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I've only played this at my friends house which I realize isn't any kind of fair shake, but I just didn't like building an army around hero units at all nor the slower combat. I was a Starcraft and Red Alert 2 boy at the time, and now you can just give me SC2 and AOE2 and throw out the rest of the entire genre. Strategy games require so much learning and studying that I will never have the time to play ones besides the ones that I already think are the best at this point.

I would be shocked if there wasn't a boardroom discussion at "Atari" suggesting this with some kind of golden NFT prize.

The Museum of the Moving Image in New York has video game exhibits with things like Pong, Pac-man, Magnavox Odyssey, Spacewar, etc. I feel like I'd be about 100 times more likely to see a Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt cartridge in an actual museum than some weird spray painted gold magazine prize. Maybe when if any of these collectors making museums find a financially viable way to get people to care about their RCA Studio II set I'll be wrong one day.

Not at all. There's a billion little progressive difficulty levels and things to unlock for subsequent runs which is the carrot to keep playing.

I started playing Balatro, which is the first roguelike deckbuilder I've been able to get into. I can't tell if I like this genre yet or if it just dishes out a dopamine explosion when all the right cards connect like a loot explosion in an ARPG and it's just one of those sneaky addiction things.

I don't know how relatively popular anything is in Japan but I'm surprised Sweet Home didn't even get a minor nod. I was pretty shocked how horrifying it is for an 8-bit Nintendo game. It really stands out. But then I looked up the lowest rated game and it's Doraemon vs the freaking Gigazombie. This is the true face of terror

Is the developer an absolute dingus then?

Are you trying to kill the game industry by stopping remakes of beloved 10 year old games?

The PC version is $15 more expensive and only includes a Steam code, lol. Just don’t release a PC version if you don’t want to guys.

I found something really rare that I don't think anyone cares about, but I don't know where else to post it except SegaAge 2 the Sega CD thread. A JVC service manual for Electronic Book Decoder, which has to be one of the rarest piece of console software ever because this is the only thing my saved search ever hit. It came from a stereo dealer who had a bunch of old JVC manuals. Quick album of the contents: https://imgur.com/a/qK6LxXb

Is Tunic not an action adventure game? The only reason I haven't played it is because I've played literally every Zelda game so I kind of don't need more.

There are 11 main areas and you need to complete at least 7 of them to get to the credits. A big laser appears when you beat each area. There's no linear path through the game. You sometimes have to bop back and forth between areas because you'll eventually hit puzzle concepts that you'll only understand from the other areas.

You always keep me on my toes

This game is the perfect co-op girlfriend game. I mean Starcraft II might be the best RTS ever, but I'm still urging you to try this instead since it's the best stealth goose puzzle game ever.

Some from various "top" lists: Hades Disco Elysium Red Dead Redemption 1/2 Fortnite, Apex Legends, Overwatch, any modern multiplayer FPS Dishonored 1/2 Bloodbourne Alien: Isolation DOTA 2 League of Legends (I barely have a concept of what a MOBA even is. It seems like a combo of RTS and ARPG PVP) Far Cry 3 Borderlands 2 Xenoblade Chronicles God of War 2-5 Bayonetta Persona 4-5 The Witcher 3 Return of the Obra Dinn Half Life Alyx I've played almost all of the cliche 80s and 90s stuff until you get into the advanced nerd lists that start throwing in A Mind Forever Voyaging and King's Quest IV to keep you on your toes. I'm interested in a few: Hades, Disco Elysium, and Obra Dinn. But man, I have played a lot of action games, a lot of FPS games, a lot of RPGs. It's hard to imagine every single good action game a "must play!". These top games ever lists are always overinfested with action and FPS games. The IGN top list has 15 FPS and 0 2D shooters. OK.