House of the Dead Remaster, you say? I say nay. Only the Saturn port with real 90s Sega arcade guns matters.

Dark Souls II and III are quagmires for me as well. Dark Souls is the only one I've beaten. 

I’ve found that my ceiling for games tends to be between 100-150 hours, with the exception of Skyrim, of course. I have topped 200 on Elden Ring, but I haven’t even started the third legacy dungeon yet. I keep getting distracted and pulled in other directions. This is a problem I’ve had with open world RPGs such as…

I always wanted 3 on PS1; I always liked the peripheral Square offerings during that era, like Xenogears and Brave Fencer Musashi. My friends were playing FF, and I did quite like IX,  but Front Mission 3 was the one I never played. 

Yeah, I’ve run into few problems, none of which prevented me from playing them on the Deck, on pretty much all of my games, even those that are unsupported. Steam OS is getting better by the update.

Exactly. No comprises when setting up an N64 or GameCube control scheme unlike traditional controllers. You can set one of the trackpads as a radial menu of essential keys for controlling the emulator (esc, tab, etc). Flight sims also come into their own on; I really like the setup I have for Star Wars Squadrons. You…

Nintendo has also diluted the amount of 1st party releases by going to one console instead of bespoke home and portable systems. I think that this is going to lead to their 1st party releases being spread too thin, and gamers will lose interest in them. The SNES only had one “traditional” Mario game, one Zelda, and…

Anything published by Sega in the last 10 years or so seems almost tailor made for the Steam Deck. The games run exceptionally well and almost all have a Verified status. They also don’t seem to be the wattage hogs that other developer’s games do, with longer battery life. I’ve been playing a lot of Sonic & All-Stars…

I didn’t even consider the difference, but that makes sense. Then again, my upbringing didn’t have much time for pleasure sailing. I do remember a yacht came in off the Intercoastal one night when we were at my grandpa’s house, which is at our commercial dock facility. The yacht needed someplace to moor and get some…

A floating Elysium, then? I see a pretty good film concept here: Elysium x Capt. Phillips. 

The crew factor is an interesting metric for discerning ships from boats, but I’m not sure it holds up. My family has run both large shrimp boats (73 feet- roughly equal to a PT-minimum crew of 3) and tugs (50-70 ft, mandatory minimum crew of 4: 2 captains and 2 deckhands for 24/7 operation). We’ve never called them…

I’d like to see the developers of Blasphemous get a shot at the series. Personally, I’d like an uber-gory pixel-art masterpiece with more complex whip-based combat for the next Castlevania.

With the arrival of low-wattage, but capable, AMD APUs like Van Gogh in the Steam Deck, do you think Nintendo will finally make the jump to x86 architecture? They’ve been dedicated to RISC since the beginning, and, with the GBA, were among the first adopters of ARM for gaming, not to mention their 15 year PowerPC…

Based on Tegra tech that is even older than the console. 

Isn’t the actual Tegra used in the Switch much older than the console, making it more like 7-8 years out of date? 

I never went to a LAN party, per se, but my first experience in “online” gaming involved an Xbox in the living area of our dorm suite in college. We would play Halo against folks in other dorms on campus over the power of the mighty T-1 LAN connection: in 2003, the first access I ever had to “high speed internet” (it…

In the most extreme agrarian regions of the rural South, quality produce can be quite hard to come by. The local stuff goes somewhere else before some of it comes back to Wal-Mart.

Growing up in rural Coastal GA, I never looked at a video game magazine until around 95-96 when I started going to a private school with rich kids one county over.

I didn’t really care about multiple launchers until I got my Steam Deck. Heroic works ok for Epic and GOG, but, damn, trying to run my Epic copy of RDR2 on the Deck ain’t happening unless I can get the stupid Rockstar Launcher to cooperate. Now that I have the Deck, I buy all my games from Steam; I’m even rebuying (on…

What’s the difference between zombies and personified rats? I’m not into Warhammer at all, but Vermintide 2 set the bar pretty high for the niche that this game is trying for. The rogue like/procedural generation aspect is also concerning; part of the progression of these games is learning the maps to best exploit…