OrtadragoonX

I’ve played the emulated Sega CD versions. If this gets a Switch release I’m all over it.

@Nepp67

He’s always been a bit of a pretentious ass. As much as I adore Metal Gear, it was always pretentious with how he approached it.

I have had a PS5 since launch but I’ll admit I haven’t played it that much lately. My life completely changed with a son and I’m not a multi tasker. So it’s mostly been turned off.

I did have surgery recently and took two weeks off from work so I’ve been playing FFVII Rebirth a good bit the last few days. But once I go back to work it’ll probably just stay switched off for another couple of months.

I find myself playing my Switch a ton more now because it’s easy to just play it handheld in the bed.

If it was native I’d probably get one. My home internet is iffy at the best of times. And that’s rare. So I stuck with my Switch. Which is fully native.

@NeonPizza

As much as I liked the remake, it was ultimately inferior to the GameCube original. One thing the GC original had that the Remake removed was how corny the entire thing was. RE4 is one of the corniest games I’ve ever played with an ultimately stupid story and lots of politically incorrect time period jokes straight out of a Will Ferrel movie. The Remake turned it into something very serious and a complete absence of jokes.

Hopefully Chris will be the main character so we can see an entirely new team horrifically slaughtered in the first cutscene. It’s like his character trait. Getting his team killed horrifically.

I’d say their ghetto engine causes more problems than it solves these days. Most of Starfield’s questionable reception was due mainly to the Creation engine being some ghetto nonsense and feeling like it’s straight out of the PS3/360 era. Which is basic framework is from that era so that makes sense.

What a tragedy.

Naka always has to have the last word. Even when he should realize how self damaging it is and not do it.

They would need to give every character a gun they can pull for the authentic Waffle House experience.

No joke I went to one one time when I was tipsy to get some hashbrowns. Two dudes started arguing. I saw one guy pull his shirt up and then go for a Glock. I got out of that place faster than anyone has ever moved in their life.

I think people really need to measure their expectations.

Featuring Megaman and his extremely killable partner Zero.

Part II’s main issue was that it was very poorly paced. It’s a good game otherwise.

@Mikey856

What I love about FFVIII is that it’s literally a club soundtrack.

I feel like Uematsu went to the club one night in 1998 and said “I’ve got a good idea for the next final fantasy soundtrack.”

Let the guy retire.

His FFIV, FFVII, and FFVIII sound tracks are so good that they earned him instead retirement in my opinion.

I mean they cannot be surprised this bombed right?

NO ONE ASKED FOR THIS GAME.

@Gryzor

I like it if the story is good and earns it.

I watched the story play through on YouTube. It did not earn those deaths. Not a single one. It was not “The Death of Superman” by any stretch of the imagination.

@theSpectre

That would be nice but it will never happen. Too much money to be made my brother.

I’m glad it got shuttered but I will say that I was looking forward to beating people to death with bricks. The best part of the original Factions was getting brick kills.

@AdamNovice

Shows how shallow our society is honestly.

It ruined the film industry. It’ll do the same to games as well.

@AdamNovice

It’s still unfortunate though. Since this pretty much means Insomniac will never be allowed to do an original IP ever again.

@Ralizah

It’s unfortunate. I was hoping they’d do Wolverine, go back to Ratchet for a game, and then do a new IP.

Such a shame too. Insomniac is good at crafting original stories. For all the issues Resistance had at times one thing that can’t be denied is how strong the story of that series was.

The right choice was made here.

@SolarSailor

For real.

I was called racial slurs I didn’t know existed on the old COD lobbies.

Fondest times of my life honestly.

I mean it never had a chance. Baldur’s Gate 3 absolutely demolished the competition. Even Zelda only won one award. And everyone was expecting it to take home the majority of categories a few months ago. But then Baldur’s Gate came out of nowhere and Tyson haymakered everyone in the side of the dome.

@WolfyTn

The high seas are warm my friend.

@EchoRange

The Trials of Mana Remake is really good. And I played the gimped version on Switch. The base game is good enough to carry it despite that version’s problems (bad load times and half the framerate of the PS4 version)

FFVII Rebirth is the only game I want on day one.

The others I selected will be sales for the backlog that I’ll never complete.

I mean where was he wrong? MWIII is a complete joke and laughing stock. It redeemed both Vanguard and Ghosts, previously the worst Call of Duties ever made.

@diegooliveirafhc

If I had to crunch, I’d rather crunch at a time of the year not meant for family time ya know.

Considering I’m raising a kid right now who’s only a month old I don’t even have time to think about it much. I watched the trailer and I enjoyed it.

The thing is that by the time the game releases my son will be 2. And it’ll be much easier for me to pickup video games again. Right now I’m barely touching my PS5 and I play my switch on my work lunch break. Just ain’t got the time. But by then I should have some more free time then I do now.

@Angelus3K

I play Fortnite and I vehemently disagree with that last statement.

Its shooting mechanics are good enough for what it is. But they don’t excel.

It’s sloppy compared to Call of Duty or Halo’s shooting mechanics. It doesn’t even match Epic’s previous work on Unreal Tournament 3.

The movement is even worse. I’ve learned to live with it because it’s the only multiplayer game two of my friends play. I play it with them exclusively. I enjoy the game but I would never say it excels at any one thing in particular. It stays fresh and is good value. I’ll give it that.

@ATaco

You’re like me and mostly watch classic anime then crunchyroll is pretty much useless. It’s why I didn’t keep it long. Most of what I like are OVAs and films from the 80s and 90s. There is a severe lack of that kind of content on Crunchy Roll.

