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I've got games that i bought nearly 20 years ago that are still sealed, as a collector i'll admit 95% of what i buy is like, eh we will get around to eventually but deep down inside i know that will likely never happen. I know it's hard to justify offcourse but i've always enjoyed owning the games equally as playing them, like i have the games on my shelf i can play it whenever i feel like vibe. For modern titles that i really want to play i'm usually a year behind orso as i tend to always feel screwed when playing a game on or close after launch.

I'm going to nominate @Justin11 it should be worth mentioning that his posted have improved a lot lately especially if you look at the sports section, hopefully this nominaton will be a motivation that you don't need to make 30+ posts a day to be a good contributor to the vgr forums. Also would if it's allowed, like to give @Shagger a shout out and thank you for taking the time to explain how the moderating tools work.

@Withywarlock Major reason being is that japanese people prefer using japanese brands rather then buying products from a western brand. Compare it a bit with cars, while they are around, you won't find many european and american makes of cars in japan and the ones that are usually on the more expensive side in other words cars not a whole lot of people can afford. You could say Windows is doing fine over there but the computers windows is running on is 99,9% of the time going to be on computer from a japanese manufacturer. Obviously microsoft diden't really try anymore with the xbox one, where the original xbox had Shin Megami Tensei: Nine alongside some highly experimental games like N.u.d.e and Dennou Taisen: DroneZ just to name a few exclusives. Microsoft really tried hard to push the 360 in japan in it's early days with games like blue dragon, infinite undiscovery, lost odyssey were all decent exclusives and tales of vesperia was also exclusive for a good time on the 360. To others, incuding myself the japanese 360 was a haven for traditional shooters. On the xbox one however you didn't have any of that, of the few japanese exclusive games there are were also released on other platforms. The only game that comes to my mind that is still an exclusive game is Azito x Tatsunoko Legends. I'm not really a fan of game pass because as a collector it takes away physical sales and if you ask my oppinion on gamepass it's just a glorified rental service but that is just my oppinion. No what microsoft should do is getting more japanese games on their platform not only exclusives tough, okay they finally got it that persona is a big deal and why the 5th game was so long exclusive to playstation i still don't get it. But games like the atelier series or take it the tecmo koei rpg's in general are not on xbox consoles give tecmo koei and for that matter smaller companies like Nis a sack of cash and convince them to release on xbox aswell that way you not only take away potential exclusives from other platforms but you also keep gamers who rather play their games on xbox on your platform. Like Ni no kuni why aren't both games on xbox. Offcourse having a genre defining Jrpg or something that would cater to a japanese audience would also help a lot in sales over in japan but i doubt microsoft is even interested in doing that.

Exellent choice @DC and @Shagger and offcourse i would like to extend my congratulations to @Withywarlock welcome aboard man.

Microsoft has never been able to get a foothold in the japanese/asian market they tried hard with the og xbox and even harder with the xbox 360. But Whenever they released the xbox one it seems like they have given up alltogether, the last time i visited japan the xbox one slim model just came out and was being sold as a 4k blu-ray player, oh yeah it also plays games but why do you want to do that right. My point being is that take that market out and console sales will be much closer because as it stands now sony and nintendo have the entire asian market pretty much to themselves. Surely the head honchos at the xbox division have taken note that doing your own thing as a console manufacturer works, doing something different then sony is actually working pretty well for microsoft so far. It's like they finally get it that they can't beat sony at their own game and have accepted that. Obviously the shortage of ps5 consoles also worked into microsoft's favour because it's certain a bunch of people have jumped ship because they coulden't get a ps5 at a normal price.

