Of course.

Ms. Pac-Man, Galaga, Contra, Donkey Kong, and any number of fighting games are amongst my favorite gaming experiences ever.

Anyone saying otherwise frankly doesn’t know what they’re talking about.

This is the spinoff of the remake of the demake

I mean what other game would you start with if not MGR?

Kinda insane you can’t play it on PS4/5

It’s tied for my favorite FF game with VI

Definitely play It Takes Two

SNES. The Genesis one is pretty okay, but the SNES one is a genuinely great 2D platformer.

Capcom definitely had a more talented team than Virgin Games

Already have it

I still think it’s a wildly impressive game, not having played it at the time of release, and really like how it looks now. Some of the backgrounds are still really beautiful on their own

There’s the pixel remasters of 1-6, then ports of 8, 9, and 12. 14 is a currently-running MMO, 15 was a PS4 game, and 16 is a PS5 exclusive

My favorite is a tie between 6 and 7

I really like FFVII Remake. Though I do think the story changes place it firmly there, where I think if the Remake stuck to the original story and kept the gameplay and presentation changes, it would be basically just as good as the original

But for now, I enjoy the remake, but the original is undoubtedly better

I just didn’t have another PS1 game at the ready on my PS5. Don’t get me wrong. I’d love to do this joke with Shrek Treasure Party, but we don’t live in that timeline

I believe you can now download a version of every mainline FF game on PS5 except XI and XIII

It took me multiple attempts to really get into it, but I gave it another shot and really got into it. Idk what changed. When I got to Cosmo Canyon, I got that feeling of “I think this is one of my favorite games”

Those are some solid games. Though I never got around to Horizon myself. I need to finish up the first game.

I haven’t gotten an XSX yet, but Hi Fi Rush really makes me want to

Depends on the game. If it’s an arcade game or something like just fighting stuff in DMC5, I’ll put on a video essay or something. But for something like a horror game, absolutely not

80s: Castlevania

90s: Earthbound

00s: Mother 3

10s: Persona 5

20s: Elden Ring (at least so far)

If that scene in Alan Wake 1 blew you away, just wait until Alan Wake 2

It’s definitely up there

I can’t say much on Diablo 4 but I have quite a lot to say on FFXVI

FFXVI is a fantastic combat system placed in an okay game. The game overall is occasionally good and sometimes even great, but it never fully delivers on what it wants. The world the game builds is incredibly detailed, but the game never lets you fully explore or live in it. The story has some grade-a moments, but they’re never built up to enough to make them really land. The combat system has a lot of depth if you want to get into it, but the game’s difficulty is too low to force you to engage with its deeper mechanics.

It’s really a mixed bag, but it’s a bold mess if anything. Soundtrack is also great

Keep in mind I’m someone who is always for accessibility options in games

It would fundamentally change your experience with the game. Using Elden Ring as an example, the Lands Between is a world that wants you dead and that forms a particular relationship with the player. Going into unknown areas can be tense or even scary and the difficulty pushes you to maybe try out new things to see what works. Within the lore, you start out as no one in terms of the grander story and the difficulty makes you feel like that.

In terms of making games like Elden Ring more accessible, I don’t think the answer lies in just making the game easier. Game design is more complicated than that. FromSoft knows what they’re doing and design their games like this for a reason. Every FromSoft games since Demon’s Souls has been more accessible, but never has the way they’ve done that just been “make it easier”. Using Elden Ring as an example, the base challenge of the game is quite high, but there’s always more stuff to do, so you never have to spend time fighting a boss over and over unless you want to. And that’s just one way the game is more accessible