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It is easy to forget more people play mobile slot machine apps than Nintendo Switch. Something like Candy Crush is probably the real answer. Casual/mobile gaming and microtransactions that make billions are probably more influential to the whole industry than big 3D worlds that are fun to play in.

Best skill in the game: Teleport Classes that can learn Teleport: 1 Items that give you Teleport: 1 Number of Kurast Runs required to farm 1 Ber rune to make Enigma so I can just play the game: 754,305 Perfectly balanced

Graded shoes are also on Ebay I didn't even know about this.

I don't mean to alarm you but the graded vinyl Superman III soundtrack is already on Ebay

GTA3 is my dog. I couldn't even believe that game was possible coming off of Driver and GT2 on PS. You might as well have beamed me directly into Ready Player One's VR world. Oblivion is a big runner up for me. It's a big 3D sandbox RPG landmark. It was a big shift in game design from last gen. You never need to think in Oblivion. You load up on quests, follow the quest markers, and zone out for 300 hours of a guided dopamine tour. And Horse Armor was a landmark DLC, the snowball that began rolling down the mountain in the avalanche of garbage video games are today. You can broadly divide games into Before Oblivion ("The Good Games") and After Oblivion ("The Bad Games").

It’s just facts

I dunno, hot take? TLOZ is more 'must play' than OOT, BOTW, or ALTTP. Everyone is going to have their favorite childhood 3D Zelda going forward (TOTK for kids growing up right now) and TLOZ provides the most interesting historical context to both action/adventure games and the Zelda series. SMB isn't on the list because it has the best level design of any SMB. The main reason to play OOT is to see the Best Game of All Time and be in awe at all the design problems it has that something like Dark Souls fixed, but those millennials still hold onto it as the best game ever. ALTTP is practically interchangeable with ALBW or LA as a brilliant 2D Zelda game, not that it's at all bad, I just think people overrate how much it stands out from other similarly great Zelda games. Both OOT and LTTP are in my top 10, lol.

It is bananas that people don't like collecting Atari games.

You either die a flipper or live long enough to become the unaware grandpa.

I’m going to get a bunch of Red Bulls. The store still in business around me never have good stuff.

I'm not sure Activision Blizzard would ever deliver the game anyone actually wants when they make the majority of their money from mobile game microtransactions, season passes, etc. I know Starcraft 2 is the best RTS I'll ever get because I can't imagine a modern Starcraft 3 ever comes out in a "just buy the game and have it" format.

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