To stick to the topic Crash Bandicoot seems like a franchise that has nowhere left to go anymore, The remasters were good, the recent one Crash bandicoot 4 : it's about time was also fairly good but i feel like what more can you possible do with Crash bandicoot as a character and a series like how much appeal does Crash bandicoot have towards a younger audience. I'd say the same about the spyro series but i'm afraid a certain somebody will likely want to have my head so i'll leave the little purple dragon alone (for now). Mario party could also be a decent fit for this thread, everything that could have possibly done with the mario party franchise has been done, i don't doubt nintendo will reinvent themselves at some point but until that happens it's another franchise that has nowhere left to go. The first 3 games of Mass effect also comes to my mind, Where to the point all there is to be said has been said and the series wrapped up nice enough to give it a rest. Sure the world and lore of mass effect is too good to waste and not do something with it, but bioware can't afford another andromeda fiasco because that would push the series into the requirements needed to list it into this thread. Same could be said about the Witcher franchise as Geralt his story is done.

I don't know about you but rockstar can still do a lot with the Rdr franchise but the question is will rockstar do something with it other then a remaster of the first rdr and maybe a remake of revolver. Pretty sure the online part of rdr 2 did below rockstar's expectation and was probably something they wanted to keep going for another couple of years to come. If you start thinking outside the box like what happened to Sadie and charles after the first game, where do they both end up? how about Landon Ricketts pretty sure you could go back in time and make a whole rdr game about him like lead it up until the point he meets john in the first game. I feel like we've seen enough of the Van der linde gang now, maybe it's time for something completly new. My apoligies as that was quite offtopic from my part, i just coulden't help myself.

How about some that are not genre and maybe not entirly gaming related but if you born in the 80 ies ( or earlier )and to some extend the first half of the 90 ies, atleast one of my picks should sound familiar. Let's just consider when we were kids, we were gaming noobs and had way too much time on our hands. My apoligies to @StaceyPowers for hijacking your thread and going on a nostalgia trip. Reading gaming manuals over and over again -> Remember that manuals came with games, remember how many times you flipped trough manuals when you were a kid, pretty sure i read the manual of certain games atleast 50 times. Sometimes i would take these with my grandparents when my parents were working and started fantasising about the game in question. Changing your mind when buying a video game at the last minute -> I'll just give an example of my own i was going to get Streets of rage 3 at first, when arriving at the store i noticed they had a new power rangers game and came home with Power rangers the movie the game instead, it's also a beat em up and i never really regretted the decision because i've found memories of the game but you know, the point being as a kid your mind changes all the time. Deleting Save files without giving it a second thought -> What do you do when you have only one memory card, since these things were quite expensive at the time, deleting saves to make room for a newer game. Crash bandicoot 3, 108% save file, yep let's delete that, 200 hours of gran turismo 2 damn got no room to save syphon filter progress, ohwell let's delete that gran turismo file. Getting a licensed game instead of a good game -> Pretty self explanatory this one, instead of getting a good game, no gotta have that simpsons game instead because it's the simpsons, remember them in a time they were still awesome. Sadly their games weren't. Taking things for granted what other kids told you about videogames you haven't played yourself-> It's no suprise whenever a kid was talking about a videogame they were mostly made up stories and you believed every word they said. Afterall word on the playground was sacred.

Never posted in this thread either, tought i did but apperently i didn't, man what kind a phrase is that haha. Best feature about the 3ds no doubt is the backwards compatibility with original ds games. I agree with the original poster the 3d effect was cool if it is used well and added something extra to the game. Games like starfox 64 and both zelda n64 games used to the 3d effect to an extend that it made them a complete new experiences. Nintendo should have extended upon this and remade more n64 games for the 3ds. My favourite game that used the 3d effect really well would be Ridge racer 3d, maybe is it because it was a launch and blew my away at the time or the fact it's the only racing game other then Mario Kart 7 that is worthy of playing. But still a lot of nintendo first party tried to sell the 3d gimmick really well, but ultimatly it failed to stay relevant, granted that 3d tv's were also in decline at the time it's not suprise. Posted my top 10 3ds games with my toughts here in case you're interested in that. Overall i switched between 3d and 2d every so often, because the 3d effect caused me a lot of eyestrain especially when being fatigued. The 3ds has in my oppinion one of the most diverse gaming libraries, every genre imaginable is covered especially if you're into more niche genres you are in for a thread. Got around 175ish games for it myself and someday i tend to start a japanese 3ds collection.

