I thought the direct was decent but it was a bit odd for me. There was a lot of things I was almost but not quite interested in. Xenoblade 3 burned me out even though I enjoyed it, so I have no appetite for an expansion. I enjoy rhythm games but Samba de Amigo never quite hit for me. I really like G...

Jan 22 - Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi (Switch) Feb 8 - Live A Live (Switch ) I played a fan translation of this more than 15 years ago and what's odd is how much I did remember, it really did leave an impression on me at the time. The game still has charm and entering a new era with new cha...

Well all this talk made me curious. I started keeping lists on here in 2017 and I've averaged 29 a year. The most I've finished in a month is 6 last December. Finishing Xenoblade Chronicles 3 on the 2nd of December really put me in the mood for shorter games. :) 2017: 29 2018: 29 2019: 35 2020: 33 2...

Since Mr Ixolite mentioned it, if people want more shurikens, there is a cheat for infinite shurikens. Go to the options screen and change the amount of shurikens to 00 and leave the cursor there for a while. The 00 will change to an infinite symbol. Some 90s childhood knowledge there, can't remembe...

I'm looking forward to starting Live a Live once I'm finished with Danganronpa . I love the fact it's neatly chunked up into different character chapters. Some games you can play for hours and not feel like you've made much 'progress' at all. I take it you're enjoying it? I am somewhat. There are l...

Speaking of Yakuza, I started the 4th game the other night. I was disappointed with 3 after enjoying 0, 1 and 2, and I'd heard 4 wasn't up to much, but I'm really liking the story and new characters so far. 3 is easily my least favourite in the series, although as Jobobonobo said, Saejima has an aw...

The hunting sidestory is honestly quite a nice diversion and becoming proficient at taking down bears and trapping prey is pretty rewarding. Oh good, I got deep into that hunting game back in 2016, like proper hours at it, and thought I might just be mad. Yakuza 5 seems like a throw everything at i...

Cool. I didn't know that this was a feature. I've played 3 games for more than hour. Super Metroid (11h 49m) which I forgot I played most of. Super Puyo Puyo 2 (7h 25m). Always enjoy some puyos. F-Zero (2h 13m) Practicing for Ben's monthly patreon challenge last year. Though he wanted the JP rom so ...

Yeah, the emulation on the big Mega Drive collections is usually worse than the more focussed releases. I had the earliest big Mega Drive collection on the PSP and the emulation was spectacularly bad on some things there. For example, Ristar had seriously bad sound issues with some sounds just not p...

I played the Forspoken demo yesterday and I'm just not that interested in the game but it really does have a good bit of swearing for swearing's sake and not to the game's benefit. Also, the Wonder Boy Collection is a weird bunch of games. It's the first (Wonder Boy), second (Wonder Boy in Monster L...

ColinAlonso wrote: ↑January 15th, 2023, 12:27 pmI have to delete Slay the Spire again. That game steals my time like no other.

I've replaced the Slay the Spire addiction with FTL: Faster Than Light and Splatoon 3. Not necessarily good for someone who likes reaching the end of games.

Thanks for the work on the forum guys. I kinda just drifted away at points last year but still like reading everyone's thoughts and posting on here.

Well I was going to play Shadow Dancer along with the upcoming CaR show, but it wasn't on the Switch Online service, which I was surprised about That's a shame. I played it on the Mega Drive Collection release from a few years back, I've never looked at the Mega Drive games on the online service bu...

3. Microsoft finally announces some games from all the studios they bought, to mixed results. Some will be hype, some will be ignored, and at least one will be a series reboot everyone on Twitter hates until it releases to a solid 88 on Metacritic. Or else everyone on Twitter loves the series reboo...

Seen you playing Ori this morning Alex. Sorry for not replying to your Apex request, I've never played it! The final boss of Shadow Dancer (Mega Drive) is infuriating. He just summons these black clad ninjas constantly. They were only introduced in the previous room, take 3 hits instead of the 2 the...

Congratulations Mark!

Thanks again Alex for making the quiz, and sorry for ruining your South Africa question.

I'm trying to complete Shadow Dancer (Mega Drive) without save states before the podcast cover it. Its actually easy enough once I settled into it. I reached Round 5 the last 2 times which is the last round apparently. Quite a different feel to the console only games as the Shinobi (is it Joe?) is s...

Yep, definitely worse than previous years. :D Round 1: Retro Gaming 1. Well this is a bad start :D 2. Alex Kidd 3. SNK 4. Elaine Marley 5. Archer MacLean Round 2: The year is 2022... 1. 2. Stray 3. Sam Barlow 4. 5. Rick and Morty Round 3: Missing words 1. Village 2. Dash 3. Peace 4. Hell 5. Panzer 6...

I'm leaving out Psychonauts 2! What the fuck??? 5 - Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Early on this looked like a contender for my game of the year but it had too much bloat and stuff that I got bogged down in and ruined some of the enjoyment. Its still quality JRPG entertainment but doesn't quite stick its la...

My negative is just all the RPG/JRPGs I sunk hours into but didn't complete....I think in 2023 I just need to stay away from them and focus on <20 hour narrative experiences to get my most enjoyment. No joke this is the list, and I probably averaged 20 hours for each. Bravely Default Chrono Cross R...