port of Ridge Racer have any extra console-exclusive content? What would be nice is if they somehow merged the arcade version with that of the PS1 version (although with the former being an Arcade Archives release that probably isn't viable)

Good, get that garbage juice offa the store, it's made browsing through it an exercise in misery.

How high in the sky can you fly?

@shonenjump86 Perhaps the Big Blue will help you.

Super looking forward to People of Note and while I can take or leave the comic it's based on, I'll likely pick up Scott Pilgrim for the Anamanaguchi soundtrack alone

When are they going to get to Inazuma 12? This is like Street Fighter 2 all over again.

@Oram77 @SteveJaye Yeah I think a completely new IP ("from the team that brought you Dragon Age", if you really must go there) might have worked in its favour, and probably would have allowed them more creative freedom. I only finally got around to playing/finishing DAI a few weeks before Veilguard came out and the tonal whiplash was palpable.

@PuppetMaster Yeah, it was a lot of fun just ambling around Metro City in SF6 and hanging out with the various Final Fight characters — they should totally pursue this kind of open world RPG-lite setting for a future game, I'd totally be happy with that

If any FF game was in dire need of a remake it's XIII — not just a port/remaster, but a proper re-think in how it conveyed its story and lore.

@ShadowRJ How to alienate an entire potential new audience

@PuppetMaster I just went down a SF/FF wiki rabbithole looking into the history of the Andore family

@somnambulance Yeah the conversation tree did feel a bit like yer standard point and click adventure, but I still thought, stripped of the time reversal hook of the first game, it was a very well-accomplished romp and it was nice to return to the setting.

@somnambulance I really enjoyed Before the Storm, and to my mind the only logical way to do a follow up to Life is Strange, given the structure of the narrative, would have been a prequel, so it felt like a bit of a victory lap.

Regarding the toxic fanbase, I'm so glad that I neither engage with, nor was really aware of it. The idea of a dev team/publisher sacrificing their integrity to appease a mass group of fans (who all likely have massively contradicting opinions of what they deem to be good) seems like an exercise in futility/insanity

@ThomasHL A million percent — I had so much fun with LiS and BtS, but I felt such real closure after playing both that dragging it out beyond that would fall foul of diminishing returns

@HotGoomba The only thing people love to do more than building up a scrappy, surprise-hit underdog is tearing them down once they've become successful

@SteveJaye Cheers, that's good to know — I remember playing Street Fighter IV when it first came out and for the first week or so I thought I was doing pretty well, and then promptly got my arse handed to me after all the insanely-good masters found their way online

Angry Sony exec: "Dammit, we just sold K-Pop Demon Hunters to Netflix for a piffling $20m - what else can we acquire that's popular with the youth of today?"

@get2sammyb Fortnite's not a game I've ever played (tbh I'm not really into online/multiplayer/PVP anything) but just suppose I were to dabble, would the game pit me against players of equal calibre (as in, none), or it just a completely random free-for-all?

Fate of Atlantis, Emperor's Tomb, The Great Circle, I'd say they're good examples of Indi games.

@StrickenBiged yeah i did this very thing yesterday! — was just getting a bit unsure of where to stack buildings — I might just sell everything and start over

@StrickenBiged I'm on the fourth level and have two characters — I don't think i've quite fully got a handle on the base-building aspect yet and the best way to lay it out

@AndyKazama I've been playing that. Like Vampire Survivors I found the first few rounds quite entertaining but it soon became very repetitive and grindy.

When society eventually rebuilds itself in 2526, they will uncover server farms' worth of online logs that document in great detail the mighty Trophies: For and Against Wars that eventually tipped the scales and broke the fabric of civilisation.

Aww, 66 feels way too young. He had such a distinct, old timey voice

@DualWielding Yeah the combat is the least fun/interesting thing about the PS1 games — it's infinitely more well-implemented in the Survivor series

Are we at a point now where even the hardware is getting post-launch performance patches? Way to sell us on early adopting.

So... No chance of a Desert Strike/Road Rash compilation any time soon then?

@darylb24 more like Artificial UN-intelligence amirite? There I said it

Exactly this. When they're notorious for doing it, it just makes me less eager to buy their games — especially considering how long they take to finish. And by the time the re-release version comes out, I've probably already moved on.

If they made it a more seamless process to upgrade to the new version for existing owners (not at least making the save game transfer is unforgiveable), I would be far more interested in going in on them; Persona 5 Royal was one of the best games I've played this year.

@Rich33 Curious... very curious. Presumably a wizard did it.

@4fold at least it's more accurate than on Switch

User: "how long have I been playing for?"
Switch: [looks up from phone] "oh uh.. I'unno, a little while...?"

@nomither6 you'll miss this when the PS6 comes out...

Like so many around the world...

If so many around the world jumped off a bridge, would you?

Don't drag an arbitrary segment of the population down with you just because you got called out for it.

@Kierant202 ah cool, that might be enough for me then — I was just a bit worried it'd be a lot of clicking through dialogue with the occasional "choice" of "yes/YES!"

It does look like a lot of fun, but I'm just a bit wary about how much (or little) agency the player has in the story — especially after playing such games as Until Dawn and Life is Strange. Is it mostly quite linear?

@TrollOfWar it's a sad state of affairs when people in power learn all the wrong lessons from allegorical satire written decades prior.

Oh I'm sure this'll go down well.

It's been five years and I still don't understand the bizarre reasoning behind the PS5's horizontal/stand design. It's the most precarious, unsafe-feeling positioning ever.

Is input lag just an inherent, unavoidable aspect of pre-HD games being emulated on modern displays? I don't think I've ever played one where there wasn't at least some noticeable lag — presumably the only way around it would be a ground up port running natively on PS5 hardware (which is what the Sonic Origins games are, are they not?)

Motor Mash (1997): An isometric arcade racing game similar to Micro Machines.

Was it a racecourse smash? Did cars go by in a flash?

This looks lovely — be interested to see the how the characters/narrative play out

Kiki’s Delivery Service in Paris

Kiki did already have a very European vibe to it, I believe it was inspired by 1950s Belgium and Sweden

This is really cool, but I'm pretty surprised it wasn't a feature right out of the gate.

@Realist Vampire Survivors does have a speed-up setting — I wonder if they might implement one here too

Yeah that does seem odd — Is there a rights issue with Rival Schools? I know Sakura from Street Fighter made an appearance in it, but isn't it all owned by Capcom anyway?

@Acquiescence by that point all the hard-sell tech bros will have made their money and flitted off into the sunset/burning horizon of the server farm (whichever is closest)

Nah — i gave the remastered version a fair go on the 360 when I was dabbling with Xbox, but it didn't do an awful lot for me.