I liked it the first two times. I don’t need a third.

They just dropped a very mediocre Metroid title, and Mario Kart was middling at best, so they are down two franchises this generation already. If they make another clone of BotW then they are gonna be down a third, and they’ll have to make it up with Mario, but Donkey Kong didn’t inspire hope on that front, so I’m not sure what I have to look forward to…

Oh. Pokemon… Well, I’m not holding out hope there either after Scarlet/Violet.

Well, damn. I didn’t know that. Oh, bother.

Zelda and Mario are first party, so I get that, but Xenoblade kills me. I need a rerelease of Xenogears, Xenosaga, and Xenoblade on PC.

Wasn’t this already on the first Switch? How did you fuck this up? It was already done.

Honestly, I’m kinda over the Switch 2 at this point. All of the games that have come out for it look empty and soulless, and there hasn’t been anything to make me truly want to spend $500 on another piece of kit. They’ve had long enough to put out some quality, and the promise of “$80 for a game ensures we can continue to deliver quality” is just the corporate bullshit we all knew it was. This is the WiiU all over again.

I was just about to say that I usually trust Russ will all my retro gaming handhelds, but I’ll gladly take a second opinion. Glad to see that you follow him as well and aren’t afraid to put your own thoughts out there. Nice work!

Not only that, but charging full price for a game and then charging $15-20 for cosmetic DLC is fucking wild. If I’ve paid you $60+ for a title, I expect the full experience. If you want to add some shit a year down the line to lengthen the life, I’m on board, but day one DLC that costs more than the base game was played out the moment Bethesda graced us with horse armor. I’ve gotten more joy out of Vampire Survivors than I have out of any Ubisoft and EA games in the last 20 years combined.

Gotcha, that’s what I saw. Thanks.

I’m curious, because I just “beat” the game last night. I’ll try to be spoiler free, but if someone hasn’t beaten the game, don’t read on. Is the “true ending” what you get when you go up, do the thing, and then go down and do the other thing? Like, when you get the achievement? Or is it related to finding the missing threads, so to speak? I’m just curious on if I’ve already seen the ending that’s been changed, or if there is more.

This feels like cherry picking (there is probably a better pun in there). The sentiment I saw when the servers went down was overwhelming support for the Dev and the happiness that an indie game is doing with AAA games can’t; bring down steam.

That’s just good wholesome fun.

XenoSaga is worth it, though it suffers the same fate as Xenogears being rushed at the end. Xenoblade is definitely worth it. None of them cross over but they have the same themes and motifs, plus a little fan service for series old heads.

1. Chrono Trigger
2. Xenogears
3. Vagrant Story

Nier:Automata gets an honorable mention.

I think the original devs left after the second one. The third was a new crew. I could be misremembering too, though.

Edit: I was mistaken as everyone has pointed out. It makes a lot more sense that way.

Self-awareness is the first step to sentience.

Well, it ain’t gonna do itself.

Goddamn. It’s about time.

On steam, yes, but I’m not sure about other platforms. However, if it has any online components or anything hosted on servers elsewhere, it will lose some or all functionality, and even if you install it, it may not run at that point.

That’s still under the Microsoft umbrella, so neither are out of reach if it goes that way.

They’ll give it to Bethesda and Microsoft will wring every dime they can from it.

It was just a jab at the current Stop Killing Games stuff that is going on.

Lmao. Ubi shuts down The Crew, but EA is like, “idk, give anthem another 6 months.”

I don’t know, maybe I’m just used to being bad, but I’m playing Stellar Blade right now with frame gen (and according to the new Steam overly I’m 60 regular, 60 generated frames for 120 total) and it requires fairly strict timings with parries and dodges and I haven’t had any problems. I actually just wiped the floor with 2 bosses on my first attempt.

I just recently upgraded to a card capable of frame gen. As an above average gamer, I can say that I haven’t been taken out of the game yet by any weird shit, and I haven’t noticed any input lag. I’m not hardcore by any means, but I think the average player can get on board with frame gen and have a good time.

Good, I hope the continue to kick ass.

Lol “finally”.

I mean, you aren’t wrong, but the amount of people that associate dodge and parry with Soulslike games is bound to be much higher than those that associate it with Mario RPG and it’s kin. I’ve played games in each of the series, and I hadn’t even made the comparision to Mario RPG in my head, despite it being one of my favorite games.

Most banks will offer virtual cards. You can use those instead of your actual card number, and if they get stolen you just cancel that virtual card, but your account is untouched.

This will require a PlayStation account to play. Don’t even bother getting upset about it, Sony doesn’t care.

The problem is that the people who would write these rules are the ones making A LOT of money on the way they are written now. For them there is no need to fix it, because it ain’t broke.

“We thought there would be more of you.”

I mean, if you want to emulate a corporate ethos, I don’t think Japan should be the benchmark, either…

Frame gen shouldn’t be a crutch, and by design it’s only supposed to enhance games that’s get above 60fps naturally. It doesn’t do anything good for the open world that constantly tanks to 45. It’s not a master race thing, it’s a poor optimization thing.

It’s more of a progression from FFX than something like Persona or the newer FF games. It’s still turn based, but its more active. It feels like what Square should have done with the franchise, instead of going the direction they did.

Just shy of 20 years. What’s worse is that in the last few years I’ve been buying almost exclusively from 3rd party sites like HumbleBundle, so it should be much higher. My steamDB page tells a very different story…

Well, yeah, that’s about right.

Remember when it used to only cost 2.99…

The PC port is based on the mobile port, and at release it was trash. However, they have patched out all of the mobile garbage and it’s a lot better.

As a recent enjoyer of Taco Wednesday, I could go for a left and right anus right now.

That d pad and those face buttons can go fuck themselves off a cliff.