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@MidnightDragonDX I agree. Nintendo's newish CEO is all about optimizing profits, and he's very very good at it.

@Lanmanna right, if Sony bans your account, you're screwed. Actually I need to fact check that. I assume that if your account is banned, you cannot get on the PS Store.

@FreasurePlanten Agreed. The responses at Push Square are identical to here. Last PlayStation. Going retro or switching to PC. Same with Eurogamer. It's unanimous.

@Elitepatriot I haven't even played Killzone and I still want a new one haha

@TheExile285 that actually failed though. uPlay and EA Origin both failed. And I don't recall about Activation Blizzard. Didn't they have CoD exclusive to the Battle.net launcher for a while? I think Microsoft games will continue to be available on Steam. Sony has backtracked on PC ports entirely.

@iNightandFlame an OLED Switch 2 Lite!

This is why I wait a very long time to play new games

If you have "old GameCube pads" sitting around, please send them to me.

Can someone please explain to me. Is the Japan market just really really small? These numbers give me the impression that nobody plays games there.

@iMahvel_ Xbox took this year in my opinion

@Zeroo lol fair points

The thing is, a Direct is only as good as the games shown relative to your preferences. For me, this Direct was abysmal. The only game I would actually buy is a port of a 25 year old PSX RPG. Otherwise, you're looking at a boiler plate third party platform. One game after another that holds almost no interest whatsoever. If Xenoblade Chronicles is your favorite thing, then I'm excited for you. Ocarina of Time is immaterial.

Here are my top 10 of Not-E3.
Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy
1666: Amsterdam
Lazy River
Burn-9
Stellar Blade: Blood Rain
Senua
SHE: Seraphim Helix Experiment
Koshmar: The Last Reverie
Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis
Tempus Vitae

.....me just sittin' here, waiting for the "how would you rate" article.

Man, I do not like HD-2D. Never have. Never will. Completely ruins my interest in any game with it.

There's never been an easier choice.

There's a sequel to XGIII!?

It's time for Yoshi to go 3D like Kirby and the Forgotten Lands.

.... this is getting ridiculous

If this were actual WarioWard, I'd be interested. But the photo thing is so weird to me. I'm not a fan at all.

@Serpenterror The Crew Motorfest is excellent

Are you telling me that Pokopia has sold only a million copies in Japan?

@Uncle_Franklin Does it? I haven't actually played it. But I see your point that summoning objects and creatures is similar.

@Not_Soos Bakeru looked so good. But I played the demo, and it was apparent pretty quickly that it was tedious. I was really sad about it.

It's so interesting that Nintendo has basically kirbyfied their franchises. Odyssey and Wonder are both about gaining different abilities. Part of Banaza is too. and The Mysterious Book seems to use the same premise. And Princess Peach Showtime too. Zelda hasn't yet, but give it time.

This is a tough one. But the Japan cover is too funny in a way that's probably unintentional haha

@Simu001 I want to play the fan mod of Unleashed

This is actually a tough one! But I chose the escher/dali one.

Just ordered it new in box sealed for Switch for $19. And I got it used but with the box and Lego car for $21 for PS4.

Who knew that people would actually want to buy quality, cinematic single player experiences?

@GoproGO astute thoughts

I didn't know it is getting 007. I am surprised at some of the games it can apparently run.

@-wc- the leak you may be referring to was the console image, and they released an announcement video shortly after, earlier than they had planned

@GoproGO do you think an Ocarina remake would be a system seller?

Didn't Nintendo delay the Switch 2 in the first place? So shouldn't they be more prepared with a lineup than they would have been?

@jake1421 I think the legacy of this one will be whether or not they release a sequel in a couple of years, and this is just a soft reboot. My prediction is they will. If it's the only one for a while, then it will be maybe a nice experience for new players, but otherwise another odd and unfortunate Nintendoism.

@AlonditeFE this is where I've landed as well. See my comment above about more detailed thoughts. But for their strategy to work, I think they need to release a sequel within a couple of years, which obviously would be great.

I cann understand all of the feelings here. For my own personal response, this one is "not for me." But I think the optimist view, which many of you have, is that this is for a new generation to discover and enjoy Star Fox, and for that I'm happy for them. To my preferences, I think it looks worse than 64. I think a happy medium for all audiences would have been a literal remaster of 64 with an enhanced mode. I know this stuff isn't easy to do, I'm just speaking hypothetically. But what I mean would be akin to the Tomb Raider remasters or Diablo II where you can toggle between original graphics and new. Then, this would be just an enhanced port. Meanwhile, tease a brand new entry in the series for the next year or two. But maybe that's their plan. If they are wanting to revive the franchise by introducing it to a new generation, I don't see them building momentum by waiting four or five years to release an actual sequel. So maybe their plan is a sequel in two years or so, and this is just a toehold.

YouTube on the phone app without Premium isn't pretty either. They default the resolution to 720p, and you need to change it manually every time. At least that's my experience with app. I switched to using the website in Firefox.

@urfaverenegade freaking exceptional game. Don't know what certain your playing or your level, but I only beat it by turning on all the cheats. Not at all worth my time to grind for hours and hours. The final boss/s are very hard. You will not be able to beat them without almost every skill and a high level.

