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Come on, Sega. Just give us Popful Mail. Pleeeease?

For just a moment, I forgot my British slang and thought they were taking homeless people out of the game, which would really play on the "Naive" thing. "Nope. No poverty here. Everyone's doing fine!"

So I have a gallery that's mostly full of screens I took early on when I was trying to hit the home button. I've got it down now, but it's interesting to see the state of games when I was trying to hit home. Often, I was prepared and ready to quit for the day, and other times I was clearly rage-quitting..

@DiggleDog Her full name is Devon Waluigi Pritchard.

I've been taking walks to stay in shape anyway, and Pikmin Bloom is a good way to handle that "this is nothing but a total waste of time" feeling I get when I go exercising. Now at least I get Pikmin and points and stuff.

What Ace Attorney games do exceedingly well is keep you riiight about where Phoenix/Appolo/Ryunosuke are. The best Ace Attorney moments are the ones where both you and your attorney avatar have been banging their head against the wall for an hour, and maybe this one really IS guilty, but then someone says something and both you and the Ace Attorney light up, and then the techno music starts to play.

The WORST moments are when you're out of sync. When you have it figured out, but you have to sit through half a trial of everyone ignoring that vital clue that you have figured out. OR when everyone's figured it out, but you're still scratching your head and feeling like an idiot.

There's an art to making the puzzle exactly as hard as it needs to be, is what I'm getting at.

This list could also be called "10 video game series soundtracks that I constantly listen to while I work." So good choices!

Let me preface this by saying that the changes to the Sonic the Hedgehog design were definitely an improvement, but this is exactly what I was afraid we'd start to see more of when everyone's whining led to an actual change. Now the notion is out there. "If we don't like it, let's be horrible until we make them change it!"

You son of a gun, I'm in!

Not the Wright I wanted to see in this direct, but it looks like tons of fun.

Dang, that's a lot of game for one collection. I've been running the Mega Man series and I was sure I'd have to skip these. Now all we need is a legends collection and we can tie a bow on this thing.

6 AM PT? I guess I'll watch the replay after I wake up. But they usually at least wait 'til 7.

Sorcery! Three Hopes! Sonic! Capcom Fighting Collection! Pokemon Snap! Blade Runner! Pocky and Rocky! This week is flippin' huge.

Can you imagine the visual of a Pokemon Musou, though? Psyduck and Oddish bodies flying through the air by the dozen, only to fall to the ground and flash out of existance?

Ah, so that sound was a Hyena. You_Raised_My-Hopes_and_Dashed_them_Quite_Expertly.gif

@HalBailman Rogue is a super old PC game. It played almost exactly like the Mystery Dungeon games (The most worthy of the Roguelike title). The dungeon revealed itself as you went forward and your goal was to see how deep you could get without dying. Except this was OLD PC stuff, so all the weapons and walls were just text. Your character was an @.

It's an old tale in video games. For a long time, fighting games were known (At least in my neck of the woods) as Street Fighter games (Even when they weren't Street Fighter). Every shooter was a Doom clone. Every city builder was a Sim City type game. But eventually we come up with less unwieldy words (Fighter, Shooter, City Builder) and those kind of take over.

That is clearly the sound that is made when one is shining a force. But I may just be hearing what I want to hear.

There was no way to win this one. Those are some of the most iconic songs in video game history. The new songs are good- maybe even great after a few plays- but you can't top a song with 30 years of nostalgia.

My prediction was Three Hopes direct, so I guess this is better.

I've had a fun little theory in my head that whenever someone leaks a Nintendo thing, they postpone that thing so they can prove the leak false. In this scenario, I figure the Switch Pro has been ready to go for 3 years.

I 100%-ed it. Provided a good month and a half of entertainment. It's a rare game that can stay entertaining after the credits roll.

NES Remix proved to be a fun way to revisit the classics, and Atari games fit nicely into that mold. I'll grab it for sure.

