Video Game General 6.4: New Halo? What else?

Now I gotta watch this bullshit a second time.

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The amount of interesting games has dwindled as was the case with the transition from PS2 to PS3 era, but there are a few titles that have stunned me this gen.

Most notably:
Dead or Alive 6
Devil May Cry 5
Injustice 2
Shaolin vs Wutang
Yakuza Zero

Not quite up to the level of last gen:
Bioshock
Darksiders II
Dead Rising 1/2
Forza Horizon 2
Go Vacation!
Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
No More Heroes
Mafia II
Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
Sonic & All-Stars: Racing Transformed
Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
Soul Calibur: Broken Destiny
Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions
Tales From The Borderlands
Tekken 6
The Darkness
The King of Fighters '98: Final Edition
The Last Story
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Virtua Fighter 5/Final Shodown
Xenoblade Chronicles
Yakuza 5

Sadly, a lot of sequels this gen disappointed (Bamco :rage:), but I have a feeling that Samurai Shodown and Psychonauts 2 will be interesting. Next gen holds no promise to me.

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the music :smiley:
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I remember when Subzero was unmasked in MK3 and I was surprised to see a white boy.

Finally he looks Azn!
Youā€™ve come a long way Netherrealm

He looks like Liu Kangā€™s older brother in MK 11. At least John Turkā€™s version looked distinctive.

Also, human Scorpion looks blasian for some reason.

David Jaffe still doing his thingā€¦

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Genesis/MD Mini is looking even more awesome with the second round of announcements. The only setback, so far, was the Japan release getting M.U.S.H.A and it not showing up on this round of announcements for the U.S. and Euro release. Iā€™m guessing they are saving it for the 3rd or 4th round of release announcements. The same thing happened with Sonic 2 however. It was announced the first round for Japan but announced in the second round for U.S. and Europe.

They did announce Contra Hard Corps, the two Mickey Mouse games Caste of Illusion and World of Illusion, Landstalker and Thunder Force 3.

Let me know if it gets the X-Men games, Beyond Oasis, and Boogerman.

This generation has been sort of a renaissance in gaming for me, and I favor it over last gen for some personal reasons. I quit drinking in 2013 and I latched onto video games as a lifeline to sanity. I enjoyed last gen, but I spent most of my time on SFIV and Wii, with a couple endeavors into GoW 3, RDR, and SSXā€¦ and a few others.

But this gen, Iā€™m on games every night! Destiny was my first foray into cooperative online gaming and that was a fuckinā€™ game changer (hurr). I sank nearly 2000 hours into it.

DOOM 2016, HZD, GoW, Mario Odyssey, BotW, Spider-Man, Tropical Freeze, FUCKING SUPER MARIO MAKERā€¦

I mean really, SMM came out this gen and that pretty much trumps anything put out any other gen. I had been waiting for that game for 30 god damn years.

But the one game to rule them all also came out this gen.

Iā€™m talking the best game to release since Super Fucking Mario Bros 3.

And that game is Rocket League, the Greatest Video Game Ever Created.

So, yeah, this gen>last gen for me.

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Agreed. If it wasnā€™t for this genā€™s games and releases popping up, Iā€™d be back on emulators playing old games. Where this gen, Iā€™m playing old games with great (concerning M2 anyways) preservation and not having to worry if I dl a virus, and playing the new games which have been awesome.

Super Mario Maker and Breath of the Wild are new all-time classics.

This gen is also ending on a high note in its transition to next-gen. Last generation it was a toss up on what was going to happen.

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Iā€™m passing on this collection. Bloodlines is the only game there Iā€™m interested in and thatā€™s only because itā€™s the one classic Castlevania game I havenā€™t played. Curious about the absence of Dracula x.

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Was Belmontā€™s revenge for a handheld? Iā€™ve never even heard of it. Same with Kid Dracula.

The lack of Rondo of Blood makes me sad.

Belmontā€™s Revenge was for Gameboy.

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Did they change Noobā€™s voice? Sounds more Steven Blum than OG Dark Klaw

He was sick. He caught what Birdie had :wink:

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Who in the hell wanted kid Dracula? Rondo, Chronicles, Rebirth, even SNES Dracula X would have made more sense.

Did Raiden and Liu Kang use Potara Fusion!? :hushed:

Iā€™m thinking they didnā€™t put Rondo on there cause they released it on PS4 last October with SoTN. Probably worried about cannibalization. But I agree, should have Rondo

Rebirth should have made it in over the original game.

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