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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.

This was yet another franchise that had no business going open-world. The Sonic series' gameplay has always been about going in one direction very fast. They're basically racing games. Making an open-world Sonic game is like dropping a Lamborghini in the middle of a forest and removing the finish line. The Legend of Sonic: Breath of the Knuckles is just another cash grab driven by investors who can't comprehend that no matter how much money it made, you can't just turn anything into Fallout.

Back in 2015 I spent an absolutely stupid amount of time on a single game which I thoroughly regret. Back in the day I was a Kojima fanboy, and had convinced myself that Metal Gear Solid 5 was going to be the gaming event of the century. So, I used some of my vacation time and took an entire week off work on the week the game released. And so for a week I did nothing but play MGS5, with breaks for eating, sleeping, showering, etc. I'm certain there were multiple 16-hour sessions in there. I put so many hours in that I was able to finish the game the very next week, and this is a game that takes around 250 hours to finish. And my reward for my insane gaming streak was Kojima kicking me in the balls at the end of the game and acting like he did me a favor. And that's how I learned not to fanboy for game developers, and not to spend an entire week on a single video game.

Atari: Atari 2600 Nintendo: NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, Wii Mini, Switch, GBC, GBA, GBA SP. SEGA: Genesis Mini, Saturn, Dreamcast, Game Gear. Sony: PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4, PSP, PS TV. Microsoft: XBox, XBox 360, XBox One X SNK: Neo Geo Mini (Nakoruru Red Edition) My first console was the 2600, which came secondhand with a few games from some people my parents knew. This was early 90s, so it was already a very old console. After maybe a year, my parents upgraded me to the SNES (I completely skipped Gen 3 growing up, which is why I don't have any nostalgia for it). I didn't seriously get into video games until the Gameboy Color and N64 (largely thanks to Pokemon). Gen 6 was the first time I had every single major console while they were current-gen. Gamecube was my first gen 6 console, PS2 was the first console I ever bought with my own money. During my early adult life I was dirt poor, so I didn't upgrade to gen 7 until around 2010. Gen 7 was where I really started to get into game collecting, with my PS3 collection consisting of over 40 games. Gen 8 was mostly a repeat of gen 7, with my main console being PS4.

1: Gameplay over everything else. The game needs to be fun to play with no unnecessary parasitic systems interfering with the core gameplay, and realism needs to take a backseat to convenience. I don't care if I parked my horse 20 miles from my current position, make it come when I whistle for it! 2: Offline Playability. The entire game needs to be playable without an internet connection 3: Polish. Kinda related to #2, but if you can't ship your game in a state where it's fully playable right out of the box, don't expect me to buy it. 4: Sound Direction. As long as the music isn't repetitive, characters don't make me want to punch them when I see their mouths open, and the sound of my character's footsteps doesn't annoy me, we're good. 5: Story. Just have a story that makes sense. It doesn't really even have to be that good. A lot of the most "playable" games I've ever played don't even have stories. 6: Graphics/Visuals. This is mostly an obsolete category for judging games today, as with the funding and talent available to today's developers, it's nearly impossible to make a truly bad-looking game unless you really try to.

I've never been a fan of them. They've always seemed useless and pointless to me, unless they're actually integrated into the game itself and provide tangible benefits (like in the RE2 and RE3 remakes, that was the right way to do trophies).

I'll keep retro gaming for as long as I'm able to. As for keeping up with new releases and consoles, I'll keep going until digital distribution and/or cloud gaming take over everything. I'm already restricting myself to buying one 9th-gen console and 10 games for it due to the state of the industry, but when the big companies tell me I don't own a game I just paid for, I'm getting out of the video game rat race for good.

The KH series is a perfect storm of "I didn't have a long-term plan for making this a series" colliding with "Hey this was successful, we want you guys making more of these games regularly". The sheer amount of fluff that was jammed into the storyline is never more obvious than when you consider that there was a gap of 14 years between the release of KH2 and its sequel KH3, but we were getting new KH games roughly every 2-3 years during that gap. Even though I love KH:BBS, I really do wish the handheld games had never existed due to the irreparable damage they did to the overall story. Anyhow I got what I wanted out of KH3 (Roxas and Xion finally being freed), so I'm done with the series unless they make another game where Roxas is the main character.

Favorite Videogame : Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition Best Story: Star Ocean: 'Til the End of Time Favorite Art Style: Guilty Gear series "I'll finish it someday": Assassin's Creed: Valhalla It Made you Cry: Star Ocean: 'Til the End of Time Best Combat: Final Fantasy VII Remake Favorite Protagonist: Eivor (AC:V) You Like it but everyone hates it: Resident Evil 3 Remake You Hate it but everyone likes it: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Favorite Horror game: Until Dawn Favorite Fighting game: Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate Biggest Letdown: Last of Us part 2 "Back in the day Game": Metal Slug Indie recomendation: Rime

Final Fantasy IX Star Ocean: 'Til the End of Time Dragon Quest Builders 2 Kingdom Hearts 2 Golden Sun 1+2

4th Gen: Metal Slug 5th Gen: Final Fantasy IX 6th Gen: Final Fantasy XII 7th Gen: Spec Ops: The Line 8th Gen: Until Dawn

The only ones I'm interested in right now are the RE4 remake, the Persona 4 Arena Ultimax port, and Warhammer 40K Space Marine 2. I'm curious about Valkyrie Profile: Elysium, but given S-E's track record with classic Tri-Ace properties post-gen 6, I'm afraid they're going to butcher it.

Trailer looked good. I hope they get rid of the QTEs that plagued the original, and make Ashley useful. I don't want her to be some sort of badass or anything, just give her a small revolver so she can shoot Ganados in the knees so she isn't dead weight. Mostly I just want them to get this one out of the way so they can remake Code Veronica X.

All of my PS2 favorites have been ported to PS4 by now, with the sole exception of Code Veronica X (which will likely get a remake after they're done with RE4) and SoulCalibur 3. I'm still hoping for a remaster of SoulCalibur 3, the sheer amount of single-player modes that game had is staggering.