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Sure... In simple terms it is nothing but fear. The "pandemic" caused fear, which caused people to take counter-measures as a result. The counter measures destroyed smaller businesses, tinkered around with the supply chain, but as opposed to ending a goliath of a business like Sony it simply stalled them that's all. But it all goes back to the creation of fear from the "pandemic". Job cuts, layoffs, the list goes on at a technical level.

I think the Gamecube was cool, but that is the era in which Nintendo fell from grace, so kind of an interesting and strange milestone to achieve I guess. What's most interesting is the fact you can't find a PS5 but still managed to sell a healthy amount of them.

Unlikely. I'm pretty sure the PS2/Xbox era had such a diverse library of games, with alot of those games being shared between the two consoles, that it'd be kind of random to choose a set of games to throw on a PS2 mini.

Mortal Kombat 11 is a cake walk. I clutched like 5 #1 Ranks in the World on that game. What went wrong for you if you don't mind me asking?

You also don't want to waste too much time in one division because competitive play for games outside of fighting games can often have several limitations. Several years ago, most of the COD tournaments in the Advanced Warfare era really just focused on one type of gameplay mode. Fighting games generally let you pick whoever you want, with whatever tools you want, and you're aloud to play any way you want. Some newer people might think that they can just cheese their way through an elite tournament with spamming but that doesn't work because fighting games are based on math and frame data. There's math involved in throwing out a fireball or projectile, for example, and all a pro has to do is know how to counter that math with better math and touch you one time with a full combo punish that could result in 40% damage or more each time they touch you just single time (depending on the fighting game). That means that someone could just open you up 2 or 3 times clean and your entire bar is gone, whether you try to spam or not. So in that sense spamming is generally welcomed in tournaments, but frowned down upon in certain circumstances as people are looking for a showcase of skill and its quite frankly easier to beat people with combos.

Nope. They are just regular people; some good people and some bad.

Nothing, really, aside from maybe having a sharper mind; perhaps an above average IQ. The main bad thing that can happen to someone is that they can become addicted to being sedentary (sitting around all the time); which could lead to health issues obviously.

Nope. You can pop into a tournament with a $15 thousand dollar jackpot entirely unannounced (aside from registration) and after having started training 2 weeks prior to the tournament and take the entire prize home right on the spot. E-sports experience can build up skill and experience, or it could quite frankly create negative characteristics in a person such as boredom, exhaustion, depression, etc.

$75 thousand dollars per year is more than an aircraft mechanic makes on average, and mid tier competitors are pretty easy to beat in some competitions. So if mid tier video game players are earning $75 grand a year for basically being in average territory, then they are over paid.

Several different games in several different genres with a flexible rotating team.

Yeah I got a Switch and two PSP's right here (1001 and a 3001); they are very different than Switch and the PSP has a much smaller screen than even the smaller version of the handheld Switch. If someone has only seen the PSP and Switch online and haven't seen them in person next to each other, now that I think of it they actually do look somewhat similar. But the representation of the PSP's size in an internet picture can obviously misconstrue how large it is in real life (about a quarter the size of the Switch). PSP is about the size of the palm of your hand when fingers are extended. PSP 1001 is a little heavy, 2001 is about the same, then the 3rd version is extremely flimsy and light. Playstation Vita is a little bigger and hardened.

Sure, I'll play on just about anything although I prefer traditional controllers as opposed to motion control stuff (aside from Switch and SOME Wii/U games) and I don't do VR. Only started recently and I've played plenty of really solid mobile games.

Gamestop is terrible and should just do what they really want to do and become what they've always been destined to be; which is a pawn shop. Just go for it Gamestop. Change into your final boss form. You never know, there have been some pretty huge gaming pawn shops, but this place is a dishonest disgrace giving people pennies for games in some cases. That said: I've bought like 2 items at a Gamestop in the past 15 plus years.

