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@Mana_Knight

I'm not even defending Nintendo, I don't think the "average of all your games" is very useful.

In 1995, Square released Chrono Trigger, Secret of Evermore, and Trials of Mana / Seiken Densetsu 3.

Does anyone care if they made a dozen or two dozen flops that year? No! It's irrelevant. It's a fantastic Square year!

Or to put it another way, you might hear someone say "the '80s were a great time for action movies!"

Would someone then start listing all the bad '80s action movies? Who cares? They were ignored then and forgotten now.

When evaluating gaming companies, we remember the "hits".

In 2017 Nintendo released Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey.

Would anyone care to be pointed out if they also released a dozen other forgettable games that year? That doesn't make those 2 game any less awesome.

We remember developers and publishers for their "hits", and ignore their misses. I would rather MetaCritic say...tally up their "85+" score games released, maybe bonus points for "90+" and "95+". That would better reflect what they have contributed to our industry.

GameFaqs did a poll of the 100 Best PS1 Games of All Time. There were a few hundred respondents.

Suikoden finished #18
Suikoden II finished #10

@Solomon_Rambling

I have:

• 35 Neo Geo games (and a dozen more on my wishlist).
• The Arcade Classics Anniversary Collection of Konami shmups
• All 3 Taito Milestones collections

I'm too lazy to tell you at the minute how many Arcade Archives releases I have. But it's lots.

NL users (that's you and me!) rank Super Soccer the #58 best SNES game on the NSO (out of 70).

I found a Ranker.com list where nearly 700 people ranked the SNES soccer games.
Out of 36 games, Super Soccer ranked #3, behind only International Superstar Soccer and its Deluxe sequel.

@zockermiller

I check DekuDeals, and at least here in Canada, nearly all games are only available digitally. Here are the last bunch I've been interested in:

• Sorry, We're Closed
• Star of Providence
• Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog
• Momodora: Moonlit Farewell
• Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
• Laika: Aged Through Blood
• Robobeat
• Turbo Overkill

That's a whole month of games. None available at retail in Canada. Maybe somewhere, in some far-flung country they're available, but they're all the same to me as all-digital.

NL users (that's you and me!) rank Super Soccer the #58 best SNES game on the NSO (out of 70).

That puts it in the bottom 20% of choices available.

@zockermiller

Aren't like...80% of games digital-only?

THAT is how you use a license!
Stages ripped directly from the scenes from the film.

I don't usually wishlist games without reviews...but this is an exception.

Getting as long as it's a good port:

• Glover

Looking at with interest but waiting for reviews:

• Everhood 2
• Freddy Farmer (it's one those "one-screen" early-'80s-style games, which I have a nostalgic soft spot for)

You're assuming Xbox will make another console. I think the Series X/S is their Dreamcast.

I'll probably keep it. Probably wouldn't be worth much anway.

A bit worried my account, etc. would still be on it (that's why I have a drawer of old laptops and phones).

And if I had 2 Switches then maybe 1-Switch-per-TV games like Splatoon would be fun with friends and family.

Nintendo's 8 year old console (whose successor has been announced and is just months away) is selling more units than Microsoft's 4 year old console.

Getting:

• Cosmic Fantasy Collection2 (2 former Japan-exclusive PC-Engine CD games)
• Ninja Five-O (A good old Game Boy Advance game)
• Star of Providence (Rated "Overwhelmingly Positive* by nearly 1,900 users on Steam)
• Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog (3 strong Switch reviews so far)

I guess I'll have to double dip.

When I dip you dip we dip.

Critics reviews rank it the worst mainline Civ yet.

I found an article, ranking them all by MetaCritic score, and it ended up 10th-best in the entire series including spinoffs.

I've also read the top Steam users reviews, and oof, their complaints make a lot of sense to me.

Most games with numbered sequels tend to iterate and grow on their previous instalments. Change things just enough so that it rides that line between familiarity and shininess.

Firaxis apparently missed this particular industry-wide memo, and thus the Civilization series will happily buck its own trends and well-established ideas in order to deliver something fresh every single time

I believe the usual rationale for making a new Civilization games was:

• ⅓ the same
• ⅓ improved
• ⅓ new

Historically accurate where it needs to be, historically inaccurate when it's more fun that way

One of Sid Meier's lessons he learned from a failed game was:
"when forced to be given a choice between giving the gamer 'realism' or 'fun', give them 'fun'."

Well, certainly in the next 4 years...

I suppose the games will go right into the landfill right next to their ugly dolls.

Tariffs will make the sticker price the same in the U.S. as it is in Canada.

That will be funny.

one of its three games can be considered a genuine classic.

Whoa, let's slow down.

There was a poll on GameFaqs, for users to list their Top 10 PS1 games. Hundreds of people voted and it resulted in a Top 100 list.

Tomb Raider ended up #35.
Tomb Raider II ended up #74.

The other 3 PS1 TR games didn't make it.

Critics reviews rank it the worst mainline Civ yet.

I found an article, ranking them all by MetaCritic score, and it ended up 10th-best in the entire series including spinoffs.

I've also read the top Steam users reviews, and oof, their complaints make a lot of sense to me.

China has 814 billionaires. The most in the world.

Someone with $1 billion, invested in stocks at 8% return makes a quarter million $ a day.

They'll be able to afford another $40,000 Switch 2 every 4½ hours.

More about Don James from the D.I.C.E. Awards website:

Don was also the key steward of Nintendo of America’s relationship with Starlight Children’s Foundation. He co-designed the Nintendo GameCube Starlight Fun Center in 2002 and led Nintendo of America’s support of Starlight to bring games and movies to seriously ill children in hospitals.

I think they said he designed the Donkey Kong cabinet. And I read that:

"Donkey Kong's damsel in distress was named Pauline, after Don's wife, Polly James."

