- Chrono Trigger
- Undertale/Deltarune
- The World Ends With You
- Jet Set Radio
- Them’s Fightin’ Herds
- F-Zero GX
- VVVVVV
- CrossCode
- Crypt of the Necrodancer
- Shatter
Splatoon 3 had the Splatoween Fest over the weekend. Same as last year’s event, just a typical Splatfest but with some spooky aesthetics added.
Some games I’m excited enough for to want to spend full price on release. Some games I’ll wait for a sale on. Just depends on the game.
Super Monkey Ball 1 and 2 got a remaster a few years back.
Fighting games and Riichi Mahjong.
There’s usually a local event for at least one of the games I play every month or so. I travel out to Combo Breaker every year for the big major as well.
For Riichi Mahjong, the local club here meets every week. Haven’t had the chance to attend a big tournament yet, but I’m hoping I can fit one into my travel budget at some point.
What am I supposed to be looking at here?
Currently a Galaxy S9+. Battery life isn’t the best anymore, and I’m running low on internal storage, but it’s still serving me well. I’m not even sure what I’d upgrade to, I really need the SD slot that almost nothing new has anymore.
Best was my old Motorola Droid 2, I miss slide-out keyboards so damn badly.
Chess.
For most games, it’s not difficult to make AI that can absolutely destroy humans. But it turns out to be very difficult to make AI that feels like a fun and engaging challenge to a human. Hardest of all is making AI that realistically plays like a human does.
The slowdown problems you experienced may be relegated to the Switch version, because…it’s the Switch.
It’s a 2D puzzle game. It’s not doing anything the Switch shouldn’t be able to handle. Champions never had any problems. Even the Wii was perfectly capable of running 20th, and not much has actually changed since then.
Like, I know the Switch is not the beefiest system ever, but this is not a game that should need a PS5 Pro or whatever.
You may not like playing against bots, but you’d also hate playing against absolutely no one.
That’s the current state of every platform but Switch.
I’m well aware that crossplay isn’t trivial, but it’s too important to not be a priority. If you’re making a multiplayer game and you want it to have a playerbase, crossplay is vital to keep your game alive. A publisher the size of Sega has the resources to get it done.
I don’t know that some new game is going to solve the player acquisition problem without a new gimmick.
Does simply being content-complete count as a gimmick? It’s something we still haven’t seen yet in the west. I think 20th and Chronicle had a ton of great things to offer new players. Chronicle’s JRPG story mode might be the most innovative onboarding experience any puzzle game has ever seen.
Too bad the west never saw it.
PSN Plus is $80/year, XBox Live is $60/year. And both of those are for the lowest tier.
Similar tech, sure, but the point is how they use this technology to play a character onstream.
You can consider it a subcategory of streamer. Livestreaming is all about your public face and persona, it’s a lot more front and center than just an icon off to the side here, so someone choosing to present themselves as a character matters a lot. And for many VTubers, they literally are playing a character onstream, there’s an entire subculture surrounding VTuber personas.
It’s just kinda cute to see Bernie learn about this whole subculture like this.
Streamers who use an animated model (or 2D PNG for the latter) instead of an IRL face camera.
Is “don’t suffer major depression” supposed to be useful advice?
$20/year for Nintendo Switch Online. That’s $20 more than it should be, but at least it’s not nearly as expensive as the other consoles.
This is why I don’t see Proton as a substitute for proper support. Because if they don’t actually support the platform, they could break it at any time and say you’re outta luck.
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