I've only owned in my lifetime: GameBoy Color, SEGA Genesis, N64, PS1, GameCube, PS2, PS3, X360 (for a month before it broke), PS4, PS Vita, Switch.

Hard to pick your favourite. The Ninteno 64 has all the childhood memories, the PS2 has those sweet sweet middle school memories, and PS3 was my peak video game playing years.

I have to go with PS3. There were tons of amazing games, the graphics blew me away, the media features made it more useful than my laptop at the time. It was a full package system that released right when I had the most time in the world to play games.

Runner ups would be PS2 or GameCube.

Makes me feel great about the $500 I spent on the current Switch and the solid 2.5 hours I got out of Zelda on the airplane. The price point to actual quality is waaaaaaay off. At least its better now.

I gotta say, Tony Hawk is one of my top 10 "one more time" games but not necessarily for the reasons EZA wrote. They seemed kinda off the mark for why its one of those games. Its more about how the game creates the combo system where you can transfer your moves into one giant combo. A lot of the missions require using the combo system to perfection:

i.e. a 2 second time limit to collect all of the items, meaning you need to combo the entire mission or else you've failed and the clock stops. Mix that in with the fact that the longer you combo, the harder it is to balance. Therefore you fail a lot, but you also come so so so close. Then the reset button is just START > DOWN DOWN > RESTART CHALLENGE. Bam bam bam. 2 seconds later and you're back in it.

One more time!

I’m cool with a planned trilogy out of the gate. It likely won’t be a specifically planned trilogy with connecting threads. I bet it’ll be a more thematic trilogy like Nier.

God of War (2018) is allegedly the first of four games in the series but that definitely felt like a prequel to whatever God of War 2 will be. I doubt it’ll be that connected to future sequels.

Nothing was worse than Assassins Creed which was a planned trilogy which never actually ended and became aimless. I also doubt it’ll be like that.

I’m willing to bet Astral Chain has a beginning, middle, and ending

@ff7cloud

Before the days of Visa Debit, I'd ask my parents for their credit card a lot to buy video games on PSN or books on Amazon. They didn't mind and I would pay them back.

I guess parents should know their kid better. They knew I wasn't a shit head kid and wouldn't ruin them financially. I don't believe the typical kid-excuse of "oh I didn't know it costs money" a lot of the time. Parents know when their kid is a shit head or not.

My guess is stock music from something like audioblocks.com

I think Ian uses Twitter so you can ask him there perhaps?

@axel

You sure its dust? I was having the drifting issue in Mario Odyssey out of the box. I always thought the Joycon infrared was off because buttons become unresponsive in Tetris sometimes too. Usually sitting closer to the TV fixes it but my room is no longer than 7 feet in the first place.

@lotias

Soooo yesterday when I read that Tweet I thought to myself... "Yeah. Has everything to do with Haas' performance and not you being some weird fringe company where nobody can even find where to buy your products in stores..."

Then jump ahead to today and I find this article:
https://www.espn.com/f1/story/_/id/27168496/haas-title-sponsor-asserts-commitment-team-rogue-tweet

So Jalopnik does some investigation to even find out who Rich Energy is and its super unclear. Then their weirdo CEO talks shit about the team he's sponsoring. THEN they go back on the Tweet and fire him.

Not gonna lie.... MAKES ME WANNA DRINK SOME RICH ENERGY BABY!!

Looks like some of the submissions for the Glinny's Cauldron game jam are spam submissions from people just trying to get their game out there. I was confused playing it when the games weren't so bad. Maybe 2-3 of the 7 so far aren't actually for Glinny's Cauldron.

Paragon 2 was ridiculously funny but I got stumped on the Mario Odyssey wall platforming with the duck. I had to give up.

EDIT: Just played "Ghost Ranch" it was surprisingly good but that damn spike section was brutal. I beat both bosses. Not sure if nothing happening is the abrupt ending?

EDIT 2: I beat "Swordcery by SWMedia. This game made me laugh out loud multiple times with the highlight being Mountain Dew and Skeezer. 10/10

Again, I’m less offended by the lack of features this has which the Switch Proper does have (HD rumble, detachable joy cons) and more annoyed at the fact they still call this a Switch when it’s not compatible with the current Switch’s out there.

We’ve been begging for a home console Pokémon for years and now we get one and it looks not much better than Pokémon Let’s Go. Now we know it has to be capable of running on this little guy as well as the regular Switch. Nintendo is kinda abandoning the idea of home console quality but also portable if this Switch Lite is not very powerful.