Noticed that i haven't replied to this thread yet so here we go i woulden't call them necessary mistakes i made as a noob since i still find myself guilty of doing the same things after all these years especially in rpg's Excessive grinding -> The first thing i always did whenever i started playing a new jrpg, grinding for a couple of hours in the first area of the game to the point where i'm 5-10 levels ahead of the enemies i need to face in the next area, Still find myself guilty of this apperently ever since booting up Dragon Quest 11 a few days ago and the first thing i started doing yep grinding lol. Making the game a breeze so far. Looking up something before playing a certain part of a game -> Something to try to avoid as much as possible but back in the day, i would look up guides or just read them from the gaming magazine rack of what i had to do in the game or ask my parents to buy me a magazine if they were in a generous mood. Holding on to every weapon -> Still guilty of this, but yeah pretty self explanatory this one, for example you don't need that iron sword in skyrim anymore but lets hold onto it for safekeeping or as a momento. Wasting money on items that are pointless -> Yep you already have 50 healing potions what do you do buy a couple more just to be sure or how about that weapon that does 2 more damage then your current one, sure that's 2000 gold of the 3000 gold your have, only to find the exact same weapon in the next dungeon. Saving after every goddamn battle -> saving 15 times in an hour check, it wasn't something uncommon i did back in the day.

Guess we won't be seeing @Shagger too much around for a while if he wants to master all those games. Guess you're going to have to keep the ship afloat for the upcoming couple of week. Pretty sure this thread is about traditional shooters stuff ala Gradius, Salamander, R-type and Thunder force just to name a few. @The Blackangel just tagging your name so you would read this, correct me if i'm wrong but from what i've read and gathered from your posts in the past you're looking for more of a single player story driven shooter, then i highly recommend trying out the Metro series, the first two games 2033 and last light are remastered and are both avaible in compilaton called Metro redux for ps4/xbox one and switch, not really sure why you want to play this on switch but the option is there. I'm sure you can bag this compilation for fairly cheap by now. There is also a complete editon of the third game in the series for ps4/5/series x called Metro exodus, it's supposed to be more open world to a certain extent, haven't played this one myself as i'm still waiting for the complete edition to drop in price but only the ps5 version seems to have dropped to 20 bucks so far wherest the series x one hasn't yet.

The major problem for any company that would want to take on the wwe license is probably going to be able to outbid 2k games for it, granted if 2k games want to continue with the license. There are rumours about an Aew in development, so there is always that and the competition could do miracles for the wwe games. There is always fire pro wrestling world for the ps4/pc which is arguably the best wrestling game ever made, it may look simplistic and it's probably too niche for the casual wrestling fan but any wrestling fan should give this a try as you've never seen a wrestling game with this many match types and imo the best control scheme in any wrestling game. People interested in wrestling should look into and it's probably not going to break the either as you can pick up a physical copy on ps4 for around 20bucks.

We haven't had too many food related threads around so why not have a thread about instant noodles, everyboydy knows em and imo the ultimate comfort food. So do you like them or not, why not, what brands and flavours do you like the most? I always keep some around the house for when i don't have much time to cook or whenever i feel like getting some. The beauty of instant noodles apart from being cheap is that there are so many brands and flavours around you can constantly try out something new. My personal favourites are just the good old nissin cup noodles, flavour doesn't really matter to me because they are all equally good.

