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Would have figured Foodgod would be more like Overcooked. Huh. 

I want those cookies. 

Ah ok. That makes more sense. lol I think it's amusing. 

I don't think it sucks, there are just a lot of things about it that are really outdated. It's actually a lot shorter than I thought. My completed save file is only 13 hours. 

I'd imagine AC Odyssey is amazing if you love Ancient Greece. 

Yakuza has way more to do than Shenmue, by a landslide. But Shenmue has a certain quaint charm to it. 

I never played SC past 2 until now. 

All I can think about is AVGN landing it with the Power Glove, though I'm pretty sure that was editing magic. 

I'm in a similar boat with Shenmue's toy capsule achievement. I don't think it'll take me as long to get that as this will for you, but the way you get emeralds sounds a lot more exciting than the way I get toy capsules (literally pressing left to say I want to buy one over and over and hoping they're all new ones). 

The quest mode sounds interesting. Do they tack on any sort of story to it?

It's weird how much I'll put up with when there's even a hint of a story attached to it. I actually liked the fighting in DOA 6 more than the fighting in Soul Calibur VI, but the latter had a story mode built in, so I way preferred it. 

I still want to play a Sims game, but I'm just not willing to pay full price for a new one. I'll have to add Sims 4 to my Steam wishlist. 

I'm surprised people in 2003 were offended by Hippie Cop. Seems pretty standard these days and my 13-year-old self didn't know many people who'd have been offended by Hippe Cop being in a game. 

STAGE SELECT:

 I still think this generation might be my favorite, BUT that's in large part because of how many games I now own on both PS4 and PC (and SNES Mini) from every other generation. I love my PS4 exclusives, but if we reduced it to just current-gen games, I don't know if this generation stands out as much to me. 

Therefore, I'll go with the GCN/PS2/XBOX era. That was my first real foray into "console wars," partly prompted by the EGM cover about them. Speaking of which, this is the only generation where I pretty much bought an EGM every month until finally subscribing. 

This generation happened when I was 11-15, and is probably the time in my life I was most invested in video games. Part of that was having to pay most of the cost of my own Gamecube for Christmas in 2001, but that's a long story and Patrick doesn't need THAT deep a window into my life. 

What's relevant about that is it made my pro-Gamecube fervor extra fervent. I bought it because it was the cheapest system of the three, my brother already had a PS2, and damn those "popular/jock" kids could have their Xboxes with "Halo being the ONLY good game for it!" I definitely remember it being the nerds going for Gamecube, the popular kids going for Xbox, and PS2 just kind of being everywhere somehow, not really tied to anyone's personality, but ... INEVITABLE. In any case, I was precocious enough to understand the concept of a "user base" and how that affected what games were coming to my lunchbox. So, in some small way, my dumbass 11-year-old self was trying to sell everyone else on the Gamecube. By talking about it all the time. Aggressively. To the point I still blame this period in my life for literally any breakdown in communication I've ever had with a woman. I can almost feel my virginity coming back just thinking about it. 

I still remember being crushed by GCN not getting Psychonauts (How?! Every other damn kids' game came for my console but the one I actually wanted!), elated by how great Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem was, pleasantly surprised by getting a remade version of the game I grew up sneaking to watch my brother play (MGS), and crushed all over again when I rented some obscure PS2 titles like Guilty Gear X2, realized how great GTA III was when I'd sneak some play time on my brother's copy (my parents actually seemed to be in the minority of "families who didn't let their 10-12-year-olds play GTA"), and accepted PS2 probably had the better/more diverse library. But that E3 where they announced Super Mario Sunshine, Zelda: Wind Waker, and Metroid Prime coming out was still pretty damn great! 

I also feel like that generation has had the biggest influence on the future generations in terms of presentation and gameplay. 

Yup, I remember looking at the opening custscene of The Bouncer back when Blockbuster let you rent game consoles and thinking, "this is the best games will ever look." What a great generation. 

Cage Match: 

I've only played Until Dawn, so that.