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@johnvboy The guy lost his significant other that had been in his life for a huge portion of it, it sounds like without much if any closure, was without income or the ability to take care of himself, was enduring the embarrassment of having to move in with his parents, and was dealing with the grisly details of a horrifying rape and murder case. All in the midst of what many people consider the worst period of their lives in the form of the Covid years. And you call this "simply having a bad day".

About this time four years ago, I had lost a job where I thought I was going to be for a long time, and had to cancel plans to buy a house and stay in my apartment. I was having a lot of drama in the situationship I was in, had to take an underpaying job for something I really didn't want to do for a while, and was banking all of my emotional chips on getting another job that I knew would shatter me if I didn't get it, but screw being rational. The only things that got me through that period were my dog, Kali Uchis' "After the Storm" and Tears of the Kingdom.

Maybe one day when ***** hits the fan for you and your life is in shambles, you'll understand. Maybe yours already had and you're just not built to understand what others are going through.

Every time something like this comes along, I'm just amazed at how no one ever mentions the reveal of the final boss from Star Fox 64.

You're flying down a long, dark and ominous corridor while Andross taunts you in a deep, emotionless yet creepy voice. Your comrades that have been with you the entire game aren't there to talk to you for guidance and support. You suddenly fly into an open area that is completely in the dark. Within the span of about two seconds, you can make out a large silhouette, then it's revealed to be a HUMONGOUS floating ape head with glowing, bloodshot eyes that will not stop staring you down. And you're forced to fly right up into it's face.

The first time this happened, I paused my game, turned off the N64 and didn't go back for at least three days.

@brandonbwii Any woman that can't use her stomach as an ironing board is considered ugly in Hollywood.

@CinnamonRobin I've been wondering how that character will be handled in the year of our Lord 2024 as well.

@Pikachupwnage Exactly. I can complete get behind a monetary penalty because he did violate the ToS and made money off of someone else's assets, but that doesn't mean his entire life should be ruined by having to rot away years of it in a cell and then trying to piece it together afterward. It's not like it was a crime with real consequences that endangered other people.

@Dm9982 Just got an alert from Deku Deals that the game is on sale for 40 percent off now. 😛

You're absolutely right, but I think Ubi is the most well-known publisher for teaching customers to wait it out, even though EA, Activision and Capcom do similar things.

@Dm9982 This game also suffers from the fact that Ubisoft has spent the last 15 years training gamers not to get their games near launch. It looks fun and I plan to own it one day, but why get it now when it'll be on sale for 75-90% off with the DLC included within a year?

I thought I was slick when I got Immortals Fenix Rising for 60 percent off of its retail price a couple of months after launch, but it's been on sale for $9-10, and I was kicking myself for not waiting until then since I have yet to play it.

1. Panzer Dragoon Orta, complete with the original version of Panza Dragoon

2. Blue Dragon

3. Kinectimals (I kid)

@Sculptor I'm with you on that. Back when I was a youth with empty pockets and no day job or other obligations, then sure, take all of the time I have. Nowadays, whenever I hear a game is short and sweet, that's a selling point for me.

@Arkay "Creating problems where there isn't any"

Like how that person brought up a matter of race when it was uncalled for?

Did someone say Sony?

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/19/sony-gaming-margin-questioned-after-ps5-sales-cut-sparks-stock-plunge.html

I can't think of another game that represents such a drastic paradigm shift as this one. Cyberpunk 2077 is a contender, but this is champ.

I want to try it to see if it's really my kind of game, and it's often half off both in physical form and in the eShop, but that's not enough to get me to take the plunge.

I'll definitely be trying it out now that I have the opportunity, but question for those who are familiar with it: do you think this update will represent the rest of the game and be a good judgement for new players, or is it geared toward those who are well acquainted with the game already?

@-wc- If your intentions in your original reply to me were sincerely meant to be helpful and supportive, then I sincerely apologize. I misinterpreted the post as sarcastic and patronizing.

"they are related, read some of the prior articles here 👍"

The aggressive command to "read some of the prior articles here" followed by the thumbs up emoji instead of merely offering relevant information is why it came across to me in that fashion. Maybe a lifetime of aggressive posters online, no shortage of which come from this very site, has made me defensive.

I see now that you're very capable of expressing yourself and your intended vibes when you care to. I'll keep that in mind and maybe give you the benefit of the doubt next time.

@-wc- I'd say that it got weird when you felt the need to inform me that there is information on the Internet.

Yelp suggested a good barbecue joint not far from my current location; it didn't point me in the direction of it like a GPS would.

