Not seeing Transistor but if you want a female protagonist that will make you cry your eyes out at the end, I recommend her.

Games As Literature 101 has a documentary that goes into a deep dive about Red as a character.

Also some people used Red’s song from Transistor as a wedding song 😃

Now you can play as a tedious weapon shop owner lol.

I vaguely recall reading DQ3 players in Japan loved the merchant in the early game so much they made it more of a thing on future outings

Shenmue is a good example, I was hyped for it back in the Dreamcast days. I’m fairly certain we have quick time events to thank shenmue for popularizing, for better or for worse.

For better because wonderful 101 created the greatest quick time event of all time

There are mods to make JPT much more playable I recall if you ever tried to take another crack at it.

And it had some very clever immersion but just needed more tweaking to reach Dead Space levels of HUD without HUD kind of play

Arguably the Sid Meier’s Civ board game was ahead of it’s time easily. But 4x board games today so remarkably well, and the latest Sid Meier board games can’t seem to catch up anymore sales wise to 4x board games

Thanks for the info on Severance I’ll check it out

Also $20 freaking dollars MSRP for 2K5!!

That could have led to years of football bliss for affordable gaming. But I recall EA and the NFL took exclusivity to the license and killed 2K quick

I recall reading on how they were able to make the map and was rather impressive. I love seeing how devs find some creative way to overcome a technical hurdle.

What is the percent chance of Diablo 4 being unplayable after the initial price on X years? Unless it’s guaranteed not to hinder play with future monetization plans?

My list of split screen or couch co op PC games:

Basketball classics

Castle crashers

Cuphead

A Hat in Time

Katanari damacy reroll

Lego games (marvel, LOTR, Indiana Jones, star wars are my top 4)

Overcooked

Portal 2

Rocket League

Sonic All Star Racing Transformed

Spiritfarer

Strikey Sisters

Trine 2

Wingspan

And emulator roms for 2 players:

Secret of Mana

Zombies Ate my Neighbors

Game show games (family feud, wheel of fortune, you don’t know jack)

The Minecraft builders and biomes was a decent euro game disguised as a Minecraft game.

The Slay the Spire board game looks a bit of a downgrade compared to the video game.

The Dorfromantik board game was pretty fun albeit lighter than the video game. I can see why it got the Spiel Des Jahres award.

The Stardew Valley boardgame makes wish it was more a reskin of the board game Agricola that already exists than it’s own thing, as Agricola to me is perfect.

I am hoping Terraria will be a worker placement or pickup and deliver kind of game myself, maybe like Mat Tolman’s Undermining board game or something.

Let’s hope they post a rulebook soon as I can’t find one.

If there was a option where an annoying sidekick could deliver your excess materials back to a storage like at your home I would put up with any annoying dialogue 😀

I feel like the devs restricted how far the camera had to be down for the “prompt” to appear in those moments.

Figured, I am happy with what I got 🙂

Ha, I wonder what DQ11 Draconic Quest like options you can add to Pokemon.

Weaknesses and resistances x 2?

Pokemon knocked out are automatically released?

Game auto saves after every finished battle and no manual saving?

Sell items for less?

I run a board game store so my list will be rather lengthy.

But short answer is Gaia Project… Until Age of Innovation drops

Dragon Quest 11 does what you probably want in Pokemon.

It’s an easy RPG, but before you start a new game you can check boxes like “no shop buying”, “RNG hates you with shypox”, “no XP for beating under leveled enemies”, etc.

I love it because you can customize difficulty to tweak it to your liking without fiddling with mods, and does more than just slapping a x2 in every variable and punching out for the day.

130 hours spent and I will vouch DQ11 was well worth the money for a fat free RPG.

I had a 1070ti since 2018 and it has run everything I have purchased just fine.

I thought about checking out this ray tracing stuff the kids are into, but is there a card under $300 that anyone recommends? It also would need to be mini itx as I have a tiny living room gaming PC.