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I finally went in on this after getting a physical copy for Christmas — even the base game has plenty to do but I snapped up the DLC when I realised there was a bundle available.

@Darthmoogle yeah, the PS1 was home to some absolute gems — many of which were cruelly denied us poor UK chumps. Luckily many of them are being trickled out slowly but surely — I just hope to Zeus that this TR collection holds up after being put through the remaster wringer.

Tomb Raider I-III, pleeeease be good. I'm still a bit nervous after the whole GTA fiasco.

@Gitface Their Instagram feed has shown a fair bit of new gameplay clips

"I just want some answers at this point"

You and me both, Rich.

I'll almost certainly wait for some reviews before even considering picking this up — while it certainly looks like fun, I've become pretty much immune to preordering anything anymore.

I'm still waiting to see if the games are actually, y'know, good before getting excited about a potential physical release.

@mlt it took them this long to make the original games available for modern consoles — I wouldn't get too excited for a HD2D remake any time soon

@Axecon these glitch videos usually are way more convoluted and faffy than actually just doing the thing, and outside of getting down and dirty with the core game code, I'm genuinely curious to know how people happen upon them

@BlueKnight07 yeah, they really need to make Afterburner and the Golden Axe duology available

@gcunit Because nostalgia/built-in fanbase

@johnedwin I mean, you could say that of every game up to a certain point.

@Spider-Kev whoever heard of a snozberry?

Really tempted to upgrade my NSO just to play these two — I briefly tried the first one but didn't give it my full attention at the time.

@vanYth Dang, beat me to it! I was just trying to excavate my dusty memory banks for the name of that game...

@Ashunera84 Yeah but it's endlessly amusing seeing articles having to clarify what they're talking about. Bravo, Elon — by shortening the name of something, you've actually extended it.

@Sisilly_G it's frustrating because this was the first I'd heard of the series, and it looked quite interesting, until I saw the glut of average reviews — knowing that it used to be decent is all the more tragic. It's like Fallout 4 all over again.

@CharlieZee yeah I only played LiS/BtS for the first time a year ago — such a sublime pair, rarely have I been so emotionally moved by a game series

@EarthboundBenjy The Wonder Boy series: "Hold my beer"

@UltraZelda64 no, I'm saying that the GBA in particular seemed to have a glut of licensed garbage from films and cartoons that were popular around the early 2000s

@Raifteiri yeah, I dug my SP, but for every Golden Sun there were like five Shrek games

@smithyo yeah — it can make browsing through a sale an absolute chore at times

Yeah but I'll bet a fair share of that number were those godawful sub-shovelware games like that Last of Us knock-off.

Nintendo GX4000

Mighty Switch Force 2

@BulkSlash I got GTA Trilogy vibes from the original trailer - the updated graphics had a similar smooth and shiny "sweet capsule" look to them. I'm remaining cautiously optimistic though, although I'm certainly not going to be preordering it or anything.

Also if the thing has full back-compat, then you'll save at least a cool hundred on the trade in for the Switch 1.

@TYRANACLES I'm pretty certain that's exactly the reason! Or more specifically, that standalone version of MWIV that came out recently.

Just a heads up — this collection is indeed now on sale for £22.49, half of its RRP

@Tom-Massey with that in mind, is the collection itself decent enough to warrant that price?

@Serpenterror Ah I completely 180'ed on CrossCode — absolutely loved it at first, but around about the 45-50 hour mark it had slowly worn me down and I dropped it. I feel like I was so close to the end as well (beginning of Chapter 9), so I might pick it up again at some point, mainly for a sense of closure.

@dartmonkey

"In fact, it needn't be a totally new game — I'd be ecstatic to see an Out Run 2006: Coast 2 Coast remaster."

^ a thousand times this — my ex purchased OutRun 2 on their PSN account while it was still available, but I didn't realise I hadn't on mine until it had already been delisted! Pesky licensing wrinkles... This is why we don't have any ports of the After Burner series, isn't it? And also why they can't reissue the arcade port of Golden Axe, because it uses sound samples from movies...

