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If GBA had nothing but Castlevania, Metroid, and Golden Sun, it’d still be one of the best systems ever and well worth hunting down today. It just happens to have boatloads of other classics as well.

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I had no idea picross was a name brand, nor that it had such a fervent following, but hey, I’ll take whatever logic puzzles I can get.

I am a married plain old straight man who generally plays as girl toons in videogames, so same sex relationships are key for me. Depending on the genre, ladies will usually have more cosmetic options and look cooler and more athletic in motion, plus dudes done in the anime style tend to look like schmucks and/or pansies.

Somewhat related, I’m finally playing Witcher 3 and I can’t stop making fun of Geralt. He’s such a dork.

I love Zelda, but the only thing I remember enjoying about this game was the sword/shield control. I don’t see myself buying this, especially for $60, especially to play with unreliable tiny joy cons.

The odd thing to me about the 80s mania is that it seemed targeted strictly toward people way too young to have had anything to do with it. So not necessarily nostalgia baiting (or I guess nostalgiabating, when it comes down to it) but more of an opportunity for very young people to do the very young people thing of getting into something so they can say they were into it before the new version, or some such. If that makes any sense. My god do my comments ever run on.

@Mando44646 Hitting close to home. I just dug out my GBA sp this morning to play the wonderful Golden Sun. I’d prefer to do it on my DS lite but the dpad isn’t reliable. I recently hooked up my PS3 to replay the original Resident Evil games. At the dawn of console eshops companies didn’t mind just selling straight untouched ports of old games for $5-10. The original Final Fantasy 7 is I think $8 on ps3, it’s $15 on PS4. Now I feel like if Nintendo were to put Golden Sun or the Zelda Oracle games on Switch they’d charge $15-25, despite Oracles being $7 or 8 on the 3DS shop.

Give me a GBA slot on the SuperSwitch oh my god.

I like bad movies, I’ve been watching Mystery Science Theater 3000 since I was a kid, so when my wife decided she wanted the true bad movie experience of seeing Cats in the theater, I obliged. On the way there, in an act of ultimate protest against being used for such an atrocity, my car blew a whole damn cylinder. We struggled into a parking spot and barely made it home afterward. The grey pilgrim, as I lovingly referred to that beat old Toyota, was junked not long after.

Anyway, I’m not a house pet guy but this seems up both our alleys, if it turns out good maybe we’ll get it for co-op.

@Yanina I had no idea this was a Qix type puzzler. I played that like crazy on fat old Gameboy. Maybe I’ll check it out

I’m interested in Battle Brothers. I get the feeling it’s one of these games that looks like it should run fine but ends up running horrendously and having strange controls (lookin at you, XCOM2) but the game sounds all the way up my alley so I’m willing to try it.

If it’s not 8k/120fps, I won’t play. I need perfection when I see that C+ Bass joke.

The final dungeon theme in Mystic Quest is pretty badass. I never played the snes version of Shadowrun but I still love the Genesis version.

I can hear seconds of his songs and be immediately transported back to the time and place I was the first time I heard them. The very best in the business, he’s the heart of Final Fantasy.

@rfelixvulture Dark Spire rules. I’d dig a new Etrian Odyssey if they could make it work somehow on switch.

Resident Evil is the reason I got PlayStation. I’m right in the middle of re-playing the PS1 games on PS3. I’d be a happy man if they’d put those just as direct ports on switch. Don’t even need the remakes. Going to send links to all the coffee mugs, the bottle opener, STARS hat, and Claire’s vest/jacket pins to my wife for birthday goodies yeeeaaaaaaaaaasssss

I’ve played Link’s Awakening more than any Zelda other than the original, it’s a gem and I love it. Great world, great dungeons, lots of characters. It’s a wonder this game existed on the first gameboy. I couldn’t get into the switch version though. The action felt off, the camera angle was weird, and woof, slowdown. Great music though.

Awesome game, good to see it’s done so well.

@Clyde_Radcliffe games can be priced as low as they go, but below a certain threshold they won’t count toward “best seller” lists, as far as I recall.

I really like this game but there is something about it that actually nauseates me when I play it. I’m actually getting a little queasy just thinking about it now. I’ll still play it start to finish, enraptured, I’ll just feel like I’m going to throw up the whole time. I beat this one on SNES but not until ‘97 or ‘98.

Furthermore, the dungeon theme is spectacular.

Love Zelda 2. Played it on NES for years and beat it as a teen on GBA SP. A girl once told me beating Z2 was more impressive than wrestling a bear, I somehow ended up married to someone else.

@Classic603 Yeah I can appreciate what they tried to do, the music and art are fantastic, they obviously care a great deal about the series. I wanted to like it, I just have serious camera problems in some games that make them nigh unplayable.

I love Link’s Awakening, I’ve played it more than any Zelda other than 1986 Zelda, but I hated the remake. The slightly off camera angle, floaty action, and strange slowdown killed it. I waited for it to be on sale and returned it anyway.