Looks like i'm the only one keeping this thread alive luckly i got enough stuff to cover as i probably won't be getting anything anymore more this month so better get it over with. I've also changed the table cloth for the occasion 😉 Right where do i even start, let's start with the modern crap, couple of sales here and there you know the usual nothing too exiting, i did preorder endling - extinction is forever because not only it looks interesting but i also want to support smaller indie physical releases as much as possible + also the first switch game i bought this year. Damn thing is gathering dust like there is no tommorow (just kidding i dust it off every week) : Japanese wii u, i had to get the zelda game at some point before they get really pricey so that's what i did, think i'm 2/3 done with set : Japanese xbox 360 + since it's zelda month at my place, i diden't have the japanese version of wind waker and the zelda collection which was given out trough club nintendo, yep who still remembers club nintendo? Japanese og xbox, i'm kind off hoping to complete this set by the end of the year and probably should be able to do it without breaking the bank. Anyway finally finally i got a minty copy of Dennou Taisen: DroneZ imo the rarest japanese xbox game, i've been searching for this game for let's say 3 years there is always something wrong with it, it's either faded or the manual is missing and when everihting is alright with it, sellers want 300+$ for it which eh ain't going to pay that : And we've saved the best for last this thing has been on my wanted lists for the longest time the Mobile Suit Gundam Warriors Kadokawa Shoten Special edition, which imo is hands down the rarest gamecube you can get since they only made 500 copies of it and were given away trough a lottery. I wasen't really planning on getting this but the opportunity came along to get a sealed copy from a collector who i haven't talked to in years, it's nice he remembered me and we quickly agreed to a price, which wasn't too bad let's say i could have bought a ps5 and a game for it, but eh why would i want that when i can have this instead. I know you can get the regulair version of this game for 10 bucks or less, the only difference is the packaging and that you unluck everithing from the start of the game. Was considering of getting back into gamecube and pick where i left off a couple of years ago so i may just do that. Needless to say all this brings a huge smile on my face.

Think it may work the other way around because from the reactions i've seen on the internet not too many people are happy with the new skate game being free to play, neither am i as i may skip it all together. But nacon is the publisher of Session so wouldn't be suprised if they fuck it up one way or the other. The most important aspect in sports game are the controls have that mastered and you have a good game but i don't really have much faith in Session to be honest. Hopefully i'm wrong and it turns out good that is something we'll know in a few months.

The problem with creating a music making "game" is that it's going to be very hard to come up with a combination between videogame and software i'd say it's damn near impossible to have a mix of both, sure you could add an indept tutorial but it's still going to be software, offcourse you could always add a campaign of some sort but then you probably have to strip out features so anybody could "play" it. Say a company makes a "game" like this, one huge factor to consider is copyright infringement because you're damn right some clever bastards are going to find a way to share copyrighted music and it probably could infact turn into the next kazaa or napster just to name a few. It's doubtfull any company could handle the headache it would cause resulting in a couple of lawsuits here and there. The next question is who on earth would want to make music on a console, when you have literally hundreds of programs avaible on pc (even some for free) that would do a much better job then any "video game" ever could. Now to stick to the topic at hand i know off Xbox music mixer for the original xbox, i have a japanese copy that includes a dvd on how to use it but i'm not 100% sure if you can actually make music with it, since it's heavy reliant on online sharing between pc and xbox a lot of features are unusable these days. Others i can think but sadly i can't say much about them are Traxxpad and Beaterator for the sony psp i have both of them at my parents place maybe i should try em out sometime soon. I'm sure there are a couple on the nintendo ds aswell but i can't say for sure what they are called. I do know one game had a simple piano addon that you could hook up in the gba slot of your ds i think it was called easy piano. Had to google it because it's name eluded me but there is always Korg Gadget for the switch if you want to start music career which seems much more advanced then anything i've seen before on a console.

I'd hate to say it and for the love of god let's hope not, but seems like the right time for Ea to scoop up the license and create an even bigger monopoly in the sports game genre.