@CodyDogg Not at all! If you've got a copy already you might wanna give it a shot and see if you vibe with it — you can adjust the difficulty on the fly, which the game even straight up says to use "if you're finding it inaccessible, or even unenjoyable" — just strap in for the long haul! I got my 2023 stats yesterday and it turns out that even though the game clock was around 45-50 hours, I'd actually spent 67 hours playing it! No wonder I was burned out...

@CodyDogg It's not that I didn't like it — at first I absolute loved it, it's got a lot going for it, in its design, music, and the premise/writing is really well done. It's just some of the mechanics in the actual gameplay become very wearisome the longer you get into it. It would have been a perfect 16-20 hour game, I think.

There's an elemental attack system which is fairly straightforward at first, but later on you're juggling four of them, and in some of the later dungeons you need to switch between them on the fly during battle, and in the middle of puzzles, which again, sounds great on paper, but some of the level design and controlling/aiming your character is so imprecise (there's a multi-levelled elevation to the map which, from a top-down perspective, can make navigation and platforming an absolute nightmare), and a lot of the puzzles depend on pixel perfect aiming/timing. Plus the dungeons are incredibly long; you don't so much feel a sense of accomplishment when you finish them, it's more relief that it's over.

I don't want to rag on the game too much though, like I say it's an imperfect masterpiece, and I very rarely drop a game unless it's absolute trash, I may even return to it one day (I was on chapter 9 of 10), but just be prepared!

@hypercoyote Damn, that comment is over a year old, yet I came here to say exactly this!

I absolutely love the first three Ace Attorney games, but for whatever reason I stalled with Apollo Justice on the 3DS quite early on and never got around to continuing it. I'll definitely pick it back up with this collection.

@B3RTAY Not my words, Lynn. The words of Basil Exposition.

I think with Zelda, and trying to make sense of the timeline, it's best not to worry about those things and just enjoy yourself.

Still desperately holding out for a physical release for this...

It's not on this particular list, but did anyone see Vivarium? That game looks absolutely gorgeous, and they absolutely nailed the old school art style with it.

I absolutely love Stardew Valley, but the storage/inventory/crafting system could use an overhaul. It's fine early on when you don't have much in the way of items, but I was well into my third year and having to stockpile hundreds of different types of items in those teeny tiny 30-slot storage boxes becomes incredibly unwieldy - so much so that playing started to become a chore.

@Luigivaldo He is legend.

@nessisonett I had been meaning to properly finish the game before the new one comes out - is there a simpler way to grind for those blood droplet thingies that level up your weapons that I'm missing? I feel like I'm playing a F2P mobile game with how prohibitively expensive the upgrades are and how scarce the currency seems to be.

@nessisonett gonna try and keep this vague and spoiler-light — I've beaten the "final boss" like two or three times — I'm assuming there's more to discover? I've maxed out everything from the mirror, but there's a TONNE of weapon upgrades I've barely managed to acquire yet; they seem insurmountably expensive — so much so that I was wondering if I'm playing the game wrong...

@KateGray Interesting, i didn't think it'd be a multi-run game — what were your thoughts on Hades? I have maxed out all the stats in that game but I'm still having trouble with the final boss...

A tease of an announcement? Colour me cautious. I just hope it's not Sonic NFTs or something equally as inane...

Tried the demo yesterday and it IS for me. I'm trying not to start anything too big until Christmas, but I love DQ so this'll be going high above the backlog

No thanks, I'd rather buy the games I want than rent an amorphous selection of them.

Personally I wouldn't use any — I've already got plenty of devices that serve my streaming needs just fine, but I'm sure there are people who would, so let 'em have it if it's a relatively simple option.

@Solomon_Rambling Yeah, a game's length can be an absolute dealbreaker, for me — not because they're necessarily unenjoyable, I just don't have the time to commit to multiple RPGs and farming sims, especially when there are just so many of them.

I'd never heard of this game before reading this review, but it looks right up my alley.

Woah, 45 hours? I had to call it a day with CrossCode once I was pushing 50 hours; that game was death by a thousand papercuts towards the later chapters...

If you defeat Ganon, I'll give you this GENUINE MASTER SWORD (replica)

@Aventurier yup, for less than a fiver I could do a lot worse!