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It's also partially great for PS4 since a lot of this stuff will be multi-platform.

I would like Shadows Die Twice. It's basically Tenchu, which, you know, Tenchu 2 is a great fucking game.

If I could stand playing non-4X, non-RTS games on my PC, I would play that first Ori. This new Ori game looks fantastic.

Raw 2 is great...if you have four people to play with. The AI is broken and gets stuck in loops, tables don't break easily (a bitch in a tables match), and the animations are garbage. However, four-player season mode is one of the most fun multiplayer experiences ever. Jumping each other backstage, dropping safes on one another to drain stamina before the night's matches, shifting alliances between everyone as you try to win as many titles as possible... it's amazing. No one has tried a multiplayer season mode like that since, and that is a real shame. It makes the jank of the game worth putting up with.

Now that EA is out of the way, companies who do more than one good game a year can show! I'm interested to see what crazy shit Microsoft does here as a fan of their video game stuff in the past. Geoff Keighley indicated that they'd be making some unexpected partnerships, so I've decided that means that they're partnering with Nintendo on a couple of things. Also, I'm going to hold out hope for the impossible of a Kung Fu Chaos revival. Or at the very least, a Kung Fu Chaos backward compatibility announcement (as part of a list of games newly announced for BC). The closer the XBO gets to making all of their first-party OG Xbox games BC, the closer I will get to buying one and justifying the purchase to my wife later. "Well honey, my OG Xbox is 16 years old, it overheats, and the drive tray barely works, so it would have cost about sixty bucks to replace anyway. Why not just get the new tech for a hundred bucks or so more?" (She's cool, so she'll roll her eyes and accept it pretty quickly.) EDIT: Also, that Metal Wolf Chaos port that was teased online. I want it.

2K is the answer. Live is bad. 2K7 was the last game that I played before 2K18, and it was an excellent game of basketball, but you'd probably want to pick up 2K17 or whatever was the last 360 release. NBA Street vol 2. is my favorite arcade sports basketball game of the last couple of gens. I know that you didn't ask about non-NBA games, but College Hoops 2K8 is the GOAT sim basektball game. It's so good. The recruiting is excellent, the training is engaging, and the basketball is excellent. Bonus: You can download each year's graduates in your Legacy mode and upload them into NBA 2K8. I can't tell you how many hours I've lost on that game.

I'm going to give it to Vince McMahon. Somehow his company is actually becoming more "legitimate" as an entertainment business. This mainstreaming of the company is all he's ever wanted, and his pursuit of very specific presentation of his company is doing that.

Man, Rashard Lewis was a quality forward who anchored some solid Sonics teams alongside Ray Lewis. You had Sebastian Telfair right there as an example and you go with Rashard Lewis? Maaaaaan, fuck that. EDIT: Or Shaun Livingston! I don't care if his knees exploded, he's a way better example. I'm heated.

I got my code for Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon this past weekend. It's good! It's basically more 8-bit-era 2D Castlevania, which is what I want from Inti Creates. Miriam is a dope-ass character in this game. I dig the OST, too.

There is a story mode, and I'm pretty sure it has RPG elements in it. Of course, the demo only gives you access to the online tournament play stuff and practice matches against the COM. For me, though, the RPG is whatever. I just want more sports games on Switch. Arcade, sim, whatever.

Mario Tennis Aces is pretty good if the demo is anything to go by. The special shots don't feel too overpowered, and the variety of regular shots feel really nice and easy to direct.

Somehow this is just one more piece of evidence to throw on the pile that 2018 is bullshit.

Nintendo at the very least stated that a more traditional Pokemon RPG was coming for Switch when they revealed Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee yesterday, so I would have liked that much from Bethesda. I'm fine with a FO3 remaster, which I will absolutely buy, though I seriously doubt that it's only coming for the Switch. I hope that it sells well and they do the same for NV, which is unfortunately treated as a stepchild even though it's arguably the best Fallout game ever (it's either that or FO2, really). The West Coast Fallout games are the best; they have the best implementation of RPG elements and the best narratives. Don't get me wrong, I like a lot of the dumb bullshit in FO3, but what I value about Fallout the most besides the options given to the player to effectively role-play a unique character is the really good stories.

Fallout 76 seems kinda like Elder Scrolls Online. Not my game at all; I only believe in single-player RPGs when it comes to Fallout. Bummed that this isn't being announced in concert with a 3/NV remaster for current gen consoles at the very least. Maybe at E3.

Watch it bruh. Pokemon Snap is a great game. Now you've got me mad that they still haven't made a sequel to that game again.

New Pokemon games announced for Switch. Not my bag (unless it's a Pokemon game with the word "Snap" in the title), but I'm sure people here will be into this.

Chris Avellone doesn't work at Obsidian anymore anyway, and he (and J.E. Sawyer, I guess) are really institutions when it comes to Fallout, so Obsidian not having anything to do with it isn't too crushing (even though they're still damned great at making RPGs).

So is this the place to talk about the Fallout tease? Is this the place where I vainly hope for a New Vegas port to every current console so that I can buy it twice, once on PS4 and once on Switch? Will I be sorely disappointed? The answer to all these questions is YES!

Runner3 is an interesting mix of ideas; the levels are longer, the perspective is changed so that your ability to react is tighter, and the bonus levels play like a mix of Celeste and Super Meat Boy. One downer is the sound editing. There are times when I hit a gold brick, and it didn't add to the music. I count twice that this happened in the first few levels of the first world. It's not as immediately likable as Runner 2, which was immediate in clicking with me when I played it, but the core gameplay is the same. I do note that you can run quests collecting pickups in different levels for characters that you come across when taking specific paths through a level. That's sort of interesting. There are vehicles, but the controls are herky-jerky and a bit loose. I'm pretty sure this game is worse than Runner 2 by a fairly significant amount, but I'll need another few hours to figure out if I ultimately stick with it and like it, stick with it and kinda hate it, or drop it altogether.

It's really interesting that you can just buy a bunch of the best talent, and it doesn't matter how you book them or even if you try to fit them into a mold because they are so charismatic that they keep enough people watching. I haven't seen a WWE show in almost two years, but the autopilot nature of the main shows makes a ton of sense from the perspective that it's just easier to buy talent and have them make the most out of your shitty writing than it is to try and write compelling weekly television for one show a week, much less two shows a week.

Runner3 is out! It's no Runner2, but Runner2 is like a top-twenty-five game all-time, so what is? Charles Martinet continues to do the best VO work of his video game career, btw.

This is insane to me. A network being that hard up for live sports and sports-adjacent programming that it pays Vince McMahon a billion dollars over five years for a weekly wrestling show is just fucking bananas.

Will you stop?!

I hadn't heard about Matt Cappotelli in awhile, and I hadn't heard that he'd passed, so I'd assumed that he had beaten it. Cancer is bullshit.

Nintendo is great at programming games that work on the hardware that they built. Most of the updates sent via internet for their games are game updates (like Luigi's Balloon World in Odyssey). Other games, meh, not so much. Third-party games push quite a few patches. NBA 2K does, FIFA does (though the upcoming update will be for adding the World Cup stuff), South Park will be totally unplayable without multiple patches, etc.