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That Bruce Willis game that was in a bunch of magazines in the 90s. Looked it up, Apocalypse. Never played it but remember a celeb being in a game being a big deal.

1. Portal
2. Team Fortress 2
3. Rogue Galaxy
4. Peggle

After being delayed again in October, it looks like this thing is FINALLY coming out. Although, the email they sent out seemed to be encouraging people to delay their delivery so as not to miss it over the holidays, which is kind of weird. Assuming mine arrives when they say it will, I will try to post some observations.

@dipset It's so crazy. Top of the group, 6 games left and only one against the US and none against Mexico. Being a Vancouver sports fan, it's hard not to think they will fuck it all up but this team is actually legit. I don't think they'll be needing a coin toss to get through this time.

I guess I like the rush of the pre-order craze because I had zero interest in getting either but then jumped into the pre-orders day of and managed to get one of each. The Xbox I sold to a friend before it had even arrived. The PS5 another friend wanted and then changed his mind so I kept it.

I'm not sure if anything has changed but I remember the UI felt super barebones and beta to me. I was pretty disappointed with the launch lineup but was fortunately in the middle of Borderlands 3 so got to play the PS5 version of that a lot. Save transfers didn't work properly and it stopped tracking my progress. I didn't see any games that interested me so that was when I decided to sell it. While I would say the price isn't justified, once I went back to Borderlands on PS4, I really saw the difference. The load times and frame rate on PS5 are insane. I have barely played Borderlands since. Still doesn't justify the PS5 price to me but super impressive stuff.

@dipset Please don't tell me they are looking at taking Tom Wilson.

I think players will quickly get an idea of how little competition they are facing and adjust accordingly. It's probably in China's best interest to go down 2 early so Canada/USA cool off a bit and don't throw any huge hits to build momentum. Even so, I think going into a game against China, other teams won't be super interested in playing physically simply due to the risk of hurting themselves.

Now, that all goes out the window if they take Tom Wilson.

@dipset There are so many things to laugh at here. China trying to Arab prince a team (with the minor caveat that all players must be nationals) in 7 years. This team having to go up against the two biggest, baddest teams in international hockey, on the biggest stage, on home ice. Brandon Yip still playing hockey.

And I feel zero guilt laughing at this. These are grown-ups who play hockey so it's not like it's Squid Game or something, they know what they're signing up for. Plus imagine what it'll be like to see McDavid skating against these guys.

@yoshi I don't know why people are saying these are hard. I did them all first try with the joycons in the off hands. Seriously though, if I miss the down input to charge shinespark on the last part of one of these again...I will probably yell "why can't I use the D-pad to move?!" again.

Of note, Eternal Sonata has 2-player coop so you can assign different characters to each player. Played through it with my wife years ago and it was great fun.

Eternal Sonata is really good. The combat and visuals are great. But oh my GOD the talking. It never ends.

Sports games can be lumped in too.

@JDINCINERATOR If we replace "revolutionary" with "they don't change enough year-over-year", does that help? I think "revolutionary" is what it would actually take for a racing or sports game to be considered an all-time great because, really, each new successful IP in the genres is usually just a refinement of what others have done before. So, I guess until they make a 2-man Olympic skeleton simulator with a flesh light peripheral, these games will just come and go.

@dipset I was on the fence but your comment convinced me to finally cancel my pre-order of SMT V on the grounds I will likely never play and definitely never finish it.

I think, living in Vancouver (and I assume Toronto), it's really easy to convince yourself that insane prices are just the cost of doing business but then it's also easier to reach a breaking point and realize you don't actually need any of these things to live.

Fuck, sorry @JDINCINERATOR. People who eat pizza in the theatre. Much like transit, I feel like there's an unwritten rule some people are not privy to that no open air food should be eaten in a theatre.

@dipset This all reminds me of my feelings about and behaviour towards Nintendo - particularly regarding their retro content.

I’ve been in clear out mode lately and told myself I needed to sell some games before I bought Metroid Dread. Both of those things happened this weekend and Metroid just arrived. Kids’ bed time can’t come soon enough.

We also bought our plane tickets to move to Japan next August - hence the clear out. God I hope they have video games there.

@axel but 1 and 2 are codes, no?

@mbun I feel like they probably plan to add another expansion to the online for Gamecube and beyond. They have gone in hard on the subscription model of late so I don't see them giving people permanent access to high demand products with a one time purchase if they don't have to. Oh my god, epiphany, they totally will and it will include Melee with online and everybody will eat it up. Ever since that guy with the super punchable face took over it feels like they have been much more into giving less for more.

@dipset said in Videogame Pet Peeves:

The worst part about the game never ending when you think it is, is because it always results in me staying up to 3-4am when I thought it was nearly finished at midnight. And in the end, I could barely enjoy finishing the game because I'm way too tired. But the game probably gave me no reasonable place to save, or I'm not sure if it autosaved.

This happened to me a few notable times last gen with The Evil Within and Persona 5 EVERYTHING

With Rest Mode we can finally just put that issue to bed, but even then, you're playing with fire a bit in case your system accidentally turns off overnight.

Sick pun.

@paulmci27 You talking just western releases?

Linear games

@dipset +1 for Norm MacDonald