@koverby

With how gaudy the skins are now I’d call modern Call of Duty “Fortnite with blood”

With the way TV and movie licensing works I’m not surprised by this.

It’s why I sail the high seas when it comes to tv and movies unless I buy physically.

Only gift I’m getting this year is an Apple Pencil 2 for my iPad mini from my girlfriend. Which I’m excited as hell for. She’s also getting me and our son matching suspenders with an American flag detailed shirt for the next Fourth of July when we grill out with my friends. Which I’m also excited as hell for.

I played the hell out of this on release. I even played the multiplayer a ton before the community sort of died.

I will say that multiplayer was horrendously balanced. If you played on an unlimited parts server everyone used the same setup. F-22 with those stupid nearly impossible to avoid mini missiles. (I think they’re called QAMM)

The limited parts servers were dominated by the cheap Russian fighters using that stupid railgun that I could never hit crap with. But it’s a one hit kill and some of those guys were crack shots with it.

@DennisReynolds

The issue with Joel’s death is not that it happened, but how ND crowbarred the entire situation into the game and the failure to make Abby sympathetic.

They had to make Joel dumb as a box of rocks for the entire situation to occur. And that’s not Joel’s character. The first game established Joel as intelligent, extremely resourceful, and knowledgeable about human nature in the apocalypse. Joel would have never let his guard down like he did in TLoU2. He wouldn’t have went with Abby to her friends without having a backup plan. Because Joel wasn’t a trusting person at all. He had been on both sides of the reaper line. He knew how things worked.

As for Abby, they utterly failed making her sympathetic. Because they introduced her beating a beloved character’s brains out at the start of the game.

What they should have done was had the player in Abby’s shoes first. To give the player time to bond with her without the foreknowledge of what was to come. Basically I would have excised Abby’s Seattle arc entirely and the first ten hours of the game would have consisted of Abby and her group hunting for Joel, but never telling the player that fact. You would have went on a similar adventure to the first game but in Abby’s shoes instead.

No. My Switch V2 is a far superior device for play. I can take it with me with no need for internet service. Frankly I don’t like playing big budget 3D titles on anything less than a 30 inch screen. The Switch has an absolute treasure trove of 2D experiences that play better in handheld form.

I like the console a lot. But it does have some nagging issues. Nothing major that spoil my experience. But more like my changing lifestyle (my kid was born last week) and just the nature of modern AAA gaming.

I see myself playing my Switch a lot more from now on.

I mean GTA V had some of the best NPCs in video game history.

They were genuinely hilarious. It’s become a meme at this point with random people spouting out GTA NPC quotes.

If you have a strong writing team you can make NPCs interesting. I mean yes they aren’t very interactive and eventually the jokes repeat themselves but they are funny the first time you meet them.

@__jamiie

And you’re lucky man. Knock on wood.

The Saturn had one of the worst laser assemblies ever used in a disc based console. They break commonly.

The rest of the Saturn is a reliable beast but the disc drive is usually a time bomb. It also doesn’t help that many Saturn discs were poorly mastered compared to the PS1. So they do have a habit of disc rotting prematurely.

It could be worse though. At least the Saturn’s laser assembly is a fairly standard model and easy to source. It’s also easy to replace. Not as brain dead simple as a PS1 but it’s not much more complicated.

Whereas every Sega CDX owner lives in fear that their laser assembly takes a dump one day. Because that is a JOB on the CDX. Lots of stuff easily break as you take them completely apart. And the laser assembly wasn’t industry standard. Usually end up having to source a CDX parts machine.

@Futureshark

I always like what he said to old girl that was the villain.

“I could have given you the world, James.”

shoots her in the chest

“The world is not enough.”

Should have rolled the credits right then.

@Constable_What

His combat didn’t have the weight of Kratos’ combat. That was the main issue with it.

By comparison, Thruud would make more sense. Since her fighting style has that hard to define weightyness that Kratos has.

@trev666

For real. With DoSBOX on a modern PC you can play games made for the original IBM PC back in the 1980s. You can even still use floppy drives to play your original floppies from that time period. And games made for Windows from the late 90s are fully playable with either a Virtual Machine or even natively since the PC community is constantly fan patching old games to run on modern CPU and GPU set ups.

That’s something consoles will never have. The PC is so open that the legions of PC gamers have taken up the task of writing patches for games that are otherwise difficult to install and play on modern Windows PCs.

Chances are you can buy any old PC game from 20 years ago and get it running on a modern rig. Either through a fan patched version or through building an emulated machine in VM software. And DOSBox takes care of all those classic DOS games.

It had a 38 gig day one patch. That’s rough and usually points to some issues. When my buddy sent me a screenshot of the day one patch I was pretty shocked. Insomniac’s day one patches are usually pretty small.

Glad I made the right call and got Mario Wonder first. This game is literally flawless. I’ll pick up SM2 after it’s patched a few more times.

@pharos_haven

You’d be surprised. A lot of people swear by it.

Personally I hate permadeath a passion.

@Voltan

Games like Escape from Tarkov, which was what made the genre explode in popularity a few years ago. You’re dropped into a large map with a bunch of other players. Your goal is to gather resources, kill other players and AI enemies, and survive until you can reach an extraction point.

You get a higher score for waiting as long as possible and gathering the most valuable items. When I was playing DMZ it wasn’t uncommon for us to hit the last chopper (in DMZ that’s your final chance to exit the map) with a bunch of other random humans. Usually we would work out a truce not to kill each other because it’s really hard to survive that long in extraction shooters.

These games need to be played in Japanese.

It really ups the immersion. Because the Yakuza games really try to give you a small splice of Japan. So hearing English is weird.

@nomither6

Not that much to be honest.