Thanks for your concern, I guess. Now if you'll excuse me, I gotta go learn how to use this daggum search bar so I don't make concerned citizens like yourself have to go out their way to point it out to me 🫠

@-wc- You haven't pointed me to anything, you just expected me to know they existed 🥴

@-wc- If you couldn't tell by my comment, I didn't know previous articles existed thumbs up

@Serpenterror I tried playing the DS port of Ys 1 & II a couple of years ago. Part of me wants to say remake, but the changes are so bare that port seems more appropriate. Maybe I'm so spoiled by the signposting and QoL features of modern gaming, but I quit about halfway through the second dungeon on Ys 1 because the game was so archaic at that point and felt like it didn't really care about itself, if that makes any sense. It was a whole lot of, "Go to this town you haven't been to and talk to every NPC until you find the right one. That NPC will tell you to go talk to another NPC from a place you were at a few hours ago but forgot where it was because no characters have any character, no towns are memorable, and the map is almost useless."

Sorry, just realized that I'm ranting about a game that has nothing to do with the game this whole news piece is about to someone in the comment section that didn't ask for my opinion. I can see the framework of a good game in there, so I'm not knocking you or anyone who enjoy the older Ys games.

I guess this is a REALLY long way of saying if the games that are like the old-school Ys like 1 & II ever come back, please be in full-on remake mode with better writing/localisation, a more fleshed out plot to get people invested, and more QoL features.

Edit: speaking of Ys 1 & II, is that the same Adol?

I wish I could remember the game, because then I could link an article from this site with a first look trailer that sums up Sakurai's words perfectly.

I feel like it was a JRPG with UK English voice acting that felt more like it was trying to win Oscars instead of showing gameplay. I was so frustrated after about a minute of tired, pretentious, worn out RPG tropes that it's now all I remember about the game.

There was a game on Dreamcast (and PC) called Slave Zero, so I thought this was going to either be a sequel to it or a remake. Clearly not a remake, so anyone have any idea of whether the two games are related?

Not legit until it includes tank controls

I've been slowly giving away old games I know I'll never go back to again (either because they're bad, too antiquated for my tastes nowadays, or been remade/rereleased in modern systems) to a coworker who is a hardcore physical collector. It feels a lot better knowing they'll have a nice home where they'll be loved than to make chump change off of GameStop, lol.

Would pick these up just to satisfy the 6-10 year-old me that would see these games in magazines and on store shelves and could only use my imagination to play them

Can't believe I haven't heard of this until now. The weird thing is, all you would have had to say to me is either "VanillaWare" or "Ogre Battle vibes" without showing me a single screenshot, and I would have instantly been sold. But yet, seeing that trailer has kind of turned me off a little. I don't know why, because I love VW's signature art style, but seeing it in a TRPG similar to Ogre Battle isn't immediately clicking.

@Friendly I still consider myself a big Pokemon fan, but I won't settle for half-baked garbage.Had a little FoMO in the early days of Sword & Shield, but quickly got over it, and skipping these past two generations has shown me that I don't need Pokemon. There are too many great games on Switch where you can appreciate the hard work that went into delivering us the best experience possible, and they are more worth your time.

There used to be a user here named Mr. Trill that had an avatar of Texas sports teams, and all his comments went like this:

"Nothing to say this time. Go Cowboys! Go Texans! Go Rockets! Go Astros!"

This article was made for him.

Time to finally try Radiant Silvergun and be reminded that I have no business trying to play hardcore shmups!

@Sam_ATLUS Which is why I wish Nintendo would give Star Fox and F-Zero another chance

Get Del the Funky Homosapien to do the voice of the DJ, please!

I'm extremely cynical about anything Sega announces not named Yakuza or Total War. What is the last good Sega game made inhouse that wasn't from those IP? No, Atlas doesn't count. The last time Sega tried to make Golden Axe, it sucked ass. The last two Monkey Ball games are either bad or underwhelming, and they're either HD ports or HD level packs, yet Sega still found a way to botch them. The last Shinobi was incredibly forgettable. Crazy Taxi is the equivalent of a $5-10 indy game these days. Outside of Generations, the only universally loved Sonic game in the last 20 years was made by passionate fans. Panzer Dragoon and Streets of Rage 4 were given out to different devs and pubs.

What has Sega done in the last 20 years to give us any faith that these games won't be dumpster fires that crap all over their legacies?

@OctoCallie20 Sonic '06 was on 200 times better hardware than Sonic Adventure. That didn't seem to work out very well.

@beartown That's a big reason why I haven't been into MK as much as back in the day. 7 and 8 aren't nearly as bad as Wii was with the randomness and rubberbanding, but I want to feel like races are based more on skill and mastery of the kart and track instead of random zaniness. And no one should be outright punished for staying in first place for long periods of time. MK Wii became all about learning how to stay among the pack for 2/3rds of the race, then zooming into first after everyone has exhausted all of their BS items and blue shells and hoping that you don't get worked over yourself before crossing the finish line.

