JasmineDragon

Wow, I really hope this is just one of the many, many fake stories that get posted on r/AITA. If it isn't, she needs to call a friend to pick her up ASAP, leave now and watch her back. This is not normal behavior. If this is real, it won't stop with video games.

This is a really cool concept. I'll be keeping an eye on this.

I've always regretted not buying this when I saw it in a store around release time. It's hovered on my Amazon wishlist until a couple of months ago. A Switch port would be amazing. But not in Japanese.

@CaptainCluck No, that argument carries no weight whatsoever. The Pyramids and the White House are two examples of "fine work" that was accomplished with actual slave labor. Meanwhile, Foxconn have made and continue to make excellent electronics with working conditions so bad Foxconn laborers have committed suicide rather than face another day at the factory.

@Diogmites It really is a fantastic port. I have burned hundreds of hours on it. Just one more turn, I swear!

This weekend I'm honestly just noodling around before Rune Factory 5 gets here.

I started Dawn of the Monsters but haven't gone too far with it yet. Good game so far.

Played through the new Mario Kart tracks a couple of times. Lots to like here.

Currently playing Civilization VI as Egypt, one of my favorite civs.

And I'll be doing Ring Fit Adventure at some point.

I've only played an hour or so of this, but so far my feelings line up pretty close to the review. It feels like a "great little game". No frills but very well done. The art style is great, and it feels equally at home on handheld and on a big TV that makes a lot of Switch games with higher production values look ugly and jagged.

There's a lot of love that you can feel in the design. These people love kaiju.

I'm certainly not the pickiest player when it comes to frame rates and input lag, but the controls feel fine to me.

I do hope they will consider DLCing another character or two. There are so many kaiju that would be fun to play as. I'd love to play with Hedorah or Mothra analogues. I was hoping more monsters would be unlockable in the game, but none of the reviews I've seen mention anything like that.

Resident Evil, Civilization and Rogue are all very strong contenders here. They and OoT arguably ALL deserve the honor. And Rogue and Civilization came out long before Ocarina, so I would prioritize them - not to mention that personally, I feel they deserve it more. These are games that defined entire genres.

Unquestionably, if the category was "Nintendo Platforms Hall of Fame" or even "Console Hall of Fame", OOT should already have been inducted. No two ways about it. But it's all video games on all platforms. And I'm sorry, I love Ocarina but Rogue and Civ are equally "important" if not more.

@nocdaes Yeah, I don't get that at all. There are tracks from the SNES in this game, but people are worried about the tracks from a 2020 mobile game looking bad. ??

I really don't understand why Disney don't just make Sugar Rush a real thing. The concept is RIGHT THERE. Guest racers are already part of the concept. Invaders from other video games, check. Characters who canonically live in the same reality as all the Disney Princesses, check. Cute style that can also be badass, check!

This, though? Feeling rather meh. What part of that character is Elizabeth Swann, anyway? Is it the fact that she's sort of blonde? If that's enough, then I, too, am Elizabeth Swann.

@Silly_G I'm just the opposite. I'd rather keep MK8 alive. It already has some fantastic tracks, it's just that they've gotten a bit stale. Adding new ones is just what it needs.

Oh, they want to apologize? Good. Start by making the game either free to play or complete in box. One or the other. Until you do, it's Mario Kart all the way.

Okay, okay. The best thing my employer ever gave me was a sewing pin. They gave it to me after removing it from my puppy's stomach. It was a very thoughtful gift, and also the puppy lived and is still my best bud.

But this is cool, too 😀

I've been waiting for a Godzilla game for years now, but any decent kaiju will be welcome. I have shelves full of monster movies and figures I've collected -mostly Godzilla, but I have a bit of everything. I just love monsters.

I was into this as soon as I saw it. They got some real kaiju guys to work on this - I'm especially excited to see Matt Frank's miniboss. I'm downloading on day one, and if it meets my expectations I might buy physical too.

I'm still playing Atelier Ryza 2, but I find I haven't really been in the mood for it this past week. Instead, I've been dipping into Raiden IV (Mikado Remix), R-Type Dimensions EX and Rolling Gunner. Might start some G Darius HD today.

I downloaded Haven last night and will probably spend some time with that. Will also do at least one Ring Fit Adventure session.

