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I've talked to so many people over the years who are huge PC gamers yet are totally unaware KH was on PC at all until now. Hell, I've forgotten myself on occasion! Epic is a complete black hole and I'm super excited these games are finally free of it.
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Tears is the second best 3D Zelda, losing out only to Majora IMO. Such a brilliant follow up addressing all of BotWs core issues while also coming out swinging with some legitimately insane mechanics. However, it was also completely draining to play just due to its sheer size and amount of stuff so I legit never want to see another Zelda in this exact template again. (I will absolutely not have my way on this.)
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Smash 64 (Happy Together)

Pokemon Red and Blue (Bus Driver)

Majora's Mask (Countdown)

Wii Would Like to Play

This was a really fun one to think about!

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If you want 3-8 hour FPS games there's a rapidly increasing mountain of Boomer Shooters to chew through. Originally thought you were in it for the cinematic campaign aspect, but based on that last post it sounds like that's not an issue!
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The BlitzBomb is still the king and I'm tickled to see some people discovering it for the first time in here. Honestly for how mindbendingly stupid it is, it's kind of amazing we have something kinda-sorta almost as dumb with the IRL Lightning stuff.
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I quit playing DRG when they took my badass aura away so I'm ready for whatever they've got!
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ya go my kwisatz haderach
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https://www.ign.com/articles/square-enix-bracing-for-layoffs-in-us-and-europe-amid-restructuring

And some say that it loops forever, this road, this road, this road
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TomNook7 posted...
It's kinda crazy to me, like is the average joe mmo gamer really keeping track of all this? Because I'm a crazy person who obsesses over lore and takes notes, and I can barely keep track lol
I'd definitely say that the average FF14 player is wildly different from the normal MMO crowd on this.

Like when I played WoW (launch to end of WotLK) I was known in my guild as the "lore guy" and I was literally the only person I ever spoke to in-game who really knew the backstory to raids and dungeons, major npcs etc and why any of them mattered. In FF14 that's kind of just the baseline - it definitely feels like people who are just there for the raiding gameplay are in an incredibly small minority.
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MacArrowny posted...
Gotcha, that makes sense. I assume that means every other N64 game will still take a fair amount of work?
Even optimistically this is probably true, but it's orders of magnitude better than how it's worked until now, which is each individual game requiring years of dedicated work to even reach the "fair amount of work" stage.
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I'm playing the Majora recomp now and I legitimately can't believe it - I feel like a giddy school kid.

Setup took literally seconds and the fact that I'm playing this at 144 fps in widescreen and perfect fidelity, everything works so ridiculously smoothly and this could be done for any N64 game is ridiculously exciting. And this is before they've even started with raytracing, texture packs and all that other juicy modding stuff - though the auto save feature is huge accomplishment to just burst out the gate with.
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Wanglicious posted...
and with this happening does that mean that this could be possible with other systems too?
This is the part I don't understand and want to learn more about since the implications could be enormous. I figure there must be some reason that we've only been seeing decomp projects for N64 even before this when people were doing it the old fashioned way, but maybe it's just a case of the right tools not existing yet? Not sure and will definitely be studying up on the topic.
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Grand_Kirby posted...
Please someone make a PC port of Star Fox 64 with good framerate and the uncompressed audio. I don't want anything else, just that.
This is also the one I want to see the most now that Majora is already done
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https://youtu.be/ywWwUuWRgsM

TLDW people have been doing N64 decomp projects for years that have resulted in native PC versions of Super Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time, which is amazing, but they're insanely time consuming so we've only seen a couple of them finished. Well, there's now a new tool that can create a native port from a ROM in mere minutes, which can then be modded for ray tracing, higher resolution, higher frame rate, texture packs etc etc.

I'm looking more into it myself tomorrow but this is an absolutely ludicrous breakthrough that might change N64 game preservation and playability as we know it.
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Cool that they're apparently doing 1-3 for free, will have to watch for the later ones to drop.

