Close enough I'd say! We've been getting some wacky ass weather here, and quite frankly I'm over the winter. It's time for sunshine and warmth so I can continue locking myself in my house to play hackneyed games that are older than I am.
Step 1: FIRE TESTUYA NOMURA (I'm so glad you mentioned that in this list, you just earned about 1,000,000,000 points from Retro Rampage)
Step 2: Let Yoshitaka Amano design all of the characters. ALL THE CHARACTERS.
Step 3: MAKE SURE NOMURA IS COMPLETELY FIRED.
Step 4: Did I mention fire Nomura? We don't need zippers and belts on everything.
Step 5: Return the Active Time Battle, for fucks sake - don't fix what isn't broken.
Step 6: ??????
Step 7: Profit.
So true. I dream of a day where SEGA has a nice little nestegg, grows a pair of balls, and says "Fuck it, we're entering the console market again." Dreamcast 2. Drool. *dies*
If you think that's hardcore, try playing Final Fantasy IV: The After Years - the most hardcore jRPG in the strictest sense of the word - intense grinding, straight-out-of-Japan encounter rate. It's rough, but still a great game (It's a sequel to FF4, how could it not be?).
I'm in a similar boat, but I'm hoping they'd be open to the idea of a retro column - considering the massive influx of 1UPpers such as myself - we have a pretty large retro community just in being here, so it might be a good move to have retro reviews, and offer complete coverage - past, present, and future.
I would buy it the first day it came out, and I'd buy every game for it, and I'd probably take it to bed every night.
And fax machines. I don't think that since their invention has there been one that works. Next Article: "I Fucking Hate Fax Machines, And So Should You"
HOW DO I SHOT APPLICATION?! No but in all seriousness, you guys are doing a killer job with this site, I'm loving it so far. I'd love to write for you guys, I'll have to see if I can add one more to the stack - that is, if you're willing to have a column focused on sarcastic nihilistic reviews of retro games.
Same here! When I first got to that stage when I was younger, I was terrified - blasting my way through all of the ramps and platforms, then I finally get near the end and that red arrow saying "GO!" is urging me to keep going left, so I'm jumping across platforms and they're dropping underneath me as I make my way to the next one, then BAM! I'm sitting in a giant fucking pig mech, the boxing bell goes off, and it's GO TIME! RKA<3
I'm right there with you! I don't know if it's just getting old, or if it's just that we have a different appreciation for games since we didn't grow up with ultra-violent truer-than-life visuals to bias us towards the classics. To that, I raise my glass of cheap vodka and Rockstar and salute the retro gaming community.
