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@-wc- I love this. I really apprecare finding media that relates to games that I just feel in my soul.

That teased Soul Reaver collection would solidify this direct for me!!

This was a compelling piece!!
I am interested in what the author thinks about the Pokey character as he sort of lives on the fringes of the childlike and the monsterous. He’s also the most consistent antagonist in the game despite being kind of a joke

@Zeebor15 is it confirmed that they will be working on Darksiders 4? I had just assumed Gunfire Games was on that one.

I’d love to see something new from Airship Syndicate. Then again they flirt a little closer to AAA than indie so maybe not

@YourDaddy I’d read you talk about this series anytime!

I wish blogs were still a thing. I mean they are but it’s not like it was 15 years ago

@YourDaddy okay yeah that all scans and sounds cool as heck. It also sounds
Like I’m talking to a VC super fan that is exciting.

You kind of nailed what I had perceived about VC2 which is why I skipped it back in the day. I think I just have more of an aversion to trope-y characters than most (it tanked BOTW for me :/) Especially seeing that the first one so effortlessly built real characters and avoided much of that pitfall in anime adjacent properties!!

VC4 is an interesting case, and is a game I’ve never had the chance to talk about with anyone. I think I loved it for the first half, I’d say maybe up and until I got to the giant battleship. Idk if it’s the result of some of the story twists, but it started to grate on me more than I feel like it should have. So while I finished 4 it didn’t leave the same impression on me that 1 did.

Which brings us to 3! Which looks so so cool, and the story sounds awesome!! I’d very much like to see it remade/remastered with the canvas engine. I’d buy it day one, especially with this endorsement!

@YourDaddy is 3 that good?? I have played 1&4, but skipped 2. 3 never even got a dub right?

Those IPs have been mishandled by not one, but TWO hardware manufacturers - that’s a tough pill

I hope T4B has a wonderful post Activision life and isn’t forced to make endless Toys to life or irrelevant multiplayer games

@Ooyah it’s so pretty!! I get why I wanted to keep going, and you never know when a missio you’re working on is going to have some obscure connection to the original game.

I think the training thing is more in my head 😅 I just love being in Soldier as Zack who wants to live up to the legacy of Sephiroth, Angeal, and Genesis. I feel like if I’m not killing every enemy during a story mission in one hit then Im not playing through a canonical run haha

@EarthboundBenjy I’m following your Suikoden journey from afar lol. You’ve got guts kid, cuz I have always been curious but too intimidated to jump in. I figured I’d just jump off from scratch with Eiyuden Chronicles

@gcunit I’m sad to hear that Emio isn’t jiving with you :/ that genre is so niche (I’m not even sure if it’s for me yet!) but I love that Nintendo took a real swing with it and was hoping for the best.

Like many I am waiting for a physical announcement. The translation is an exciting thing however, and the review points towards it being a title that I would cherish.

This is essentially a Nintendo 2nd party game ey? That’s always a cause for cheers!

ALSO this is incredible news. In the Limited Run Showcase they announced Wolfenstien 2 was getting a rerelease with the whole game on the cart, and my reaction was that they really should do Valkyrie Chronicles instead.

I feel I may have willed this into being.

This game rules so hard, though I never finished it!!! I played and enjoyed 4 when it released on Switch, and it was missing some of the charm of this one. It also had a weird twist that I did not care for where children were literal fuel for the enemies death weapons?? That always say weird with me

First things first, I really hope everyone can channel the anger they have against Limited Run Games towards SEGA instead… this game should have always had a physical version. (Or better yet get angry at real life things? There’s like a big world out there that we can change if we organize. This is a video game publisher)

This weekend I plan on finishing Crisis Core: Reunion….

…. That’s actually been my plan for the last week. It’s not a super long game BUT I am compulsively doing missions instead of playing the main game. They are all essentially the same dang thing but the go by so quickly and the flashy combat/allure of getting so stupidly strong through the materia system is just too strong of a hook!

