Generally just "official" machines, but I suppose even that's a gray area these days. I have both Ouya and GameStick, despite their dismal fates. Pretty sure GameStop purchased GameStick with the intended purpose of killing it. I had not heard of the GCW Zero, but thus far, crowd-funded machines have not fared well in any capacity. I'm talking Ouya, GameStick, and the grossly ill-fated Coleco Chameleon, which turned out to be utter bullshit.

There's lot of seeming support of retro and indie, and the reality tends to operate completely the opposite. Gamers tend to complain about indie more than they support it now, to the point that "indie" is half the time used as a slur and half the time used as if it's an entire singular genre, which is aggravating and baffling. So, I'm curious about this CGW Zero platform (that name needs serious work, it is not easy to recall).

Retro collecting is eating itself to death with an over-abundance of dickwads that only see dollar signs and resellers artificially forcing prices to obscene levels. You have people selling Super Mario World for SNES for $20 or more. That game is insanely common and came packed with most SNES consoles. You'd have to be a grade-A sucker to pay more than $5 for Super Mario World--but resellers demand it. Neo-Geo stuff is badly expensive, unfortunately. Which brings me to the new Neo-Geo Mini revival, which I'm guessing is what you're referring to. It's interesting, but I have the last, also ill-fated Neo-Geo revival, the Neo-Geo X, which had some issues, but I really enjoyed, and am very disappointed to see that it failed so soon after launch when Tommo and SNK's deal soured.

I'm currently mixed on the Neo-Geo arcade mini, as I have the X, and I'm pretty sure it'll have all the same games... but is already on a bigger screen, with AES-style controllers. Neo-Geo has a fascinating history, and an interesting catalog of games, but like Nintendo, when they go retro, they tend to re-release the same titles over and over again. Another collector friend of mine is looking forward to it. He's a big Neo Geo fan, and has an AES unit and something like 11 games.

Lately, I've been adding to Game Boys, Game Gear, Lynx, Virtual Boy, and I finished my Microvision collection (those unaware, that is the first cartridge-based portable system, and can be seen in one of the early Friday the 13th movies). It only had 11 games released for it. The last one is unopened. I generally open my games, but I will be keeping that one sealed.

Yeah, I liked the GCW Zero because it was small and square. I didn't want a portable that you had to flip open. I also liked the classic buttons on it. Honestly, for stuff like the Ouya, I would clean that up, put back in it's box and see how much you can sell it for in a decade. It won't be worth much else except to hardcore collectors, of which it appears you are one.

I've been replaying Hyper Light Drifter again. NG+ was a bit too tricky after some months off so I'm breezing through a regular NG. I can safely say this and Specter Knight are two of my favorite games of all time. I'm replaying that one as well.

I finally gave up on a buddy wanting to play Mother Russia Bleeds with me so I'm just doing it myself. The pixel-art is gorgeous and the violent overkill is satisfying as fuck.

Don't use any Nekro in the last stage.

Sounds like I may never beat it but I appreciate the tip!

I also recommend playing on the easiest difficulty. It's already difficult enough. I'm not going to give away any spoilers, but I have a recorded run-through of the last boss that took me over an hour. I can fork it over if you want it once you get there. It's kind of a joy to fail a bunch as you're seeing it play out for the first few times.

God damn. It's been pretty easy so far. Guess I'm still very early. I think it's on the default difficulty at the moment. I might scale it if things become hateful.

It reminds me a lot of Streets Of Rage 3; there's just a lot of timing-based stuff that's easy to fuck up and has a very small margin for error.

Been into the remastered Dark Souls a fair bit the last few days. Probably my favourite part is that you can change the "UI scale" - one of my biggest gripes with the original was that the resolution was too small. Now it's basically DS3, except it's still a LOT harder. Huzzah! Also seems to be a good amount of action online, too - been pretty heavily co-opping and it generally only takes a few seconds to get summoned.

I've been invading and cooping non-stop. Send help

Nioh-Gaiden-Souls-Borne!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4IpLoUAcXU

Damn, that looks awesome.

OH MY FUCKING GOD THAT LOOKS SICK!!!

That looks fucking amaaaaaaaaazing. Calling it, gonna be my GOTY 2019

Looks like a pre-set character instead of character creator this time though . Oh well, Nioh was still amazing, this should be, too.

Were they like...challenged by Nioh? This almost seems personal lol. The combat looks faster and more fluid than any From Soft game I've touched. Stupid hype.

A Grave shirt at E3, definitely didn't expect that.

Division 2 will probably be more of the same...and I'm fine with that since The Division turned great with the 1.7 update and virtually incredible with 1.8.

Hahahaha, Cyberpunk somehow looks even worse than I thought it would .

This is the best fucking thing ever. And yeah, it does look like they took Nioh kinda personal

Bring it on.

Soooo that Devolver Digital conf was something That lady on stage was savage as fuck, loved her.

