Holy shit someone else had Over the Hedge on DS as a kid? This thread is making me feel so good as a kid that bought loose carts from behind the GameStop and Vintage Stock counters. I genuinely believe that Over The Hedge is one of the reasons I loved Metal Gear and Assassin's Creed so much as a kid
Dark cloud! I remember buying a PS2 from my cousins in 2012 and it came with Dark Cloud. It was my first introduction to Rogue Like games. Managed to scratch the Zelda itch while having an entire identity of its own
One Finger Death Punch is one of the few games I can look at and genuinely call it perfect. It's really simple, but there is literally nothing I'd change about them. It doesn't do anything more than it needed to do, and I love it for that.
Oh man Alice! I actually never played it, but I have great memories of the game. One of the first graphics cards I ever got had an Alice graphic printed super big on the box for Madness Returns release. Think it was around the GTX 500 series.
Nitrome games were the absolute shit! I loved playing Skyline with my little sister. Or that game where you play as the cats shooting arrows. Or fat cat. Or that one game with the cactus on the rail cart! I get reminded of them fairly often, but it always feels like it's been too long since anybody has spoken about them because they're so great.
God Nitrome was like the Nintendo of flash games, it was so amazing. One of my earliest tech memories was making an email account so I could contact them about working for them when I was a 6 year old on my grandma's computer. At some point, my email signature randomly changed to "deadname and Nitrome" and it made me so excited! So glad Nitrome didn't die with flash, the thought of those games disappearing made me cry
There's a 3ds version????? Thank you for telling me about this. I just looked up footage and it looks absolutely amazing. The Slime series has such unique gameplay, I really can't think of any other game that comes even close to scratching that itch. One of the only games I've ever played where I can't even compare it to other games, other than calling it a mishmash of all of the best Nintendo ideas
That's a pretty bold statement, given how many WADs have been made. However reading about it, it sounds like you may be right. Love DOOM engine FPSs, definitely checking this out!
Nintendo essentially rebranded the GameCube for 3 console generations, I assume they'll do the same with the Switch. Don't expect anything better than a slightly out of date Android tablet by the time it comes out. This is great for devs though.
I'm sure it'll pop up soon. Swap subreddits were maintained with Heatware anyways, a lot of that was done as a third party thing. I'm assuming the API changes are fucking up swap subreddits a bit
Wish they'd just start porting old games and sell them for a buck or two a pop like the old days of the app store. I'd kill for a Rocket Slime port with decent controls.
My first PC ever was built because I really wanted to play modded Skyrim, Minecraft, and Metro 2033. i3 3225 and a 7750, later upgraded to a 2500k with a 7950. That machine was insanely badass. When the i5 and 7950 were overclocked, they outperformed my brother's 4th gen i5 with a 970.
Unity is still one of the best looking games they've made in the series. As buggy as it was at launch, they did so many things graphically that are just now starting to appear again.
Bumped for Vita love. Tearaway was FUCKING insane, the PS4 has the touchpad so it can get close but it's not as seamless as the Vita did it. Another game that fits this bill is Gravity Rush. That game is amazing.
I remember the Vita from my middle school days, I played Black Ops Declassified online all the time. Played first season of Walking Dead on there and just remembering crying at 5 in the morning after that ending. Also used it to watch all my nsfw shit until I got a phone. Good times
Thank you for the write up! It's been hard to find write ups that include the more recent releases. Legends Arceus seems to be the most compelling single release to me, it really looks like everything I've ever wanted out of a Pokemon game. However I'm split because Hoenn has been my favorite region for the longest time so ORAS is also super appealing. I plan on getting both consoles at some point, but it's so hard to choose a game to start back up on when I haven't played since I was a kid with Platinum, Emerald, and Soul Silver. I pretty much got hit with the perfect 3 game run that gives me so much nostalgia.
For sure, their hatred for fan games pisses me off. Nintendo is far from perfect. I was so sad when AM2R got shut down, it was a nearly perfect project. They've also gone after certain popular Pokemon ROM hacks like Flora Skies. Most of it has been undeniably shitty.
However I will defend some of their copyright bs. I think it's reasonable to ban posting footage of certain things in the game as long as it's made clear. Nintendo games are all about discovery, the shock awe. They were bitches about Super Mario Odyssey ending footage when the game first released and I'm glad they did.
Nintendo hasn't been flawless, but they're the prime example that just selling a really good product is enough to make it. They have live services and mobile games, but I've spoken to people. Pokemon Legends Arceus and Zelda have sold a metric fuck ton of switches. Even Mario Odyssey is a great example of this. Sony also seems to kind of understand this, with really great single player games. Games as a service seems to be the entire Xbox brand right now with gamepass
Also, don't know how this would work, but it seems like the best route is going to be making a sync instance or teaming up with another well federated instance. If you could just download Sync and use Lemmy with a quick sign up with no thoughts about what instance you use, it would be amazing. Could change instances obviously, but I think it's the best way to get good user experience.
Holy shit someone else had Over the Hedge on DS as a kid? This thread is making me feel so good as a kid that bought loose carts from behind the GameStop and Vintage Stock counters. I genuinely believe that Over The Hedge is one of the reasons I loved Metal Gear and Assassin's Creed so much as a kid