MegasonicZX

Wow I had no idea that Sonic Unleashed & Left 4 Dead, two of my favourite games of all time, were only one day apart release-wise. Unleashed remains the Sonic game to give me the richest overall experience, & L4D is full of precious memories & good times. Happy 10th to both.

thinking about pokemon, i'm kind of disappointed that the capturing mechanics never got more focus, or some kind of overhaul before let's go. obviously there was only so much that could be done on the game boy, but the battle system kept getting expanded upon with each game, yet it seems like capturing never became much more than "wander around until you find a thing, beat it up, throw balls". and even let's go seems like more of a sideways movement with its changes rather than making it more interesting.
i mean, they managed to make just photographing pokemon into a fondly remembered (if not terribly deep) game by putting pokemon into interesting situations and adding some puzzle-like elements for you to poke at. they could do similar things for catching 'mons; having some overworld "puzzles" to attract or track down less common pokemon, and reframe capturing around appealing to that pokemon's nature/personality. like a tough pokemon might respect your strength for beating it up, a friendly one might join you if you give it the right food or otherwise be nice to it, a skittish one might run unless you lock it down with a status effect or something...i guess it'd be something like undertale's sparing system, except your options wouldn't be determined by what you're fighting but by your current pokemon, your inventory, etc.

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>when you’re so close to 10,000 likes

https://spacepirate-ryoko-picblog.tumblr.com/post/180173123463/
 
"And we rewarded his help by never putting similar effort into a Pokemon game again"

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Both this and Last Window from a few weeks ago got delivered to the wrong house. Reggie is fucking tampering with my mail to stop me from getting my hands on Cing games.

And the Sunset Overdrive PC port is official. It's releasing tomorrow:
 
Awful secret-keeping, but YEEEEEESSSSSSS

And now, here's the nominees for TGA:
https://thegameawards.com/awards/
 

Hey SSMB.
Fist Bump is neat.
*runs*

I'm really hoping the SEGA AGES Switch series gets as far as rereleasing a nice chunk of Model 2/Saturn games. They're the height of retro arcade, yet besides the odd PC port, SEGA hardly looks into them. Plus it would be a neat way to vindicate the console.
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GOODBYE EVERYONE I'M GOIN' TO JAPAN

The more times I listen to the Fist Bump version of Null Space, I can’t help but constantly feel “wow, this would be more effective if you were trapped in Null Space for a prolonged period of time, and the proceeding rampage towards Eggman is the aftermath of you wanting payback”

Replaying some Sonic Adventure. I still believe Gamma's is the campaign that would have most benefitted from a little more development time besides Sonic's. It had the most substance without feeling like either a glorified mini game or a retread of Sonic, and while it's far too easy to start off with, the difficulty curve is good with only one point the momentum is broken with loads of walking into cutscenes.
Amy's levels are pretty good too, but the problem is I can't think of any way to really expand her story (two of her three levels are already padding).

I'm amazed we still have people on the internet that think quality and criticism can be "objective and unbiased"

Deku's english voice is pretty perfect tbh

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I take back every bad thing I've ever said about DuckTales 2017

runners' soundtrack is infuriatingly underrated.

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My close to final thoughts on DMC4 is that the nero stuff is fun but the game has almost nothing interesting to say after that

I miss @Carbo and @Nepenthe

Mario Odyssey's OST is real nice. A little more subdued than the other Mario games but that's not bad

At this point, it's definitely looking more likely that we'll get either full-on Odyssey DLC, or even more likely Odyssey 2.

I know i've said it before but I want to say it again. I'm really hoping that this is the last smash game/with this gameplay style since I feel like there are much better things that sakurai could be working on and at this point I feel like the series is starting to get a little stale.

Pirahna plant was probably the second best part of this direct lol. Wish we had more weird fighter selections like that. Definitely buying this game now after seeing a glimpse of the adventure mode, I was really worried that the game would be lacking in it's single player content but i'm glad sakurai proved me wrong.