I reviewed it for Game Informer magazine at the time. I scored it 2/10. So yeah.

Today’s model is clearly an extension of that early rendering, and finally brings the VR platform past the likes of Fire Emblem: Awakening on the Nintendo 3DS, another game that lacked legs.

I bought vanilla Skyrim on sale for $30 a year or so ago. That they think they can add enough content to double the price is...surprising.
(I barely played it on Switch, as I also have it on PS4 and played it a ton there - not to mention the original release on 360)

Just got a PS5, and paid $25 to upgrade to PS+ Premium for the rest of the year. Super happy to have Watch Dogs 2 and Deathloop, as well as Toem in my library.
I didn’t find the list online, but when I signed up and logged on, there are a TON of older games (PS3, PS2) that stream pretty smoothly from the cloud.

Good call! Happy to pay [free] for Into the Breach, after considering it on Switch many times.

I was a Game Informer editor that year. I reviewed a lot of those games. Acclaim’s Aggressive Inline was a better game than THPS 4. I think Activision agreed, because they then bought dev Z-Axis halfway through development of their next game, BMX XXX.

You calling him “talent” is more credit than I’d give him. Shane is the indie-est guy to step foot in a WWE ring: horrible punches, unprofessional gear, relies wholly on high spots.

Ah, Clustertruck! Felt that influence immediately. Didn’t love that game, but it evoked childhood roadtrip fantasies of jumping from car to car.

“We already have,” you said.

“It’s not really that surprising.”

Nearly everything in Japan is nicknamed. And that nickname convention generally takes the first 2 syllables/kana from the first and last names and combines them.

“Sure, some people want acceptance & more rights. But we ALSO have to respect the other side, who want to oppress & hate those people.”

There’s a zombie-looking merchant in the sewer early on that sells curse cures. Unfortunately, I accidentally slashed at her (early on), so she’d never sell to me. That made finding curse cures (yes, multiple) much harder to come by.

Yeah, but steamed hams. Something.

I remember the one time ads in video games were cool: Mountain Dew billboards/apparel in Jet Moto for PSone.

I had just left Tokyo the day before a dude drove his truck on Akihabara’s streets during pedestrian-only weekend, then jumped out and started stabbing people. Meanwhile, my friend actually saw it happen. This was around 10 years ago.

Oh yeah, those were definitely tough!

What’s craziest to me was how Nintendo GAVE AWAY retro games in Animal Crossing before slapping $5 price tags on each one for “virtual console.”

I beat all 96 levels countless times on SNES, but I’m imagining I’m older than you.

The GBA port (called Super Mario Advance 2) was near-widescreen, if I remember correctly. And played excellently. I did the strategy guide for Game Informer magazine.