The new game is supposed to be an extraction shooter, right? I thought that was a weird move at the time of the announcement, but maybe now that Escape From Tarkov has totally shotgun blasted its own foot off with horrible PR the timing might work out pretty well for them.
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Tango was hardly a "husk" just because Mikami left. Going purely by his credits, he had very little creative involvement in any of the studio's output beyond their first game. It's important to remember that games are made by a ton of ridiculously talented people whose names most people never learn or even see. Tango was probably at the actual height of their game and poised to jump into even more prestige after Hi-Fi Rush, which is what makes this shuttering so tragic.
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Man, they're still holding back enough software to do a Direct that isn't featuring the new console? Feels like they've been in wind-down mode since Engage launched and all the "obvious" guesses about what's cooking or otherwise delayed projects seem destined to be cross-gen if it's on the original Switch at all.
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Yeah gotta say that promo photo doesn't do much for me. Definitely agree that it feels weird and cynical on top of really dumb that he's clearly not in any rush to save the city that's actively getting destroyed by what appears to be Vegeta behind him.
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All of the anger I've seen and heard has been entirely aimed at Sony - most folks seem to feel that Arrowhead is "on our side" pretty much all the way up to the CEO since he was very publicly outspoken about this. Honestly this might just end up bringing the community even tighter together since it's being perceived as such a big communal victory.
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Major Order Achieved
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Tacos
Burritos
Nachos
Enchiladas
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For being less than halfway through the decade, there's already a lot of strong contenders for this one! Weirdly much moreso than the 2010s, I think.

Gotta give this one to Alan Wake 2. Remedy demonstrated absolute mastery there of a craft that nobody else looks like they're even starting to practice.
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If I've got this all straight, tomorrow is only the day when new Steam players are affected - seems like anyone who was already playing the game will have until the 30th, by which point I sincerely hope this has been sorted out in a less ridiculous way.
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I was just picking up food at Wing Stop and there was a pack of dudes talking very angrily about this while waiting for their pickup. Can't remember the last time I heard GAMER RAGE out in public!
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That's really weird - my experience playing with randoms has actually been one of the better ones I've had in a game like this. Only Deep Rock Galactic was better and that game is pretty unique in its community vibe.
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Absolutely astonishing that Sony couldn't just be content to take the win, they just had to fuck it up with modern corpo bullshit. Extra hilarious because this game is legit a dream come true for them (an actually successful, beloved live service game) and they're bungling it with this nonsense that provides literally negative benefit to its players and is solely for boosting internal numbers and satisfying suits and shareholders.
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This one's a good bit tougher. My first thought is Control - was the first game to really convince me that ray tracing was going to be a huge thing in the future (and is still one of the best showcases of it today) plus the amount of environmental chaos in firefights once you've gotten some powers unlocked is really a spectacle.

Feel like the Metro games also deserve an honorable mention here, especially 2033 which was one of the first games to really take a crack at the Crysis throne in terms of pushing the envelope in hardware demand. Maybe Red Dead 2 belongs here too but I haven't played it so I don't know!
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Okay after sleeping on it I'm going to give it to Half-Life 2. Crysis is wildly impressive and a real technical marvel but honestly so is/was HL2 and that feeling of sheer disbelief upon playing it for the first time has never again been replicated for me.
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Utawarerumono 2 + 3 really are that good and together are probably the best story I've ever seen in a game. That said while I'd agree they belong in the RPG conversation, the ratio of visual novel to gameplay is absurdly lopsided. You could go actual IRL days playing the games (2 especially) and not experience any gameplay at all. (Hilariously, my #2 story in all of gaming is 13 Sentinels, which is also like that!)

I've basically switched to using "ARPG" to describe stuff like Kingdom Hearts and Nier - it's technically not wrong to call them JRPGs and they do very broadly belong in that bucket but I think it's better to use a more accurate term that immediately gives a better idea of what kind of games they actually are. Really though we're at a point where a big enough share of Japanese-made RPGs have action gameplay that "JRPG" really just means "RPG made in Japan" which is almost completely meaningless as a descriptor so it might be better to just differentiate between "ARPG" and "turn-based RPG," though that still leaves out the seemingly increasing hybrid breed like FF7R, modern Trails and now Metaphor.
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Legit can't decide here between Half-Life 2 and Crysis.

HL2 is probably the most blown away I've ever been by graphics, and the physics it brought to the table via the Source engine made it feel like a multi-generational leap that none of its peers were even close to matching.

