SonicKitsune

Picked up a number of mostly PS1 games recently and I didn't know that Jet Moto had the 90s gamer combo of Mountain Dew and Butterfingers as team sponsors.

I guess this is going around. Something about "gamer cred"? I just checked off stuff I remembered playing for more than a few minutes and made some potential progress in that I recall, there might be a couple more I may have missed or barely looked at. But this is a list of variety and I'm wondering where are things like Katamari and Chibi-Robo and Just Dance and Destroy All Humans and Kirby and MechWarrior and Xenoblade, just to name a few. You know, all stuff I've played before that isn't terribly obscure. And there's also a number of things on here that I do have but haven't gotten to yet. Plus of course all the one-off stuff that isn't a series that I've played. And then there's the things on here that I actually don't want to play as well. This is a topic for more than a checklist.

(Make that 52 I guess, I've also actually played a little bit of Fire Emblem, and not just the phone game.)

Nintendo can announce the Switch 5 for all I care at this point, I'm just wanting to focus on retro and indie stuff like anyone else and just play through my existing library in general. Still not interested in either of the now-current gen raytracing consoles, and given the apparent collapse of at least the bigger side of the industry that's very unlikely to change. I already got a Steam Deck recently anyway so that's my console budget taken care of. I'm just wondering if Sony will make consoles long enough to get to the spore-snorting PS9 they announced during that one PS2 commercial.

There are many reasons why I stopped being interested in paid live service multiplayer-focused games of the modern age some time ago (and the interest in the free-to-play ones is typically fleeting if present), and arbitrary third party login requirements post-launch through some megacorp were a major factor in that, plus never knowing how long the servers will actually stay up and having the game become unplayable afterward is also discouraging.

So say that I was interested enough to buy and play Helldivers 2, this Sony announcement... honestly wouldn't change my thoughts on the game personally because I already have a PSN account and would probably be fine hooking it up with Steam just as I have with my Xbox thing, but if it kept my friends from playing then I'd have plenty reason to give up on it. Even if it was just because they didn't want to make PSN accounts. Because I've been in that mindset regarding Epic and not wanting to deal with their store and their one monolithic game that wants to encompass all of games forever. And I still don't really feel like it for reasons above.