Did SOR4 pioneer the now seeming standard of beat em ups having a DLC survival mode? If so, I love that. Shredder's Revenge got it second, but of course the same studio was involved.

Need to just load and get the game updated....for now. Why limited? This is just called Microtransactions at the worst.

I think my backlogs started in 2017 with BOTW and continues still too 2024.

I played these games. 🙂
1. Harvest Moon : Tree of Tranquility Wii
2. Go Vacation Switch

Alot of us KS pledges are stilling waiting since we funded the game to start as well.

Sounds odds and usually that means something is in the works for some time and new fresh minds bring in new concepts but we won't see fruits of this labor probably in 5 years we will hear more about this.

You say witty dialogue. I'm inclined to believe you based on this list of "features."

Trying my hand at my second play through of P5R. Also playing through P3Reload in between!

No time for games dr Jones. Watching Hawk the Slayer xxx

I thought I was having a bad day then I came across this article

Yes, I'm watching Fallout and I'm also a few episodes in. Makes me want to try the series for the first time.

Also loved wrestlemania last weekend and loved the new direction wwe is headed in. It does make me want to buy wwe 2k 24 which is a on a sale atm.

But as for gaming this weekend, I just finished my 5th or 6th playthrough of Cadence of Hyrule last night, so to continue on my zelda push, I started up Skyward Sword again.

On xbox I'm playing Banjo and Diablo 4.

Unicorn Overlord. (Switch) I finished up Elheim yesterday, so it's off to Bastorias next. I hear it's the hardest region, too, so I'm interested to see how that goes.

Freedom Planet 2. (Switch) - I didn't get a chance to play much this week, so I'll try to connect that.

Splatoon 3. (Switch) - Took break for the last two weeks but I need to get back on to continue leveling up the catalog and practice before the Splatfest (Team Lil Bunnies FTW)

SW Battlefront Classic Collection. (Switch) - Will probably jump on Instant Action when I need dome quick, casual fun.

FFXIV. (PC) - Still working my way through Stormblood. Getting caught up before Dawntrail releases may not be as feasible as I thought.

Still making my way through Persona 5 Royal. I truly love this game, but I have never fallen asleep so much during a game before ( I play late at night after my daughter goes to bed). Every time I think I’m about to reach the finish line, it gets moved a little further. I’m not complaining, though. After 115 hours, I love all of these characters and am excited to see where the story ends.

Happy gaming, everyone!

Tee-hee arse is in the article title

I got several of the games for free using my points, and I even bought a few for $0.20 each. Sometimes I am in the mood for silly time-wasting games when you don't have to think so much.

@OwenGamer22 Happy birthday, God bless, enjoy your special day, and have many more!

@EveryoneElse:

Super Mario Bros. Wonder - Completing the levels I missed, or didn't unlock yet.

MegaMan, X, and Zero/ZX Legacy Collections - Right now, going through Zero 2, and another playthrough of ZX.

Star Wars: KOTOR - Going through another playthrough. Played this a whole lot. Too bad the Switch version appears to also have the glitch that locks out party members' advancing dialogue trees, and quests if you completed a certain party member side quest early. This is why you continually save often, and selectively keep certain save files. Unfortunately, I don't have a prior save. I'm continuing to experiment with the Cheatbot, since it allows accessing segments that later become inaccessible under normal gameplay. I'm going to continue experimenting with time travel.

Shantae series

Happy gaming, and God bless, everyone!

Playing star ocean 2 the second story r and possibly doing some Megaman battle network collection and paper Mario 64 on switch. But star ocean is priority since it’s a backlog and i haven’t beaten it whereas I beaten nearly every Megaman battle network game on gba and beaten paper Mario 64 several times 😂

If they can't put it Physical cart like Doom why would I buy it in the first place for such a old game?

Where's the patch to make it Physical release as well???

Crash 4 was incredible. Every platformer fan should play it for sure

@YoungYoyo And also a learning curve as well just like all other open Farm type simulators... ugh..... played first through to figure the game and then restarted knowing how to do it right the second time.... lol....

@DogDetective I think I saw that now recently....

@MeloMan

you are just bragging, 8 games in one weekend:/

This article was wonderful, almost as wonderful as getting my arse kicked in a game of Mario Party and Smash Bros.

Games are just more fun in person, even if Discord or whatever y'all use are great alternatives as well, but there's nothing else like yelling at your friends for them taking your star.

Whereas I flew 3000 miles to get arse

That was a beautifully written article. I get together and game with my friends often and it is as magical as you indicate in this article. We like to Smash and Mario Party ourselves. The BETRAYAL is real~

All of Nintendo Land's asymmetric multiplayer modes are a treat! I miss that console, just as much as I miss all of the asymmetric multiplayer games that studios never made...

I'll be playing more of the usual suspects: Helldivers 2, Unicorn Overlord (just cleared the third continent; my squads are finally starting to come together!), and maybe, juuuust maybe, I'll be naughty and buy Pepper Grinder.

