Dude , it's GenZ. I go to a Barcade/Arcade a few times a month and at 37 I am the old man in the place. It is packed with teenagers screaming and yelling while gathered around competitive game of original Mario Bros., Ms. Pacman, Galaga, Dance Dance Whatever from 1995, that 80s bubble hockey game that got popular after the USA's 1980 miracle on ice.
GenZers have zero attention span and want to have a quick burst of zero thinking fun 3 seconds after learning a few basic game play facts.
My brother and sister in laws have multi arcade cabinets in their homes mainly for their kids. The Barcade/Arcade scene in Koreatown mirrors the PC Bang scene I enjoyed 20 years ago.
New video for The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, featuring additional gameplay, puzzles, dungeons, boss battles, story information, Hyrulean inhabitants, "swordfighter form", the mysterious Still World, and a lovely little teaser at the very end:
Darkest Dungeon and Darkest Dungeon II are on sale on the Switch. Both games are equally great. DD1 is $7. DD2 is $30. The turn based fighting works great on the handheld Switch when travelling.
I'd love to see this Nintendo timeline for the next 16 months:
1. End of 2024 / holiday season: Switch bundles/discounts;
2. Early-mid 2025: Announce the next-gen console and its key features (e.g., hybrid like the Switch, backwards compatibility, improved specs, improved online/NSO experience), and announce upcoming 2025 Switch/next-gen titles;
3. End of 2025 / holiday season: release the next-gen console alongside new next-gen games, announce 2026 games, and significantly reduce the cost of the original Switch, Lite, and OLED models.
Ideally, before 2026, we'd have a new Nintendo console and the Switch will have outsold the PS2 and DS. (Even if my ideal timeline isn't met, the Switch will likely become the best-selling console of all time by the end of 2026 anyway.)
No Man's Sky is now $24 USD on the Switch. The game is better than it was a year ago and it is about to get even better with a new update.
Here are a bunch of games steeply discounted. Many of these games had substantial performance issues and big problems when they were first released. The games have been patched and fixed and are priced lower than ever.
Publishers are training consumers to wait long after a game's release to make a purchase. You get a better game at a lower price.
Just picked up the brand new Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics that just came out, and I finally pulled the trigger on Hogwarts Legacy because it's on sale for only $18 (a 70% discount). Not sure when I'll have time to jump into either of them though, as I'm still really enjoying Bakeru... and Echoes of Wisdom comes out in less than 2 weeks!
It is sad that the new Zelda game, Echoes of Wisdom, has been leaked and everything about the game is trickling through the dark caverns of the internet. The game is prolly playable within emulators. Avoiding spoilers is going to be difficult.
On September 13 2024 17:46 DarkPlasmaBall wrote: Just picked up the brand new Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics that just came out, and I finally pulled the trigger on Hogwarts Legacy because it's on sale for only $18 (a 70% discount). Not sure when I'll have time to jump into either of them though, as I'm still really enjoying Bakeru... and Echoes of Wisdom comes out in less than 2 weeks!
more great games than time! i know the feeling. good times!