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Microtransactions too - at a quick glance, I'm not sure if it was mentioned in the article.

I pretty much agree with everything in that article. The one big thing is complete games. It was always a big deal when someone came up or heard of a "cheese" or "easy way" to beat a boss or pass a level and have it still be there to use if needed. The pause trick in Mega Man 1. After shooting your electric shot, rapidly pause the game when it first hits an enemy/boss and the damage will tick every time you unpause the game. It made some boss encounters in that one a breeze. Challenge I'm iffy on. Some games back then were flat out cheap as oppose to hard. I look at games like the Souls series, Elden Ring, Sifu and all of those have learning curves that once learned, make the game more manageable. Some retro games had the same formula, but due to the tech at the time, still ended up being really heap with respawning enemies if you move off screen then come back. Ninja Gaiden... Castlevania... I've actually been on a retro style fix lately. Live A Live, Odin Sphere, TMNT, Mega Man, and some retro style current games like The Messenger. There's just something about that style of graphics that tickles my sweet-spot in just the right way.

Interesting read, I must say I agree with all of them for the most part. 12 Things We Miss The Most About Retro Gaming - Goliath M.GOLIATH.COM “Games aren’t what they used to be.” This is a sentiment that pops up again and again among...

I booted up streets of rage on the megadrive last night with the CRT I picked up recently and it looks surprisingly good. I always thought that graphics had come on leaps and bounds but honestly the 16bit era holds up incredibly well with the right set up. The other thought I had was the time spent waiting for each level to load, there was nothing.... I know there is a lot more data to load with modern consoles but it wasn't all that long ago that Sony were bragging about having next to no gaming load times, then I played the megadrive yesterday and was like 'oh wait they are basically copying Sega 😄 ' I think one thing that I probably miss and appreciate at the same time is the evolving of game guides / in game information (waypoints)etc. It's all made easy to speed up our gaming time, as I have gotten older I have less and less time to actually game so this allows me to complete games. However I look back at the Final Fantasy games on the PS1 as my favourite era and at that time I used relatively little to no guidance. This brought more to the experience though, the exploration and the discovery. In fact the first time I play FFVII I missed Fort Condor completely, imagine my surprise finding it years later! The other thing is I sometimes feel obligated to play with friends, if I get a message of an evening 'do you want to play clubs' or 'is anyone up for battlefield' I feel a little obligated to join them (especially if I haven't gamed with that person or group for a week or so). The other thing is, developers need to realise bigger does not always mean better. We have seen it a lot with ubisoft games and the likes of Just cause over recent years. I would much rather they spend time on much more crafted smaller worlds. Now that I have my retro set up, I am just sorting out my gaming storage to make things more accessible but I can see it taking up some more time in my gaming schedule going forwards, there is a lot more uniqueness.

The smash bros clone with BATMAN!!!! I've read that it has some pretty shitty monetization in so far as unlocks go but I could see a bunch of us playing on FG Fridays.

even though i am too young to have lived through that era of gaming i still got some taste through my gba and from playing at friends houses and i have to agree with almost all of them except the one about challenge and the arcades, i think these two were kinda "interconnected" and in the beginning of home consoles it passed over to them too, arcades had to be very difficult cause they didn't have much else to offer and you had the added feature that you had to use coins or tokens bought with coins to play them so if you lost regularly it would be profitable for the arcade store etc but yeah the rest, i totally agree with the points even with the challenge partially, if it's a fair onee which is kinda rare in most games and that's why from software games are so popular this past decade, they are fairly challenging

Anyone played this yet? I think it's available F2P on all systems and is basically Marvel's answer to Super Smash Bros. Seems to be growing at a rapid rate like Fall Guys and very polished right off the bat with huge potential

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Excellent acoustic cover of Queens of the stone age-No One Knows

That will probably happen and people (idiots) will pay more as it's something 'rare'🤣

So true, I mean let's face it Microtransactions>Realistic environment and authenticity. 🙂

It wasn't mentioned, but your 100% right. 👍

So much for Warzone Pacific being more 'authentic' to World War 2😂

I do have a soft spot for VU, the banana album and the last one, Loaded (which was pretty much all Lou Reed) get listens once in a while. Teenage me saw them play in the early 90s when they reformed briefly, tripping my arse off, of course 😁

@J4MES OX4D Maybe it's time for them to release some Batgirl NFTs to claw back some of the money? 😂

I watched One Hour Photo last night with Robin Williams. Really interesting and unsettling watch at times and a fine performance from Williams portraying a weird loner that works at a photo counter who becomes obsessed with a family he develops pictures for.

FG Friday contender?

Definitely one to check out, particularly if it's free 🙂