Tyr from GoW Ragnarok. He was heavily present in the marketing, hyped up all throughout GoW 2018, and he ended up being a very obvious fake-out. I wasn’t surprised at all by the time he killed Brok. And it was such a lame thing to do to the character. I wanted to see the real Tyr. Instead he feels like how Luke Skywalker felt in the new SW trilogy. There just to say he was there really. Ugh I get annoyed just thinking about how stupid I thought this plot point was.
Orangutan from Sekiro. From the perspective of his younger life would be really interesting I think. He’s a focal point for the other existing characters and fighting a final battle your are destined to lose could be an interesting experience. Plus you could add Shura powers instead of the prosthetic.
No one said Ghost of Tsushima. This is one of the great story games IMO. Especially for an open world game.
I guess he’s never gonna play the game.
I find Mario games a pleasant, if unarousing presence, like a well-watered fern.
I couldn’t tell you how I got into gaming honestly. I’ve been playing games since I could remember. My first console was a dark purple, opaque Gameboy Color. I played Pokemon Yellow a lot. Didn’t get far though because it was before I could read. I also played Kirby Tilt’n’Tumble and Megaman Extreme 1 & 2. I eventually received a GB Advanced SP and many I played that thing everywhere. I owned a game called Shining Soul II and it was the absolute best game ever, at least I thought. Also remember watching Pokemon episodes on the SP cartridges they made for it. Good times. That was the beginning of a lifelong affair.
My fondest memory… That’s a tough one. Solo, I would say that my fondest memory was beating The Showdown, event #51 in Super Smash Bros Melee. It took me a lot of tries, but I eventually did it. I felt like the king of the world at the time.
If we’re talking Multiplayer, few things get close to when my brother and I play Deep Rock Galactic and we get swarmed by an endless sea of spiders and we have only our guns and our guns and brotherhood to get us through the mess. Sometimes we don’t come out alive, but we always fight to the last bullet. Good times.
In the last 5 or so years, I’ve really branched out into other genres, experimented more with new ways to play, and focused on giving everything in a game a chance. I’ve tried many different builds in games like Elden Ring and Nioh 2, and it’s actually a lot of fun to mess around with builds, though I’m not any sort of min/maxer. Recently, I have been trying more simulator type games. Been feeling pretty burned out by all the gaming scandals, so I find my love for gaming has hit a snag. But sims and smaller games, focused on fun instead of balance and profit, have been slowly helping me recover the love.
Even still though, I don’t think I will ever have a love for it the same way after all of the horror stories I have heard and read about from devs, as well as the current state of business practices in the genre. Gaming needs time to reach its rennaissance when it stops being so much about the money. It’s gonna take a while for that though I think.
It’s rare to even find 2P splitscreen, especially on the Switch because of it’s hardware limitations. u/MrRocket10000’s suggestion might be the only option that you could find. Borderlands is a fun experience, though it’s not what I would call family friendly for most people. I believe Borderlands 3 just released for the Switch or is releasing soon. That’s a fun experience. Not much in the way of PvP battling though.
Theatrhythm Final Fantasy
The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker
Ghost of Tsushima
The Witcher 3
Persona 5 Royal
Runners up would be:
Tales of the Abyss
Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate
Fire Emblem Awakening
Until Dawn and The Quarry.
Really great games to play, especially if you wanna cozy up and play in the dark at night. Good suspense, pretty good acting, and a pretty great amount of permutations between playthroughs.
No love in this thread so far for the Emerald and Ruby weapons from FF7. Those bastards can fuck right off.
I agree with you, but those are easy words to say and never follow up on. I’d say there’s no tangible evidence of this claim up to now. The last new IP they made that I have heard of was Overwatch. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong on that though. The only thing they’ve managed to turn upside down is their concurrent player count too. DIV has some of the most expensive MTX to date for cosmetics (barring extreme outliers). I just can’t believe a word from his mouth.
I totally read SC2 as Soul Calibur II at first 🤣🤣
No I get that for sure, but it just didn’t do anything for mean. Ragnarok as a whole didn’t really do much for me. The emotional moments were reallllyy strong. The actors sold the crap out of those. But I thought the mythological story was mid. I also wasn’t a fan with how they made the dialogue weirdly modern day sounding for some characters. Made it feels more like a Rick Riordan book to me. The moments between Atreus, Kratos, and Freya I genuinely loved though.
And I totally respect that you liked the depiction. I just didn’t, that’s all. It was a let-down for me.