I've also really been hankering to play some boardgames, so sometime this weekend I might play some Legendary: Marvel, Shadowrun: Crossfire or Dungeon Degenerates.

I'm not on the fence, I already know without a doubt that I have no desire to support this business model. I don't give a damn how the game plays. I will not support this business model. At all. Ever.

This is barley even a product.

I don't care about the Zodiac theory, but that fire snake is beautiful. All three of those designs are pretty great.

Nothing grabbing me here. Which is good because I'm waiting for Dawn of the Monsters and Rune Factory 5 in the next two weeks.

@Banjo- I'm aware of that.

Cat Peach confirmed, the suit is in the Kamek set. I knew that was coming, but didn't think it would be in the first wave.

I just don't know about this whole theme. I'm a huge Lego fan and something of a Mario fan, and I don't hate the Mario figs, but the builds in these sets are terrible as models. They only work as playsets, and I don't need playsets.

@Not_Soos Amongst other things, Sega published Shin Megami Tensei V in North America and Persona 5 Strikers worldwide. Kind of flies under the radar for most people because Atlus is the name they associate with both series, but Sega is the publisher.

I just ordered the Paradise Killer physical edition the other day, because you know I need more murder-prone vaporwave drag queens in my life.

This is a great list, I haven't played too many of these games but I love all the ones I have played. Except for Batman Enemy Within. I really didn't get along with that game.

Glasses are some of the coolest things to get in a special edition, in my opinion. It serves a purpose and will remind you of the game for years (if glasses can last for years in your household). I love shot glasses more than I actually like drinking.

But I'm not sure Klonoa is the game I want to spend that kind of money on. I want the game, but a standard edition will be fine.

So excited for this, I was thinking about posting "only two weeks left!" in the RF thread here last night. I am at maximum hype and waiting for my Special Edition, ordered from Best Buy because Amazon messes up all my launch day deliveries. CAN NOT WAIT.

Also, to answer the question, yes, those are excellent dating activities. I met my wife when were both working on a farm, and our entire "dating" experience was doing farm stuff together. You really get to know a person when you're bringing in the harvest together! Our 25th anniversary is in two months.

Definitely worth a download, I loved this game a few - I mean, 40 - years ago.

@Roam85 Playable Hattifatteners or we riot!!

Wow, that art style is so on point. I hope the rest of it also respects the Moomin heritage. These are some of the best kid lit ever written. Moomins deserve a good game!

This is sick! I loved GX but never got to play this one. I still don't have the expansion, but it's getting more and more tempting. Now all I need to do is find more time for gaming to justify it. I don't really need a job, do I?

A life well led. Big respect for a real pioneer.

I like to think he swallowed Kryptonite and he is about to kick Superman around for a bit.

Honestly though, these aren't as cute as the ones from last week. Those were excellent. I'm not even a major Kirby fan, and I want like all of them.

Oh Snap, that tagline takes me back a ways.

EDIT: totally forgot about the game in my Snap-induced daze. Yeah, looks like a classic shareware PC game I would have spent dozens of hours on back in the day. Fair enough, might buy.

@nessisonett Exactly.

Mia really needs to have big hair if she wants to be the perky young upstart character, it's just not the Eighties otherwise. The punk/New Wave-inspired hair only works for the streetwise, sassy BFF who lives with the heroine and a cute moggy in a rundown railroad apartment in Alphabet City at the beginning of the movie and will still be living there at the end of the movie when the real heroine has blown the glass ceiling to smithereens and is about to move into a swanky apartment overlooking Central Park with her perfect boyfriend who is also a lawyer.

@Xenobound94 I get it. A lot of people felt like that was a pretty dry year, as a lot of those first games were ports from Wii U, PS4, PS3 etc.

For me personally, all of them were brand new as I skipped the generation before the Switch. But I can appreciate that not everyone had the same experience.

Do we feel old? I remember when the original Legend of Zelda came out. Yes, I feel old.

@Xenobound94 2017 had ARMS, Splatoon 2, Disgaea 5C, Doom 2016, Enter the Gungeon, Stardew Valley, Rocket League, Mario+Rabbids, Skyrim, Yooka-Laylee, LA Noire, Overcooked, Sonic Mania and a little game called Mario Kart 8, amongst others. It might not have been the fullest schedule ever, but it wasn't as barren as a lot of people made it out to be.