At the same time, Crysis set a bar for graphical fidelity and sheer hardware utilization that wouldn't be passed for generations, and legitimately pioneered a ton of graphical/rendering tricks that are still used to this day.
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Splitting this by decade was a smart move!

Gotta say it's Half-Life. It really transformed the FPS genre and feels like a definitive turning point looking back from the DOOM style to more modern, puzzle-driven and story-heavy campaigns. The level of cohesion and scale of the adventure was nuts and the crowbar basically set the standard for what a melee weapon should be in these games.
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Tears of the Kingdom

For all the reasons stated above - this game just casually dumped several systems that could have defined entire video games on their own and somehow made them all actually work really well.
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Estelle
*Abstain*

That first match is horribly cruel, love them both dearly. But Estelle is Bestelle.
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Isaac's lack of descriptions was a legitimate artistic vision in the original game but Edmund McMillen has said himself that it straight up doesn't work anymore with how many items are in the game - he's said he'd like to see something like that item description mod officially added to the game. But yeah, for now if you're not on PC you're kinda just stuck with the wiki which is a great resource but a pretty shitty way to actually play the game.
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Is System Shock Remake only just now getting to consoles? That's a bizarrely huge gap, it came out a full year ago!

Curious about Animal Well but Senua is the easy highlight in an otherwise pretty quiet month of catch-up for me.
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skullbone posted...
In 2024 it's just weird to think of a fighting game that is primarily going to be played single player and then put away.
In fairness I'm pretty sure this is still Mortal Kombat for the vast majority of its playerbase
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Kenri posted...
Hades isn't a great roguelike but it's a fantastic action game with great characters and writing so I just played it with that mindset and loved it
Yeah this is pretty much the way to look at it. I agree that Hades isn't a terribly good roguelike but you're probably somewhere between 20 and 40 hours into it before that really becomes a crippling concern.

As a roguelike it's simply far too lacking on run diversity, and you also ultimately get way too much control over your runs. Like, if you want to get a certain boon loadout for a certain weapon you're able to make it happen like 95% of the time once you have your stuff unlocked, which just further ruins the sense of adaptability and impactful decision-making that all good roguelikes are built on. Really hoping that Hades 2 can address those issues cause if you combine Hades' storytelling and character performances with an actually well-designed roguelike you've got a potential GoaT on your hands.
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Haven't played Rebirth but a big yes to both the original and Remake versions. Hilarious to me how many people don't like her.
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CassandraCain posted...
Which other anime properties use the Ninja Storm fighting mechanics? I have never seen of any others.
Off the top of my head there's...
J-Stars/Jump Force
Kill la Kill
One Punch Man
Jujutsu Kaisen
My Hero Academia
One Piece
Demon Slayer
Saint Seiya

There are probably some I'm missing but it's definitely been a consistent complaint that "uninspired arena fighter" at least for a solid period was the default answer to what to do with an anime license for video games.
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More than any other vocation in the game, Trickster needs a few vocation levels before it really becomes playable. Ultimately you'll want to get your ghost into position (potentially even in the air where nobody can reach him using the astral projection skill or where nobody can see it via the fake wall) and then pop the pawn buff and spam the AOE taunt as the enemy AI shatters to pieces and gets obliterated by the pawns they're completely ignoring.

Pawn buff and AOE taunt are non-negotiable and absolutely essential. Beyond that you can use your remaining slots either for the meister ability (can knock big guys on their ass,) the fake wall, astral projection or if you're feeling *really* spicy the fake floor so you can do set-ups that get enemies to jump off cliffs.
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Xenoblade Chronicles - Monolith has worked some absolutely insane black magic getting unreasonable levels of presentation out of every platform this series has been on, but it all started here. The sheer scale of the environments here was amazing at the time by any metric, so seeing them on the Wii was downright mind blowing.
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Every day I grow more happy that I've completely divested from social media and can ignore all of this toxic stupidity - the little I've been exposed to of the "discourse" surrounding this game and Eiyuden is totally mind-numbing.

On topic, great to see the game being received so well! Very exciting to see Korean studios really starting to step up to the plate with single player games.
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If that choir drop comes in when you switch to turn-based mode, I swear to god
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