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@San_D The SMT series has consistently gotten great reviews for 20 years now. SMTV is a must have title!

@commentlife Exactly! Once retail and digital sales for a game have slowed to a crawl it should be thrown onto PS Now, or Nintendo Online. People that want to play a game within the first year or two will obviously buy it. Upfront sales + eventually going to a subscription service is a win-win for gamers and developers. Putting all your games onto a subscription service day 1, on the other hand just costs too much money for anybody that is not one of the tech giants.

Both Nintendo and MS had weak E3 presentations.

A new Forza game comes out every year, so that's nothing to get excited over. Halo Infinite is just a free to play GaaS title designed to milk you with microtransactions. Average consumer spend on Halo Infinite will be far and above the normal $60 + $30 DLC pack that traditional games have. Just like League of Legends it will be "free", but oh so expensive.

As for Nintendo, they are really having a weak year in terms of 1st and 2nd party output. Advance Wars, and Pokemon remakes look like mobile games. I'll stick to my DS and GBA carts, thank you very much. Mario Golf looks great, but is very much a "wait on reviews" sort of game. That potentially leaves Metroid Dread as the only exciting Nintendo release for the rest of 2021.

@commentlife A lot of companies simply can't afford to offer what Gamepass is offering. At least not day 1 releases going to a subscription service. MS is burning through mountains of cash right now doing that. Smaller companies don't have nearly infinite coffers to fund a ten year long loss leader strategy with.

@chardir They did. Giving out games for basically free on Gamepass was the bribe.

@kostasfil

That's a really good idea, but I think Nintendo would have to tread lightly. I could imagine a limited set of Gamepass games coming to Switch for $10 a month, causing a cacophony of people to complain.

"Why aren't we getting ALL of the games on Gamespass? This isn't fair Nintendo! We pay $10 a month just like any other GP user! We should be able to get all the games on the service!"

Gamepass on Switch would tank 3rd party sales on Switch. Everybody would just join Gamepass, and play games there.

MS claims that Gamepass users spend more on games, but their dataset is limited to their own ecosystem, and digital purchases. They have no way of tracking physical game sales or sales on opposing consoles. Gamers not subbed to Gamepass spend multiple times as much money as gamers subbed to Gamepass.

@BloodNinja True. Emulators can't steal ROMs.

@Yorumi

Sorry, you are right. After all these are GBA games we're talking about. They are over a decade old. The author of the emulator has every right to complain.

@Yorumi

Yeah nevermind. The developer has every right to complain that his code was used without credit.

@MegaVel91
Yeah nevermind. The developer has every right to complain that his code was used without credit.

@Yorumi

Yeah nevermind. The developer has every right to complain that his code was used without credit.

Yeah nevermind. The developer has every right to complain that his code was used without credit. These are GBA games that are over a decade old we're talking about here. If anything the devs of these GBA games are stealing from themselves by not putting them on the eShop already.

@HalBailman

You can't apply inflation to the price of entertainment. People in the 80's and 90's spent a much smaller percentage of their checks on essentials like rent and food. As a result they had a lot more money available to spend on entertainment.

Compare that to today where people have to spend 90% of their paycheck on essential bills. I'd love for videogames to cost $150 each if it meant I actually had $800 left over every month after essential bills.

This is far from the golden age of gaming. Microtransactions are a plague sweeping the industry. Controllers are no longer designed to last beyond a couple years. Games are released incomplete, and patched later. If anything gaming as a whole has been on a steady decline in quality since 2018.

The few saving graces are that Nintendo, Sony, and Indie games have continued to improve over the last few years. But again, as a whole the industry is getting worse, not better.

I added the following to my GBA wishlist...

Golden Sun
Golden Sun 2
Super Robot Taisen
Super Robot Taisen 2
Sword of Mana
Summon Night
Summon Night 2

I'll play Tales of Phantasia on SNES.

A lot of these games were just mediocre RPGs back in the day. Knights in the Nightmare was added to my wishlist though. So thanks for that.

It's great that you guys included Etrian Odyssey IV, but Nexus, V, Untold, and Untold 2 are all worthy of this list.

@Quarth I bought most of them at Bestbuy for 20% off on release day.

@TheLightSpirit

Yeah I beat DQVII but it was a slog. Over 100 hours of gameplay that could have been condensed into 30.

@BloodNinja

Or just don't buy a game unless you know you're going to play it right away. With most games being digital these days, it doesn't matter when you buy it.

Of course, that doesn't make sense for physical game collectors but there's no shame in having a massive backlog if your collection runs from NES all the way to the modern day.

Daniel Ahmed's twitter comment is just mental masturbation. You finish a game when you beat the final boss and see the end credits.

Nothing wrong with giving up on a game early, but don't call it your favorite. That's just posing as someone that beat the game. If you call it your favorite, people are rightly going to assume you beat it. Seeing the end of a game, TV Show, or book is likely to change your opinion of it. I know plenty of people that call Game of Thrones their favorite TV show, without seeing the final season.

Let's get real. You can't say that Steak and Brussell sprouts is your favorite meal, if you only ever eat the steak.