I love the graphic style they were going with, looks like Tim Burton and Genndy Tartakovsky got together to make a Professor Layton game. I have to agree with him though, if this game had ever released I doubt it would have sold very well unless there were big surprises yet to come.

I love that Lauren Faust did the designs, in my book this makes it MLP canon.

In my philosophy, the game is done when I finish the main quest, because that's traditionally how the game is structured. The main quest IS the game.

I know there are many, many games that defy this tradition and offer extensive quests to complete afterwards, NG+ and all the little "achievements", but I don't have time for that. I'm pretty sure the last time I really dug in and explored optional missions, DLC and the like after finishing the main game was Fire Emblem: Awakenings.

In fact, the really honest answer to the second question is "when the next game I want to play comes out", because there are a lot of games I want to play and only so many hours in the day.

I never finished BOTW for that exact reason. I think I sunk 125-ish hours into meandering around Hyrule, moved on to something else that came out, never went back. IIRC I beat three of the Divine Beasts, never saw the inside of the castle.

My launch day Switch did well for about three years of intensive use from me and two kids. The only problem it had in the first two years was a drifting joy-con. I replaced it with a pair of ARMS neon yellow JCs which held up well for another two years, and Nintendo repaired the stick on my original pair and it hasn't problems since.

Unfortunately in year three the Switch started overheating when I played certain games. I upgraded to the revised model at that point and let my youngest have the original as it still played some games without a problem. She still has it, but to be honest I don't think she plays on it much, as she is mostly into PS4 games.

I got a Pro Controller the week the Switch launched, too, and it has served me very well but recently started acting a little knackered. Nothing obvious like stick drift, but the sticks and buttons are looser than they used to be, and it just feels like I shpuld be thinking about buying a replacement soon.

My gaming has been haphazard in the last couple of weeks, and I'm still plugging away at Atelier Ryza 2 long after I thought I'd be done. From time to time I'll dip into Raiden IV (Mikado Remix) which I am sooooo bad at but having fun. And I'm happy to report I got back into doing Ring Fit Adventure regularly.

I literally just finished saying I had too many games to play already and would only be buying the ones I had already committed to.

I was wrong.

Sounds amazing, but there are just not enough hours in the day. I'll probably buy it a few months down the road. At this point I'm praying for a lull in the Switch release schedule so I can at least catch up a little.

@Lyricana Oooh hey, a fellow boardgamer! Nice to hear that, there aren't many around here. I find that I can either focus on boardgame or video games, not both at the same time, so I've been out of touch with boardgames in the last couple of years but I'm really starting to get the itch again.

@Lyricana I've had Rune Factory 5 preordered for months, and Dawn of the Monsters jumped to the top of my list because I love me some monster mayhem.

(There's also Kirby, Haven and the MK DLC to think about. TOO MANY GAMES)

Regarding Amazon, it's such a mixed bag. I love that I can find everything I want there, and usually at very competitive prices. But I've had a TON of delivery problems with Amazon, including some genuinely weird ones. I've had them deliver late. I've had them deliver things to my back porch instead of my front, which is just freaking bizarre and got my package wet. Twice when I ordered delivery to my workplace, the things were delivered to the business next door. Recently I had a game opened and the cartridge removed, although they sent a duplicate game as well. And once an item was delayed for days, then weeks, and then just never showed up. It's just a whole adventure every time.

Maybe I'm just very unlucky, I don't know.

Well damn, I guess I'm buying this after all.

@BenAV Amazon have missed the delivery date literally every time I've preordered a game there. I no longer preorder games with them if I want to play them on release day. In fact, I've had problems with almost everything I've ordered on Amazon lately, and am about one bad mood away from cancelling my Prime membership altogether. I love the convenience, but unfortunately despise just about everything else about the company.

This actually looks pretty intriguing in its concept, and I do love the name. I'll keep an eye on this.

Also, welcome, Alana!

@Astral-Grain Actually, saying things like "Based on your response though, I'm not sure you even know what ASMR is" is textbook gatekeeping.