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I wish this was real. I want this to exist as a gaming reality.

I need this game in my life

Make it official, Sega.

Whoa, man, I’ll definitely get this. The NES game was sort of awful, in that it was a real challenge to me as a kid and it never seemed to work the way it was supposed to, but I’ll welcome a second chance with the series.

I don’t care as long as we get more! Come on!

For me, personally, if I had to pick, I’d honestly probably… not care! Give me a level based one, a Metroidvania, a 3D one, whatever. Just make sure it’s good!

Edit: After blitzing through that Dead Cells DLC just now, I’ve got to say that that was pretty much perfect. Loved it. Absolutely incredible. Can’t believe 0.1% of PS players have beaten Dracula yet though, according to the trophies. Get at it, all?

@-wc- Agreed. MGS is, to me, the pinnacle of gaming, despite some of the goofiness in the systems from time to time. It’s just so “itself.” If only Konami would just give Kojima the rights to his series, and tell him, “If you use it, you use it. If you don’t, you don’t. Thank you for everything.”

Didn’t realize Third Strike was so popular, but I agree with that assessment. SF2 and 3 are fantastic. 4 was ok, but in all honesty that was sort of a nadir season for fighting games when it released. I feel like I was pretty disappointed in every fighter I picked up in the PS3/360 era with 3D visuals, outside Virtua Fighter 5. 5, I liked well enough, but it didn’t feel essential at release the way 2 and 3 did. Hoping 6 is top shelf. The beta made it seem like it could be possible. I’m not competitive with fighters anymore, so I’m hopeful for a good story mode nowadays.

Yeah, definitely. The strongest one I have is of Cuphead. When my son was born, there were complications from his birth, so my wife and I were at the hospital for hours a day every day for two weeks or so. It was exhausting. When the hospital made us leave, my wife and I went home and played Cuphead and watched Over the Garden Wall. Our life was really scrambled in that time, but if you can beat Cuphead, you can do anything, right? And oddly enough, my son was really drawn to the characters as he’s gotten older too, even before he knew the story of his birth. Cuphead reminds me of the hospital though. There’s plenty of other games that give me distinct spatial memories too, but that one stands out to me.

I’m totally ok if the rpg genre coalesces back into one. Back in my youth, we didn’t call FF4 or Chrono Trigger a JRPG or ARPG or whatever. It was just an RPG. It wasn’t til maybe PS2 or PS3 era that a distinction was made. Recent FF outings haven’t even really felt like traditional jrpgs anyway, so I can see his logic here.

Really happy to see Castle Crashers make the list. I feel like I’ve played through the game about half a dozen times with so many different people and always had a great time with it. It’s one of the ultimate party games in the genre.

I mean, Nuts & Bolts was fine, but it’s a long shot from a BotW sequel.

I don’t usually buy these types of things, but if LRG does Switch for this someday, I’ll jump for it.

Comparatively to other things in this current economy, gaming is still a relatively cheap hobby. $70 for a game is considerably cheaper than doing anything socially in my area. If I take my family to the museum, I’m spending nearly $200 for admission for a day out and then I’m spending $70 on food and don’t even get me started on paying for gas to get there. Ridiculous. I can’t complain about the cost of gaming when it’s the cost to take my family out to dinner at a restaurant. And the less said on the cost of groceries, the better. I bought a house last year out of necessity and I pay DOUBLE what all my direct neighbors pay due to increased interest rates and inflated pricing in my area and lucky me because the pricing isn’t going anywhere for now (and my mortgage is cheaper than some of my friends who had rent increases in the upwards of +$500 a year the past two years). If gaming costs rose outside of relation to other things, that’d be one thing, but I have no ill will toward Nintendo for having one $70 title and it’s Zelda. It’s worth it.

Samurai Shodown 2… man, what a game. I prefer the NeoGeo Pocket game to the actual mainline series for some reason. It’s just so simple, so perfect as a fighter.

While I was a huge advocate for piracy about 10 years ago and still do feel there’s issues with getting enough retro releases expediently on modern hardware, I only purchase retro releases legally at this point. In a way, some retro releases feel as exciting as new games these days.

But, saying that, man do I pine for Megaman Legends, Adventure Island 2, and Chibi Robo to get official releases in some capacity!

Man, I hope this comes to Switch sometime soon. It looks excellent.

One of the most underrated games of all time. Really want to play this remake!

Joycons, all day every day. Man, it’s great to be able to really lounge to the full extreme and have joycons in hand. Feels like controlling the game with you mind, except not your mind… feels like pure instinct.

And honestly Dualsense is in second place for me. Love that haptic feedback. At first, I thought it was clunky otherwise, but as time passes, the design grows fonder and fonder to me where it just “feels right” in a lot of places. It’s like the PlayStation’s controller finally got to level up from a Squirtle all the way to a Blastoise, if you know what I mean.

GameCube is in third place. Never even had a GameCube and every day I probably regret it a little bit.

Let’s be honest about the old controllers. They feel weird to return to at this point. The NES controller feels like the most awkward feather in the world at this point. For all my time playing mine, it just doesn’t seem right when return to it all these years later. The N64 controller is almost more natural feeling now… almost….

IV, VI, and XV are criminally underrated in this list and IX, XI, XIV are criminally overrated. Love FF forever though. Everyone has a different list and it’s amazing for that.

The NES Castlevanias are underrated as they always are, I see. Just once I’d like to see the original beat Castlevania 4… and Simon’s Quest crack the top 10 (and Castlevania 3 in its rightful place at #3, tied with Rondo, of course).

Love this list though. Oh the hours I’ve spent with the Belmont clan over the years!

No Zak McKraken and the Alien Mindbenders?

Of all my time in gaming, my biggest regret perhaps is skipping on the GameCube in middle school. That regret is mostly because I’ve wanted to play Chibi-Robo.