I have an XBox 360 controller lying around that still works great. I have a couple DS4s that still work great even though the rubber started coming off the analog sticks. The one Dualsense I bought crapped out after a single year of moderate use.
Yeah, I might get back to it sometime. It is a mish-mash of so many video game tropes I love. It was just one particular instance where I forced myself through a dungeon as fast as I could, got frustrated with the boss and died a couple of times, finally made it, and wasn’t fast enough to beat the NPC that just completely ticked me off and made me put it down. Those monk trial things really tested my patience for a bit there, too.
Can confirm! My daughter is getting pretty good at video games and our video game time together is some of my fondest.
Any parents looking for a good co-op game, I can’t recommend Wobbly Life enough. It’s basically kid-friendly, multiplayer GTA with zero predatory mechanics. It’s a flat $15, and goes on sale sometimes. There’s loads of content, and more coming out pretty regularly. We’re 55 hours in and nowhere near exhausting the fun.
Exactly. If people missed playing those games so much, they’d be playing those games. NES games are trivial to emulate.
And this is the ultimate in survivorship bias. Super Mario 3 is often touted as the best game of an entire generation. There are a lot of mediocre NES games.
The Talos Principle 2. It’s a cerebral, first person puzzle game by the makers of Serious Sam. The first one was amazing! One of my favorite games. The reviews make it sound like this one is at least just as good. It’s not even that old and already 40% off.
Metroid Dread, Stardew Valley, and Baldur’s Gate 3.
The former on Yuzu’s last build on a nice 32 inch monitor with a big controller that doesn’t cramp up my hands. It’s pretty hard, but I did just get past a part I hear a lot of people quit on, so there’s that. I can’t imagine trying to play it with Joycons. I’d probably snap them in half.
Can’t recommend that one without also recommending Ico and especially Shadow of the Colossus before it. Shadow of the Colossus may be my favorite gave ever even. It’s so good. I really wish Sony would release all three on PC or something. I still haven’t played The Last Guardian because the last Playstation I owned was a PS3.
Stardew Valley is getting there for me. I usually burn out on a game at 80 hours, or whenever the credits roll and there’s no more fun content to pursue. I’m creeping up on 200 hours in SDV, and I often feel like I’m playing it because I have to harvest those blueberries to make mad cash to get that 10M clock that prevents decay on my farm. It’s starting to feel like a job, but then, I still fire it up when I’m looking for something to play because it’s just comfortable and easy to get into the groove. I think I really need to give it a break, but I just keep coming back.