What about ports then? If ports count but not backwards compatibility then I’d have to give it to the PSOne.

PSOne, it had a ton of them, as well as ports of many SNES classics. PS2 has Dragon Quest 8 though, and Genesis has Shining in the Darkness, Shining Force 2, and Phantasy Star IV, those are high on my list. DQ8 may be one of the best ever made.

There still isn’t something as amazing as Shining Force 2 out there. A full epic JRPG with a sprawling world map, and full tactical battles mixed in

They partnered with DeNA for their online stuff, but I guess they managed to find the only partner that’s as clueless as they are.

I thought I loved grinding but then MH:W proved me wrong :( and I really wanted to like it, got it as a present for a very special occasion, and now I feel terrible. Spent 20 hours with it and can’t wrap my brain around it.

Why would they bother distributing something that already originally exists (which seems redundant and unnecessary), as opposed to only distributing their own modifications and additions?

Just tell me when Dark Souls on Switch is finally getting released!

Yeah but it’s possible to just distribute a patch consisting of original work without also distributing the software that needs to be patched.

Makes no sense. They are not redistributing those assets and their work is kept completely separate from whatever copy a player already has when they choose to apply the mod.

I was very impressed by that in Virtua Fighter 4 on PS2:

Yeah I don’t get it

That’s right, why point that out though? On Xbox we’re seeing 1.2GB patches for Sea of Thieves balance tweaks which is itself only an 8GB game. Seems insane too.

No, you can create a diff / delta. This is how patches are distributed. There would have had to be about 8GB worth of changes for a patch to be that big!

The text is tiny but the patch is giant! 8GB?!

Don’t wear it out!

Ni no Kuni 2 needs this for the speech when on the map, and text speed adjustment as well. I can just read it from the couch on my 60", I can’t imagine people with smaller TVs, but it still disappears before you can finish reading it.

Glad someone else remembers/appreciates it!

I’m glad I took such good care of mine! I even have some PlayStation games that used the same style case, Jumping Flash and Ridge Racer for example. Some are in cardboard like Wipeout. Also 32X Night Trap is in a cardboard tall case as well.

I said “in text mode”. Yes I’m sure everyone who wanted to play games or develop software specifically did, but at the time there were significantly more people getting them just for work or as a terminal. With the prices at the time, there weren’t many people buying hardware just to play games. CGA still did 16…

People I knew were still getting CGA up until VGA because it still offered similar color options in text mode and that’s what most people using PCs for work cared about. Nothing much required EGA, so they went for the cheaper option. Yeah EGA was really expensive! I remember begging for a card just for games, our…