I agree, those gameplay aspects don’t help either. I’ve basically given up on the idea of finding better guns than what I have, fights are just a shooting gallery with the magic lock-on button, and shooting while riding a horse tends to be a mess. It’s such a strange game to actually play, and that adds an extra…

I’m having that exact feeling with RDR2, and it’s a struggle. I’m most of the way through Chapter 3, and at this point I’m almost purely focusing on story quests, which helps a bit. But I’ve been getting the itch to play other big recent games like AC Odyssey, and I know as soon as I pull that RDR2 disc from the PS4,…

I owned the HD version for a while but never made it very far, specifically because of how much of a huge drag the console it was on made the experience. It took forever just to load into the damn game, all while playing on that clunky gamepad. I’d play the shit out of this on Switch.

I lack any of the necessary patience and dedication to a single game that is required for speedrunning, but this is still really interesting. Also highlights that I really hope they bring this game to Switch.

Okay EA, listen up. I know you’re struggling, I know you’re frustrated, I know you’re having a hell of a time living up to that Star Wars name. I get it, that’s a ton of pressure, and you just weren’t ready for it. But a few little words can help you get back on track and get everybody excited for what you’ve got…

I don’t remember this one, but I haven’t played the endgame in years. It’s interesting that this one really seems to call back to FFIV in a couple of spots as the tempo ramps up. It’s also pure Uematsu prog rock goodness, which is always appreciated.

Holy shit, Eternal Sonata...that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.

Sorry...I read the whole post and somehow lost that part of it by the time I hit the end.

Sorry...I read the whole post and somehow lost that part of it by the time I hit the end.

Honestly, I think that recommending this much storage for $200 (nearly the cost of the console itself) is just bad advice for 99% of people. I upgraded to a 200gb Sandisk card a few months ago for about $40, and I’m not even close to filling it even though I have dozens of games. Nintendo’s first party games are…

Honestly, I think that recommending this much storage for $200 (nearly the cost of the console itself) is just bad…

I think I’ve seen five or six that I know of at this point, ranging from Subsurface Circular on the sci-fi end (it still focuses on social commentary, just changes the labels) to 1979 Revolution. Since the eShop’s curation and sorting are useless, I have no way of just looking to verify that. But they’re there.

As someone who loves retro games but also really appreciates the latest and greatest, it’s hard being a video game generalist, especially as an adult with responsibilities. How do you guys handle your backlogs? Are there any habits or tips that you can recommend, or is it more just figuring out the genres you’re most…

His project management was so godawful on FF Versus XIII / XV that he had to be replaced with a new director after spending years getting nowhere and only having a mess of gameplay and plot to show for it. KH3 has been vaporware since there was a secret trailer for it at the end of KH2. Even if you’re pedantic and…

Welp, this sure makes it sound like this game is coming in hot to the finish line. Wouldn’t be terribly surprising, considering how much the trailers have focused on only a small handful of worlds up until very recently. And the fact that Nomura couldn’t manage a project deadline even if there was an overly designed,…

Having skipped the NES as a kid and started with a SNES in my formative years, I have little to no nostalgia for these games beyond a preservation and access aspect. So I would certainly hope that by month 8 or 9 of Switch Online, they’re starting to add the last couple of months of NES games and phasing in a year of…

Thanks for this retrospective! So many memories of these for me. My dad learned computer programming in the early 90s by tearing apart any old PCs he could get his hands on and frankensteining them together with “new” components from events like these at the local community college, learning the different coding…

ETA -I’m very surprised that SE won’t just bite the bullet and have a small team of illustrators spend a year creating high res versions of the FFVII/VIII/IX backgrounds that they can use in all of the remasters from here to the end of time. But then again, that would make too much business sense, along the lines of…

Much of the original ‘master’ files from the original production of the game were lost. I think I read that a similar issue happened with FFVII, which is why the PS4 port of that game took a year to complete - they had to rebuild / recode quite a bit. FFVII and FFVIII had PC releases soon after the original PS1…

From a quick google search, it looks like it’s always been $80 per pair, but maybe they’re on sale for $70 often enough that it feels like the normal price? Or maybe we’re mixing it up with the pro controller price?

From a quick google search, it looks like it’s always been $80 per pair, but maybe they’re on sale for $70 often…

I also wrote the same comment, I could’ve sworn they were $70 per pair.

I also wrote the same comment, I could’ve sworn they were $70 per pair.

That’s fantastic. The PS3 is one of the best libraries in gaming, hands down, and if my backwards compatible launch console hadn’t given up the ghost (and if Sony hadn’t removed that feature in later models), I’d still own one just to have access to three amazing generations of games.