HowHammerYou

I'd like to see the following: A Zelda game made by From Software. (Hylians' Souls?) A Lord of the Rings game made by From Software. A Metal Gear game made by Ubisoft's Ghost Recon team. Another Fallout game by Obsidian.

I don't. Usually what I do is wait a few weeks for feedback and gameplay videos to filter out so I can see if it's something I'd even want to buy. Then if I still want to buy it, I wait until it hits $30 or less. The only games I don't wait for a price drop on are first-party Nintendo games, since Nintendo rarely if ever drops their prices.

The future story has always been a stain on the series, and I'm glad they've distanced themselves from it. It was pointless in AC1, and in AC3 it jumped the shark so hard with the solar flare apocalypse that I still groan whenever I get forced back into it. I really think they should just end the AC series and transition their current vein of historical fantasy games into a new IP, that would give them a lot more freedom to create accurate historical fiction/historical fantasy games without having to tie everything into an overarching narrative.

The Kingdom Hearts universe would be an absolute nightmare to live in for anyone who isn't capable of wielding a keyblade. Your homeworld can at any second get overrun by monsters of darkness that are immune to non-magical weapons and can devour the heart of your world in a matter of hours, sending it into the realm of darkness. And even if you have space travel, you still can't flee to another world unless you have a keyblade or some sort of inborn magical ability to bypass all of the barriers.

I choose 2-handed swords whenever they're an option, and I prefer heavy plate armor.

I'd just like to see a completely white PS5 (where even the actual body of the console is white instead of just the panels), or a PS5 completely made in the Cosmic Red color. The latter would actually get me halfway tempted to buy one, especially if it was a slim model. I love red game consoles.

If it includes all of the DLC released for the game on-disc, or is a complete remake of a game I liked from 2 or more generations ago, I'm generally ok with it.

South Park: the Stick of Truth. I really need to replay that soon.

Metal Gear Solid 3. It badly needs a remaster/remake, the controls have not aged well at all.

It goes for around $120 right now, but if you shop around, you can find it for $90. If you want better performance, there's an improved model with a better processor called the RG351.

Mine's probably the PS4. It may not have had as many must-have 10/10 games made for it as older consoles (The era of must-have games kinda ended with gen 7), but the sheer volume of great games made for it is beyond any other console I've had. Plus, it ended up getting ports of a lot of my favorite games from past generations.

I have an Anbernic RG350. It can emulate anything up to PS1 at full speed. It's got a 3.5" screen, so it's bigger than most classic handhelds, but still small enough to fit in my pocket easily.

If you factor in inflation, games are actually cheaper now than they were in the early 2000s when the price changed to $60. Back around 2018 I did the math with an inflation calculator, and $60 from 2018 would have only been worth about $45 in 2005. I imagine today's money is worth quite a bit less. Granted there are ridiculously predatory monetization schemes in today's games and they do suck, but the root cause of them is that devs just aren't making as much money off of each copy sold as they did 15-20 years ago. Personally I'd have no problem paying $80 or even $100 for a brand-new game, that is if today's video game industry wasn't a massive shovelware factory with no creativity churning out unfinished products. As it is, I won't pay more than $30 for a game unless it's on the Switch (since Nintendo rarely lowers their prices).

The last time my TV died, I drove to the store and bought a new one the same day. I live in an isolated location where there's not much else to do for entertainment, so having the TV out of comission is unacceptable to me. Right now it's my PS4 that's dead, so I'm gaming on other platforms and trying to locate a used one at an acceptable price. I've already got a list of PS4 games I'm going to binge-play when I have a functional PS4 again.

Golden Sun 1+2, Luigi's Mansion, Majora's Mask, Ocarina of Time, Super Mario 64, and Super Mario Sunshine. Luckily I still own them all and can play them whenever I want.

I hate Stadia and other streaming platforms like it because of what they'll do to the industry and data ownership if they ever succeed. They need to be crushed out of existence.

Star Wars Battlefront 2, Fable: The Lost Chapters, and Ninja Gaiden Black. I'm still hoping Ninja Gaiden Black will get an HD remaster at some point because I consider it the definitive version of the game, I didn't like a lot of the changes they made with Sigma.

The Neo Geo AES may have been expensive, but you were essentially getting a gen 5 console at the beginning of gen 4. It was still getting games made for it until 2004, a full 14 years after it released. And this was back during the days of 5-year console generations.

I do make sure to sit through the entire movie the first time I watch it, but every time after that I'm cooking/cleaning/browsing the internet for about half the film.

Movies edge out video games for me. The reason is that I can watch a movie and do something else at the same time. Video games demand your total attention at all times, which is something I find off-putting these days.

Last I checked, XBox Series X/S was outselling the PS5. I think that's how things are going to play out this time around, especially if the chip shortage lasts until the mid-2020s. XBox will have slightly higher sales, but sales of both consoles will be low compared to last gen. I don't think either will crack 60 million.

Usually I skip gaming 3-4 days out of the week. That's not counting the 15-30 minutes I spend playing retro games on a handheld during my lunch break at work.

I try to avoid uninstalling games unless I'm never going to play them again, as was the case when I quit F2P games cold turkey. It just extends the life of the drive when you're not constantly uninstalling and re-installing games. I'm so serious about this that back in 2016 I modded my PS4 with a 4TB internal HDD so that I'd never be forced to uninstall games. Currently it's a little over half full.

Horizontal, always horizontal. I don't like vertical orientation, it makes the console look like a PC tower. I can't stand the look of PC towers. Also, horizontal is supposed to reduce the chances of your discs getting scratched, or at least that's what they said back in the day.

They seem to be becoming more and more anti-consumer. I've recently decided not to buy any more of their products after they made part 2 of the FFVII remake a PS5 exclusive. Sorry, but if you put the first third of a remake of a single game on an old console (PS4), which was very much current-gen when the game released, you should then be obligated to release the remaining two thirds of the game on that console. Basically they now want me to pay $570-ish for the next installment when I no longer have any confidence that it's even going to be any good (especially after that trailer). No thanks. I think in the long run they're going to try to turn their existing IPs into freemium-style cash cows, fail at it, and then fall from grace. Final Fantasy has always been their main pillar, but over the past 7 years they've run the brand so far into the ground that I'm not sure it can save them this time.