Persona 3 FES and Persona 4 were PS2 titles. Aside from Infamous and Demon’s Souls, the rest were multi-platform. I bought a PS3 at launch, but my game library for it was always small.

Same. It can play PS1, PS2, and also cook up a hamburger. It reduces the fat!

Recently started Indivisible. I’m really enjoying the gameplay, and the animation, art direction, and characters are wonderful.

That’s all true. It wasn’t until the last 15 years, give or take, that handheld screens could really handle fast motion.

The Game Gear was only good for 2-3 hours on six AA batteries, so you basically had to play tethered to the wall or invest in lots of rechargeable batteries. The library also wasn’t as strong overall as the Game Boy’s, although its top games were previous-gen console quality (because they literally were in other territories).

Both screens were also just awful about blurring during fast movement. Nintendo wisely avoided it altogether, while Sega was bound by their flagship brand. When you really got going in something like Sonic Chaos, particularly considering the small viewing window, you were really just letting Jesus take the wheel.

Source: I was a Game Gear kid.

I was in college at the time and there were a few of us with Dreamcasts. I bought my games (and still have them), but there were guys with literally every single game in the library burned to disc.

This is an urban legend. They were originally going to title the game “Fighting Fantasy,” but they couldn’t due to the Steve Jackson fantasy game book series having that name already. They liked the “Fi Fa” sound, so they came up with “Final” for the alliteration and because it sounded cool.

“Leaks”

Eh. LRG puts out dumb stuff all the time, but they’re not forcing anyone to buy their $200 Bill & Ted limited edition with stickers, soundtrack, and SteelBook or whatever. It’s not a company’s responsibility to sell you less stuff.

If you just want an easy way to play certain games on your Switch or PS4, they can be an easy way of doing so if you no longer have the console in question or if the market rate for original cartridges or discs has priced you out.

They also occasionally put out the first Western licensed version of certain Japanese games on original media, which I think is pretty worthwhile and something they should do more of. Provided they aren’t just CD-Rs.

No one needs to buy every random thing they put out.

They might just want key staff to stay off recruiters’ radar before development is complete. Doing a high-profile project with Nintendo will probably raise the profile of their studio quite a bit.

I have the 2017 Switch remaster, but I’m definitely going to pick this up too.

Not having a nose is probably an asset in a medieval war camp.

Up voted for recommending real Roland hardware. I have an MT-32, CM-32L, and SC-55mkII to cover all my compatibility bases.

I was bummed when Mega Man Mania was mysteriously canceled. I wish this were an official project, but I’ll take it. I just hope they don’t make any gameplay or (let’s call it) story modifications and stick to upgraded visuals only.

I don’t know what that patch is, sorry.

Just a note for anyone else, it’s also on GOG, DRM-free. $6 currently but it goes on sale.

https://www.gog.com/game/arcanum_of_steamworks_and_magick_obscura

My screen is 5K, but I have it scaled up to the second largest size so my eyes don’t hate me.

It’s because kids people in their 20s are the ones making these games. At work I’m constantly asking them to increase their font size when they’re screen sharing.

This article was fascinating.

I was just talking to a couple of software engineer friends the other day about how engineering research like this doesn’t really happen anymore outside of the massive companies, and even within those it’s greatly reduced.

Now it’s all about applied engineering (app development using established technologies and techniques), with research limited to incremental gains with new technologies, augmented by published research. But it wasn’t always like this; there was a gradual erosion. Just prior to this latest era, a company could at least plausibly start a project to use published research with no public implementation and build an implementation. Our careers started in the 2000s and we remember a better time…

Two of us work in a large company currently and were recently closely involved with some of the most “speculative” research at the company, and it was almost entirely incremental. The third person is a literal research engineer at an engineering research firm who says real research described in articles like these is dead.

I can’t imagine having two years to produce something so ex nihilo these days, and the fact that they were able to achieve so much in such a short amount of time is truly incredible, and a testament to the quality of the engineers.

Do you have a list? What condition are they in?