Probably should add a few more : Mad Max -> It's been a while since i played this game but at random points in the game you could have a sandstorm or tornado and while you could die in it if you were not in the car, but it had a great risk vs reward system as you could get some good loot in those tornados. Legend of Zelda : breath of the wild -> Weather is a huge deal in this game, suprised nobody went indepth on it and that only clasher mentioned it briefly. Like you have to wear appropriate clothing to conquer heat or the extreme cold and let's not forgot do not wear metal armour when it's stormy weather. Also climbing is much more tougher when it rains. Racing games of the past few years -> Just going to list these all together since let's face it, weather effects have a pretty heavy impact on these type of games these days. If it rains you're going to have to adept to the weather. No Man's sky -> various storms based on the various planet's atmosphere (radioactive, toxic, scorching heat, frigid cold etc) will affect your health and but can be stalled with suit upgrades specific to the atmospheric conditions. Oh No man's sky one of these days i'll get back to you pinky promise. Stardew valley -> Could pretty much list any life and farming game but to some extend on a rainy day you don't have to water your plants, if it storms some of you crops could die and whatnot.

You could do a lot worse then Ikaruga as it's still one of the best shoot em ups out there. It was also a good reason to keep your gamecube around for the longest time until they ported it over to modern consoles. I know of a ton of shmups that are worthy of your time, just don't know if they are on steam which i guess is what you are after, so let's have a search on steam on wheter they are avaible or not. However i'm a console gamer and therefore i can't vouch how they perform on pc. Crimzon Clover World Explosion -> Pretty recent release that has been recommended to me by a few people i know, since they were talking about it like the second coming of christ i decided to pick up the switch version. It runs pretty well, great bullet hell shooter that has multiple difficulty entries and is easy enough to pick up but hard to master, has some wacky mechanics i havn't seen in a shooter before. Yeah this seems like a good one to start imo. I don't know about the old school look as it looks more like a sega saturn game on steriods but you know old school enough. Darius Burst Chronicle Saviours -> Latest entry in the long running darius series, you can't go wrong with this series, i'd say it's probably my favourite franchise in the entire shooter genre. All games are top notch quality, i played this on the Vita off all places had a good time with it. However if you ask my oppinion you are better off with the Darius Cozmic Collection that includes 7 games inc my favourite of the series the pc engine version of darius plus. I've also found this Hd version of G-Darius on steam but i can't say it's good or not, costs 30 bucks tough. Ginga Force and Eschatos -> Going to list these together as they are made by the same company and are pretty much the same games, just the setting is different, had a lot of fun with these when they originally came out for the japanese 360. Story seems kinda wack from what i remember but overall worthy of your time and easy enough to get into. What suprises me even more the same company ported one of the rarest and best Bandai wonderswan games over to steam well what you know i learned something new today. i'm talking about Judgement Silversword offcourse. Raiden V: Director's Cut -> latest entry in the longtime running series and it's is suprising how much raiden games are avaible on steam, yeah i meanly remember this 5th entry as it was an xbox one exclusive in japan for the longest time until they ported it over to other platforms. Still can't say much about this directors cut but as i only played the regulair version which is a decent enough entry in the series. Of all the raiden games i played the third game and fourth game are my favourites. There is also this compilation of four earlier games of which i only played the first raiden game of on the atari jaguar no less lol those were the days, i should hook that thing up and give it some love on of these days. Bullet soul and Bullet Soul Infinite Burst -> Don't know why i waited this long since these should have been on top of the post, these are my absolute favourites in the bullet hell genre. Man they are perfect for beginners and aren't too brutal to get into and the gameplay is top notch, you feel like a badass in no time lol. Needless to say the music is top notch. I diden't even knew they were avaible on steam and were stuck in japan on the 360. Good to know so i can recommend them next time somebody asks the same question. I'd suggest picking up infinite burst over the original because it's essentialy an upgrade over the original game. Obviously no shmup thread is complete without mentioning some Cave games as they are the masters in the bullet hell genre but i just don't want to take up anymore of your time. But it's always good to reminisce every once in a while about a genre that doesn't get the attention it deserves. Hopefully this is a satisfying answer to your question Shagger and is what you are looking for. If you want to me to do a post of the above mentioned Cave we can arrange that aswell. It's also been fun to browse trough steam as it's a platform that i quite honestly never use.

I've said it many times but i have a weird well let's call it a fetish with clearing out ubisoft their open world game maps. It gives me a sort of (sick) satisfaction that is hard to explain to be honest. Knowing full well that it's boring and tedious but yet i keep falling into the ubisoft trap over and over again.

