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There was an Earthworm Jim remake in 2010 for XBLA and PSN. Was mostly identical to the old games in terms of gameplay, but damn was it gorgeous. Personally I thought Sonic Colors was really good like the Rush games, but lacked the nonlinear level design that makes me love Sonic Mania and the Genesis games. I wanted more opportunities to experiment with the wisps to reach new areas, they felt more suited to getting past obstacles which is fine, but doesn't give me much reason to return to the levels once I beat them.

Well lately the REmake has been getting ported to everything under the sun, so I think I'd prefer 4 to hit there. That game is SO much better with a Gamecube controller. Agree with a lot of the others, but I'd want Wario World, Warioware, Fire Emblem, Paper Mario: TTYD, Pikmin 2, Killer 7, and Rogue Squadron 2 on here above a couple of those since they're not on modern hardware. That's a huge appeal of the Classic consoles, games like Tecmo Bowl, original Yoshi's Island, a good port of FF6, and Star Fox aren't on modern hardware.

And that makes me want a Gamecube Classic even more because with NES and SNES those games were a small minority (especially NES). With a GC Classic, that would be over 75% of the library.

Personally, I like the Wii version of TP more because the motion controlled aiming is much more fluid and natural feeling, but the Wii U version is the best IMO. Hope that and Wind Waker move to the Switch.

EBA is top 3 DS games for me, after Pokemon and Ace Attorney. These years had great AA games btw. My GOTY each year would be:

2006- Elite Beat Agents (though now that I've played Final Fantasy 12, that might top it)

2007- Mass Effect (also one of my favorite years in gaming. So many great games to play)

2008- Fallout 3

I enjoyed Arkham Knight a lot, but something about it felt off. A very good game that does a great job of making it feel more like an authentic Batman experience and adding its own flavor, just less than the sum of its parts. Persona 5 was great too and one of my favorite RPGs, there was just too much of it. When I'm thinking of ways they could have trimmed it down to 80 hours, something's wrong even if I still loved what I played.

I think you misunderstand what I'm proposing. I'm saying they should be a portable PS4/XB1, not a new platform. Meaning the Sony one gets all those new niche Japanese games the PSP/Vita did along with its console staples. Meanwhile I think a MS handheld with all its backward compatibility has a strong appeal if you can get a good chunk of 360 and Original Xbox games along with XB1. Maybe not in Japan, but in the rest of the world that's a good value

They're as traditional as you get in that you're picking commands, just have your own unique flavor of them. 5 changed things with its interface, rather than picking from a menu each command is mapped to a button. It just makes things more streamlined in the long run.

Well Microsoft used to have two killer apps with Halo and Gears of War, but the Xbox One installments have made the series lose their luster. Gears wasn't even bad, it's just not the leader it once was. MS just seems afraid to take risks with their IPs which is a problem.

Sony is interesting too because Uncharted is theirs, but it's also that because it pushes graphics which you can't do on underpowered hardware. Look at Uncharted Golden Abyss, a strong seller that didn't sell people on the Vita unlike 1-4 which absolutely pushed consoles. Sony's killer apps before were all third party: Final Fantasy VII, Metal Gear Solid, Grand Theft Auto 3. Nintendo just does a better job of retaining IP value than Sony and Microsoft.

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3. In Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic's final boss battle you can hold L, R, and Y at the same time on a second controller to turn the villain into a Twilek dancer and dance with her to skip the fight.

2. In Jade Empire you meet a British colonialist asshole using a bunch of made up words. When calling him out on one of those words, he will claim that it is "cromulent," a word meaning valid which was made up by The Simpsons. 

1. The first Five Nights at Freddy's has a newspaper that keeps changing, sometimes it will talk about how children were murdered in the pizzeria, other times it will be how the animatronics had blood and mucus around their eyes and had a foul odor, implying that the killer hid the dead bodies inside the animatronics. That made me a fan of FNAF despite not liking the gameplay at all.

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I never got far in the original Metroid. I played it first after unlocking it for beating Zero Mission and after finishing a game as fun and polished as Zero Mission it felt almost unplayable. It's my least favorite in the series, even behind Metroid 2, Hunters, Federation Force, and Other M.

I definitely agree on both of those counts, especially the memory cards. Switch supporting up to 2TB micro SD I think will really help them in the long term (though hopefully big ones are more affordable sooner rather than later)

I agree on Vita's gimmicks too for the most part. But Tearaway was built on gimmicks and the best game on that platform. Also thought Uncharted's canoe bit was great where you swiped with the back pad while still aiming like a normal shooter.

Oh by no means do I think this would be a Switch level success and absolutely agree that Nintendo's franchises lend themselves better to the handheld market. But I feel that this idea would fit well into where the console market is going. You can get the big beefy console that does 4K at 60 FPS or the tablet you can take anywhere, with the second only losing out on the biggest AAA games (which are becoming less and less appealing each year TBH).

Also in terms of Doom and Skyrim, I would agree that they complement Mario and Zelda, but I think they also are good enough fits for a handheld that games like them could sell themselves on a non-Nintendo platform. Games like Uncharted which are cutscene heavy or Destiny which need online would not be a good fit, but single player games with few cutscenes I think would be a great fit.