If they make something in that style I won’t play it. That said, I don’t think this new project has anything to do with Zelda or this style. ‘-‘)

Eesh. Glad I played it on PS4. It was still rough and the loading times were insane but at least it was playable.

There’s no point to putting out release dates or even windows right now because nothing is certain these days. I’m cool with it.

The story on the eshop description sounded like a straight rip of Shadow of the Colossus so I didn’t expect the game to innovate much in any regard.

@KateGray I’ve read the Iliad but not the Song of Achilles. I’ll check it out, thanks for the recommendation. Doomed lovers get me every time, whether it’s Orpheus and Eurydice, or Wander and Mono, Beren and Luthien, and more. The pervasive themes of reunion and reconciliation in Hades swept me away, and Zagreus’ desire to help these lost souls defy the gods makes him one of my favorite heroes ever.

Reuniting Pat and Achilles was my final goal in Hades and it felt great to help them defy fate. Seeing them together made my wife squee.

I would drape myself in Hades, were it socially acceptable.

Looks cool, but the name opens it up to the dreaded one word review if it doesn’t meet its potential.

“Indeed”

Even though I’d played it so many years ago, I felt rare elation recently showing FFX and X2 on switch to my wife. Going from the generally somber, bittersweet at best FFX to the joy of the perfect ending of FFX2 was wonderful.

I do not like green eggs and dew.

Crosscode is great and Huntdown, wow, hail Satan, Huntdown is cooler than yeti poop.

Core
1146 hours/158 games

Final Fanasy X/X2 pack
Hades
ACNH
Darksiders Genesis
Battlechasers Nightwar

My wife wanted to see a Final Fantasy so I showed her X and he demanded to see X2, 190 hours later I have a true believer here. Hades is a national treasure. I stopped playing animal crossing after two weeks and never went back, traded it in for credit at some point. A friend got me into Darksiders genesis, and GameStop had it for $10 at the time and I had a blast. Battlechasers Nightwar really surprised me and I enjoyed every minute.

Heaviest play month was November, on account of some time off. Lowest was June, because I spent that month dumping 250+ hours into Pillars of Eternity on PS4.

I played two games with Mario and I’m not even sure what they were.

2019 was 863/110
FE3H
Pokémon Shield
Mortal Kombat 11
Bloodstained Ritual of the night
Ironcast

@LexKitteh coincidentally, I had some Mormon neighbors with a daughter named Sariah, pronounced suh-RYE-uh. I guess it was a name from their book.

I agree though, the sage is SAH-ree-uh

I played ACNH for a few weeks then made a clean break with help from RE3 and then FF7. It seems to me that, intentionally or not, the most wholesome, family friendly game of the year is also built to create addiction by hooking game time and item availability to the real world clock. I can’t really articulate my point well, but I didn’t like that.

After playing online games for years and spending way too much time one one game I’ve managed to cut back on my completionist tendencies and just decide a game is done when it’s done. That’s not to say I don’t still dump tons of hours into any games, I just don’t let them drag on for more than a few weeks, and acnh is meant to be played every day, at all times of day, for at least a year.

Excuse all the commas.

Developed by I. Ron Butterfly

There is nothing in Hades that is less than excellent. Pumping action, wonderful music, great script, heartfelt characterizations, and a story about love, forgiveness, reconciliation, and reunion. Orpheus’ Lament is the best video game song of the year for me, tied with Jenova from FF7R.

I also really enjoyed (in no order) Crosscode, Please the Gods, Robothorium in the indie gems JRPG bundle, Xcom 2, Huntdown, Streets of Rage 4, Operencia, Faeria, Darksiders Genesis, and Nowhere Prophet.

I’m playing Monster Sanctuary right now and looking forward to playing Ring of Pain and Trials of Mana.

@Tsuchinoko That version of the song is from Advent Children

@Dr_Corndog Yeah I saw that too, I think it was called Hell’s Gate in the original Dissidia for psp. Not really into Smash but this is pretty cool.

They don’t want to sell us Death Sticks. They want to go home and rethink their lives.

I highly prefer the switch pro controller to my basic ps4 pad but I can’t justify Switch tax anymore. Not only that, but there are some games I just won’t play on handheld/tabletop anyway. Love my switch but yeah, got Doom Eternal on vanilla PS4 for $16 before thanksgiving.

It would be nice to get “handheld” Zelda games between giant tentpole Zelda events every five years. $30-40 top quality non-huge games like we used to get on the gameboy and ds families.

“turns out that the entire game is predicated on this almost comical focus on wasting your time”

“You might put in that time only to realize that it actually didn’t have any importance.“

“The issue here is that the complete lack of any meaningful difficulty robs the entire experience of being anything more than a rote exercise in testing one’s patience.”

“The crops will continue to grow regardless of whether they’ve tasted a single drop of water, the quest givers will wait until the heat death of the universe for you to complete their chores”

“ keen on wasting your time with no meaningful payoff.”

Animal Crossing: New Horizons - 10/10

THE VIDEO GAME ARENA.