Was it really such a great year? I’ve got a PS4 and (supposed JRPG powerhouse) 3DS and I didn’t find anything worth checking out. I’ve been on the fence with Type 0 (your blurb didn’t do anything to sell me on it) and played the demos for Stella Glow, Legend of Legacy, Yokai Watch and a couple Etrian games, and all…

I just hope they didn’t take the outrage at the $10 price for earthbound seriously. Because if this were to happen there’s no way this would be an $8 (or even $10 ...gasp) e-shop title which seems to be the broad concesus for the maximum price that should be allowed for a game from the 16 bit era.

I love topics!

Insanely considering buying a PS3 for this, despite having JUST bought a PS4. It looks like the overall tone is different, but is there much crossover from Shenmue?

Communities seems like a complete disaster. They tried to copy Nintendo (again) but instead of having one community per title, there are 17,000+ for the last game I checked (Fallout 4).

You really think developers would be more eager to to make games for the platform with less accommodating tools? The decision of whether a game is exclusive or not is nearly always a business, rather than a creative decision - made by publishers, not developers.

Yes

What would you fill that list with?

You should work for kotaku! It would be nice to see a well reasoned and thorough response like this, rather than “dey dun fucked up!”.

I dunno... I let my subscription lapse recently and there’s a couple ps plus games in my library I sorta want to play... but it’s not worth $50 to renew to play them. I’d rather have just paid a few dollars up front for them and always be allowed to play them.

Everything they showed in the trailer was 4:3.

So what kind of magic would they have to work to make you, who already “own” the games, exchange any amount of money for them?

I was hoping for a stronger case here - you begin the argument with saying it has an “atrocious interface” and ending it with ‘great to jump in occasionally but due to subscription you’ll feel obligated to play all the time.’

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Don’t you guys think you’re overdoing it a little with the “DEALS!!” posts? 11 out of 20 posts on your front page are “deals”.

Don’t you guys think you’re overdoing it a little with the “DEALS!!” posts? 11 out of 20 posts on your front page…

Love the notion that they would have to shrug “collectively”. It’s all too funny.

You’re ignoring that cartridges were quite expensive to produce. Now a disc costs next to nothing and digital probably costs even less.

One of the very few games I’ve played a second time - and only a week or so after the first play. Quite a different experience the second time, not just because of how you approach the encounters, but theres some really great quest lines like Eileen I never would have found on the first time.

It’s really not because nobody else is making games with this level of complexity and that allow as much experimentation while still having a narrative.

I guess that’s true but typically the console is the smallest part of the equation. The mandatory online fee, $65 controllers and $60 games do add up if you look at it.