“Bare minimum effort for a remaster”

Looking back at this after playing the Battlefront Classic Collection, at least Bamco managed to make the Phantasy Reverie Series decently playable unlike what Aspyr had done with the former.

Anybody know if it has split screen multiplayer?

I'm finishing Haak. I can't believe you guys at didn't review this one, it's freakin amazing!!!

Shin Tensei Devil Survivor 2 Record Breaker. I enjoyed the first game remake (SMT Devil Survivor Overclocked) so much, but due to my 3DS having a corrupt memory card that I bought used and my at the time gacha addiction, I never finished this amazing game. Overclocked remains one of my top ten favorite games to this day. With Record Breaker I'm already having a blast of nostalgia, strategy, and monster taming. The story so far doesn't seem quite as good as Overclocked, but everything else seems to be just as good. Magical game already.

I’m going to be alternating between three games:

Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury ; repurchased a physical copy after selling it a few years ago back when I was in high school (and had no money lol). Fired up a new Bowser’s Fury run, defeated Bowser twice now. At around 15 shines.

Hollow Knight ; also started a new playthrough as a reward for beating every game in the Mega Man X Legacy Collection. Got all spells with upgrades except for Howling Wraiths, all movement upgrades, one nail upgrade, six masks, one extra soul vessel. All stags unlocked except for Stag Nest, Deepnest Village, and Queen’s Garden, two coliseum trials completed. This weekend, I would like to start exploring Deepnest. I always tend to tackle this area and defeat Herrah later in the game since I find Deepnest to be pretty difficult if you’re not prepared enough. This would include upgrading my nail, finding charms I could use, and upping my health meter. I would also like to find more of the warrior dream battles to collect essence and get the Dream Gate.

A Little to the Left ; got this game on a whim last night. A really chill puzzle game with satisfying puzzles. I like it!

My birthday is today, so I will be juggling these three games around when I’m not working or celebrating.

@FishyS I saw last week you were playing Scourgebringer. It’s one of my favorite roguelikes, though quite difficult. I think the combat is perhaps the most intense I’ve experienced in that genre, without thinking too hard on it.

Pikmin 4. I quit after 7 hours last year when it launched…something about it that didn’t click for me.

I’m enjoying it but I think the lack of any sense of emergency harms it honestly. There’s no need to be as efficient as possible or to cram as much as you can do into one day so it’s much more leisurely than the other games (at least 1+3 anyway, which incidentally I like a lot more than 2). I know they were trying to appeal to more people and looking at the sales it looks like it worked but I’d have liked to have some sense of pressure. I’ve also just found it really easy in general which wasn’t how I’d describe the other games.

Enjoying it more this time around going into it knowing that it’s a more relaxed take…hope it starts to push back a little more though as it goes on.

gonna pick up mass effect legendary edition ps5 again, bought the game in december but only got trough the citadel part. looks excellent on 4k and 60fps

game characters like crash over time have started to look like those "real homer simpson" et al memes where they've redrawn a cartoon character but now they have realistic skin texture, eyes and lighting 😬 i really miss the days when characters were represented as cartoons or paintings instead of CG "art."

@HandheldHaunter @Not_Soos Activision made Toys for Bob into a CoD support studio shortly after Crash 4 released, so yes, you are right that these numbers weren't good enough for Bobby Kotick.

Much as I hate seeing so much industry consolidation, I think things are going to be better overall in this case.

After a long, busy week for me, I will get the chance to do quite a bit of gaming (for once) this weekend. With that said, here's my list:

Umbraclaw demo
I'm generally a fan in Inti-Creates' output, but I'm not rock solid if I'm down for this game for some reason. I'm not sure what brings me pause, so I'm pleased they released a demo to help me see where I stand.

Super R-Type
THIS was the R-Type that got me into the series. It was a nice surprise as a rental way back when. Looking at footage now, it seems so much slower and less frantic compared to most other R-Types, which is probably why I was able to play this so well — I love shmups but I'm not elite in any measure, I just like to shooty shooty, and tossing that force around was hella fun. This will be one of several of my weekly weekend retro plays.

Amazing HEBEREKE
There has been A LOT of HEBEREKE love lately! I've heard there are a lot of games in this series, but I've never even heard of this one, so I'll dip a toe in. Similar to Inti-Creates, I generally like a lot of the output from Sunsoft. This is another retro play.

Wrecking Crew '98
A game I've only heard of through the wind, and here it is. I was a fan of Wrecking Crew (NES), and actually a bigger fan of the less puzzly arcade game Vs. Wrecking Crew, so I'm intrigued to see how they've removed the platforming to just focus on the puzzling. Another retro play.

F-Zero: Maximum Velocity
Continuing on with the Standard Knight league. I can't stop getting a round or 5 in on this game, so much fun. The last of my retro plays.

Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed: Ecto Edition
As a Ghostbusters fan, I HAD to check this out. I'm just renting from GameFly at the moment, but if I like it enough, I'll just buy it outright. Buggy, but a lot of fan service for $20.

