Expa0

I'm wondering if they took any step in making the AI smarter when it comes to invasions, CIV6 AI had no idea on how to invade another country and it was one of the major reasons why the game felt like a downgrade from CIV5.

This whole situation is insane and its such a bummer to see no-life opportunists to ruin things for everyone.

The actual TGC game is a lot of fun though as I found recently, a friend got me a Ninetales EX battle deck for last christmas to go with Zapdos deck he got himself and we got some pretty fun battles in, it's a lot more chill to play compared to Magic since you don't really need to be so razor sharp about the goings on in the opponent turns.

In the end I got enough of a Pokemon fever from that, that I ended up buying 10 or so random booster packs and opened them to get that feel of childhood nostalgia and yeah, that was fun too but I have no desire to spend any more money on those things.

Almost only counts in horseshoes and handgrenades. (Odyssey was kinda poop and IDC about Astro Bot so I have no dog in this race really).

Digging through the e-shop deals and trying to figure which of the dozens of hentai games use AI generated art.

I feel like it will continue further to the way of MK8 and reduce the effect and interaction between racers, that game had reduced the knock back to such pitiful levels already, being able to knock your opponents to a precipice was one of the most fun things you could do in MK. They will probably also make the courses even easier and wider still to account for that.

In theory more racers is good but MK8 already showed that it does seem to come at the cost of the chaos that makes Mario Kart to me anyway.

He speaks like a wrathful god or something jeeze.

@BloodWolfe
The amount of customization and player control takes away from the life sim aspect, you never have to deal with villagers leaving or anything like that since they always need to have your permission first, that just totally misses the point of what Animal Crossing is. The villager dialogue is super repetive and just way too nice, the earlier games had bit more of an edge to them.

And then the customization and terraforming features themselves are still limited and cumbersome to use, so it fails in that side too.

It just hits this awful middle ground that doesn't really satisfy either side, but for me personally the series has just lost its identity with this entry and they really need to rehaul the entire villager dialogue system, it's pretty telling that the game itself treats talking to the villagers as a "chore" from which you gain points from.

Donno if this would be it but Animal Crossing could use some competition, they kinda dropped the ball with the latest one.

Yeah a bit of a questionable scene to highlight lol. But I hope the remasters end up being worth it, I think the prior Konami classic releases as of late have been just fine. Worst comes to worst the originals always exist.

I don't really remember the dialogue in this scene by heart, but I'm wondering if they did any touch ups to the english dialogue in the game because it could probably use some.

It looks lovely, japan had many nice picturesque places, loved some of the shrines and castles I got to visit myself.

I don't suppose there was a fat person telling you how amazing techology is though?

Well I got a chance of dissing their modern vision of turning the main series into action movie games, so I'll take it.

Unless they decide to go back to their original turn-based RPG roots I don't see myself playing any of these newer games.

It's generally their lower budget games where Squeenix thrives these days.

These are my games of the year, I don't really believe in limiting myself to a single console on things like this.

1. Baldur's Gate 3
2. Vandal Hearts 2
3. Pokemon Trading Card Game (GBC)

Nothing else out of the 31 games which I played for the first time this year comes even remotely close to those so I don't really see much point in continuing the list further.

I'm still amidst playing VH2 but I feel pretty comfortable in saying that its a darned legit game.

That's one wide screen

One of my all time favorite games, tough choice, I love the breezy anime art in the japanese version, I just love how colorful the cast is and the shade of blue they use for the background is very nice, but the US box art is such a classic case of "bad" western box art with a huge nostalgia factor to boot that I just can't help but to love it, like why is everyone so pissed and scary on that cover lol?

I hyped it up to myself in such a way that I decided to go for the US cover.

Activate Breath of Fire then please.

And not as a mobile game...

It works just as well as any other style when the art direction is strong, like in the Live-a-live remake, that game always had a strong visual identity and I think the more colorful aesthetic translated to the style perfectly.

Yeah the cons are pretty much spot on, I was kinda interested in this and I got it on release on Steam but it really is quite barebones and samey all the way through, good visual style only goes so far.

"Wieldable weapon pickups is always a plus in this genre"

Why is this a con? Am I to assume that wieldable weapon pickups are not in fact a part of this?

@LastFootnote
I see, thanks for correcting me.

Hell yeah, when it comes to product, Heinz is up there as one of the most important ones.

I don't recall particularly caring for the game, some good music though and the character art in the original is quite nice, 3DS version dropped the ball there in a pretty big way.

I looove the DS, or rather its library but yeah, it's one of Nintendo's best consoles period only really challenged by SNES, Atlus was on fire back then. I'll do a top 10 since 5 would just be doing such a great library disservice.

