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Later Alligator.

@get2sammyb Sorry if it’s been addressed, but, New Game+?

If I didn't already have Okami three times...

@gbanas92 Thanks, man.

@Westernwolf4 Thanks for the heads-up.

Super Blood Hockey seems right up my alley, so to speak. NHL '94 is incontrovertibly the greatest game ever made, and I haven't found a suitable replacement in the fun department since. Might give it a go. Is it any good as a single-player game?

Dig the list.

Edit: Wait a minute - ESRB warnings are Strong Language and Use of Drugs? Not that I have a problem with either, mind, but unexpected.

@Th3solution Thank you.

@Dr_Derp I watched some gameplay video of it today. Seems like the shooting is pretty similar to Uncharted. That a fair assessment?

@LaJettatura Ewwwwww!

@Deadlyblack My new desktop background.

Wonder how long I can hold out.

"...its ability to provide the user with context-sensitive information, depending on your location."

"With a fingerprint scanner, gyroscopes, a heart rate monitor and more, it sounds like it's full of functionality."

Not in a million years.

I want a game where David Byrne crash-lands his spaceship on a swamp planet and has to use a giant hammer to demolish his way to a mountain of dilythium crystals, developing a mutant power skill tree along the way. With a surprise twist ending involving J.R. from Dallas.

But that's probably just me.

Tshushima looks super nifty. Glad they're still planning on releasing it for the 4.

@Rudy_Manchego That usually happens after you hit 50. Unfortunately.

The more tech advances, the less interested I find myself. Specs don't make games more fun, the consoles that contain them just make us more vulnerable. The contrast between innovation in gameplay and relatively advanced specs becomes more apparent as one continues to outpace the other.

Maybe I'll change my tune down the line after the 5 has been through its paces and I see what it offers.

Have and love the 2, 3, and 4, but for me it's the 3 by a nose. The jump in graphics and ability over the 2 was substantial, while the 4 seems more like iterative improvement.

Although, the 2 has the first God of War, Prince of Persia, Ratchet & Clank, Jak and Daxter, and those wonderful Burnout games.

@777Reigns Best Buy is still running a physical GOTY copy for $14.99.

And you may tell yourself, this is not my beautiful console.

(Okay, a bit of a reach.)

"As we economize, efficiency is multiplied."

I'd dig a list of short games. Got a zillion epic 100+ hour games that I've never played. Like having War and Peace in your library.

Sad, sad little man.

Ah, the Internet. Same as it ever was.

All over it. I love games that don't take themselves seriously. Blowed it up real good.

Up to my epaulets in Darksiders 2 again. That and the GR Symphony/Ballet performance.

"That's like asking me to name a favorite child.

"It's Cindy."

Special Edition console?

Backward compatible?

@swagbag713 I have them for PS3 and dig them. Thinking of re-buying for convenience, DLC, and tepid-remaster-curiosity. I love games that commit to an atmosphere, and they definitely do that. If you have a PS3, you could get Asylum used physical for a couple bucks and take it for a spin. I kinda prefer the color palette on the 3 anyway.

Probably 2023, after the bugs of release day are worked out, and a slim version with increased storage is available.

Oh, and my console backlog has to reach at least 50 games before I'm allowed to buy a successor console.

Sounds good. And dig these quick hit reviews.

Great, now I gotta call it Crossbox.

Saying that three are shapes, therefore the fourth - clearly a letter - must of necessity be a shape is a bit preposterous.

"...q, r, s, t, u, v, w, cross, y, and z." Is this the world we want to live in? Is it?!?

Hm. Peeps gots their cranky jammies on.
I think this is a hoot.

@youreyesonly00 I believe that was rhetorical.

"It's in the final stages of submission"

Story of my life.

Dayum, that dude is flexible.

@quinnyboy58 I was debating getting it on the US sale for $29.99. I'll wait. It's not like I don't have other games coming out of my...ears...to play first.

Waffling over whether to buy Odin Sphere.

Cowards.

They are deliberately designed to trigger reward and addiction reactions in the brain. But I guess it's okay now because they're not "loot boxes" any more.

She could be a Republican.

@ellsworth004 Fair enough. Sorry to go all Internet on you.

@ellsworth004 Money.

Corporate speak means nothing, anywhere in the world. It's all cover jargon for "profit going to executives".

Started Nier: Automata. Pretty cool so far, and I believe I've been properly conditioned to give the story time to develop and open, though I think I see where it's going. Hope I'm wrong and it surprises me.

Probably going to start Nier Automata. Debating picking up Odin Sphere digital. Had a PS2 copy and couldn't get into it then, but maybe one of us has changed.

@Tasuki Right on. Thanks, Tasuki.

It's a combination of factors, I think. A preponderance of games are good, certainly serviceable. I suspect that a solid majority of games score 5 or better, with a plurality likely 7+ (allowing for possible confirmation bias, natch). Expectations shift up the scale accordingly, along with the knowledge that games take time, and if I'm going to sink 20, 30, or 100 or more hours into a game, I want it to be worth the investment.

Then, of course, there's the Internet. Bless its little collective heart.

I have one. That makes me 1.033057851239669 -8% of the user base. Except for people who own more than one.

Damn variables.

Still don't know what I was waitin' for...

Thinking of adding HZD: Frozen Wilds and AER.

Owlboy? Hmmm.

@get2sammyb Oh yeah? What am I wearing?

(Woo hoo!)

@ZAKtheRIPPER Hence "Soapbox". And folk can think of more than one thing at a time.

I find cursors moronic and a tad pitiful. Be what you are. Reminds me of Mike Martz. Not that Mr. Martz is pitiful. Just an analogy. Well, not that Mr. Martz himself is an analogy. Okay, I guess he might be an analogy in a given context, but I don't know what that context would be. Certainly not here. At least, not as far as I can see. Now I'm gonna have a sandwich.

@Kidfried I gave my wife a quick-time event.

...sigh...

Spyro Reignited. Nice and low pressure after a stressful week at work. Plus the first time ever I have President's Day off. Huzzah.