PixlBit

I'd like a Switch port of TMS #FE, as well as Wind Waker HD and Twilight Princess HD.

I watch all the big Japanese developers. Not interested in EA, Activision, or Ubisoft, and most years it seems like Microsoft just introduces a bunch of non-game-related crap.

This was me on learning that it was likely to be an online survival game.

I have been playing Xenoblade 2 off and on. Tales of Hearts R was the game that made me get a Vita. I've been replaying FF6 on the SNES Classic Edition and Doom on the Switch.

This was one of my favorite 2013 games, and given how many great games came out that year, that's something.

I wish they'd make a Midway collection for PS4 (and X1, though I don't have one of those) and Switch. I actually have a lot of arcade classics on my Switch, and am enjoying the Nintendo arcade games (Mario Bros, Vs SMB, and now Punch-Out!! Waiting for Vs Balloon Fight and hoping for Donkey Kong!). My favorite Midway games other than Mortal Kombat were Defender, Joust, and Spy Hunter.

Crazy Taxi was a pretty fun arcade game in its day. A lot of games ripped it off. Did you ever play The Simpsons: Road Rage? I think Sega even got that one taken off the shelves for copyright infringement.

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Sorry, these are kind of random. I just like any excuse to bring up some of my favorite game music.

For Julian, I am going to go with Ride the Tiger, Akira's theme from Virtua Fighter 2. Mostly because that's my favorite fighting game series and it gets so little notice. It has great music, and I could honestly do all three songs from the series.

Patrick, I'm going to give him "Sail Over The Storm", Maxi's theme from SoulCalibur.

For whatever reason, I couldn't get the video to work here.

And for Angelo, there is this track from Final Fantasy Tactics, inexplicably named "Antipyretic," a name which brings Tylenol to mind more than epic tactical battles. A lot of the tracks in FFT had rather bizarre names for such a great soundtrack.

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I have more familiarity with the arcade version of Final Fight than the home version. I guess Nintendo censored Poison out due to the Japanese version having her as a transwoman? The intro and the "Continue" screen, where your character had dynamite strapped to his chest, were memorable. The arcade version of Ninja Gaiden used the same general idea with the continue screen. Way to try to guilt people into spending more money, guys. The bad guys who look like Andre the Giant. I've played it through to the end. Final Fight was all right, but I wasn't a huge fan. My favorite beat-em-ups at the time were Konami's licensed beat-em-ups like TMNT and The Simpsons.

I'm sorry about the job. I'm sure you'll be fine, but that probably isn't much comfort right now.

I got my SNES Mini from Toys R Us in Phoenix the week before they announced they were closing down. I never saw the SNES Mini anywhere else, but every Toys R Us in the area had three or four in stock.

I haven't been to SF since I was 5. I am currently planning a trip with my friend to Rocky Point in Mexico near the Arizona line for her birthday.

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I guess the closest thing I ever had to a gaming spirit animal was Squall from FF8. I was a lot like him when I was a teenager, though the game came out when I was 21. I was a lone wolf who didn't really want to be a lone wolf, like Squall, I had extremely poor social skills like Squall, and I was sometimes a belligerent jerk like Squall. Squall even looked a bit like me. Well, I didn't have the face scar and I didn't wear a leather jacket with a fur collar, but you get the idea.

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I'm actually going to second Tyrone's opinion on GoW. The gameplay was okay, but Kratos was thoroughly unlikeable as a character. I know he's an antihero of sorts, but I disliked his design and characterization, which came off to me as Extreme Angry Dudebro Asshole, very strongly to where it's kind of off-putting to the series as a whole. For that kind of game I much prefer the Bayonetta series.  Shame, too, I was into Greek mythology when I was an adolescent and still have a fondness for Greek mythology, and I thought it was cool that they got Kevin Sorbo (TV Hercules) to do Hercules in GoW III. The game is high-quality, I just didn't enjoy it.

Oh, and I really liked the Project A-Ko soundtrack in the podcast. Project A-Ko was one of my first anime movies (along with Akira and Ninja Scroll), and as such, I still have a fondness for it and will watch it once in awhile. I used to have a DVD collection of all four of the Project A-Ko movies.