If I can stick to the plan though - build Aerith her flower cart, kick it with Sephiroth for a little bit, and then go die - maybe I’ll make time to finally start The Legend of Tianding

@shgamer I can’t speak to those comments on Darksiders stuff, also Darksiders 3 is good and h8rs can die mad lol.

But the Embracer THQNORDIC thing sucks because THQNordic was kinda rad for a bit there? But we’re then bought buy embracer who sucks. Is that an accurate summation?

So the anger at THQNORDIC kinda puzzles me, because they have been pretty consistent in quality with switch ports, and also not being generally scummy with micro transactions etc.

@Vyacheslav333 arrr that be the one!

The one with the puppy is honestly so so good looking.
It reminds me that I need to grab that game about the pigeon who moved to the autumn town and works in a hospital.

I can’t remember the name of the game but I like how unhinged that sentence reads

I played Risen, and kind of fell in love with this studio from the jump.
I haven’t gotten to this series yet - but are there any Gothic fans on this site??

Oooh!!! Monster catching you say???

@EarthboundBenjy this is the crux of the liberal project as laid out in Frances Fukuyama’s The End of History wherein all aesthetics are nostalgic.

That’s the harshest take, but it is consistent with some of the biggest projects of the past few years. An RPG like Sea of Stars rises above its contemporaries like Chained Echoes (also a “retro” project aesthetically but I think more of necessity) by advertising itself as Chrono Trigger inspired. Can games just be new games? Or do they have to be new versions of old games?

Clearly they can lol obviously there are plenty of them that don’t draw from retro aesthetics, but it is very prevalent!!

@DemonKow lol that’s quite a list. It’s pretty wild how many of them are reasonably big RPGs, i guess no other genre gathers prestige quite as well

I was just thinking how empty the release schedule this September and October was! Thankfully Sky Dreams will have such an opportunity to get seen!

The best Mario RPG series is Mario+Rabbids, and has carried the flame for the concept through most of the switch generation (Origami King and it’s decisiveness withstanding.)

@DemonKow inquiring minds would love to hear more about this particular backlog 😅

I definitely by games because of their prestige… sometimes I just sit on them for ages though!

I’m still on Sea of Stars! I got to a part yesterday that made me weep openly, and I suppose if you know you know lol

Elsewhere I was playing a lot of Alien: Isolation. It does rule, but also I’m stuck at this one part and I’m no longer scared of the queen, just really annoyed. Leave me alone lady, I’ve got stuff to do!

Lol I didn’t click with this game, but I remember the hype, and haven’t touched a sonic game since. However all of the media around Sonic X Shadow has me craving a Sonic experience and so I bought Forces today for 9$

Can’t believe it’s been 7 years

LRG here we come lol I’m looking forward to angry comments

@Shadowkiller97 @ajwolftill let’s make a support group lol

I thought Oceanhorn 2 was pretty good. Ary and the Secret of Season is also pretty decent but I don’t think the Switch version passes muster lol. I’ve never played the Soul Reaver games but I understand they have some similarities! We may even get a chance on Switch here soon

@WaffleRaptor01 I think that’s a lot of words that don’t address the issue we are talking about. BotW isn’t really a game I like, but I also don’t really care for the original Zelda. They did make four games I very much love, and stopped making them when they had their other ideas, which is fine too. BotW may have even saved Nintendo, I’d go that far

I like Twilight Princess best 🤷‍♀️

@MeloMan that game already exists, and is a Captain America game for the PS3/360 by Next Level Games!!
It remember loving it and while I don’t know how much of that staff is still working at that studio it does make me daydream about an action adventure title that studio COULD craft with one of Nintendo’s intellectual properties

@Bratwurst35 I agree with all of this, although I think that while the genre shift is noticeable in each title, they do have that singular Darksiders flavor that connects them (which is to say, belonging in the grand tradition of OoT 3D Zelda formula.)

I think that Darksiders 2 is the most dungeon focused, with so many tightly designed puzzle box locations, it really brings back that Twilight Princess emphasis on deep diving into puzzle -based/item-gated problem solving

@AJWolfTill we basically left the same comment lmao!!

