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In 2016, I left a company I had been with for 9 years and a job I had moved halfway across the country to do. I took a job in home health, and really got to know Baltimor, Annapolis, and the DC metro area as a result. My parents got in a bad car wreck in Phoenix.

Started out with Star Wars 7 at the theater on New Years Day with my wife. Game wis, FF15 was my GOTY, but I also enjoyed a remake of Odin Sphere, Tokyo Mirage Sessions for Wii U (I bought the remaster on Switch this year), and The 7th Dragon 3 Code: VFD on 3DS, which I wish would get a Switch port.

I remember this game. It was supposedly designed by disgruntled Call of Duty designers, while Call of Duty was designed by disgruntled Medal of Honor designers. I was probably looking forward to Dragon Quest 8 at the time. Hard to believe it's been 13 years. And I think Matt Baker was based on a real WWII vet.

This game is brutally hard, especially Death Mountain where you are trying to get the Hammer. But I liked how big and mysterious the world was. Its overworld was a lot like the NES version of Exodus: Ultima III, the side scrolling areas were also good. Just the same I was glad when they turned to, and refined, the top-down gameplay of the original for A Link to the Past.

Stage select:

1. Amaterasu (Okami): when it comes to dogs, can't really beat a sun goddess, and her midget companion.

2. Repede (Tales of Vesperia): he's such a good boy (except to Estelle). He can even cook, except the only thing he can cook is dog food.

3. Hewie (Haunting Ground): one of the game's key mechanics is building trust with Hewie as he is necessary to protect your damsel in distress character from being gruesomely murdered or mutilated. In fact, the worst ending comes if you mistreat Hewie too much. 

Cage match:

Final Fantasy X for the win here. Persona 5 is good, but FFX is a classic. It's the first game I got for PS2. It was visually stunning in its day. It also had the laughing scene.  

It was made for the more powerful New 3DS.

Wreck-It Ralph was great. Much better than the sequel.

Gamingwise, 2012 was the year of Xenoblade Chronicles. Xenogears was one of my favorite PS1 games, but Xenosaga wasn't good. Xenoblade Chronicles was not only a worthy follow-up for the original, it surpassed it. One of my favorite 7th gen games.

I played a Ravenloft computer RPG that was made in the mid 90s. It was a first person game made by SSI.

My first exposure to thd genre was the TRS-80 clone Penetrator. I did swe Scramble in the wild and recognized it as the precursor to the game I played at home. When I got an Atari 130XE, I had Super Cobra.

I've been hearing mixed things about Doom Eternal which have made me have second thoughts on it. I've also heard it had something of a troubled development cycle, with its lead composer being let go from id Software. I was also waiting for the Switch version since I do most of my gaming on Switch and Doom Eternal wasn't a high enough priority for me to just buy it on PS4. Interestingly, since Microsoft's buyout of Zenimax Media, John Carmack has expressed interest in working with id Software again.

I'd say I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo tried a digital only version of the Switch, except that I can't imagine that the cartridge slot costs much to manufacture. If I had all of my Switch games in digital form I'd probably need at least a 2TB SD card. As it is, I still haven't filled up the 256GB card I did put in mine. The Switch version of Witcher 3 didn't even have an install file until CDPR patched it so you could import PC saves. They fit the entire game on a 32GB cartridge.

The discless PS5 is otherwise exactly the same as the regular PS5 in terms of hardware, unlike the XSS which is a heavily stripped down version of the XSX, but file sizes are rapidly going to chew through the storage on both.