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Count me among the folks that thinks shorter =/= bad. Sounds like a good time can be had after a nice sale, and like Andee said, so many games that you can get hundreds of hours out of vying for attention.

You want to get me to login and comment for the first time in like half a year, you start talking about Ogre Battle 64, lol.

I will argue until my dying breath that this game (perhaps series) has the greatest writing and plot of any JRPG in existence. It's not another, "Hey kid with ridiculous hair that is unique from everyone else on the planet, take this sword and go save the world". There is true world building, character growth and political intrigue. The main character, who is not a silent MC, feels highly grounded and relatable. The stakes feel real. The plot advancements sensible and well paced.

And to think, when I first played it after renting from Blockbuster for a weekend, I HATED that first hour of it. I had never played anything like it, so I didn't get it. I'm so glad that I stuck in there and gave it a real shot. I ended up renting it six times over the course of several years before finally realizing that I should probably save up and buy it, haha.

My dream is to get a remake of my favorite JRPG of that era in HD-2D with a number of enhancements and gameplay fixes. It's a really longshot, but the dreaming is free!

I wouldn't call the Wii version a port. It was pretty much a full-blown remake with different graphics and art style, a different POV, and a different tone.

@Fizza Hawlucha is my favorite mon of all time! I was concerned that I would hate the design before the reveal, but I think it's pretty solid. GameFreak didn't overdo it this time, and Mega Hawlucha looks like it could have been a natural evolution to base Hawlucha (now that I mention it, that's what should have happened, lol).

@Ganner I'm not far behind you in age. I remember that period of time in console history when a numbered Final Fantasy game on a Nintendo console was a laughable, asinine fever dream (outside of ports of older titles to portable consoles).

I remember a few short years ago when it was a huge deal just to be able to say that you could now own Final Fantasy VII on a Nintendo console, on a plastic and silicon card no less.

So I will gladly take FFVIIRI at a stable 30fps on a Nintendo device. Just give me the entire game on the card, please.

@SodaPop6548 "B-b-but he's going to be better for the economy!"

@mr_benn I'm quite pleased with the Daft Punk reference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gkhol2Q1og

@Vyacheslav333 Well that's a bummer that makes the port less attractive for me. Maybe adding Quest Mode back is what they meant by the "more" content being added later, lol.

@Pigeon I still have my GCN original, but it'll be nice to finally be able to play it on a modern television. I'd prefer that the Switch get the HD remaster that includes Link, Spawn and Heihachi, but I won't complain about being able to play Soul Calibur II on the go.

@Pigeon Three! Soul Calibur 2 ~_~

@WarioInAHardees I'll be the one to give you a straight answer and say yes, MH Rise is a good jumping in point for a beginner. It's the most beginner-friendly entry in the series (I haven't played Wilds, the one that just came out on other platforms, so that may not be true anymore, but it was true when Rise launched).

There's a demo for it (and a seperate demo for its expansion, Sunbreak) in the eShop that you can try as well. The gameplay loop is pretty simple, but if you're a completionist like me, you can get hundreds of hours out of it. The demo gives you the opportunity to try every weapon type as much as you want in two (or was it three?) separate missions against different monsters of different difficultly levels. There will be more nuance to the game that what you will have in the demo, but it covers the vast majority of what you will be doing in the game: hunting monsters.

Hope you like it!

@PessitheMystic I had the opposite experience; I loved the Wii version for its motion controls and kept thinking throughout the experience that it would be awesome if a Wii sequel removed the time-stop whenever you're using the celestial brush and let the game stay in real-time the whole way through. I also enjoyed the combat more than on other versions because once I got used to it, I felt it added a sense of timing and rhythm akin to Crypt of the Necrodancer and Paper Mario instead of just mindless button-mashing. It made me more mentally present for each battle.

But that's just my experience.

Does Fred Durst's mandatory stipulation to make him a playable character apply?

@Serpenterror I spent a week on La Mulana about six years ago, and that game broke me so hard that I'm still suffering PTSD from it to this day. It has permanently scared me away from games that earned their reputation on being ridiculously hard... like Celeste and Blasphemous.

I say all this to ask how you would compare the former to the two latter? I know Celeste is more of a platformer akin to Meat Boy, and Blasphemous is more about action than puzzle solving, but still. I just can't do that to myself again, not with my OCD about finishing games and the guilt I feel abandoning them.

