Magitek_Knight

Fact # 18, BOTW bored me to tears and I question why I put 85 hours into it.

@JayJ Know what I'd rather do than watch an award show about games? ...play games.

@Marioracer For a game with "coping with loss" as a core theme, Square sure is unable to move on from it.

I've never played any of these and most I haven't even heard of. I feel more and more disconnected from mainstream modern gaming every year.

Man it's gonna be a long decade or two for those of us that thought BOTW was mid, to borrow a phrase from the kids.

Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong, no thanks. There HAD to be a better actor out there for DK, not Mr. obnoxious "shouting makes it funny" Dude Weed that hasn't been relevant in like 10 years.

Willing to see this mostly on liking what I saw of Jack Black as Bowser, who...Seth Rogen stole most of his act from, except Jack is funny and can sing.

Oh boy, more FF7 compilation. Great.

This is one I've wanted to play for a while, remember seeing ads for it in the import page in EGM, as well as enjoying SNESDrunk's video on it. Debating whether I want to shell out for this when I haven't completed the SaGa remasters yet though.

Streets of Rage 4 is a bad joke. Have no idea what people like about it. Enemies are too cheap, returning characters all suck against normal enemies (Axel and Blaze are basically unplayable on Normal difficulty), baffling mechanics like not saving your special for emergencies. And worst of all the music is garbage. It felt somehow really clunky and bad.

I know not everyone is gonna like every game, but if you alienate people that played and liked the original games in their initial run, you're doing something wrong. Maybe I'm just hard to please, I thought FFVIIR was awful too. Is it wrong to have high expectations for continuations of things you're a fan of?

Half the modern beat em ups out there are just rip offs of Streets of Rage's style anyways, so why bother playing it when you can get a similar experience much cheaper?

Original Legend of Zelda. I just entered the final dungeon tonight...no mercy for Wizzrobes.

@RubyCarbuncle What even is money

@JasmineDragon This is how I feel as well. I'd like them to be combined for max value, but I'm realistic.

I do think a lot of the die-hard Nintendo faithful forget that not all of us were in on the Wii U (I didn't even understand that it was a different console from the Wii until recently).

Other people: Complaining about ports of Wii U remasters

Me: Hey, I've never played that!

@Mistclan @Mistclan I believe you could import a character from a previous game all the way back in Ultima and Wizardry. Don't think Might & Magic afforded you that though, since characters aged in the first two games.

If the stories aren't interconnected, you can start anywhere. I started the Zelda series with Link's Awakening DX. I started Final Fantasy with VII. Castlevania is at it's core simple enough that you only need to know "Drac is back, time to attack". If there's a lot to establish ahead of time, it can be difficult without a "Previously On..."

As much as I ended up disappointed in Mass Effect, the little interactive comic you could do at the start of the PS3 version of Mass Effect 2 did a great job getting me caught up on the important story elements.

@ObeliskDrakon The first KH was legitimately fun. 2 got too weird for me. I can handle Kojima crazy but not Nomura crazy.

Unless it makes significant changes from the original, I'm not interested in BOTW 2. It says a lot that I'm having more fun with the beat em up spinoff than I did with the base game.

I just can't do open world without some kind of breadcrumbs and some story. It's too empty and boring. Wandering aimlessly is not fun to me nor do I have time to spend my limited play time doing crap like cooking food. Video games aren't supposed to be chores!

I for one am disappointed this isn't a game about jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie.

@sketchturner I describe Soulsborne games as "soothingly stressful". They're tough, yeah, but the pacing is fairly deliberate and if you don't rush things it can be calming. There's something immensely focusing when you're reduced to that primal "try not to die" rather than worrying about other things.

@Bunkerneath I feel the same way, I've had it since last December and I still haven't finished it.

Tried it on PS3 and PC. Couldn't get inyo it wither time.

I like the BTTF and GB ones despite those franchises and Nintendo having a rather unpleasant history. But I already have a case I never use because I primarily play docked.

@Olddantrucker I was thinking more of Two Towers/Return of the King with the big battles at Helms Deep/Pellenor fields etc.

Why am I getting Ion Storm flashbacks?

I love Metroid and want it to be good. Skyrocketing budgets and no planned release in sight make me anxious.

@COVIDberry I mean D&D has a playable race called Dragonborn that existed prior to Skyrim's release. If Bethesda sues, Wizards can sue them.

My experience playing Batman: Arkham Origins through PS Now has made me skeptical of any cloud-based gaming so long as we don't all share the same broadband specs. The Slade fight was damn near impossible due to the input lag.

I might play it, the original was pretty fun.

Demo really threw me off seeing the BOTW graphics but Link moves super fast. I don't think this is really for me, feels like a looser version of the old LOTR games on Gamecube. I don't think I'd pay full price for this.

@BenAV I had the same response. Switch is doing dynamite business right now, anyway.

I feel like trying to cash in on Gen-X'ers nostalgia for crappy merchandise-driven 80's cartoons is going to have increasingly diminishing returns.

Not being able to wrap my head around Fortnite was the moment I realized I'm old and not with it. You kids stay off my lawn and leave me and my Resident Evils and Lunar Silver Stars alone.

@Ultrasmiles I could never wrap my head around the card system. It might have worked for GBA but they should have ditched that for the 3D remake (since they were just using engine and assets from KH1 anyway).

She's probably too young to remember James Rolfe changing over from "The Angry Nintendo Nerd" to "The Angry Video Game Nerd" so that he could turn the character into a profitable business. Always best to carefully consider branding and if it infringes upon anyone else's trademark.

I'm playing through LOZ: Twilight Princess for the first time.

Is there a list of essentials though? I still haven't got through more than the two Zeldas.

I only killed one of these things in my whole playthrough, and it sure didn't look llthat impressive.

I think Goldeneye, Doom 64 and Shadows of The Empire are the only ones I've played on the original console enough to judge.

I actually really like the N64 Castlevanias but they are much more enjoyable when you have save states to compensate for their lack of control polish.

I wonder what it would be like to experience the trilogy for the first time now, with the knowledge that the third act is disappointing to so many people.

Well that's the first first-party Nintendo game I've ever preordered a copy of. Played a bit of 64 back in the day with friends and have only played the demo of Sunshine.

I'm disappointed it's not in a Sega Genesis clamshell case.

@Zuljaras I've played both versions, it's pretty much the same game. Only difference I noticed was the Sega version has a different soundtrack and no save/load.

@Zuljaras Well it was originally a PC game, but definitely the only console it's on.

Nice. FF Legend is a an often forgotten Uematsu-composed classic.

Don't tell me, this throwaway rhythm game in a series where rhythm games have long been the bane of our existence is, in fact, key to understanding some future KH entry?

F-Zero? I guess I can't speak for everyone but I'd drag everyone I know into that.

There are some token games I'd like to see like Gradius III or Dracula X.

And then there are licensed games that would be an absolute coup like NES Batman and Turtles in Time on SNES.

We really need online enabled Zombies Ate My Neighbors for Halloween.

VI/III on the SNES by a long shot.

For handhelds though the GBA version of V is the best version of the game.

I hope we eventually get Gradius 3. Even if it the SNES version with the slowdown...was still a fun game with an epic soundtrack.

I'd give it a shot I guess, though I have a Wii and it's neither rare or expensive there. There are other Zelda games that are higher on the list of games I'd like to play first.

@durr A lot of us never had a Wii U. It's nice to have an opportunity to play new stuff without having to buy a new console and with less overhead and wind up time than making a new game from scratch.