@Vortexeo @KafeiToGo

Target and Wal-Mart were doing 10 percent off digital eShop cards a couple of days ago, so they might still be going on. Of course, I'm speaking as an American, so that probably doesn't apply overseas...

@themightyant Zero percent chance Nintendo would delay a console just for that. Imagine being a parts manufacturer for Nintendo and being told that your contracts and payments will be delayed because it wants to chase a record for an old console. Imagine being a publisher or developer that has to delay your game(s) for the next console because of that.

@Thomystic Wow, I didn't own a PS2, but this whole time I thought the GTA III trilogy were video games, not movies!

@Serpenterror Better yet, Nintendo should make the policy that any game or collection released in a physical form must have at least 75 percent of the game/collection's file size on the cart, with Day 1 patches only for critical fixes, not to force the customer to foot the memory bill.

Add a screen protector that comes pre-installed to the list. Got a new phone a month ago that already had one on the screen straight out of the box, and never realized just how much sense that makes. We all want to protect our expensive toys; go ahead and help us out by having that protection there from the second we take it out of the packaging.

@Magician There WAS supposed to be Metal Slug Tactics, but given we haven't gotten an update on that in more than a year, it might be vaporware at this point.

I had never even heard of Othercide until your post, which tells me that we are drowning in SRPG riches right now!

@russell-marlow

The Switch blows the Vita out of the water in terms of raw power, and that's before we even say anything about the Switch having more a modern and efficient architecture. The fact that they are both handhelds means nothing.

@IceClimbersMain Replace "Nintendo" with "The Pokemon Company" and you'd be onto something

@IceClimbersMain @tobsesta99

If Nintendo doesn't release a portable console that runs on carts, then the Switch doesn't become the massive Cinderalla story it is, and ports like the Arkham Trilogy probably don't come to it to begin with.

This trilogy could have come to the Wii U across multiple discs, but did it? Nope. So could Borderlands, Bioshock, the Ezio Collection, MGS, Devil May Cry and others, but traditional Nintendo home consoles weren't attractive enough for publishers to bother. The Switch, with all of its flaws and compromises, is. Heck, I have most of those games/collections on PS3 already, so that proves timing and power weren't the reason for the Wii U not getting them. So I'll take ports with a catch over no ports at all.

@Waluigi451 Both Subnautica games are available physically and on one cart with no shenanigans. I bought it Day 1 to show support.

@Wordbonder The original AWL was my first farming sim game, and it would have been my last had it not been for games like Rune Factory and Stardew Valley. I just could not get through the boring, repetitive daily grind. But reading your comment would now make me at least consider it on a deep sale. No more mental gymnastics with cows only giving milk after giving birth, no more useless goats, and actually having better representation options gets my attention.

@PikaPhantom Can you link these studies? I'd be interested in seeing them.

Also, could it be that no one really masks up anymore because the vaccine has been widely available for for a couple of years now, which might have something to do with infection levels plummeting in areas with high rates of vaccination rates? Just a thought.

Nice that it'll be available on Switch, but also nice to know that I can safely pass on it, barring some major work done to the fundamental gameplay. I ain't time for middling/meh games these days.

Good. Niantic has been making dumb and/or unpopular decisions left and right lately, and its revenue should rightly reflect that. It's like someone is actively trying to sabotage the game lately.

@EarthboundBenjy Nice to know that I'm not the only one out there that feels the same about SOM. The combat wasn't fun at all; stats are meaningless, charging any attack beyond level 2 is pointless because only the first hit counts, the main character is useless against most bosses and those fights come down to just spamming magic from the other two characters over and over again, the Mode 7 traversal is equal parts frustrating and nauseating, and the original SNES version has one of the most laughably bad half-ass translation efforts this side of an old SNK game.

Anything associated with SOM automatically comes with a truck full of salt from me, so I have the same question you have before I'd ever consider this.

I never cared about amiibo, and the only one I had up until this point was the Wolf Link that came with Twilight Princess HD (which happened to be on sale at the time). But at $5 a pop, why not?

@sikthvash I'm wondering the same thing. I'd send mine in for repair in a heartbeat if so.

@Arminillo I said "no characters to learn", not "no characters"

What can be said about Cash and Weber that can't be summed up in the length of a tweet?

Do they have character? Sure they do. So does Uncle Pennybags from Monopoly.

@Travisemo007 Nope, just four. Can't imagine the zaniness of eight people playing all at once.