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Ugh. My kid LOVES Gigantosaurus. Now I have to make sure he never sees anything of this game in the eShop or in the news feed thing.

Oh boy! I can't wait to get my new art book that I won't look at for years because I'll want to finish the game first, and then by the time I do finish the game I'll have forgotten about the art book!

This looks like it could fit into the Kingdom/West of Loathing world.

After playing Link to the Past approximately a million billion times (without owning it, somehow), I tried to play Ocarina of Time SO many times on SO many consoles (okay, three?), and it kind of ruined the series for me.

Oh boy! I can't wait for this to happen in Pikmin Bloom! I only have like 5 more things to do in that game, but a rough estimate tells me that if I want to completely get all the stuff and "finish" it, I'll need to play constantly every day for another 20 months or so. Dragalia Lost seems like it might have been a better use of my time.

The one Saturn game I've always regretted not buying... now made both entirely affordable and playable on the train!

I don't think I understood a single word in this article. Besides maybe the words "the", "with", and "cloud". I might have heard "a" somewhere before, too, but it all sounds like corporate-techno-mumbo-jumbo to me.

I would have bought an OLED Xenoblade 3 Switch, damnit.

After buying my first 3DS game in years which is probably also going to be my last (also I'll probably never get around to playing it) a few days ago, I started thinking about something like this. Specifically, Nintendo is going to remake and re-release the same popular games for ages, but what about the games that I loved and still own? In just the past few years I've had a number of tragedies occur... the charging port on my DSi is broken and I have be very careful if I want the thing to charge. I'm already on the 3rd battery for my 3DS. The disc drive on my American Wii died, I can't get my Japanese Wii U to recognize HDMI cables, and of course I have lots of discs and downloaded games for both that aren't compatible with the other. I have a pretty fantastic library of Nintendo games that are getting harder and harder to play as time goes on. I would consider paying money again to have a lot of those games on my Switch, but because they're not Mario or Zelda games it's not going to happen. How many years do I have left before I have to start worrying about what will happen to all of the games on my Switch?

I've finished both Metroid Dread and Thumper 100%, and I've tried a few of the others, but after Thumper especially, I'm not looking to add anything to the "stressful" folder on my Switch any time soon.

You forgot Golden Sun!

I bought a new 3DS game that I'll probably never play today, for the first time in a couple of years. It's also the first time in a couple of years that I couldn't buy the thing I was trying to buy because I had to stabilize my 3DS first.

Oh cool, I first played Kirby 30 years ago! Thanks for making me feel old, Sakurai.

Japanese people call Baskin Robbins "31" because they're so afraid of the English language that they can't see past those numbers. If you try to explain the real name they act like you just set fire to a rescue shelter for disabled baby red pandas. It's super weird.

This looks not appealing to my alley at all; I think I'll give it a go!

I didn't have an NES as a kid. I'd go to one friend's house and demand that he let me play Zelda (against his pleas of "let's go play outside!"), and another friend's house to play Metroid. For obvious reasons I never finished either. Metroid II was the first Metroid game I owned, and I absolutely loved it, even though either the cartridge or the Gameboy was broken, and after about 20 minutes it would overheat (I guess?) and shut down so you had to make your time worth it (strangely, that didn't happen with any other games). I'm not entirely sure why I missed out on Super Metroid since I had a SNES and played most of the big games... years later after I fell in love with Prime I played it on emulator and knew that a big chunk of my childhood had been missing until that point. After that I've owned and played pretty much every non-Federation Force Metroid game there is, but Samus Returns (remake or original, both of which I've played multiple times) will always be my favorite. And I still kind of think the original is the worst of them all.

This is beautiful. I can't wait for the finale next week to crush all of my hopes and dreams for Saul & Co.!

Recently I finally started going through all the demos I downloaded and deleting them after trying them. And then Xenoblade 3 came out and so much for finishing that project.

I'd like to see a Xenoblade 3 Direct from this week's Splatoon 3 Direct! Oh wait that already happened once.

I think this was my second or third Switch game, but I never got past the second level because it's just so hard. Now that I've finished Thumper and Steredenn (among others) 100%, maybe it's time to go back and give it another try.

Well crap, why have I not been scalping Switches in my spare time all along???

I really don't need more Splatoon. As fun as it is, it all kind of blends together after a while. That's why I'm going to buy Call of Duty: Modern Black Ops Warfare 7 instead!

@aznable Aren't there like a million billion games that use 16 or 32-bit visuals with 8-bit sound? Personally I'd really rather have that extra factor of 2 (though really I'd rather have more, no matter how many bits the visuals are).

@Snatcher Don't forget to play Xenoblade X! Oh... wait... maybe that one's not so easy to play these days, especially if you're looking to finish all the online stuff. But yeah, they're all good, just in different ways.

@thinkhector Thank you, that is beautiful. If Xenoblade 3 wasn't a digital download for me I'd chuck it in the garbage right now and get started on that list!

P.S. I wouldn't really do that.

Garfield Kart 3, baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No wait I meant Xenoblade 3. I get those serieses confused all the time.

