Rich_Uncle_Skeleton

$50 in 2005 was equal to around $80 today. I know salary increases have not generally been commensurate with inflation (especially the federal minimum wage in the US), but I really don’t get the pearl clutching here. Not jumping for joy over this, but I find the fact that video games haven’t gotten more expensive over the last 20 years much more surprising…

What have they done to my beloved bubble ghost…

Can’t deny that it’s way easier to form a committee than enact any actual changes in your games!

Wait, did the original yoshi sprite always have arms and I’ve just never noticed in 33 years??

Making me have to play ice climbers means a 7 is as high as I can go on this one…

The…the man who said he didn’t think Zelda games should focus on story…? Who was kinda pissy about majora’s mask…?

Wow…downloaded mere minutes before I rolled credits. Crisis averted.

I will generally go to bat for a great deal of Sonic nonsense, but at no point have I ever been concerned about which point in the Mobius Historia am I doing loop-de-loops and jumping on robot monkeys

Zelda games have characters??

Does…does this mean I will have no longer have 100%’d the game…?

Appreciate you waiting for me to finish it last week! Really loved my playthrough, but like most Zelda games, any good story beats ToTK had were wasted on flat characters and a bad script. I dunno, maybe try finally letting Link talk next time, and see if that helps.

…That said, the dragon battle at the end was extremely rad (even if they sold out Zelda’s sacrifice by restoring the status quo immediately afterwards)

Too many (now rare) gameboy/color games to count, especially with the pennies GameStop gives you, though lately I’ve been hung up on trading in a Dreamcast and most of its biggest hits…Why won’t Capcom re-release Power Stone??

@Sisilly_G In the early 90s, Sega had half the market share of the industry, largely on the back of sonic 1 and 2.

The company may be a shadow of that these days, but back then (before internal strife and a rapid succession of flopped consoles) they really did have Nintendo sweating it out.

Ah jeez, this is the first one of these I’ve missed in years…Had no idea they moved up the date

Ah yes, because the switch eShop is otherwise such a carefully cultivated garden of quality…

10/14, somehow…I should buy a lottery ticket

Criminal lack of Barry, as well as his daughter Moira, who in a single game managed to be more interesting than most of the people on this list…

2017 would be the clear winner, but the console was lacking the critical mass of indies that would eventually make it so appealing (to me), so 2018 got my vote…

I wish these developers well, but if you come at the king, you best not miss…

@romanista Hmm…in that case, looks like I’ve got a pretty common bug, that requires me to delete the extra data and reinstall the game…Not sure I wanna risk that, so maybe I’ll just be content with the ol’ badge stash…

Man, why is trilogy still on this list…

Was briefly alarmed to see the percentage the Game Boy Micro got, but then I realized only twelve people have answered so far…

(The micro is a thing of beauty, but it is NOT meant for human hands or eyes)

Folks aren’t wrong about the uneven narrative, but the love that was clearly put into the design made Eastward such an enjoyable world to exist in for 10 or so hours that I was able to overlook the worst of it…I’d be game for some DLC, and hope they’ve taken some of the feedback to heart!

@Arckadius I found the game to be a mechanically shallow one-trick pony that ran out of gas about halfway through…But it IS extremely pretty.

The Staff Roll in Super Mario Land for Game Boy, naturally! God damned life-affirming, it is.

https://youtu.be/Ki0LGuZAelw

@CharlieGirl Amen! I used to challenge friends to Puzzle Fighter in the arcade almost as a joke, because they knew I couldn’t differentiate between half the tiles and would occasionally just win by dumb luck…

(Also, as much as I love Sonic Mania, nuts to that Mean Bean Machine boss fight for not throwing me a bone with this nonsense…)

@ImmaWario I know I’m in the minority here, but between those three, I’d avoid death’s door…It def has some charming visuals, but repetitive encounter design, inconsistent difficulty, and what I felt was a pretty flat progression system kind of ruined it for me. Was really surprised how much of an indie darling it had become…

As much as I’d do terrible things for a sequel, I guess I’m mostly just glad that Sega got over themselves long enough to allow this to come together in the first place…

The fact that I can’t exchange a five dollar bill for 1-2 Switch continues to astound

Somehow, the NY Post would be less of a joke if they stuck to stories like this…

That I owned, I wanna say it was Sonic Chaos on Game Gear…That I played, I have very vague memories of someone in kindergarten bringing in a game boy with “Zen: Intergalactic Ninja”…

I mean, Guinness has been a joke for years, but if we start including “most money spent on X” as an acceptable category, it’ll really hit a point of no return…

(Nintendo Life, I know ya gotta keep the lights on, but please consider not giving this swollen dingbat any extra press)

The Nintendo bootlicking in this comment section is depressing as hell.