To all the people saying Nintendo will/should sue, how? Does Nintendo own the exclusive rights to the fonts, themes and type of gameplay featured in Animal Crossing?

"However, there's no denying the fact that Secret of Mana is one of the finest console RPGs of all time"

I'm denying it. Secret of Mana is absolute garbage and is the most overrrated JRPG of all time. The developers thought it would be a good idea to give enemies an invincibility window after getting hit, so battling common foes comes down to wacking, waiting, wacking, waiting, wacking, waiting. It's not fun. Charging attacks past Level 2 is pointless. Most of the weapon types are utterly useless and outclassed by better ones with no redeeming qualities. Your AI-controlled companions are idiots that are constantly getting lost or stuck on walls and corners. It's one of those old-school RPGs where you can only restore MP via a limited supply of items, so you spend dungeons doing basic attacks to save items and MP until you get to the boss. And when you get to the boss, the main character becomes useless because he can't use magic. And the strategy for the majority of bosses is just "spam the best spells and use items to recover MP, repeat." The original English translation is boo-boo and a chunk of NPCs speak nonsensical gibberish that don't help move the plot along or direct you on where to go next. The Mode-7 scrolling when riding the dragon is such a pain in the butt to control and land in the right spot on the world map.

The game sucks and deserves to die in a fire. And you know what's funny? It got a remake a few years ago on PS360 that no one remembers or wants to remember because of its Dreamcast-quality graphics and gameplay that fixed few of the aforementioned problems above.

@Dev1024 Wow, if you replace #3 with "Powerful Mario" (when he has the Wing Cap and #5 with Bob-Omb Battlefield, you have my top five!

@Not_Soos Finish that drink and meet me out in the yard

@anyone Whoever chooses the accompanying graphic for all of the tracks on the app knows what their doing. You can't have Dire, Dire Docks without that scary *** eel that will forever live rent-free in my nightmares.

All of those reports from the past (especially in the Wii U years) used to make me wonder how any company would ever let this walking PR nightmare anywhere near a social media account. Dude needed (probably still does) some serious help. I hope he actually got it.

I love me some Deku Deals, but even it is missing the ability to block entire developers/publishers wholesale instead of having to hide each game one-by-one. I saw a ton of those hentai games show up in the Latest Deals section the other day and I started to block them, then gave up when I realized how vastly outnumbered I was, lol

For as long as this game has existed since my childhood, that pissed off shark with the boxing gloves has made me either burst out laughing or chuckle every time I see it. Now I can make it my profile icon!

@Matroska To use an ATM Machine, you first need to enter your PIN number, lol

@Stuffgamer1 I remember that contest and the commercial for it back in the day, lol

@NinChocolate Thank God for indies

@Daniel36 You gotta put an asterisk behind the DL in that "DLC" though. That game was a download-only WiiWare title that had all of the content as part of the game download, and if you bought the DL*C, you were just changing a value in the game's file that made that previously locked content now available. You weren't downloading it separately from the base game.

In fact, if you bought the game at launch before the DL*C was available, you had to redownload an updated version of the game that had the content because it literally could not be bolted onto the base game as a separate download.

A WiiWare game could pull that off, so I guess by technicality, some Wii games had "DLC" that you already downloaded, but just had an extra paywall in front of it with a key. Are there any disc-based games that had DLC that you're aware of?

@Serpenterror Yep, from the f version.

In hindsight, one of the awesome things about the Wii was that the console didn't allow for DLC, so we had an extra generation of not having to deal with that manner of garbage practice from greedy publishers.

@Tyranexx Thanks for summing up exactly why Prime 2 is my least favorite of the trilogy. I don't hate it, but it's the one I remember forcing myself to play and finish instead of excitedly looking forward to it every day.

In addition to the inability to properly explore the dark world until later in the game, my least favorite thing was how it felt like the Russian nesting doll of fetch quests was too layered to remember the objectives - to get past this gate, you need these keys, to get these keys you need these macguffins, to get these macguffins, you need these... and so on. I am well aware that is the basis of every Metroid, but P2 took it to the logical extreme.

