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Always wanted to give the Mystery Dungeon games a try, because, you know...ROGUELIKE. Seems like a good way to start.

So old Pokémon are being added with DLC. Looks like we now know why not all Pokémon were in Sword and Shield from the start

Nooooo, I missed that run Hope it's on YouTube soon. Speaking of, they are a lot slower with uploads this year. Could be because they want people to tune in to the stream. Guess we'll have to wait until after the event is over to have all runs available on the YouTubez.

There are actually people making fun of Sony for "being lazy" with the design. Those people probably never heard of brand recognition Anyways, here's a mockup of possible PS5 game boxes: Gotta say, love the choice of black. I like it a lot more than blue.

The Silent unlocks are done. Managed to win a run with The Defect. Probably my favourite character. Love building a deck around Powers. Never had a chance to go for a 0-cost deck, or rather, I still have no idea how to build one I'm surprised that this game isn't even beginning to get boring. I've clocked in about 70 hours on the PS4 version and I'm already at 10 hours played on my Switch. Slay the Spire might actually kick Super Mario World and Rayman Legends from the #1 spot of my favourite games of all time

I've fallen out of love with Pokémon ages ago, so this Direct will most likely do nothing for me. I'd be happy with another Pokémon Gold/Silver remake, though

20 years? Time sure flies... @Ashley Thank you so much for all your hard work. Best of luck to you with all the things coming to you and everything you want to do @S.C.G Well...cool, I guess? Just kidding Congrats and here's to another 20 years Just checked, I've been a member for 16 years now...this place has been my go-to forum since my teenage years. I'm 30 () now with no intentions to leave. You can't get rid of the German

The 8Bitdo wireless adapter. I bought it so I could use a Dual Shock 4 with my Nintendo Switch

Mine arrived just now and it's amazing. Simple to set up and works perfectly. Finally I can use the best controller with the Switch

I would've enjoyed the game much more if the "Moon Rock Power Moons" were the ones you had to get from the start. Some of them are a little more challenging. Anyways, up to 300-something moons. I'll go for 500 and finish that level until I move on to the next "big" game. The perfect next Mario game for me would be: a Super Mario Galaxy-style game with the 2D-3D switching we have in Super Mario Odyssey. Those are easily the best sections of the game. The sequel should make the transitions seemlessly, though; i.e. without pipes. A man can dream...

Very impressive that aprox. 4 million PS4s have been sold in the holiday season even though Switch dominated it and Microsoft was pretty agressive with their XBox pricing. Sony really needs to get the PS5 launch right to keep that momentum.

Sorry, folks. Console gaming is dead.

11 wins, 4 deaths. Not bad, but it's obviously still Ascension 0. Currently on my way to the final unlock for The Silent. Then it's time for The Defect. The new character (The Watcher) is set to release on the 14th of January. Sadly PC only, for now, as the console ports still need some more time.

Just tuned in to the run and noticed that up next are four Sonic games Hope they'll meet donations the for Sonic '06 Silver run later tonight.

Probably won't be able to tune in much live. Here's hoping a couple of runs from yesterday will be up on YouTube later tonight I always like to watch Super Mario, Donkey Kong and Mega Man races/speedruns. Will try to tune in to Donkey Kong Country 3 in a couple of hours

Hehe No, I'd give it a 7/10 because that horrible theme song takes a point off the final score.

Since I've stopped playing Xenoblade Chronicles 2 I've decided to go back to Super Mario Odyssey. I'm now at 250 Power Moons and what do you know...another instance of bosses being reused. Is it too much to ask for a little more creativity with boss fights? Anyway, great game but to be honest, it's nothing spectacular. A lot of the Power Moons are just busy work. It feels like the game was made for people who aren't great at video games, which is not particularly bad. It did, however, ruin my continuous experience with it. It's too easy. I've played the hardest level quite some time ago at a mate's and found it not very difficult, so I doubt I'm going to try and collect 250 more moons to unlock it. I will go back to some Kingdoms and collect a couple more moons, though, because I do like some of the worlds.

Alright. Thank you guys. After 4 more hours with the game I don't know what to think. I kept playing without really enjoying it but I also didn't want to stop, if that makes any sense? Yes, the battle system opened up and it's now slightly more fun. I do, however, still think it's not great. I keep doing the same things over and over again no matter who/what I'm fighting and the result is always: chain attack and win. There is no real need for different attacks/tactics right now. Only thing that's necessary: Grind some exp when I died to a boss Also: There are way too many numbers and words flying around during a fight. Just give me the simplicity (and turn-based nature) of Dragon Quest or Final Fantasy X. I think I'm forcing myself to like it and to be honest, that's not what I want from a game. I gave Xenoblade Chronicles 2 another chance but it's just not for me, it seems

This is the worst day of my life.

Have nothing to do today, so I'll just push through for now. Let's see if the game gets through to me, eventually. Might be. I just prefer turn-based battles, they give me a lot more freedom to do what I wanna do. I'll give Xenoblade Chronicles 2 another chance. Maybe it'll grow on me. But it doesn't have a lot of time left to do so... One more thing that's annoying the hell out of me: The constant chatter during fights. I mean, why does everyone have to speak/shout at once?

Look who comes crawling out of his nest as soon as I talk about a semi-real-time battle system in a negative way Yeeeaaaah, no. If a game takes more than 12 hours to really get going, I just can't be arsed...and to be honest, even if the battle system gets better, everything else about Xenoblade Chronicles 2 just doesn't grab me It's simply not for me.

After about 11 hours in total I can say: I'm not invested at all in the world, the setting, the characters... My initial enjoyment is gone and I just don't think it's a fun game The battle system lost a lot of its charm after a while. I guess Dragon Quest XI ruined other JRPGs for me. Especially ones that don't use turn-based fights. Looks like I'm moving on to Blaster Master Zero.

Is there anything to gain from fights? Genuine question. Killing normal enemies around my level takes quite a long time and the exp gains are negligible The only real reason to start a battle is to advance quests/the story, it seems. If I can't grind levels relatively efficiently with fights then I doubt I'll enjoy the game in the long run...

Yeah, I'll keep bumping old threads Spent the last 4 hours with this one. I should eat something now... Anyway, my thoughts so far: The Good it feels like a big JRPG; that's always a good thing in my book lots of mechanics that make stats and combat interesting I really like the battle system (enemies do have a little too much HP, though) huge world; at least from what I've seen, so far The Bad mechanics are explained once with no way to re-read information what the hell is this lip-sync? It's even worse than Astral Chain voice acting is atrocious; sometimes it feels like they just asked a random person on the streets to read some lines resolution is insanely low, at times