Kind of shocked they decided too steal their own thunder.

You forgot the best part; Wild Areas! It may not be fully open world but it's the closest we've ever been! Im hoping for a Xenoblade Chronicles II kind of openness.

This actually doesn’t seem to be the case.

Wolfenstein 2 by way of Game Pass.

I had written this game off after everyone seemed to come out so cool on it. But hearing that it's very exploration heavy has me curious. It's one of the things I loved about the first game (the 1996 first game) that I always wished the series would return to.

Have we hit the ceiling on desirable NEE games? Are there any big first party games that haven't come out yet?

I’m in a similar boat. I’m currently playing Xenoblade Chronicles II, Final Fantasy VII and X, Persona 4 Golden, Skyrim, Zelda’s DLC, Chrono Trigger, plus a number of other games that aren’t RPGs.

I reflexively clicked on this to see the Vita games knowing they never get mentioned in the title anyway.

I don’t know if this counts but Street Fighter II: Special Champion Edition. I really dont remember much but im sre i finished the game wth each character. If it doesn't count than something else on the Genesis, probably.

Using Gamepass for new and exclusive content is great but I’m finding the biggest benefit in using it has ben to play stuff I just never got around to. Case in point; I just started working through Prey and I’m having a great time!

S the long-standing rumor is that Sega doesn't do anything with Saga because they lost the source code. But at this point, anything they WOULD do would have to be a total remake anyway. So, why don't they do that?

I keep reading "Half Life."

If it hadn't been for Battlefront I'd be surprised too. But after that, and the ensuring pressure from Disney that I'm sure existed, they needed a Star Wars game that generated good will.

Sweet!

No, no, this is TOTALLY different from a direct. Nintendo gives us 1-2 days notice while Sony is giving us 3.

Mn I can't wait to one day have Obra Rin on Switch. Make it happen!

So they have pics but no source code....

Ltting an indie dev handle a Zelda game IS different but if you look at the bigger picture it does follow an arch. Nintendo has I creasingly let other studios make games using it's characters. It's also go an increasingly deep relationship with Indies. The two of those facts converging isn't crazy.

If I had to guess I’d say the reason there isn’t an easy mode is because it would mess with the ‘feel’ they are trying to evoke.

Ehhhh, we do the same thing in the west. Statues come down, names get changed, etc.