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  1. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    I’m nine hours into The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales and I’m loving it!

    I’m nine hours into The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales and I’m loving it!

  2. Comment on What is your eleventh favorite video game? in ~games

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    Spiritfarer. An absolute banger of a side-scrolling, platforming, “town” (ship) manager, farming sim, social sim, extrrrrrrrrrrrrrrravanganza!!! Could be a Nintendo game. It just doesn’t make the...

    Spiritfarer. An absolute banger of a side-scrolling, platforming, “town” (ship) manager, farming sim, social sim, extrrrrrrrrrrrrrrravanganza!!! Could be a Nintendo game. It just doesn’t make the list because my top 10 is already populated with Animal Crossing for the GCN, but Spiritfarer is something else entirely. The combination of gameplay mechanics is just so unique in its implementation. The characters are all endearing and memorable in their own way. The story and dialogues are so masterfully written. The music is touching. The hand-drawn art is a feast for the eyes. It’s also a game that can be 100%ed, which I really appreciated, so much so, in fact, that I played through it twice. I also bought it on sale for dirt cheap. My final note on this masterpiece is that when I rolled the credits, I cried for like 15 minutes. Never happened to me with any game before that. Real tear jerker. Highly recommended. I hope they make a sequel someday or a NS2E.

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  3. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    This week I finally reached what I thought was the fifth and final Lord/boss in Tales of Arise and... nope. lol There’s a lot more after that, it seems. I had already preordered The Adventures of...

    This week I finally reached what I thought was the fifth and final Lord/boss in Tales of Arise and... nope. lol There’s a lot more after that, it seems.

    I had already preordered The Adventures of Elliot, so... I guess I’ll be playing three games at once until I finish Tales of Arise.

    Third one being my beloved Pokopium.

  4. Comment on What's a game you're dying to play that doesn't exist? in ~games

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    A brand new 2D-HD Pokémon mainline entry that is entirely designed with sprite art. Call me a nostalgia whore, but I just think that 3D Pokémon hasn’t yet caught up to 2D... with the possible...

    A brand new 2D-HD Pokémon mainline entry that is entirely designed with sprite art.

    Call me a nostalgia whore, but I just think that 3D Pokémon hasn’t yet caught up to 2D... with the possible exception of Legends: Arceus, which I have not played yet because despite its fun gameplay, it looks horribly outdated, and is in dire need of a remake on the Switch 2.

    4 votes

  5. Comment on What's a game you're dying to play that doesn't exist? in ~games

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    You’re thinking about Star Garden. It’s not exactly what I personally want, because I’d like it to also look more modern, and the gameplay outside of the garden to not be based on Kirby Air Rider...

    You’re thinking about Star Garden.

    It’s not exactly what I personally want, because I’d like it to also look more modern, and the gameplay outside of the garden to not be based on Kirby Air Rider (which, by the way, this game has been in development long before Kirby Air Riders on the Switch).

    So yeah, I’m 1,000,000,000% with you. I want a Sonic Adventure 3 with a Chao Garden. By itself, it wouldn’t be as fun.

    Or someone come along and create a 3D platformer with something like a Chao Garden that works in tandem with it.

  6. Comment on What's a game you're dying to play that doesn't exist? in ~games

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    I would love that, but if we had The Matrix level of technology, otherwise it’s just a motion sickness nightmare for most of us, I’m afraid.

    I would love that, but if we had The Matrix level of technology, otherwise it’s just a motion sickness nightmare for most of us, I’m afraid.

  7. Comment on What are your gaming idiosyncracies? in ~games

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    Finally. Someone who gets me.

    I'll steer clear of games trying to be movies.

    Finally. Someone who gets me.

    3 votes

  8. Comment on What are your predictions and wishes for the upcoming Nintendo Direct? in ~games

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    I know, right? Hot diggidy dang. They dropped 1, 2, and 3, and announced Genesis. Woah! I think I no excuse not to play them now. lol We’ll see. I want to finish Tales of Arise in time for...

    I know, right? Hot diggidy dang. They dropped 1, 2, and 3, and announced Genesis. Woah!

    I think I no excuse not to play them now. lol We’ll see. I want to finish Tales of Arise in time for Adventures of Elliot. In late July I’ll get Splatoon Raiders, then Fire Emblem in mid-September. I’ll be busy with Pokopium in the meantime. Nothing of interest releases in October, so... maybe that’ll be my chance to get into Xenoblade, in which case I’d like to play the first one. I suspect that we’ll get Ocarina of Time in late November.

    1 vote

  9. Comment on What are your gaming idiosyncracies? in ~games

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    Wow. I thought I was the only one who did that, although sometimes I later use it for burning material.

    Wow. I thought I was the only one who did that, although sometimes I later use it for burning material.

    1 vote

  10. Comment on What are your gaming idiosyncracies? in ~games

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    I get this one. It’s super weird for me to get health back from food. That’s not how food works. It helps you to heal in the long term maybe, but healing like... ten hearts worth of damage to my...

    Like in Breath of the Wild I only use potions, because healing by eating food doesnt feel realistic. Or in Tears of the Kingdom I never used the paraglider because normal adventurers cant fly.

    I get this one. It’s super weird for me to get health back from food. That’s not how food works. It helps you to heal in the long term maybe, but healing like... ten hearts worth of damage to my body requires magic for my brain.

