I had the same experience.

Up to room 46, it felt like every failed run built up to your eventual success, like any good roguelite. You failed, but at least gained a bit of knowledge, a permanent upgrade or improvement to the state.

Then you get to a point where each run is less and less rewarding and eventually give up. There’s nothing left to learn or upgrade, it’s now a fight with the RNG.

They tried… with Skull and Bones

Nice! I’ve been thinking about replaying it

Sony saw how much money people were willing to pay scalpers for the PS5 at launch and decided to cut the middleman this time

Ring of Pain

Shin Megami Tensei 2 and it doesn’t just end with you killing a god. You get to kill THE God, YHWH, aka the Abrahamic God!

As a Vita fan, FUCK YOU Sony!

I might pick it up in the near future. I don’t have much nostalgia for the NES Dragon Quest games, but this one looks amazing.

If they remake DQV and VI in this style I will buy it in a heartbeat! And yes, I know V had two remakes already, but none of them are available on a modern platform.

You must be confusing it with Lunacid

I recommend checking out Dread Delusion. It’s an indie open world game inspired by Morrowind.

The real Silksong are the clown friends we made along the way

IMO, the Vita is the best platform for playing Hotline Miami.

Try Soul Sacrifice Delta if you are into dark games.

If you are into action RPGs, check out Odin Sphere.

Also, a good chunk of the PS1 and PSP libraries are compatible with the Vita, so it’s worth trying out some classics. I still boot up my Vita once in a while just to play Symphony of the Night.

Yeah, I think it was in Assassin’s Creed 2. At the time, people were unable to play the single player game they bought at launch because Ubisoft shitty authentication service couldn’t handle the load.

Guess who didn’t have that problem…

The best thing about this gen so far is the rise of handheld PCs, like the Steam Deck and ROG Ally. I mostly play on the Deck nowadays, while the PS5 gathers dust.

Resident Evil 4 Remake

I read about it over a decade ago. Something about the game being difficult to emulate because of it. Now I can’t find anything :(

They also pulled a really cool hack on Jak and Dexter. They were able to hack into the PS1 chip hidden away in the PS2 for backwards compatibility to get some extra processing power!

Exactly! This is more about the social aspect of these games. Kids are playing Fortnite/Roblox/Minecraft because that’s where their friends are hanging out after school.

Unfortunately, that’s a common thing in the gaming industry. Another example are the PS1 Final Fantasy games, they are stuck with those low res backgrounds and FMVs because Square Enix lost the original assets.

For me, it’s being able to sleep and wake the device with games still running without worrying about a crash or running out of battery because Microsoft broke sleep on W11

I’ve been eagerly watching the foldable space ever since the first Razr was announced, but never took the plunge because I felt the tech wasn’t there yet. You would pay flagship prices for a fragile phone with bad specs.

Now I think they are finally good enough. My next one will probably be a Razr, I don’t trust Samsung.