Fine print at the bottom says it’s footage from Switch 2 version, which there’d be no need to specify if it was an exclusive.

Why would they fire themselves when they’ve already investigated themselves and found that they did nothing wrong?

Calling 3 a soulslike is kinda stretching it, I think. I would say rather that 3 does exploration and upgrades similarly to 1 but has combat that’s more similar to 2. I do think they’re definitely worth getting though.

Damn, really? That sucks, thanks for the heads up.

2&3 are both “here’s what the others were doing while War was chained up for a hundred years”. Their stories are set in motion because of the premature apocalypse, and will probably have implications for humanity further in the future, but there’s no impact on War directly, aside from 3 implying

, and I don’t expect any plot points from 2&3 to come back up during 4.

As for Genesis, the main thing you should keep in mind is that it isn’t a mainline game. It’s more an isometric twin stick shooter/hack’n’slash, and the gameplay isn’t as deep as with the main games. But it’s got co-op, if you have someone to play with, and it does provide some characterization for Strife as well as showing an example of the sorts of missions the Horsemen took for the Charred Council.

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I personally enjoyed Genesis, but it wasn’t a solo Strife game. You play as both Strife and War.

I guess breaking the seventh seal also revived Fury’s horse. But also, no solo game for Strife? Sadface.

I actually played this long before I ever played actual Ninja Gaiden. At the time, I was just a wee laddie, and I remember enjoying it back then, but I’ve never had the courage to go back and replay it to see if it actually holds up.

#3 is entirely why I’m skipping the Switch 2, when I’ve previously had every Nintendo console since the SNES.

Back in Control, all the stoplight did was teleport you back to the entrance if you moved on red. That’s way too easy for co-op though, so I’m sure Remedy changed it.

Gotta milk the cash cow.

Is that supposed to be Shart? Wow, they did her dirty, holy shit.

Hey, no worries, man. That’s just how it goes sometimes. Appreciate the generosity anyway!

Ooh, AER Memories of Old, please, and thanks. That’s been on my wishlist for awhile.

Well, this has no online component, so hopefully it won’t end up like Battlefront Classic.

That’s a failure to download the installers to begin with, not them being taken away from you after the fact.

Good thing I have the GOG offline installer already downloaded.

Maybe not this specific statement, but I think it certainly highlights that everything about the game in general has been kind of a mess.

Are they actually bounty hunters? The trailer made it seem like they were gladiators competing in a blood sport league.

Can’t go wrong with pretty much any pre-Skyward Sword Zelda. SS itself also has Ballad of the Goddess, which was good, but I can’t remember any other tunes from it or BOTW that aren’t just reprises of tracks from previous games.

Why would I shell out $50 to play on a tiny ass screen with shitty touchscreen controls? Fuck that noise.

Yeah, Switch pointer controls were pretty YMMV, simply because the joycons themselves aren’t nearly as reliable in that regard as the Wiimotes were.

Link is for the wrong trailer.

Wait, what?! This had been listed as release date TBA for so long on my wishlist that I’d wondered if it got quietly canned or something.

Todd Howard? Wasn’t expecting that. Anywho, looks like this’ll mainly be in 1st person? That’s kinda neat actually, I don’t think we’ve had a 1st person Indy before.

Yes, thank you, I’m well aware that internet randos are people. And I like not having to deal with them while I’m unwinding. Why is that a “problem”?

I mean, I hate playing with internet randos anyway, so that’s not actually a downside for me.

I just wanted Black Flag without all the land bits, is that too much to ask?

Nope. Star Wars Squadrons (which I got from Epic, BTW) required me to download and install Origin first. I’d be salty as fuck about that if all parties involved hadn’t already guaranteed that it was a game that I was never going to pay for anyway.

Really? Huh, the about page still claims everything’s DRM free. Got any examples, so I know which games to not buy?

Well, at least they’re not forcing you to install and run the Epic Games Store on top of Steam. Not like, say, fucking Star Wars Squadrons forcing Origin.

If they tell you the game in the title you have no incentive to click.

The best part of this is that Rayman gets roasted in Sparks of Hope.

If it’s not physical swag it’s just DRM’d pixels that you don’t actually own. 🤷

It’s a self-reinforcing cycle, unfortunately. GOG doesn’t have the market share that Steam does, so publishers don’t release games on it, which leads to people continuing to use Steam and maintaining its dominant market share.

Really wish they’d exempted the Master Sword from the durability mechanic, especially given how much effort it takes before you can even get it (I think it’s something like ~80/120 shrines or else it kills you?) and how not OP it is in actual practice.

Demos mostly won’t trigger fees

“Mostly”? That’s absolutely grotesque.

NGL, it’s been so long since we’ve had any new F-zero I’d even be satisfied if all we get is Capt Falcon being added to Mario Kart 8.