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Puyo Puyo Champions - help me I'm relapsing

Riichi Mahjong - mahjong causes great damage to the human spirit without a single benefit

Blue Revolver: Double Action - This has been sitting in my Steam library and I saw it got a big update. Learning how to play a shmup is on my bucket list, but so far I cannot get any further than stage 4 on the lowest difficulty. Very fun though, and banger OST.

Also went down to Round 1 earlier this week, haven't been in years. Played a few rounds of Wacca, Chunithm, Arcana Heart, and Chaos Code.

Steam Forums really are a hellhole that has allowed the worst toxicity to incubate and spread. They've got to crack down.

I think HL3's meme status is the only reason a lot of gamers today do know it. If it had come out, it would've been forgotten.

This new edition concludes the Half-Life 2 development story, with never-before-seen concept art from Episode One and Episode Two, along with ideas and experiments for the third episode that never came to be.

Not that it should be a surprise to anyone, but is this the first time Valve has openly admitted that Episode 3 is officially cancelled?

There's an entire genre of fantastic arcade/versus puzzle games not named Tetris. And that whole genre lies forgotten in ruins now. The one game that survived the longest was Puyo Puyo, but ironically, you can blame Tetris for killing that IP in the end.

I wish any developer luck in trying to do anything at all with this genre, give me something new and I will be first in line to buy ten copies. But I don't think Pajitnov, or anyone else for that matter, will ever find even 1% of the success Tetris did. I just don't think audiences still want this genre anymore, they just want Tetris and only Tetris.

This dumbass contacted Nintendo to taunt them about how he's gonna stream leaked pirated copies. Hard to have sympathy for this idiot for poking the bear.

Mobile very quickly turned into a race-to-the-bottom. When the market is flooded, any paid title has an incredibly difficult time standing out. So in order to get players in the door, you gotta make it f2p. And in order to maximize profits for a f2p game, you gotta employ all the worst dark patterns, because that's what all your competitors are doing too.

And this has led to a feedback loop of consumer expectations. People understand that this is just what mobile is now, so people who want anything else have given up on mobile and are instead buying games on other platforms. Releasing a premium title on mobile is basically just trying to sell to the wrong audience.

Do they though? The biggest and most profitable games right now are all live services. Consumers are very much voting for live services.

Rivals has found its niche, but I don’t think even that is pulling in the kinds of numbers Warner expects for a AAA they sunk this much money into.

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.

Super Monkey Ball 1 and 2 got a remaster a few years back.

• Chrono Trigger, in SE's HD-2D style. Do what they just did for Live a Live, change little to nothing but make it really pretty.
• Final Fantasy 8. Why 8? Because it has the most room for improvement. I expect SE not to keep FF remakes faithful, and 8 is the one that will benefit from that. Just retell the story in a better game that doesn't punish you for leveling up.
• Kid Icarus Uprising. This doesn't need more than a straight port really. One thing I'd really love to see though is a more competitive Light vs. Dark that restricts players to base weapons only, no min-maxing in PvP.
• Any classic Tales games that was never released in the west. They keep rereleasing newer entries, but where are the 2D classics? I especially want Destiny DC/2, Legendia, and Phantasia PSP.
• This is an extra impossible pipe dream for several reasons, but it's my list and I'm allowed to dream. I wish the Boktai series could come back in some form. Silliest way to do it could be to sell it with a USB-C Solar Sensor attachment for the Switch, but that's extra not happening. Even if we have to lose the original hardware though, I'd just like to see this game made available in some form...