The indie game that comes to mind that attempts to fit that style is Ary: and the Four Seasons. It’s pretty neat but clearly was more than the devs could handle

Have you also gotten into Darksiders to try and scratch that itch??

I anticipate indie games filling the empty space left by OOT era 3D Zelda games, and was hopeful that this title was attempting such a thing. I’ll need to see more before I commit to being interested, but this is an impressive trailer!

This is so cool!! I am pretty new to the Alien franchise, only recently watching the first three films in perpetration for Alien: Isolation getting a physical release through LRG.

I was shocked at how compelled I was by Alien, only to have the rug pulled from under me by Aliens for being a brilliant film in its own way! I feel like Isolation deserves its piece in the wider franchise, now that I am finally playing the dang thing. It’s so moody and interesting. Love to see film taking inspiration from games

This was predictable, though not inevitable?

Borderlands is a series NOTORIOUS for obnoxious writing that you sit through in order to get to the fun looter shooter gameplay. But if you get rid of the gameplay… you just have the writing?

Other branded movies (that aren’t Barbie, Mario, or Sonic) have been successful in at least part due to the contracts with the Department of Defense. I can’t imagine any other reason Battleship would do well, but this didn’t.

In other words: what would’ve a good candidate for a game turned movie? Maybe any other IP than borderlands

@Kraven I think you’ve really
Captured the essence of what makes the Ys series so appealing! The stories always start with smaller scale personal stories that unravel into something much grander!

Ys 8 is a great example of that! Memories of Celceta (not on Switch - harrumph) starts with Adol getting a job mapping a forest. And that’s just so…. Mundane? But the characters in every tale ground the whole thing and always compel through to the end!

Don’t sleep on Ys 9 either! It has a reputation for being lesser than 8 (fair) but it is still excellent!

This weekend I have taken a short break from Sea of Stars to jump back into Alien: Isolation
I’d mostly dropped off that title because I found the fire fights with humans IMPOSSIBLE. The secret as it turns out, was to raise the brightness beyond what the game tells you is correct. Im all for dark moody immersion, but I like my games a little more playable 😜
That game does own though, sneaking in and out of the Comms Tower without being spotted and turned to pulp by the Working Joes is the most exhilarating thing I’ve experience in games all year

I’m certainly intrigued! What a good way to keep an early year hit within the public consciousness ahead of awards season 😏

@BoilerBroJoe I think you are right. This style is more in line with the Star Ocean remake from last year (or even Eiyuden Chronicles) than the first round of HD2D style.
Though I think I prefer this style personally

@KoopaTheGamer that’s what I was saying. I don’t like HD 2D but I also don’t really like this style here either. I’m curious if this style is specifically appealing anyone? I think I like the originals better? At least for 6!

As HD 2D’s number one hater this pixel remaster also doesn’t do a lot for me. Is anyone just PUMPED about these remasters? Or is it just awesome to have the collection? (Which is valid as heck)

As HD 2D’s number one hater I gotta say that this one seems pretty sweet.

I played Dragon Quest 1&2 on switch, but didn’t feel up for 3. Lo and behold

The Borderlands movie just dropped on YouTube. The real one. The KBash 2 hour 45 minute epic about the series lol.

It’s good

Game of the year, I’m sorry that there are other games coming out this year, but this is the best one.

These are all exciting reveals, specifically because there was concern about the map being too similar to Link to the Past. I think we can definitively conclude that is not the case!

I am sold on this one now

These are my greatest fears. And to get the news about looming recession from my favorite gaming website sort of legitimizes them.

*greatest fear - another 2008 style recession. Not Nintendo losing stock value lol

THQNordic has been among the highlights of my time with the Switch. I enjoyed all four Darksiders titles (craving this new one!) the two SpongeBob games are great, and of course their ports of titles like Red Faction , and Risen.
They’ve been a solid contributor as far as I’m concerned!

I haven’t gone for any of these, though I know that a younger me would have been elated!
I think if they had used the 360/PS3 source code for Force Unleashed I may have not the bullet though