Forza Horizon it's dlc has always been top notch especially the hot weels expansion for the third game and the lego expansion for the fourth game. Just when you tought the series were getting stale , they come up with that nonesense well nonesense in a good way. Maybe it would be a good idea to make an entire forza horzone themed lego or hot wheels game. Ac unity's story expansion called Dead Kings, while i really liked Ac unity and would rank it into my top 5 ac games. This is were the game really shined, set after the main game, it probably had better missions then the main game and the story wasn't bad either. Maybe because it was offered for free by ubisoft as an apoligy for the many issues unity was plagued with that i think it's so good. A quick google search let me to believe that it's still free, so you have no excuse to not try it out. Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna – The Golden Country, while a stand alone game and not so much dlc but rather an expansion, let's just include it here because It's better then the main game, the writing and combat are better , the characters are more likeable and the game tells the entire backstory of the second game tying up any lose and question you may have after the second game. The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine : don't really think many words need to be wasted about this one, let's just say this is gaming companies should handle Dlc. Also Feel like the entire Fable series deserves a shout out because it always had outstanding dlc content that often would match the main game in terms of quality.

Not often anymore but the ones i buy during the first week are usually more smaller physical releases because i want to support the game and it just makes me happy the fact they bothered with a physical release. Games from companies like limited run and the likes, you have no other options then to pre order them during a certain window, otherwise you're out of luck and will have to resort to ebay and mostlikly end up paying a premium for their games. Nintendo published games that i want i tend to buy during their first week since they never drop in price anyway, i would have picked up xenoblade chronicles 3 this friday but i'll leave for vacation in the weekend so that will have to wait until i get back. Other then the above mentioned cases, i'll hold off and look out for sales because their is always a bargain to be found online and let's face it, games drop so fast in price these days that you'd be stupid to not hold off. With bigger releases you're screwed anyway if you buy them day one, not only do you pay more, you also usually get to play a worse version of the game because the game needs to be patched. No i'd rather wait not only i get the game cheaper that way on top of that i also get to play a better version of the game.

I can't remember exactly anymore but i think it was a slogan that was used in an add for a certain doom game who's name eludes me, I'd say final doom or doom 3 as far as my memory serves me right but it's vague, pretty sure it stated for the true doom experience you need to play on ultra violence diffculty in offcourse the over the top discription of the add to sell the game.

@Justin11 and @Heatman My friends, i got a report on this thread so i have to act, imo it's way too hot today to argue and go offtopic so please stick to the matter at hand. We have a discord thread over here, so go nuts in that.

Doesn't seem like we have had a topic about this yet. Right, toy to life games, did you ever buy any of them, did you enjoy them or did you ignore it all together and diden't care at all. And offcourse the most important question do you still own any and would you like them to make a comeback. Let's kick things with what came to my mind first when i tought about this subject. Do you remember Skylanders and all it's sequels, disney infinty, hell probably the most suitable brand for this type of games namely lego jumped ship with lego dimensions and offcourse how can anyone forget the amiibo craze, pretty much 15$ figurines with nintendo characters that did the bare minimum. A little over 10 years ago up until let's say 2016-17 these things were everywhere, in skylanders case they are still everywhere only now dumped in a forgotten corner of the house, laying to rot in the attic or being sold at a flea market for a few euros a piece (in skylanders case). What happened? Pretty simple answers oversaturation and in skylanders case games that declined in quality over time. I doubt anybody is really waiting for a toy to life comeback so nah i don't really want it to make a comeback unless they come up with an adult version of the concept like a open world rpg or something along those lines. Obviously by the time these games come out i was already well in my 20 ies so i never really cared about the whole concept too much as it was just another may i add brilliant way of getting more money out of mostly parents their pockets, i do own a few sets myself but those are mostly for collectors purposes. Pretty sure folks who are younger then me can chip in with a better view like do you have found memories or any nostalgia for these games?