Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes. It emulates the FE style perfectly, blending strategy and social elements from FETH with classic hack and slash (though more strategic). Story's great, and I've only played through half of one route. Ferdinand's great in it by the way. Rest in peace, Billy Kametz.
I just got Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury. I haven't yet had the chance to play it, but 3D World is one of my favorite games of all time and it's been a few years since I played it last. I've also heard that Bowser's Fury is an excellent addition, so I can't wait to check that out as well.
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Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive Edition (Switch)
Balatro (PC)
@NeonPizza I love XC and I think it looks great. I also think that it was made to run on a Sega Genesis, which is why it doesn't look new and flashy. If I had that game on a 16-bit console, it would have been my favorite game from that era.
@NeonPizza I just ordered my physical copy of Shredder's Revenge today. I went with the middle option, scoring that awesome nostalgia filled VHS sleeve and of course my Pizza Hut coupon. As I said before I am limiting my special edition purchases but the 10 year old in me had to have that swag.
RetiredPush Square Moderator and all around retro gamer.
I really wanted The Hong Kong Massacre, which I was going to order from Play Asia, but after a suggestion from @RupeeClock I ordered it from videogamesplus.ca instead (free shipping) I also ordered Monkey Barrels and Neon Abyss - a LRG retail release I missed. The delivery arrived yesterday, it took about a month to arrive, partly due to The Hong Kong Massacre being a pre-order.
Coincidently, Gunborg from Red Art Games also arrived yesterday.
@NeonPizza Yep that's my biggest complaint about this site now and why I don't post much anymore. Like I said before once James left this site took a dive. It's even bad when you look on The Latest Retro Purchase thread and someone posts a post saying Super Mario Sunshine or Wii Sports even. I just shake my head. I wish there was a site that caters to the 8bit/16bit era but I guess that's just not a thing anymore.
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@NeonPizza I'm Gen Z'er (ew x100). I'll make a friendly comment on your comment.
In this day and age for a youngin like myself it's hard to find retro consoles for good prices and add the prices for retro games skyrocketing to the moon recently. Even systems like the DS are now becoming hard to find, and if games from retro consoles get ported to modern systems in the form of a collection or remastered version a lot of the time it's a situation of "oh, cool retro games". But on the other hand I see retro games and consoles as an awesome piece of history, for my birthday this year I got the NSO NES controllers because they were on sale (lol) and I really wantes NES controllers. I once played a NES with my older cousin (he was like 20 something) on a cube CRT TV and we played Super Mario Bros. and I got my first taste of what retro gaming was.
I'd love to post about my retro finds but I forget a lot of the time, sorry, and I love everyone on here it feels so fresh and I get to talk to people about games I like and life.
@NeonPizza Yea I don't check the retro section to often myself, There are a few threads I will post in but not to many mostly stuff like the movie thread or the wrestling thread general threads like that. I don't even post in the retro thread, last time I did my post just was ignored and overshadowed by GameCube posts and crap like that.
Sometimes I wish I had a Doc Brown style DeLorean and go back to 2010 when this place was poppin for retro goodness.
RetiredPush Square Moderator and all around retro gamer.
Purchased Earth Defence Force World Brothers on sale last night. Perfect supplement game for heavy RPGs that I mainly play. I love the mindless fun that can be had and it's a series full of nostalgia for me as I used to get it as a kid when there was no YouTube reviews or a thousand clips and you would just go by what's on the package 😂 I think I saw EDF and immediately thought I get to play starship troopers the game sign me up 😂
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2013 - 2022 has made me appreciate how things were back in 2006-2012
I'm mixed on Streaming alone. On one hand, it's extremely convenient, on the other hand it's too convenient to the point where most of the movies end up feeling like throways simply because it makes you feel like you're a kid in a candy store with an infinant wallet. I've got to sift through sooo much junk and a lot of stuff i wouldn't dare to watch.
I feel the same way. 80% of the shows they put up on Disney+ are family-friendly American sitcoms I wouldn't bother to bat an eye at.
However, the convenience of the streaming service platforms isn't anything to scoff at either, considering that it's much easier now to access a movie made 50 years ago, and if you belong to a younger Millennial generation like me, especially someone living in a country that doesn't re-release old American movies, this makes it much easier to explore movies you missed before your childhood (or perhaps even during your childhood, when you were too young to be interested in certain films).
I dont know, there's something about buying a physical movie(like lets say Nausica from Studio Ghibli for example) and watching it vs the streamed version. With the physical copy. I mean you're deditcated for one thing, and there may be a bit of bias towards your purchase because of the amount of money you paid to get it.