Had to make the tough call. I want physical, and I don't want to double dip, so I'm going to wait. Turtles games have a history of vanishing from digital storefronts. I want something that will always be there.

Fan artists everywhere: "Oh, we'll just see about that!"

The lyrics as I hear them

So break off your shoes! Break off your tie!
If you want me to go then I'll stay alive!
So I said it before! I'll say it again!
It's all 'bout my girlfriend!

ALL I WAAAAAAANT! ALL I WAAAAAANT!

So does this mean the Kirby we know and love is, in fact, bald? I mean he IS, technically, but it's interesting that he HAD hair and now doesn't.

I'll believe this leak because it's exactly what I want to hear!

Hopefully it's not one of those deep-dive directs where it's just, "Let's spend 30 minutes showing off our latest game, Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes."

Fair! However, in the fandom's defense, it was your job to make us understand it, Sega.

I've really got to get around to finishing the first one.

I don't know about leaks, but I know that if there WERE an E3, Nintendo would have had their treehouse on the 15th.

"The time of year where we all want a Nintendo Direct, and then we don't get one, and we're really sad" is every time of year that there isn't a Nintendo Direct.

Waiting in line for a special edition you may or may not be able to get when you get to the front. They really have brought the brick and mortar experience to our homes.

@Lin If you want a challenge, the DLC is great. Some real neat variations on how the battles go down.

I don't think they can get that toothpaste back in the tube. All the big names have figured out how to get their message out there without a big in-person, and they didn't need E3 to do it. Probably saved some companies literal millions in marketing. What's the compelling reason to go back to a big stadium?

@Axecon If there was still an E3, it would be next week...

It's neat to have as a Bill and Ted collectable, I suppose, but the NES game (And I am VERY forgiving when it comes to old NES games) is really just the worst. There are moments where you can see something like a decent game shining through, but it's just bogged down by really lazy design.

I think what we have here is an underwhelming tech demo. It looks boring, but Sega is a smart enough company to not release boring. It'll be fine when it comes out. Maybe even great.

Every few years there's that E3 where you think, "I don't know what I want right now. All my favorite series have had recent drops." Those are usually great E3s because they're full of surprises.

My way-outside pick would be for them to include Panic, which was a game where you picked what button to press to navigate a sort of maze. Selecting the wrong button would send you back or trigger a funny animation. The real goal was to push all the buttons.

The Metaverse reminds me of how big companies used to do Internet in the mid-90s. You could go to Dr. Pepper Dot Com and see an ad for Dr. Pepper. No way to make money from it, nothing for visitors to do to "engage with the brand" or whatever. But they knew they had to do it because that was how they could get in on the whole Internet thing.

Just want to note that while it says there's a 32 gig cap on SD cards for 3DS, if you format a larger card to FAT-32 (There are instructions online on how to do this) it will accept much larger cards. I currently have a 64 gig card that used to live in my Switch in my 3DS and it holds a LOT of full-size retail-release games. Probably as much as you'll ever need. I hear it works with 128 if you somehow hit that ceiling.

For what it's worth, after Fourside, the Difficulty spikes kind of level out. For me at least, the rest of the game features battles that you're generally equipped to handle without much grinding.

And on the ol' Wishlist it goes!

What the heck is this and why can't I stop tapping my toes to it?

OK. Hear me out, here. Power Stone, BUT add Smash Bros' "Everyone is here" gimmick. Get a roster of about 20-30 Capcom stars, pull in a couple guest stars.

Wayforward Ninja Turtles Metroidvania? How have I never heard of this?

OMG why isn't The Witness on Switch?

There are a handful of Genres that, for better or worse, Nintendo pretty much owns. If you make a Kart racer, you're going to be measured against Mario Kart. If you make an isometric top-down adventure puzzle game, you'll be held up to Zelda, and if you make an arena brawler, you're going to be compared to Smash Bros.

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