...Japan exclusive...worldwide English localisation release...

Happy days!

@rvcolem1

This is the advantage of the NSO over a virtual console.

You don't have to wonder if a game is worth the $10 download. Picking and choosing the best of the classics. You just play it without worry or hesitation or possible regret.

The poll is buggy. I scrolled down to put my games in the poll and...it was already the results?
Plus lots of blanks added on the at the end all at "0%".

Anyway, here's what I'm looking at this week:

• Arcade Archives MARCHEN MAZE (Japan arcade exclusive! Came to consoles, I think PC-Engine, but was an overhead view, it couldn't do the isometric view of the original arcade game).
• Snezhinka ("Overwhelmingly Positive" from Steam users)
• Tiny Terry's Turbo Trip (another "Overwhelmingly Positive" on Steam game)

Already have:

• all the games in DOOM Anthology

I still think there will be an "NSO2" that you can only play on Switch 2, where they will add GameCube, Wii, DS, 3DS and maybe Sega Saturn and Dreamcast games.

2 more below-average Switch reviews on MetaCritic.

One calling it: "An especially rough port"

The other saying it's: "the first time I’ve ever thought to dissuade anyone–be they casual RPG fan or Falcom diehard–from playing a game in the series."

I blame VAR.

throws fishcakes onto field

NL users (that's you and me) rank Wario Land 4 the #22 Best Game Boy Advance Game of All Time.

Getting because they're good:

• Momodora: Moonlit Farewell
• Turbo Overkill
• Under Defeat

Getting because they're crazy Japanese exclusives:

• Cho Aniki Collection - probably the craziest of them all!
• Sugoro Quest: Dice Heroes - a board game RPG??

Waiting to see how it is on Switch:

• Sid Meier's Civilization VII

Not getting because I already own it:

• Arcade Archives THUNDER FOX is in the Taito Milestones 3 collection
• Citizen Sleeper: Helion Collection already have them individually

It gives us the ability to...acquire new players.

That's pretty horrible corporate-speak.

Something like: "It gives us the ability to provide the EA gaming experience to a new ecosystem of existing Nintendo players", would have been far less gross.

i.e. say what service you're providing, not what new customers you're "owning".

I could wait for a while for a substantial discount...

But no. I NEED to have one immediately! The FOMO is too strong. The fear of having to wait, of shelves being bare, of refreshing for restocking is too much.

And I belief Hollow Knight is in retrograde.

The Shmups Forum has had an annual "Top 25 Shmups of All Time" poll for 20 years.

Over that time, 64 shmups have made the Top 25 at least once.

Under Defeat is one of those games.

Just throwing this idea out there:

Louis C.K. had a routine called: "Everything is Amazing and Nobody's Happy."

Guys. Just use DekuDeals. It does everything you're complaining for and demanding to be done. It already exists.

Getting because they're good:

• Citizen Sleeper 2
• Laika: Aged Through Blood
• Robobeat

Getting because it was a Japanese exclusive:

• Wizardry: The Five Ordeals and if you want the whole package, then Triple Pack it is! Pricey!

Getting because Hardball was in The Princess Bride:

• Accolade Sports Collection

Back in the day everyone played Sims the same way:

1.) Build your real life house/apartment in the game.
2.) Intentionally kill your Sims in your house/apartment.

Good games, just waiting to make sure it's good on Switch:

• Guilty Gear -Strive-: Nintendo Switch Edition
• Ravenswatch

Sequel to a good game, waiting for reviews:

• Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter

Some good reviews so far, waiting to see more:

• Symphonia
• Worlds of Aria

And I'd get the EGGCONSOLE Zanac MSX, but it's a very rudimentary version of an NES classic.

When Astro Bot came out to rave reviews that one after another proclaimed: "It out-Marios Mario!", I concluded that this was good, because it will force Nintendo to "raise the bar" for the next 3D Mario game.

But, it seems everyone expects a new 3D Mario game to be out for Switch 2 launch day. Assuming that they took a year to "polish" the game, I think it's entirely possible that the new 3D Mario was essentially "in the can" before Astro Bot was released.

Which would mean that Nintendo couldn't learn from or know how to "out-Astro Bot Astro Bot" in the making of the new 3D Mario.

And if it doesn't end up clearing the Astro Bot bar? That would be sad.

"...it was released in early access on Steam last April, has "mostly positive" user reviews..."

That means Steam users rank it as a "below average" game.
(The median game in Steam user ratings is in the "very positive" range)

Japanese one looks like unfinished clipart.

Getting because they're good:

• Donkey Kong Country Returns HD
• Tales of Graces f Remastered
• Blade Chimera

Getting because I have a weakness for former Japan exclusives (this being a Famicom game):

• Arcade Archives VS. FAMILY TENNIS

NINTENDOOMED!!!

Splinter Cell, Prince of Persia, Rayman, Far Cry

Give me all of those.

People acting like Ubisoft has never made any great games...

I agree! I have wanted to see that too. Even after scooping up dozens of AA releases, and most of the Neo Geo games I'm interested in, I would still gladly subscribe!

And they're said to be expanding to a "Console Archives" series!

Virtual console would be great!

I think I'll just start with the core NES and SNES Mario and Zelda titles:

• Super Mario Bros.
• Super Mario Bros. 2
• Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels
• Super Mario Bros. 3
• Super Mario World
• Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
• The Legend of Zelda
• Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
• The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

And at $10 per game it would only cost me $90!

Or I could get the NSO for over 4 years (which I need for online play anyway), and play 200 games.

On Virtual Console that would cost me $2,000.

You'd have to subscribe to NSO for 100 years to pay that much.

SWITCH 2 CONFIRMED!!!

SWITCH 2 CONFIRMED!!!