My Sega Saturn and everything related to it (games, soundtracks, stickers, figures, flyers, tattoo, etc.) will always be the highlight of my collection, even if I'll probably never play any of the games again. The three scenarios of Shining Force III and the Premium Disc are probably the fanciest thing in my gaming collection, even if I only ever played 1/4th of them. But Saturn Bomberman is my all-time favorite video game and I have SO many memories attached that game that it's my ultimate treasure.

News news day, I see. News!

Not as cool as the NES. And yet... I never owned an NES but I owned one of these, so it's like 200% cooler. Crap now I want them both.

@Type_Trubbish Yeah, I went for the Gameboy version. I like how it looks like Chun-Li just murdered Ryu with a well-placed kick, but the look of shock on her face is because Blanka busted in saying "your secret's safe with me... for a price!" ...Maybe it's just me.

Not nearly enough!!!!!

I would probably enjoy that. Or at least remove JUST the blue shell. At one point in my life I was ridiculously skilled at F-Zero GX... I only wish that talent translated into Mario Kart.

I finally finished OPUS: Echo of Starsong, and even though I found like 90% of the memories, I feel like I need to play it again to really GET what's going on. This time I'll do it in Japanese!

I've been pronouncing it in the fourth variation, but now that I've seen it written out "LIVER-LIV", it shall now permanently be "Liver a Live" (which rhymes with "Giver a Give") to me.

I want to play this game but I feel like I should finish Metroid Dread on hard mode first because of that whole metroidovania thing. Also... I just know Portal is going to win the vote for the next backlog club game, which is too bad because I REALLY want to play Baba is You and participate in this club for once. On the other hand, I've never played Portal for more than maybe 5 minutes and would really like to actually experience the whole thing. So... screw you, Superliminal, we've got other games to play, I guess!

@KateGray That first paragraph is magic. Besides my mother insisting me she's not a wine snob (she kind of is), I have a wonderful memory of going on a date to a fancy restaurant where the tables were a little too close together, and after the guy next to us told his date, "I feel that by the third glass you start to get palate fatigue", we spent the rest of the meal struggling to contain our giggles. Some wines might be better than others, but for the most part wine is wine and what does it matter once you're drunk??

Anyway... there are a number of games that I played in the same time period as listening to an album or watching a certain movie or reading a book, and some of them really did work together and are forever connected in my brain, which I think is pretty cool.

I feel like it's time for Nintendo Indirects, where... never mind. I had several ideas on how to finish that joke, but I think I've already cause enough damage.

Will there be another mode like this that allows for ACTUAL nudity?? I'm asking for a friend.

@Nermannn 190 Kwatloos is... ridiculous. As is 7480 Yenllars. I put money on my Amazon.co.jp account today to buy this thing (because otherwise I have to explain to my wife a huge payment on our joint credit card), but I decided that I don't need to preorder this game. For one, it doesn't come out for nearly a year (seriously???), but also, that price would make it the most expensive non-Xenoblade game I've ever bought for my Switch (oh yeah, also that breathy Zelda game I still haven't played) AND my first-ever non-digital purchase. As enticing as that two-level bonus game is, I think I'll just stick to digital purchases and wait for a sale. I'm only slightly disappointed, but that Amazon-cash can probably be put to better use on other things.

I LOVE violence, blood and gore, partial nudity, and strong language! But in-game purchases? That's where I draw my line. Definitely not buying this game.

I want to listen to this but I won't because I want the game to surprise me in as many ways as possible!

Uh oh... this is live on Amazon.co.jp right now for just one day (if you want the bonus game that sounds like it's not much of a game), and a crazy thought occurs... will it support TATE mode? Because if not I'm not interested because that's kind of the whole reason I want to play this game on my Switch.

I would buy this.

For the first few years I kept screenshots to the internal memory and had to erase the ones that weren't precious to me every time I reached the limit. Then I moved to a newer, gigantic SD card (okay, I did that twice) and realized there's not a limit when the screenshots are on the SD card... so now I just don't have the will to cull them anymore and probably won't even look at them because there are THOUSANDS.

@cyrus_zuo My son apparently loves taking screenshots of menus! Just the other day I found about 30 of the title screen to the Pikmin 3 demo.

I'm cancelling my preorder. There's no Klingon!

Gotta agree with Ollie... I don't like anything about the N64. Especially that awful controller. But I approve of all of the other selections on this list and now fully expect Nintendo to make it happen.

Man those are beautiful... too bad I don't much care for them thar Splatoons, boy howdy.

Ahhhh jeez I'm not ready for Xenobarf 3 to consume all of my free time. Maybe I'll feel slightly better if I make a goal like "finish one game on the backlog per week until it gets released and then never finish any of the others".

The Japanese one is kinda cool, but also kind of generic. The American one, though, is like... "WOAH HAY DUDE BRO HERE'S THAT TOTALLY RAD GAME YOU REALLY WANTED TO PLAY BACK IN THE 80'S BUT DIDN'T BECAUSE YOU'RE DUMB!!!!" It's just rubbing its awesomeness in my face.

Ahhh jeez I always wanted to play Target Earth/Assault Suits Leynos... still not enough to pay money for a service I'll never have the time to use, though. A man can dream, I guess.