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I went through the process of installing retroarch on my Xbox Series X, and have been emulating GameCube games that I've never played. I'm playing Eternal Darkness for the first time and am having a blast. It's dated in some respects but the structure of the game is very compelling and it does some super clever stuff that I wasn't expecting. I can see why it's so revered.

Like most video game related journalism/media, I am mostly astounded that there's such a large market for such hollow content.

Not even a single Dreamcast vote??

Wasn't Full Spectrum Warrior also originally meant as a military training tool?

Same for the NHL series. The 2K hockey games were objectively superior in every category.

This game is phenomenal so far, and I feel like it's everything one could want from a follow up to the original game. It's denser, even more creative, and extremely polished. It feels much, much better to play, and the platforming and combat are both responsive and extremely fun. It's also probably the best looking and most colorful game I've played on the Series X. I also tried to play Horizon Zero Dawn after playing BotW and it was a disaster.

I'd like to play the No More Heroes games, and I'm curious to know about the controls from anyone who's played them. Is the Switch version of these games definitive, or are the controls more accurate/better on Wii? From my understanding, they look better and are locked at 60fps on Switch, but if the motion controls haven't been effectively recreated then I might opt to play the Wii versions.

Lots of games have done the "transition-between-two-worlds-or-times" thing. I'm assuming the new R&C game is much more complex, but it didn't look a whole lot different in (in previews at least) than games like Bioshock Infinite, Dishonored 2, or Titanfall 2 that have a similar mechanic.

I think adding a camera is certainly possible. The game would still be best on the Wii, since the touch screen controls function very similarly to the Metroid Prime Collection, but it's not impossible to translate and I definitely think it could work with joy cons. If anything, the big change I'd like to see is the dash mapped to a button. Having it be controlled by how hard you push the thumbstick is super awkward, and results in lots of missed jumps and errant dashes.

I'm currently playing through Kid Icarus, and I agree it's absolutely phenomenal. But I'm fighting the controls at every step. No matter how you slice it, it's just insane that it's a 3DS rather than a Wii game. With pointer controls, I think it'd likely be a top 10 all-time Nintendo game.

If this is even half as imaginative as the first game but with modern gameplay enhancements, it's GOTY.

Since you're soaking up the world, make sure to also use the heart to listen to snippets of people's lives. It's wild how much they included, and it helps to immerse you in the game even more.

Nintendo pretty much defines video games. They're responsible for developing, and perfecting, nearly every genre of game that people still play. They also put out the most consistently high-quality software of any major game developer. They prioritize gameplay, which is generally immediate, fun, and accessible. This is all without mentioning that they're the only one of the big three that continues to push boundaries and take risks as a toy maker - while others race to the bottom in the pointless pursuit of better visuals, Nintendo makes games out of cardboard and puts a remote control Mario Kart game in your house. In short, they are successful because nobody else can do what they do or reach the type of audiences that they can. If you are genuinely curious about what makes Nintendo games unique and successful, watch this developer round table that was recorded right after Breath of the Wild came out, wherein several industry leaders have a hard time understanding how a game can be so incredible:

I played through this over the past couple days. For the most part, I think it's a flawed but riveting game that takes some huge swings. I played it for almost three hours a few nights ago, and I haven't been that consumed by a video game in a long while. The first half of the game is the strongest, because each loop is unique given that you're trying new things each time and poking around at what's possible. The flaws start to emerge later, where you are repeating the same set of actions over and over in a very particular order in order to try one or two new things once everything else has been set in place. The last couple of puzzles in the game are very obtuse, and do not fit with the eureka moments of the early game. The A-list voice talent is not as memorable as I thought it might be. It feels a bit like James McAvoy and Daisy Ridley are fighting their accents rather than turning in great performances, but it's not bad by any stretch and most of it is well delivered. Willem Dafoe is doing excellent work as well. Overall, it's a highly compelling game that really goes for it, and I found it more interesting than anything else I've played in some time. It slightly overstays its welcome and can't help but become tedious toward the end, but it's certainly worth playing through if you like ambitious and unique experiences.

Not specifically about what's happening in Afghanistan, but how soon can the United States dissolve into something resembling smaller geographic areas detached from federal oversight? When so much of the populace's perception of reality is corrupted to this extreme, it becomes essentially impossible to live together. We're seeing it play out with rising social unrest, which will spill over into political violence before long. My wife is a nurse, and the absolutely absurd shit that's she's dealing with at her hospital makes me want to shoot myself into space. Also how can I move my family to Canada?

Damn this came out of nowhere! I've always wanted to play Quake. Which of these games has the best single player mode?

This looks really interesting, can't wait to try it out.

This thread is a great example of why I've always struggled to get into Metroid games. I know that the appeal is the lack of signposting and guidance, but I spend most of my time being completely lost, and forgetting that there was an important but subtle clue ten rooms back. Trying to play through Super Metroid and Metroid Prime, both of which are really cool games, ended up just being a frustrating experience where I had to constantly reference a guide.

Definitely buying this even though it's on Game Pass so that I can support Double Fine as much as possible. It looks absolutely incredible.

Pandemic game delays aside, this generation so far is aggressively boring and uninteresting. If you have a PS4 or Xbox One, I wouldn't bother getting one of these new machines for several years.

I didn't love it, but it was interesting, and I really like Ethan Hawke. I'm trying to think of other time travel stuff I enjoyed - I remember liking Timecrimes. Not time travel related but I really liked Coherence as well.

My friend bought me Max Payne on PC for my 13th birthday. I still have the original disc. I remember being unsure if my computer would run it, but it did and I was absolutely blown away. Max Payne 2 remains one of my favorite games ever, and I still replay it occasionally on the original Xbox. Max Payne 3 was one of the biggest gaming disappointments I've ever experienced.

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Great choice. Zelda is an all-timer and easily the best game of the last generation. Mario Odyssey is probably the second best 3D Mario game after Galaxy, which you can now play in glorious HD via All-Stars. Not that you need more games but I would suggest Mario Kart 8 if you haven't played it, and also Astral Chain, absolutely incredible game.