I hate how modern games are released in broken states and the publishers expect you to pay full price for them. Then, when they've eventually updated them to what they should have been on release, they're a 10th of the price. I also hate how most modern games need 160GB+ updates on day one. Come on,...

I still use a 29" CRT for any console pre-HDMI. Doing otherwise means degraded image quality and and a lag-inducing gameplay experience.

I don't play a lot of modern games so my list is very short.

Sonic Mania
Ori and the Blind Forest
The Last of Us
Gunlord

Xeno Crisis

I view playing a lot of older JRPGs as work because so much of the leveling up in most of them feel like grinding: take a few steps, undertake the same or similarly easy battle as the last one, then repeat ad nauseum. Further, even modern games can feel like this with all the fetch quests and the li...

What are your thoughts on using save states in modern game collections or mini consoles, like the SNES Mini and the Mega Drive Mini? For me, there's two trains of thought when it comes to using save states or not, which I have broken down into two styles of play: The Journey is More Important than R...

DPCameron wrote:Philosophic principles are common in almost every game, just to varying degrees. In this respect, they are similar to films.

Mario has them, Kirby has them.

Mario draws from philosophy? Please elaborate.

I'm a huge 2D Sonic fan, but there's several 8-bit games I haven't played enough of to rank. 1. Sonic 3 & Knuckles 2. Sonic the Hedgehog (Master System) 3. Sonic Mania 4. Sonic CD 5. Sonic the Hedgehog (Mega Drive) 6. Sonic 2 (Mega Drive) 7. Sonic Rush 8. Sonic 4 Episode II 9. Sonic 4 Episode I ...

I'm definitely a retro gamer. I don't own any of the modern systems, and while some modern games interest me, I know I won't purchase them until the systems are last gen so I can pick up the titles for much cheaper. Technically the Wii U is the last modern system I purchased, but it was one week bef...

1. Sonic 3 & Knuckles
2. Rocket Knight Adventures
3. Gunstar Heroes
4. Phantasy Star IV
5. Ghouls N' Ghosts
6. The Story of Thor
7. Road Rash II
8. Battletoads
9. Virtua Racing
10. Thunderforce IV