@DarthXenos Yeah, it's almost like if the publisher would have allowed the devs to truly apply themselves during the original development, they wouldn't have gotten such massive backlash and wouldn't have to spend years after launch getting the games up to an acceptable standard.

You'd think these people in the industry would learn by now, but new day, same song.

@anoyonmus It's an uprezzed port of a Wii game, so it better run smoother than silk.

@bloody_velvet I'm in the same boot. Woot is offering TotK for $45 USD, which is the cheapest it will probably ever be, but I keep thinking, "What if?". "What if Nintendo does a Sony and remakes/remasters a game one generation later?"

@abbyhitter It was less than a decade ago when we could lock our phones and YouTube continued to play music without a hitch. Google greedfully locked that "feature" behind it's paywall to make YT Music more attractive. I've been using this hack ever since though:

1. Download Firefox
2. Install an ad blocker like uBlock Origin as a FF extension
3. Use YT through Firefox
4. After your video starts minimize FF or lock your screen. The video will of course stop playing.
5. Hit play outside of FF using any method you have available, whether that be on your headset, your car's stereo, using the convenient shortcut from the phone, etc.

As long as you don't have a bunch of other open apps chewing up available memory and processing power, it'll play where you left off. I discovered this by accident shortly after Google started this garbage practice to push you to YT Music/Red, and have been doing it across three different phones in that time. I've never tried it on an iPhone, but it worked great on BlackBerry (RIP) and Android.

@NeonPizza You'd think Sega would've learned something after all of those botched Genesis/Mega Drive mini-consoles that the Brazilian company puked out to much deserved backlash. Then Sega did the one smart thing it does every few years and got M2 to handle the Genesis Mini, lo and behold, everyone loves it.

Sega and Nintendo, stop being idiots and just go get M2 to handle your retro ports. It's really just that simple.

I'm hoping that in addition to its entire library of authentic OSTs, Nintendo adds orchestrated, remastered, remixes and all kinds of other versions of music to the app as well.

@AmyTheBrawler I associate Krystal with Star Fox failure; everything went to hell once that furry bait showed up.

Yes, I hated Adventures. That piss-poor discount Zelda clone sucked. I don't need Fox running around pretending to be Link anymore than I need Link's crossbow training.

This time a year ago, I thought Metal Slug Tactics was vaporware and quietly canceled, but I'm glad that it's finally a thing. The Switch really is SRPG heaven.

@Anti-Matter

And while we're at it, let's get a new Advance Wars but it's now a racer instead of SRPG and a new Pikmin but it's now a dating sim. Let's take every established-but-ignored game series and make a new game in a different genre!

May you whip that cancer away and come back in good health and spirits, brother. Thank you for countless contributions to a series that millions of us love, but we want to give you your flowers while you're here to receive them.

@AG_Awesome Sure did, and I won't spoil it here. It was definitely set up to have at least one more game before closing things out.

@Zach777 The gameplay will be pretty dated at this point, but the writing, voice acting and plot progression... timeless.

The Blood Omen/Legacy of Kain series is one of gaming's greatest tragedies, because we never got an end to the saga. This series proved that video games are just as much a serious art form and storytelling medium as anything else.

First the Castlevania GBA collection, then the Castlevania DS collection, then the Marvel vs. Capcom collection, then the Capcom Fighting Collection 2, and now this....

Is it bad that I'm more excited about releases of super old games than any brand new ones?

@Poodlestargenerica Yeah, if the Powerstone games were available in their own standalone package, I would consider just getting that because I'm not going to realistically invest much time or effort into the other games. But this is the first shot I've had at Power Stone in a quarter century. Can't take this for granted.

@LadyCharlie -It gets revealed later that some of the more racy Midnight Bliss transformations were altered/removed, and Mae's thong has a few more pixels-

"SCREW CAPCOM FOR MAKING THESE GAEMZ 2 WOKE IM NOT BUYING NOW!!!!"

Meanwhile, I say that I'm not getting Pizza Tower because I don't want to support the creator

"JUST SHUT UP AND PLAY THE GAME NONE OF THAT STUFF HE SAID EVEN MATTERS CUZ IT WAS YEARS AGO"

@NatiaAdamo Good for you. Seeing as how you are popping up nearly a week after this discussion as ended to try to inject some life into this corpse of a topic, mind reminding where I said that you or anyone else shouldn't fund the game? Or the part where I said everyone should think and feel the same as me?