Metal Wolf Chaos localized/ported is finally confirmed. How silly. MECH AMERICA GREAT AGAIN


I'm as puzzled by this as I am by the "OMG HYPE" reactions. There was zero gameplay shown. How can anyone think it looks good or bad is beyond me because we have no idea what the game is about or what it'll play like.

^
because it's made by the Witcher 3 people who darkeningday has something weirdly personal against.

But more importantly...holy shiiiiiiiiit new DOOM! I was pretty optimistic this was gonna be announced at E3, and this trailer is fucking sick! Can't wait, can't wait!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oVwrpfo_QA

Oh come on, Cyberpunk looked horrible. Boring cartoony art design with cyberpunk elements so mild and superficial even William Gibson had to step out of his grave for a second and complain about it. And of course it was replete with an awful gravel-voiced American voice over repeating cookie-cutter dialog so generic it felt like placeholder writing they forgot to fill in later.

And every Witcher game had excellent cinematic trailers, especially the third.

CP2077 doesn't even look like it was made by the same team... which shouldn't be surprising, given that their turnover rate is on par with Taco Bell. It still could theoretically be saved by good gameplay (though highly unlikely given the only game they made with good gameplay was the great Witcher 1), but that trailer looks and sounds and feels utterly atrocious.

^ I just watched the trailer and while I wasn't blown away by it or anything, but I'll wait till there's game play footage before shitting all over it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yrE9RU ... e=youtu.be

Holy shit.

Will it be as hard as the first?

another E3, another whole bunch of "trailer" FMVs and everyone gushing.
hardly a new criticism but jeez

I'm hyped for Shadows Die Twice and Ubisoft teased 4 new character classes coming to For Honor. I'm so stoked.

Oh, and I picked Bloodborne back up and nabbed Ludwigs Holy Blade. I feel like a total bad ass.

Uhhhh this Ghost of Tsushima gameplay looks outrageously cool also?

https://youtu.be/lqfx-1UrT-0

First I've heard of it.

This game for me brings up great memories. For me anyway I'll take video games such as this over most if not all games being made today and I realize that's a opinion a lot of people disagree with. I respect their opinion.

That's fair.

I really wish you'd consider going back to ELEX again. They finally fully patched the console versions, along with a whole bunch of new features... It's apparently nearly equal to the PC now.

I'm cautiously optimistic but still a bit unsure about the Ghost of Tsushima gameplay. I hope it's great, and I love the iaido and kenjutsu moves, but I got a weird early AssCreed vibe with enemies taking turns to attack, and I hope it's not just pressing a timed counter button to get a flash animation but a real actual combat system with stances etc. like in Nioh. If it's the latter.... then sooooooold. That photo mode is gonna be glorious.

Also, Nioh 2 announced. Not much shown yet, but still good news. So we got 3 samurai action games coming in the next year or two. Noice.

The Last of Us 2 is gonna be sick, too.

Oh yeah, Beyond Good and Evil 2 is alive... somehow.

Fair play on the mechanics of Ghost being a complete mystery. It just LOOKED so rad. I would accept a not-so-challenging combat system if it's feels good to play in. I'm sure I'll be plenty frustrated with Sekiro!

EEEEEEEEEE! Even though I'm the biggest baby when it comes to survival horror games, the first Resident Evil remaster was glorious. Can't wait to get my hands on this.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtxJtQa6VSw

Really? If they fixed the problems with the map and load times that sounds like it could be worth going back to.

https://www.pcgamer.com/embargoed-11am- ... ark-souls/

I've gotta see this demo. Some wild stuff here though. No RPG elements whatsoever. No multiplayer.

This bit though...sounds awesome:


Can't find any footage of this demo on YT. Really looking forward to seeing it.

Miyazaki does kendo confirmed

I had to pick Nioh back up. I quit super early into it anyways. Going to try to be a little smarter in my approach this time.

I don't mind dying to the same boss one million times, it's literally not knowing which direction to take or not being able to find a pathway I need that always shuts me down.

I feel like there are a lot of cool weapons that don't get much love in video games. Whips got some attention in Castlevania but not many places else, and then katars, kukris, chakrams, and chain flails are just barely ever used. I wanna see more cool exotic weapons. D:

There were many fixes, though I'm not sure what the issue with the map was.

I'm guessing that the inventory lag you experienced was because you're a hoarder . You can sell anything you want (quest items can't be sold) or you can place anything you like into chests and they'll remain there permanently. This wasn't an issue with the PC version, but PB are pretty clueless when it comes to understanding consoles .


Anyway, Ghost of Tsushima definitely has the best physics I've seen in any third-person game to date. The foliage is just insane.

I had the exact opposite experience. I didn't have problems with being lost, but I HATED dying a million times to bosses. The best I can say about my abilities is that I feel I was "serviceable" by the end.

Ghosts of Tsushima looks like Bushido Blade as RPG.