Purgatorium

In a way the first game you get for free is the 6th one. The third game is really the cost of the subscription.

I normally don't do the weird glitch things but this is something I've actually done.

Bad for the industry, consumers and employees. Great for shareholders and campaign donations.

I have this deep muscle memory for SMB and SMB3 that only works on the NES versions. The look of the graphics, the feel of the controller and the 8-bit music put me in a euphoric trance. I can fly through those games without a second's thought.

The SNES controllers are too different and I suspect don't quite play the same, though I can't say for sure. Everything about them is slightly different. It gives me an a sense of the uncanny, like I've inhaled some alien spore and now the fungal horror is scrambling my psyche.

I think this issue gets conflated with the plight of collectors. Game preservation is not the same as game collection. It's hard for every collector to fill their garage with every game, but if anyone wants to play a game for fun or for research you can find emulators and roms for pretty much everything.

Disregard the language of its legality. There is nothing noble or moral about following the law or respecting corporate IP.

Wow, COD is your price? jfc

I play Turbo from time to time purely for the nostalgia. Is it the best version? I'm not enough of a SF aficionado to say.

I've never played a Souls game but I've always assumed I wouldn't like them. And now you're telling me that my least favourite part of TotK reminds people of those games? I guess I'm now less likely to play a Souls game.

Square Enix is no doubt disappointed with those numbers.

The war on glitches continues.

It's hilarious that people think companies hire "the best person for the job." It's almost as if none of you have ever had a job before.

I wouldn't trust this at face value. They might be dropping NFTs because NFT games aren't fun but it's far more likely that they're dropping it because it's obvious to everyone now that NFTs are a scam and they won't be making any money off of it.

@RubyCarbuncle For sure, enemies hit harder and upgrading armor is pretty close to necessary.

And I agree, it's very inconsistent. I beat a temple boss just last night and took 1 1/2 hearts of damage the whole fight. And that was only because I was taking a selfie with it. Earlier in the temple I got one-shotted by a construct with the wooden club. It makes no sense lol.

I could go on forever about how much I love that Chrono Trigger sidequest but that might be off topic.

So many sidequests in games are tedious. So many games seem bloated with sidequests and they all seem the same. If there's some kind of item or ability awards and it doesn't take too long, that's cool, but otherwise, for me, its gotta be character development. I agree 100% that character development is "the beating heart of any story."

Don't give them your data.

@RubyCarbuncle Yeah, I would have said as much but, as you say, it's obvious that I'm not.

Eventually, I probably will work on maxing out my armor but that would be *choosing to grind. I honestly cannot wrap my head around the complaint that the game is grindy because people are choosing to grind. Rarely have I seen completionists complain that completing everything is hard and takes time. Isn't that what completionism is? It feels like a speedrunner complaining they can't finish a game quickly.

I never had a Wii so I didn't know what I was missing. Now I know and it's a real shame the Switch doesn't have any character like this.

@Picola-Wicola I haven't had any trouble getting enough rupees. You can duplicate diamonds and sell them, I guess, or you can sell the hundreds of other mundane stuff you pick up. I bought my first armor set selling the hundreds of lightbloom seeds I picked up. They aren't worth much but they're everywhere and you pick up hundreds of them just walking around the Depths in the first few hours.

@SpoonySpoons Yeah, this is what I'm thinking. A lot of people think you need to get the best stuff and complete all the things and the way a game gets you to do that is core gameplay. It really isn't.

@Rhaoulos So far I have not found a need for 300 lizalfos tails. Upgrading armor I assume?

@Beaucine Absolutely you *can grind in TotK if you want the stuff and sure it definitely entices you to do it. But I personally have tons of armor, rupees and upgrades and all I've done is explore. I haven't actively hunted monsters for materials or gone out of my way to collect something.

But I will say that upgrading armor is fairly essential. I mean, you can play without it if you're good (I am not), but as you go some of those average monsters hit hard and tougher armor is a lifesaver. You can't completely dismiss grinding for better armor by saying you don't need better armor. That said, so far I haven't had to do that though.

When people say it's grindy I don't know what it is that they're grinding. I haven't had any trouble getting necessary materials.