As for stereotypes... seeing as how I haven't played the game and don't intend to, I have no reference for what you're talking about.

Thank you for not forcing me to buy and play the game, @NatiaAdamo. I can finally breath easy again. As a gesture of my appreciation, I won't force you to avoid buying or playing the game and you can live your life however you want. You can continue to show up to comment sections a week late, yet still show that reading comprehension is a personal struggle, because if you bothered to read my first post, I pretty much said, "No sir, I do not like it."

You and your ilk are the ones who can't seem to move on. Not only are you still @ing me days after this thing has long run its course, but you're circle-jerking the same old tired points about how you admit he was acted like a chud but you don't think he's a chud in your own headcanon. Meanwhile, I'm just thinking of how much money I could save if I could live rent free in real life like I live rent free in your heads.

@Jimgamer8 Exactly, but the GBA Castlevania trio was trapped there (and Wii U) until a year or so ago, and the DS trilogy was trapped until a couple of days ago. So it could happen eventually, right?

@Jimgamer8 I was thinking that among all three inevitable Castlevania collections, surely Adventure Rebirth would be in one of them! Can't remember if Contra Rebirth is in that collection, but if it's not, maybe we can get both of those in a double pack.

@Dalesdeadbug if you don't give a damn, why are you leaving posts for me? More than a full day after anything was last said at that. You and the others sure are putting a lot of effort into one little post where I said I won't getting the game. At least @jefferson7 has something with substance to offer. You're welcome to do the same.

@jefferson7 @luke88 You both have reached for such defenses as to say that I don't know the guy personally and a person in his 20s hasn't had enough life experience to be be held accountable for his toxic behavior. Do you know a thing about me personally? Do you know, or at least care, what life experiences have led me to where I am and how I think and feel today?

It's really easy to dismiss bigoted and hurtful comments and communities as "just a phase" when you're not in one of the groups being targeted. So yeah, when you see a bit of yourself in him, that's obvious: you want to protect your analog because posts like mine as an affront on you by proxy. So you can spout your rhetoric about empathy and understanding, but I've yet to see either of you express any amount of that for the minorities that were targeted in those posts and forums. Instead, you put on your helmets to protect the quarterback and say things like, "Well he can't control what others say" on his own Discord channel of which he is a mod, and "The brain isn't fully formed until the mid-to-late 20s" as if 20-somethings all over the world aren't out there doing big things to make the world a better place now. Why waste an ounce of effort trying to empathize with others from a different walk of life when you can put all of your energy into maintaining the status quo that personally benefits you?

Remember that metroidvania that launched earlier in the year, Tales of Kenzera: Zau, and the harassment the director received after it launched? The game was literally about the director's personal relationship and admiration for his father. Were you guys putting on the cape for him when he was getting harassed?

@luke88 I feel like the world would be a better place if people like you didn't run cover for people like him and enable that mindset.

@NintonicGamer If that were to come to Switch or its successor, my interest would be picqued!

@shoeses In the make believe world inside my head, Sega spun the Chao Garden aspect off into its own series that is still running to this day, going onto become one of its biggest IP that is more popular than even mainline Sonic games.

@jefferson7 I appreciate your level-headed post, but with all due respect, you sound like the type of person who labels everyone who thinks like me a strawman SJW that is ready to rally a mob to burn it all down over every offense on the Internet. All I said was that I won't be getting the game.

People in their 20s are still adults. That's old enough to drink, vote, go to war, run for several public offices, develop video games, own a house, go to college and go out into the world acquire all sorts of life experiences. Please don't act like 20-somethings are still fledglings that don't know any better because they're still clutching their parent's legs for protection from a harsh world. I've grown a ton in that span as well, but I was still an adult that was expected to have some level of maturity, compassion, and at the very least, tolerance for people from other walks of life.

I said absolutely nothing about "advancing the cause of social justice or equity by declining to play this game." I'm not so full of myself as to believe that doing so would mean anything to anyone other than myself. I said I won't be supporting the game. Show me the part where I said that no else should either.

It makes me wonder if some of you feel the need to step up and defend this guy because you either see a bit of yourself in him, or you're feeling a little guilt knowing you're looking the other way while patronizing a reprehensible clod.