Best games:
1.Dark Spire
2.Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon
3.Advance Wars Days of Ruin
4.Dragon Quest 4
5.Shin Megami Tensei Strange Journey
6.Devil Survivor
7.Etrian Odyssey 3
8.Pokemon Black/White
9.Retro Game Challenge
10.Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light

I do include DQ4 since that was the first time I played that game, but not something like Chrono Trigger since I do not view that as a DS game.

Aw man, they didn't have anything half as cool as that when I went there.

I read the head line as "Xbox Child" certainly would've been mature of them compared to how I would've been about sharing Nintendo games when I was a bab myself.

It's still not quite "Perfect" Dark is it?

The game looks great and all but the simple decision to change it so that level ups fully heal your party is just going to ruin the dungeon crawling gameplay that made the old Dragon Quests so great. Why-oh-why cannot it be a toggle?

No. I like all my music in one place and to this day just listening to your own MP3s is the only place for that.

Trailer is hype as hell, I didn't get hooked into the game as some others did, I got 5 hours out of it and I enjoyed my time well enough. This DLC may convince to return to the game.

Good for him I guess. His Wario in particular is still not good though.

Yeah I've watched a playthrough of this, it looks really good, part 3 especially.

Wow I looked at the trailer and it looks like a lot of fun to me, damn between this and Crow Country this has been one spectacular year for spooktober.

"What's the name of this balled-up baddy?"

That's just an Alolan Pokey.

Never heard of this, seems very cool. Love the FF7 look.

Yeah I played the game on PC. Don't let the fact that it's a indie RPG dissuade you because of potential bad experiences with those. This one truly is a good one and a very rare case of a indie RPG that is not plagued by the usual issues like cringy terrible paced writing and annoying characters. It's got memorable set pieces and story moments, great music and dungeon design and it just a generally solid adventure all around, a bit on the easier side though if you're one of those types that likes their games to actually slay you for some reason.

My only somewhat major gripe does come from the fact that it is a direct sequel that has many of the same characters and references the first game, which, I do think that you're not going to be getting the best possible experience unless you play the first game first. The first game is maybe a slight bit rougher around the edges, but still a worthwhile game to play on its own right (and isn't very long at all), its only on steam but it basically runs on a toaster.

Well the OG final boss was pretty darn easy, still a very random change.

Japan just so I don't need to look at the derpy protagonist this game has.

Where's my Phantasy Star/Shining Force revival at?

Obviously the older Pokemon were not built with the competive scene in mind, I don't care about it myself so I donno really what the say. Just in general I don't think everything necessarily needs to be equally useful.

I mean Nintendo's not doing much with Advance Wars so I don't mind having Advance Wars at home, sure. I'll give it a shot at least.

Lacking an english dub is a pretty big loss for a game like this. And I'm guessing the game's full price and probably never getting a discount just like the remasters of the famicom games.

Blinx? Is that you?

Gonna resist the bare thigh and give it to the US cover, love the style on it.

I guess the select people who do actually like DKC3 and Kiddy Kong are just super passionate about it.

A beatiful work of art, the statue, not the game.

I'm into it, this guy's art style is superb and the game looks deliciously retro.

@gcunit
Not everyone who disagrees with your views is necessarily a troll. Sure, I don't like Dread, but my post was just a dumb joke more than anything. I'm not gonna say who you should or shouldn't ignore, but I'd suggest growing a thicker skin.

Mediocre ode to a mediocre game huh? Maybe someone can make a mediocre ode to this game and maybe it'll eventually loop around to being good.

The european cover is better for sure, the other one is way too busy. What a downgrade of artstyle though from previous castlevania games. The game's great and all sure but the saturday morning anime style they had in this game is so ugly.

I played through the game once, I'm good with it. I really wanted to like it and it did have some good qualities to it, but the game just insisted on being as annoying as possible with some of its mechanics, character recruitment, base building... Things which used to be cool and unintrusive in most Suikoden games were turned into chores involving material gathering and multiple hours long minigame quests.

Oh and the writing.

Been playing Baldur's Gate 3 for few weeks now, Some ways into Act 2 by now. But that's taking a bit of a backseat now that Earth Defense Force 6 released, I've been playing that with a friend and as always its just dumb fun shooting endless hordes of goofy enemies and collecting and trying out new weapons.

Both are bad in different ways.

3Houses has you wasting hours upon hours on the monastery nonsense and menuing and I just don't like the overemphasis on customizing blank slates when it comes to Fire Emblem, it's doesn't really mesh at all with the permadeath mechanic either.

Engage on the other hand is tonally what I would describe anime/jrpg at its worst, the character designs are almost entirely vile and the ghosts floating around and anime fusion ***** is just lame both mechanically and visually. The soundtrack also is one of the series' weakest.

The map design is is generally mediocre to bad in both games, I don't like the bigger focus in boss battles in Engage in particular.

Engage is still enjoyable on a basic level though since I can actually play it without having to spend 30+ minutes on chores between each session of actual gameplay.