They don’t need you to defend them, guys. They have very well paid lawyers for that.

Wait, are the Badge Arcade servers still running? I remember I tried to log in a couple times a while ago, and they appeared to have closed up shop...

@Knuckles Never had the chance, unfortunately! I’ve watched some YouTube playthroughs though—it looks real damn good, especially compared to the Genesis sequel! Would love if someone gave it the “Arcade Archives” treatment…

@NintendoJunkie No kidding? That’s extremely exciting…As much I loved SoR4, they still didn’t let me fight skeletons on a giant turtle

Why is it always SoR and Final Fight homages...Is there a Golden Axe homage that I'm missing?

@Moulinie23 This is literally the first line in the article:

“ Soapbox articles give our team a chance to share some personal perspectives; today it's the turn of Tom Whitehead to make a confession.”

You could have stopped reading there and got on with your day, or read one of the many other articles, on this free website that no one is making you visit.

@FlapjackProMax Damn man, I don’t have any particular yin to play YouTuber life either, but it’s okay to let people share things they enjoy without shooting them down…

Overboard has been on my wishlist for months—really looking forward to checking that out. I guess I’d recommend Skate City, but I feel like it got a decent amount of coverage when it came out. Single-plane skateboarding with a satisfying control scheme, robust mission structure, with great lo-fi beats on the soundtrack…

@larryisaman Eastward unfortunately drags a bit at the start, which I think is why a lot of people bounced off it, but it really is something special. The sprite art is rightfully praised for being best in class, but I became more attached to the characters than I expected…Would def recommend that anyone who gave up on it at least play a bit into the New Dam City chapters (maybe a couple hours into the game?)

@mother_brain_85 What…do you think “woke” means? I promise, it has nothing to do with your parents being turned into dolls…

@Specter_of-the_OLED That wouldn't really be in the spirit of the original games though, which is what the current system is trying to approximate, even if using a search feature is kinda lame...

The original games back in the day didn't mandate that you HAD to use PS1/PS2 games...The fact that it gave new life to any old CDs you might've had around the house is what made it special. If you could only use Switch carts (which cost on average $50-$60), people would run out of monsters real quick.

@Noelemahc Haha, I'm afraid I didn't play enough of either "Secret" game to have much of an opinion, but the dog from Evermore definitely got it major points in my book...

@Noelemahc I think you might be underestimating the cultural penetration that the original Ducktales game had (to the point that the "Moon" theme was even paid homage to in the recent cartoon)...Even though the sequel has been available via remasters and ROMs, it's hard to compete with the exposure and nostalgia power of the first one.

(Personally, I think the first one is also a better game, but maybe I haven't played Ducktales 2 enough...)

@Noelemahc You're...upset that a sequel with a minimal production run that came out at the tail end of a console's lifespan isn't as popular as one of the most beloved NES games of all time..?

@Arkay take a breath, big guy…no reason to lose any sleep over imaginary articles

Some new key art for the main cast would’ve made the trailer feel less like a “RCG 1.5”, but the first game was a good time, so will keep an eye on what shakes out…

@SonOfVon Well, I think the benefit of the technological advancements in question is that they have allowed smaller studios to create a finished product without breaking the bank, but much like the hand-drawn animation of old Looney Tunes, which can stand up to almost any modern cartoon, the amount of work put into making Curse of Monkey Island (or really any Lucas Arts games of that era) look as good as it does speaks as much to a strong human understanding of movement and balance that I don't think a modern graphics engine can replace...

Personally, I'm not a huge fan of how this game looks either, and there are absolutely modern examples from small studios that look gorgeous (as you mentioned), but I suspect that's due more to this game's priorities probably being elsewhere (maybe the story telling, who knows!)

@SonOfVon It also had a much larger studio and George Lucas money behind it…

In a just world, no Mario Party game would be above Blast Corps...