This really did feel like the old Final Fantasy gang getting back together to do one last Final Fantasy game, and was a great counterpoint to where the actual FF series had gone after FFX -- which was essentially the end of the OG FF era. 

Side note: I really appreciate that the first Halo game had the subtitle “Combat Evolved.” It’s so much less clunky to refer to the first Halo game as “Combat Evolved” than “the first Halo game” or “the original Halo” or “Halo 1" or — as is becoming standard with so many remakes/reboots that use the same title as the…

Bloggers?? Are we in 2012??

Yeah but some of your recommendations are only $4.99 normally, and go on sale frequently. Call me a cheapskate, but with deals like this, I try to maximize the savings by getting the most expensive games lol

There is something kind of... gross about when a company tries to score nostalgia points for mentioning IP they have long-since abandoned. There are several t-shirts in this collection that are first-party Sony projects that Sony hasn’t given half a care about in years — if not several console generations.

The ONLY way a single publisher having a premium-priced service like this would be worth it for me is if the back catalog was deep. So far, none of the services have done that. It’s usually full of games from the last 10 years or so — if THAT far back — and then the smallest smattering of retro classics. Ubisoft+…

There was a lot about DD I wasn’t a huge fan of. The lack of courses was a big one — even more glaring in retrospect as every MK game after that one did the thing of having 16 new courses + 16 retro courses. And for a game with relatively few courses, they needed to all be absolute home runs — which they weren’t.

Yeah, my wife and I don’t play Fortnite and never have -- and the kids haven’t touched it in years -- but we wanted to try the Rock Band-esque modes. It was all very overwhelming to say the least lol. 

Genius-level reply that most people won’t get, sadly. 

Hey, remember how people were predicting the end of consoles like 15 years ago? Ditto for the end of Nintendo as a console manufacturer? 

Yeah, I loved Metroid Dread, but your criticisms of it are not wrong. When a franchise is gone for a long time like Metroid was, there kind of has to be that initial revival game that is mostly a victory lap of the previous entries, but ideally things get more creative and unique after that. Here’s hoping that’s the…

The people saying “games already had color-coded maps” and the like are missing the point here. In the case of both Metroid and Castlevania, the maps are colored in as you explore new areas, yes. And you can see that there are huge unreachable places by parts of those rooms not being colored in.

I mean, in fairness, they also did a Twisted Metal TV series even though all four developers who have worked on that franchise have since been shuttered.

Sony is like “Sega can do a Sonic movie and Nintendo can do Mario and Zelda movies. We don’t do the obvious — here’s a TV series based on a car combat game we haven’t touched in a decade, a movie based on a Vita franchise that was a cult hit at best and whose developer has already shut down, and here’s a Gran Turismo…

It worries me that EA saw the failure of the 2012 SSX game as a sign that people didn’t want those types of games anymore and abandoned any plans to bring back more BIG games. Of course, the real issue was that that game wasn’t the SSX revival any of us wanted. 

Vendetta was... fine. But FFNY really was an outstanding game that I would absolutely still play today if it was easily available to do so.

GTAV has made all the money at this point. Plus the fact that the vast majority of the game’s profits from the last however many years have come from GTA Online anyway. It’s odd to me that Rockstar just can’t ever let it stay on Game Pass or PS+ for more than like 2 weeks at a time. I guess why even bother putting it…

I agree that this is debatable. A movie full of hot women in schoolgirl outfits fighting monsters in fantasy dream worlds should have been -- if NOTHING ELSE -- fun to watch. And yet, somehow, he managed to make Sucker Punch not even that. 

It’s hilarious to me how many people — who have watched it — are like “Why does Snyder get to keep making whatever he wants when all he makes is garbage?” All of you people who watched it already answered your own question.