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
About to reach Goron Town. Chasing down my fireproof lizards on the way.

Fitness Boxing
Time for me to get back serious about dropping pounds. I'll get a few rounds in of this.

Been busy IRL lately. This hampers the hobbies quite a bit. At least my D&D group is finally trying to meet again after almost half a year. Huzzah! That didn't age well. Postponed a week due to illness.

• Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr's Journey - Pretty sure I'm towards the main game's end; I now have the Miracle Cure but am bouncing around trying to find beans and other secret areas I've missed and/or can now access. I'm pretty far in BJJ too. I think I'm towards the end of that mode too and am trying to round up the remaining Koopalings. Sticking with BJJ for the plot since it is entertaining at times. The gameplay is better than Bowser's Minions from the SS 3DS remake, but there are definitely better SRPGs.
• Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana - Nearly at the end of Chapter 3 in my NG+ run. Orichalcum weapons are now acquired, so now all that remains is to conquer Mt. Gendarme...and access the other half of the Isle of Seiren.

Definitely pushing BIS when I can. Happy gaming!

@Maubari I'm the same. Could never really get into BOTW, but TOTK has had me playing almost daily since Christmas. Maybe because it's a more complete version of what BOTW was going for?

Playing TOTK this weekend, and just finished a play through of Story Mode on WWE Day of Reckoning on the Gamecube.

@AlanaHagues The first Dark Souls is my favorite of those games (not a common opinion, i think), and i consider it a (however flawed)masterpiece. My feelings would not be hurt if you wrote that the Bed of Chaos was the worst thing ever.

Note- I forgot to type congratulations on defeating a trying game!

Outside possible dips into Unwound Future, Endless Frontier, Gravity Rush and Eternia, I'm expecting this weekend's gaming side to be split between Switch and Deck. The former has traditionally high odds of Xenoblade trio and Fuga, RF trio and Portia, roguelites like Isaac/TumbleSeed/Frost and sidescroller journeys like Eiyuuden Chronicle Rising/Dust/Bloodstained, shooters like Bioshock 2/Doom 3/Borderlands 2 and more strategic stuff like Civ 6/Sailing Era/Before We Leave, plus other possibilities like Barbarous, Powerwash, Twilight Survivors, One's Justice, Mudrunner, Carto and Smelter. The latter will likely be busy with its own usual suspects from XCX, Horizon and the FFs to Kingdom Hearts, Payback and Watch Dogs with a potential side of Drakengard, Hand of Fate or Dishonored.

@dmcc0 Thank You for the heads up. Was ignoring the sale, but didn't know Qubic is the current Publisher of the Bit.Trip games. Although not amazing. They were quite relaxing for short burts when I only had a short time or didn't like a long gaming session. So they're definitely worth 20c each imo!

I finished Tomb Raider 2 and its DLC (Golden Mask) so now I’m likely on to Unicorn Overlord continuing the full game from my demo save file.

Nintendo’s silence is interesting, they’re in that phase where everyone’s Direct begging at this point. But waiting for a Direct before deciding my next game seems unwise.

Kingdoms & Lords (Windows Phone) - Still getting my footing in this one.

Earthworm Jim HD (Windows Phone) - Buttville is seriously kicking my rear end...

Angry Birds Star Wars II (Windows Phone) - Always a special place in hell for three starring every single level in this game

The Gap? I never shop there, they don't have anything in my size.

I'll be playing more Final Fantasy VII Remake. I think I'm about 8 hours in now. Chapter 6 felt a little annoying admittedly but I'm excited to see where this goes.

My consoles are observing a "weekend of silence" in respect for the passing of Splatoon for Wii U.

@Bobb
"Emulating the SNES, GCN, GBA, NDS? It's a gray area but Nintendo isn't profiting from sales of any of them anyways."

How is emulating retro Nintendo games and hardware a grey area?

Nintendo Switch Online costs money and it does have several GB, GBC, NES and SNES games.

Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack costs money and have several GBA and N64 games.

There are many retro game collections, retro games and remakes of retro games available (from other publishers) on the Nintendo Switch Eshop and in physical editions.

If a retro game is not available in Nintendo’s Switch Online services or to buy (digital or physical) from Nintendo or other stores at the moment: How would it make it legal or a grey area to share emulated copies?

People pirating older games, apart from being illegal, can affect Nintendo, other legal shops and sellers negatively in several ways: It boils down to fewer people will buy the game or service if they already have an illegal copy of the game.
1. Nintendo might re-release the game sooner or later.
2. Nintendo might remake the game sooner or later.
3. Nintendo might release a NEW game in the series sooner or later. (And it could hurt sales that other instalments in the series are available for "free", so they could just play them instead.)
4. It does not only hurt Nintendo, but also the legal second hand market which include both shops and private persons.

I imagine the second hand market would look VERY different if there were no piracy.

@EarthboundBenjy Yeah, I got that feeling from the game as well. It's tedious as all hell to exit the stage and then having to rewatch all the unskippable (mini) cutscenes.. Hella annoying. Will be trading it in soon