Playing through the original Star Fox on NSO. Just completed that bottom route. Played Star Fox 2 a few days and really liked it. Just bought Star Fox Zero, Command, and Assault. I actually have Assault already, but I lost my copy so bought if again. And then yesterday I remembered where it is haha. I remember really looking Assault. Haven't played Zero or Command yet. I've been working through Adventures too. But I dropped it. The dungeon and puzzle design is completely awful. And then you have you to a test of strength tapping A, and it was completely impossible. And I'm really just tired of games wasting my time. There are too many good games to play.

@-wc- I forgot about the funniest show ever made! Man, I'm off these days. School Rumble! It is the pinnacle of humor. This should go without saying, but obviously it needs to be watched subbed. If anyone takes away anything from these ramblings in this thread, just watch School Rumble to understand the greatest comedy ever committed to film. Then when you agree, watch the rest of my recommendations.

I loved Narita Boy. I think it's very underrated.

@-wc- thanks again! I thought of another one! Mr. Show by Bob Odenkirk and David Cross. Lots of excellent skits. And for regular comedy shows, I loved Friends at the time. I'm rewatching it now and actually it's still often hilarious. I loved Seinfeld at the time too, but now all of the jokes feel the same. It's sort of a one joke show. I've also gotten the impression over time that Jerry Seinfeld isn't a very nice guy, so that's affected it for me. I watched the first season of Cheers. It's funny for sure, but every episode and most jokes are sexist, even if the theory is that Diane is a self respecting woman. It never really plays out that way. Cheers really hasn't aged well, so I had to stop. It was just too much. The first season of Arrested Development is great. And 30 Rock is, I feel, the most consistent comedy. All 7 seasons, almost every joke lands. I've watched it twice through now, maybe three times actually, and it's just entertaining. I basically never rewatch shows, except for 30 Rock. You really can't go wrong. And this is coming from someone who thinks SNL is god awful.

@-wc- thanks for the recommendations! I'm familiar with Strangers with Candy but not the others. I realized I didn't include any american shows or movies. I'll list a few that I think are underseen. Meatballs (1979), Stripes (1981), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954), Surf's Up (2007). For great recent shows, check out Teenage Bounty Hunters on Netflix, and Good Girls, also on Netflix. Lots more I could name if you're curious haha. Or you could just see my letterboxd. I'm @Gryffin

@benmalsky198 no, every joke is bad. The problem is that the joke is obvious. And an obvious joke isn't a joke. Jokes necessitate surprise by definition, with few exceptions. As an exception, watch Brain Surgeon by Mitchell and Webb. In fact, watch everything by them. Then watch the Whitest Kids You Know, the Kids in the Hall, Knox's Klay World, Plinkett's Diaries from the Ricky Gervais Show, Garth Merenghi's Darkplace, Ghosts BBC, Derry Girls, The IT Crowd, and any number of thousands of YouTubers, recently examples being Jyuna and Ringo Tsuga.

Here's my review I wrote for my letterboxd profile a couple weeks ago.

This movie didn't kill your family. So let's just all simmer.

Much like the first film, this sequel is a big theme park ride. It's one action scene after another with only the bare minimum of dialogue to form a semblance of connective tissue. This movie should be judged for what it is: a shameless action flick. And in that regard, it succeeds. The action/fight choreography is excellent and is paired with similarly great cinematography and editing too. The set pieces are, frankly, insane. And the movie moves so quickly, for better or worse, that I felt guilty blinking. Quite literally, blink and you'll miss some cool animation that took months of work. I just can't imagine the amount of planning, thumbnailing, storyboarding, pre-vis, modeling, and animating invested into every frame. It's an extremely impressive production and should be seen if only to appreciate the fruits of their labor.

I was very positive on the first Super Mario Bros. I'm a bit less positive on this, though I'm not sure why. One reason, though, is probably because of the horrendous dialogue and "jokes." The dialogue scenes were certainly written after the action scenes, which is to say 95% of the movie. But that doesn't excuse it's awfulness. Pretty much all of the dialogue is "jokes," and yet there's very little of it. So, in my opinion, there's no excuse for every joke to not kill. But not only do the jokes not kill, they don't land at all. They literally couldn't be worse. Imagine this scenario: you're setting up a joke, and you think to yourself hmm, what punchline could I put here? And then you pick the worst possible option. That's every single joke in the film. It's truly astonishing. Are you familiar with the concept of "shooting the moon" in card games? It's like that but for writing an entire comedy without a single good joke.

I'll conclude with a very bright highlight. The score is unbelievable. It's astounding. It's a feat of genius. I do not know how the composer, Brian Tyler, accomplished it. The score constantly shifts to match the action, and it weaves between themes seamlessly. I'm 99% the music never stops. Similarly to MI: The Final Reckoning, the score keeps the whole thing together. And for the record, this movie is much much much better than The Final Reckoning.

This is a totally different game, but the setting does remind me of Wavetale, which I highly recommend

They're all bad

Maybe they were, in fact, high.

I can't believe how many of these are 49/51