Agreed. I do love physical copies of things. However, the only thing stopping me is that it's hard to get physical copies of older movies I like, like say Nausica, in Singapore. We're a pretty small country as it is, and not everyone is interested in stockpiling old classics in stores. I have to ship them from America, which costs money. That said, the price does feel worth it for certain films I love, and like you said, your blu-ray collection shows people you're dedicated to certain movies you love.
Either way, i dont watch a lot of new movies anymore, not really a big movie guy these days unfortunately, or fortunately, i dont know. The film industry has gotten pretty stale, and nothing is evolving especially when compared to the Video Game industry. I just fall back on the older stuff, including cartoons & anime and sometimes will check out the odd new movie release or Series.
Same. I used to be far more devoted to exploring movies back in my day, but nowadays, time is so short that I barely have the time or attention span to bother with these mediocre releases. I mostly explore old TV shows and cartoons nowadays, which again, is only possible thanks to streaming services like HBO Max (Sopranos, The Wire, Powerpuff Girls) and Amazon Prime (Hey Arnold, Mad Men).
Yup, the retro forum is practically dead, and those that seldemly talk about the SNES(I guess the NES is too old & dated for these Gen Z goobers to appreciate)are pretty much teenagers and early 20-something year olds that have only recently discovered and played them for the first time. I don't even bother checking that side of the forum out anymore.
Well, I mean, they might be teenagers, but they're the reason why the Retro forum will be kept alive for the long term after the veterans are long gone. For example, I'm a 32 year old Singaporean and I've never grew up with any SNES or N64, period. However, I love the SMT franchise, and the first two games were released on the N64. I would've loved to talk about them, but if I'm a "goober" who's just gonna be ignored in the Retro forum because I'm not old enough to know what I'm talking about, then I might as well not bother at all and let the forum stay dead.
@NeonPizza Yeah I can understand the streaming thing. Though with me after losing alot of stuff in a fire I kinda of appreciate digital media to a point. I mean ***** if I had all my movies and CDs on my tablet for example I would still have them also just the convenience factor of having it all in one place. I mean if there's a fire now all I have to do is grab my device and I just saved all my movies.
Other then that though I totally can see where you are coming from with physical stuff. Nothing beats the feeling of holding a physical copy of a game or a movie, that's one reason I got the Shredder's Revenge physical bundle from LRG.
RetiredPush Square Moderator and all around retro gamer.
Yeah I can understand the streaming thing. Though with me after losing alot of stuff in a fire I kinda of appreciate digital media to a point. I mean ***** if I had all my movies and CDs on my tablet for example I would still have them also just the convenience factor of having it all in one place. I mean if there's a fire now all I have to do is grab my device and I just saved all my movies.
And much as I defend physical copies of games and movies, learning recently that DS/3DS cartridges will deteriorate over time does not make me feel good about buying all my games in physical form after all, as preservation will become an issue. I'm sure CDs and blu-rays have their expiry dates too.
@Maxenmus I don't worry about cartridges deteriorating. If you take care of your games they will last you. I have NES cartridges that are nearing 40 years old and are still working and looking just fine. If they do deteriorate it won't be during my life time so what do I care if they deteriorate in 50, 60 years?
RetiredPush Square Moderator and all around retro gamer.
My 8-16 bit carts or just the entirey of my gaming collection could deteriate and stop working for all i care when I'm in my 60's(especially 70's), because by that point those memory trophies will just seem like plastic clutter to my wrinkly old future self hehe. I'd be more concerned knowing that the grim reaper is about to fry my a** in under 20 years. Ultimately, it's the memories that matter most.
Actually, I'd also care about preserving said cartridges for my children (if I ever have any) so that they could remember these precious games. But since Tasuki mentioned that these cartridges do last, I guess that isn't a big issue.
Maxenmus
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Problem is, is that most kids these days, especially future generations simply put will not care for the 8-16 bit generations. They're all about Switch & Playstation.
You could always introduce the classics to your kids, but chances are they wont care. They want the latest and greatest and what's currently IN. Once Stadia works one day, and it will work. Consoles will probably be a thing of the past along with Physical media.
I'm usually a cynical person, but even I am not that cynical about the curiosity of children. I was a kid who didn't grow up with the 8-16 bit generations. Heck, I was a kid who never grew up with black and white films. All the same, I got interested in them, on my own too without my parents' influences! When something is timeless, life, uh, finds a way (for future generations to be interested in them).
@NeonPizza Yeah, maybe you're right. I think it's the culture of things, how the mass media fill their heads with those shiny games. Plus, with everything being remastered, it breeds apathy towards older games since everything's handed to them in a new shiny repackage.
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