I’ve always wanted to run one of these private servers on a spare computer (if that’s even possible) and run through something like Karazhan with some friends. Like, give ourselves whatever gear we feel like would be decent enough for the challenge and just go at it for fun.

You can pay a few dollars to upgrade it to Wii U, which gets you the save state functionality and lets you play it on the Gamepad and the TV simultaneously. Also the pro controller.

Running an experiment with my group right now where we take turns DMing. Well, second attempt at it. First attempt was with a Superhero setting. Unfortunately I settled on GURPS to allow for a lot of customization and most of the people in my group hated it and it died after I wasn’t the one GMing and doing most of…

Navigation gets a lot easier once you get a flying dino. Not even just when you’re flying (“of course it’s easier when you’re flying!), but because everything sort of clicks once you have an aerial reference. That’s how it was for me anyways, though the swamp and its dense trees threw that off for a while after it was…

Getting past my knee jerk reaction of “what... this is the next Metroid we get?”, my reaction is still pretty lukewarm. Once upon a time I would have been interested in a game like this, but I can hardly get my friends together for anything anymore, let alone getting decent playtime out of a multiplayer focused game.…

Multiplayer would have to eliminate the main draw of the game, the bullet time aspect. Not to say they couldn’t still do it, but it would be a different beast.

That’s actually something that has me worried about the Wii U Zelda. I’ve been getting some “Twilight Princess” type vibes from it, and Nintendo going for a more open world type thing. I’m hoping for the best, but I’m afraid it will fall into typical open world trappings of repetitive and aimless fetch quests with…

Twilight Princess has always been one of the weaker Zelda games in my mind, if not the weakest. I was never really able to peg down why, but in many ways I think it just lacked some of the things that I find fun in a Zelda game, but I remember very little about it.

Considering the price of a movie, that’s not too far off in price, depending on the format. Though on that same thought you can buy a single episode of a TV show for $2. I guess it depends on if you consider the experience to be on par with a movie or not. Also have to factor in the interactive elements and such.

Not that I’ve played all that many versions of Monopoly, but of the ones I have played none were as good as the old Monopoly Deluxe, so not surprising to see it high on the list.

Depends on if they let you share seeds or not. Common enough in procedural games to be able to manipulate the randomized elements. Not ideal, but you could get challenges around certain courses.

I dunno. From what I’ve played of Underground it does a pretty good job of feeling like Descent, just with more ship options. Just from this video alone I can’t say this one looks to capture that as well, but it’s early footage.

Fairly standard game development wise to get all the content in and then fix the bugs. No sense patching bugs when something you add in later can break it again.

I’m hoping for a 3DS version or, since that seems unlikely, at the very least a PC version. Try as I might I can’t seem to get into full-game games on phones. My desire to go through my day on one charge probably has something to do with it. Most games devour battery life...

A much needed change, I think. I stopped playing early November, so I’m not sure where things are at, but dino nerf was one of the big things on my list of improvements needing to be made.

Sweet! The one Xbox One game I’m interested in that wasn’t already cross platform. Now I just need to wait for there to be more than one (released) game I’m interested in for PS4 before I step beyond my current PC/Wii U world.

Like with most fan projects I think their time is better spent making it their own thing, as you said in the article. I mean, just ditch the Mario art. It could still be an obvious clone of Mario, but it’d be one that will actually be able to continue to exist.

Actually have never played this one... but played Dark Forces II and Mysteries of the Sith a LOT, although primarily multiplayer with my brothers and cousins. To this day most FPS games feel too slow (no force speed! not even in the later Jedi Knight/Academy games to the same degree) or I lose interest if there’s not…

Was going to come in here and say this. The DS version done by Nintendo was pretty great, even had fun multiplayer.

Eh, I’m still not happy about the combat thing. I’ve been waiting for years for a proper Final Fantasy with “turn based” or “ATB” combat with *full party control*, and I was hoping that the FF7 remake would be an opportunity to go back to that. I’m not opposed to the combat style entirely, but we’re getting 15 and…