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See Mi Yah wrote: ↑October 21st, 2020, 8:06 pm I purchased a brand new and unopened Wii U earlier today for 70 quid in a random toy store that the wet weather had forced me into.

Nice story and great username. I'm a big fan of Basic Channel/Rhythm & Sound!

Have you done the DLC areas yet? Best stuff in the game, arguably.

Cheers, Leon. That's the kind of stuff that makes me tick these days. Even if the trajectory is the bin, there's still plenty to celebrate and enjoy along the way.

I am physically, mentally, and emotionally pretty fucked at this point, but also kind of OK with it in a strange way. I'm running on fumes but also strangely happy. I more or less have no expectations of anything any more and just live day to day, because I've kind of given up trying to think about ...

If the studios Microsoft bought a few years ago had some big guns ready for the Series launch, I'd have got one, definitely. As it is, I find it this iterative cross-gen thing extraordinarily unappealing. Game Pass had plenty of value in the second half of the current generation because there was a ...

I sold my Pro and One X a month ago to artificially build hype for a launch PS5. Having had RSI earlier this summer and stopped gaming for a while, I've realised how much time and money I've wasted this gen trying to find more peak experiences. I love games as a medium, but I've concluded that outsi...

Without speaking for him, I think he's taking a break/stepped aside somewhat. He's very much missed, I agree.

This thread certainly burned bright, maybe flew too close to the sun.

I think arcade games are best placed to approach 'perfection' because at their best they're trimmed of all fat, a very focused execution of a specific idea or set of rules. For me, something like OutRun 2 is 'perfect' because every single credit is wonderfully balanced, exciting, immediate, memorabl...

I just realised listening to the Bonfireside Chat podcast that I missed the DLC completely. Reading up on it tells me that it’s pretty meaty but also extremely hard. Has anyone given it a go? The DLC is one of the best I've ever played. It recontextualises big chunks of the base game lore in really...

I love Seath so much as a character. The intro CGI where he sells out the other dragons and wails in pain because he's the last of his kind.

Looking forward to SMB35, it looks like chaos. Got a review coming for Umihara Kawase BaZooka, it's not a franchise I'm familiar with besides that character being my favourite in the unlikely Blade Strangers 2D fighter. It's a decent change of pace but nothing too special. Edit: It's actually not go...

I bounced off the Wind Waker for years because of that stealth section at the start. The BotW one was even worse.

Cuphead did.

It's absolutely brilliant, Alex. It's nothing more than than the three games with some spit and polish, but I've enjoyed it enormously.

Always worth a reminder that many people (especially on Facebook) are complete twats.

Tokyo Jungle would make for a fucking brilliant C&R episode. One of the first games I played when I got a PS3 after little more than Wii and DS in the 2000s (and probably thousands of hours of Street Fighter IV). I'd never played anything quite so weird. I associate it with the likes of Everyday...

Simonsloth wrote: ↑September 18th, 2020, 7:43 am It feels like a throwback to Demon Souls

Good observation! Funnily enough, it was the first test area created during the Dark Souls development process which might explain the similar feel.

I picked up Mario 3D All Stars on the Japanese eShop because I'm out tomorrow night, and it's exactly as you'd expect. Great stuff. 64 and Galaxy look the best to me for a spit and polish. Sunshine is a little bit sharp, oddly enough. It looks better to me with the GC softness and I'm not very famil...

Alex79uk wrote: ↑September 17th, 2020, 10:08 am that was a bit weird, wasn't it...

I think he's having a tough time at the moment, from the recent stuff I've seen. Hope he either finds something he enjoys doing or gets some support/rest.

Preordered the all digital PS5 this morning. I went all digital this gen so I've got a load of games to play on it (and a fair old backlog) while there are lulls, and I'll just flog my Pro for whatever I get for it. Not interested in the Xbox for the moment. I've played one game on GP this year, it ...

Genuinely heartwarming to read, put a grin on my face.