  11. Comment on What are your gaming idiosyncracies? in ~games

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    A man (miner) after my own heart. I love gathering boring resources for others. I also did the chunk thing. I preferred doing that in the older versions though. Less types of blocks and...

    A man (miner) after my own heart. I love gathering boring resources for others. I also did the chunk thing. I preferred doing that in the older versions though. Less types of blocks and structures. Less complicated.

    3 votes

  12. Comment on What are your gaming idiosyncracies? in ~games

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    Same.

    Go through the options menu before I start the game for the first time.

    Same.

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  14. Comment on What are your gaming idiosyncracies? in ~games

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    I intentionally walk with my characters, rather than run. If I feel that something is about to happen, or I’m taking a good look at an interesting environment, then also I make the character walk...

    I intentionally walk with my characters, rather than run. If I feel that something is about to happen, or I’m taking a good look at an interesting environment, then also I make the character walk slowly, as if I am the one. I love that kind of immersion. I hate it when characters only run.

    6 votes

  15. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    Still on Tales of Arise. I’m 30 hours in. I hope I can finish the main campaign until the 18th to play Adventures of Elliot. On the side, I’m also still playing Pokopium. I’m at 160+ hours, and...

    Still on Tales of Arise. I’m 30 hours in. I hope I can finish the main campaign until the 18th to play Adventures of Elliot.

    On the side, I’m also still playing Pokopium. I’m at 160+ hours, and more than 50 Pokémon on my new save.

    3 votes

  16. Comment on I'm ever more annoyed with Steam in ~games

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    This. You can order by “less than $10” and “less than $5” or so, but that’s manual, and you need to be looking at the list. I like your idea of allowing us to get notified when the sales fall...

    The wishlist/sale feature is extremely effective in enticing impulse purchases. Features that would limit this are of course not implemented. For example setting wishlist alerts only for below a certain price

    This.

    You can order by “less than $10” and “less than $5” or so, but that’s manual, and you need to be looking at the list. I like your idea of allowing us to get notified when the sales fall below a certain price much better.

    As someone playing on Apple Silicon, I’d like Valve to... have pity on us and improve our side of things? Please?

    12 votes

  17. Comment on What are your predictions and wishes for the upcoming Nintendo Direct? in ~games

  18. Comment on What are your predictions and wishes for the upcoming Nintendo Direct? in ~games

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    Bold predictions. Curious to see which ones you get right.

    Bold predictions. Curious to see which ones you get right.

    1 vote

  19. Comment on What are your predictions and wishes for the upcoming Nintendo Direct? in ~games

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    Oh my goodness... We must be twins separated at birth or something. I have been screaming from the rooftops that I want a remake of the original with QOL updates and you listed a lot of them. It’s...

    My biggest desire is a remake of the original GameCube game with new QoL features from the newer games. While I see a lot of people wanting a remake of New Leaf, the original had this special, truly cozy charm that the rest of the series has just never recaptured. I'd love to see them return there and add some newer features, like hairstyles, proper clothes, newer tools, swimming, the Roost, bigger houses, etc. They could have Kapp'n take you to an island with newer content too instead of the original island (though I think some players would LOVE the second house).

    Oh my goodness... We must be twins separated at birth or something.

    I have been screaming from the rooftops that I want a remake of the original with QOL updates and you listed a lot of them. It’s like you said: The rest of the series just never recaptured the charm of the original. I think that a big part of it were all the additions that they added to the Japanese version, with all the holidays, the wacky villager dialogues, and extra items.

    Subsequent games still had holidays but they felt... hollow. Hollow holidays. Then New Horizons mostly killed them off almost entirely. The villagers became props. We did get a lot of extra furniture, clothes, and other customization options, along with the ability to heavily modify the town itself, but what I want more than anything, is to integrate into the village, not radically change it or develop it from the ground up.

    I was thinking how I could describe to someone my motivation to play the GCN entry, what I want to do in it. It would be something like this: “I want to move to a cute little town, where I start my life from scratch. I want to befriend the villagers and get to know their likes, dislikes, and stories. I want to live in the natural environment and keep it mostly as it is. I want to catch bugs, fish, seashells, fruits, and other things to make money with, so I can expand my home and buy clothes and furniture. I want to collect that furniture and decorate my home with it. I want to enjoy fun and clever mini games (with proper gameplay elements and strategies) through holidays and events, as many different national holidays as there are, both in the East and the West. I want to be surprised every week by the return of some wacky new character who shows up at random. I want to write letters to my neighbors and friends. I want to invite them over to see my town, meet my digital friends, and take a look at how I decorated the interior of my home. I want to make cute patterns for clothes, paintings, floors, and walls (but not spread them around the village outside). I want to hop on Kappn’s boat and hear him sing a song about cucumbers to me, while he takes me over to my secret little island. I want the villagers to have a mind of their own and leave the town if they choose to. I want to hug them goodbye and bid them farewell, and then give a warm welcome to a new resident, maybe even someone from a friend’s town, whose letters they share with me. What I want more than anything though... is for Harriet to chop off the male character’s “horns” and give him a proper hair cut.”

    1 vote

  20. Comment on What are your predictions and wishes for the upcoming Nintendo Direct? in ~games

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    Dang! Donkey Kong Bananza worse than Z-A!? Indeed, the breadth of human experience is boundless. lol

    Dang! Donkey Kong Bananza worse than Z-A!? Indeed, the breadth of human experience is boundless. lol