Should we be concerned that he's not involved or even informed? You would think consulting the creative team in charge of an original would be good idea when doing a remake.

Is it still the case that people without Twitter accounts can't load Twitter links or is it just me?

I don't think I played anything the came out this year other than TOTK.

FFVI PR counts, I guess.

Piracy it is, then.

I'll wait for the port to Switch 3 in 2035

Films and TV are moving towards exclusivity with streaming services. If exclusivity didn't already exist in gaming, they'd be pushing for it.

@samuelvictor Sounds like you're describing the era that I played them. I guess I haven't missed anything, lol.

I don't play Sonic games (at least not since the 3rd one?) but all I ever see about Sonic is that fans are disappointed. Which Sonic games don't disappoint? What is the standard y'all are trying to reach?

This really is very silly.

Crusader of Centy looks interesting. Never heard of it.

Sometimes I run out of cooked food and in desperation Link has to inhale more than his weight in apples.

Probably too busy to play anything, but Zelda.

Man this will they/won't they saga between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard is really drawn out. Maybe it just wasn't meant to be, guys.

Gamers are the worst.

Not a lot of variety at the top though. All those other games are years old, some over a decade, and they're mostly just the same thing.

Wait to see what kind of game this is going to be but I am interested.

I don't buy amiibos but the thirst is real. I want Ganondaddy.

This was a shocker. I was really excited about the news but I actually have no desire to play this game again. I loved it, played it once back in the day and I think that's enough for me.

New 2D Mario looks like good fun and I look forward to a Peace game but other than that, not much for me. I like Super Mario RPG and Star Ocean looks interesting but I probably won't play them.

Damnit, if they did a VI remake in the style of the VII remake, I'd have to buy whatever system it comes out on (likely not Nintendo). I can't afford all that lol.

I love 2D-HD but there wouldn't be much of a point I don't think. The original is fine and the pixel remasters are fine too.

Pay one time for a full game. What a concept!

I got some 70 hours and I've barely scratched the surface of the story. Collected a lot of plants and climbed a lot of mountains though.

I'm going to have to take your word for it that that thing is doing addition. I have no idea what's going on in that video.

Can it play DOOM?

"A roguelite dungeon crawler" doesn't sound cozy but it looks cozy, lol.

I remember an earlier article of Moonstone Island. Glad to see it pop up again. Interested in that and Flutter Away, A Highland Song. Good crop of wholesomes this year.

Nintendo can rest assured that SE will fail this game spectacularly. It will be released unfinished, everything will be monetized, and they'll drop support in a year.

@Vyacheslav333 I meant all movies, but I should add I was being sarcastic.

I haven't beaten TotK yet but all the bosses in BotW were super easy. I had time to take selfies with all of them. So far it's been the same with TotK. (common monsters are tougher in Tears I think).

Not a complaint. I still love it. I really enjoyed the Colgera fight even though it was barely a challenge. Just a lot of fun. Hard doesn't always equal good.

I replay ALttP a lot and yeah, Mothula is hard. I think I'm pretty good at that game but Moldorm and Helmasaur King still fill me with dread. I quit my second playthrough of OoT back in the day because Bongo Bongo was driving me insane. The difficulty of the OG NES games goes without saying.

Things were tough back in the day, I tell ya. You kids never had it so good.

I love this new feature. Just like the old game mags. I look forward to reading more in the future.

Waldeinsamkeit exactly expresses how I feel about BotW and TotK. Thanks to Jump for expressing it that way.

And maybe it's my own nostalgia talking but the original SMB remains a masterpiece that holds up as such even today.

I can't imagine why people would want a movie to have a story.

I very cautiously opened this article because I want to avoid spoilers. Truth be told, I didn't read the whole thing because of that.

It took me forever to realize you could unfuse objects you constructed. I was really annoyed in the beginning of the game that I couldn't fix something if I attached it at a bad angle. I only figured it out by accident trying to wrestle one of those backpack Koroks I got stuck behind a rock.

Other than that, so far I'm having a delightful time learning things. It took me 50+ to get the shrine sensor even though I knew it existed and how to get it. It took me half that time just to walk to there.

Probably Zelda but maybe I'll mix it up with a little Zelda.