Need for Speed Underground (specifically the underground ones). Oh, and Mario Kart of course. But as is already talked about being done with the next Mario Kart, it may be more or less like a Super Smash Brothers Kart (involving a plethora of Nintendo characters), which I've personally want before MK8. Mario Kart 8 is like the best selling Switch game so they are still milking it, but the original version of that title still came out in like 2014. That's like 8 years of them not releasing a mainline Mario Kart, although I haven't tried the one where you build stuff and race the physical toy Mario Kart around your house because I haven't had the money; it sounds cool though and will get it eventually.

Good topic; not trolling or trying to derail the topic, but I'm a huge Assassins Creed buff that's reviewed virtually every game minus the handhelds (which I will review them as well) and Valhalla; the latter game of which I have but will play later. I find the fictional history of the Assassins Creed games to probably be closer to reality than the tours, which I tried to play and just got bored. They are ok.

I am sold already. Technically speaking Oddworld Strangers Wrath (original and HD remake) had weapons you used that were all alive and they did said some stuff in unintelligible gibberish when equipped, so this game reminds me of that. Only thing I don't like about it is that it appears to be download only where I like to physically own my stuff in general. The shooting mechanics and stuff look pretty solid, although they didn't show alot of the tools besides the different talking and what appears to be a device similar to Zelda's hookshot. Taking down the drug cartels also sounds like fun. Maybe I will try clutching the #1 Rank in the World on this game if possible. I will likely go for it day 1 and see what I can do.

I don't play PC games because of all the hackers and fraud, but Nintendo would never do this unless there were likely a merger or sell out at the Nintendo company. I believe that mobile games have the largest market out there, so that's part of the reason why Nintendo put some of its licensed stuff on cell phones/etcetera.

I think most of that stuff got patched out because I only recently played and beat it. Only bug I had was a problem where you move in one direction and infinitely run, and this was not my controller(s) as I both changed them several times to check and verified the bug online. Still a great game though.

It was likely toned down due to the current political environment and everyone has hurt feelings these days. The Southpark makers are one of the kings of comedy and everything in the first game (Stick of Truth) is exactly how America should be when it comes to humor. I personally reviewed Stick of Truth and marked it a little lower not because of the political references of the latter boss fights, but because I just didn't like them. The original Southpark 64 was, I think, the first Southpark game ever made and it isn't bad but the 64 didn't have the hardware to capture the essence of Southpark in its full glory, so it has sort of a strange feel to the game. Southpark Lets Go Tower Defense Play is excellent, particularly with multiplayer. I only played a little bit of Fractured but Whole so far and didn't like alot of it.

Yes; the game would be eligible for both a remake or a remaster, but high definition remasters are usually reserved for games that sold relatively well and Revolver was in the Playstation 2 era where it was hard to break out because there was a vast library of titles. I don't know what other games Rockstar does besides GTA and Red Dead, so it could very well be next on their list. Companies these days aren't really going with an HD remaster for lesser known very old titles like this one, though, so with the outrageous and unpredictable success of its successor -- I can see them making a sequel to Red Dead Redemption and throwing out an easy remake of the original game.

The first Zuma had one of the hardest achievements to get in the world back around the 2011 era. I have personally never beaten it.

Yeah it's likely to set Perfect Dark back for sure, but IF it actually gets released, I'm guessing it will be late 2024, 2025 or even later.

I just beat Blackgate the other day, and it is legit 2.5D because you side scroll but twist the camera around in every which direction jumping into the backround and foreground, often with camera rotations and stuff. It feels very much like an authentic Arkham game (more or less like Asylum), minus the boss fights which are kind of shoddy. It is actually very well made and you could see the 2.5D on display at the beginning of the game during a high profile chase scene with another villain.

We've heard very little about either of the two because they've only been recently announced. Splinter Cell re-make will probably come out rather quick (late 23, sometime in 24 or 25 at the latest). Perfect Dark coming out at all is still kind of a tossup; it could theoretically get cancelled, but a likely scenario is 2025 or 2026 launch.

Agreed because the director of the new Perfect Dark recently left the company, which means it could be set back: Perfect Dark Director Dan Neuburger Seems to Have Left The Initiative (bosslevelgamer.com) Splinter Cell seemingly has no major issues like that, and a director leaving mid-development is rare anyway. Hideo Kojima was fired at like the end of Metal Gear Solid 5's production and that was extremely rare.