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Modern Video Games / Re: XBOX Games Showcase 2026 thoughts?

« on: June 08, 2026, 11:14:20 pm »

I'm having a hard time being excited for Halo. This will be the 4th time buying the same game. 1. Original Xbox, 2. Halo Anniversary Xbox 360 3. Halo Master Chief Collection XBox One... How much can they squeeze from one game?!

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Modern Video Games / Re: Summer Gamefest hopes and predictions thread

« on: June 06, 2026, 12:12:22 pm »

TMNT Last Ronin and RE Veronica are my big take-aways from this. I hope they do both right. I have confidence in RE Veronica, I just hope they don't cut content like in the RE2 and RE3 remakes. (And here's to hoping we get a RE Zero remake one day.)

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General / Re: June 2026 - Recently added to collection/recently purchased

« on: June 05, 2026, 10:35:06 pm »

Quote from: burningdoom on June 05, 2026, 07:05:00 pm

Picked up my copy of the Gothic remake today, just sitting down to try it out.

Holy Hell this game is hard! I never played the original. Even the NPCs will beat and rob you for talking to them wrong and shake you down just for walking by.

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General / Re: June 2026 - Recently added to collection/recently purchased

« on: June 05, 2026, 07:05:00 pm »

Picked up my copy of the Gothic remake today, just sitting down to try it out.

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General / Re: The Mighty Polymega

« on: June 05, 2026, 07:04:07 pm »

Quote from: sly345 on June 05, 2026, 12:41:03 pm

Quote from: burningdoom on June 04, 2026, 02:32:47 pm
And I don't pirate

It's not really piracy, considering the original developers don't lose out, but they also don't receive any money from their games being sold anywhere today - instead, all the money goes to the current rights holders, usually a big publisher like EA, Microsoft, Embracer, THQ Nordic or anybody else who sucked up all sorts of licences for old games and now makes a quick, easy buck and considering how awful these companies are, they don't really deserve money, imo. If these games would make money for the original developers, i would support it, a lot of them never became rich and were always underpaid for their creative work (especially in the 80's). For every millionaire John Romero there are 50 developers who never made a living from their passion, no matter how creative they were.

This thing is also hideously overpriced. For half the money you get a Retroid Pocket that can emulate everything in 1080 up to the WiiU (except Xbox because that's still a mess). It's the best thing i ever bought in regards to gaming, makes my commute to work so much more fun

You took that tiny bit out of context. It was in the sentence about Raspberry Pi, not the Polymega.

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Modern Video Games / Re: State of Play | June 2, 2026 thoughts?

« on: June 05, 2026, 12:36:08 pm »

Wolverine looks awesome. Pre-ordered. Most anticipated game for me.

The new Onimusha looks interesting.

Dynasty Warriors 3 remake seems like an odd choice...why not start with Dynasty Warriors 2 (the first musou game)?

Rayman Legends Remake seems completely unneccessary to me. Rayman Legends is already an HD game and is available to modern gamers...why does it need a remake?

Until Dawn 2 looks great, too. I'll be getting that when it comes down in price a little (because the 1st one was short, I imagine this one will be, too).

No interest in the new God of War. Call me an incel, but I have no interest in the character or the Disney-fied fantasy style.

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Modern Video Games / Re: Xbox is now XBOX

« on: June 05, 2026, 12:30:19 pm »

Xbox has made some stupid decisions in the last couple of years. But this new CEO seems to understand that. To me it feels like she is pushing in all the right directions by lowering the cost of Game Pass, bringing back the backwards compatibility program, ending the ridiculous "this is an Xbox" campaign, and agreeing that exclusives are important to the Xbox ecosystem.

Now only time will tell if that's just lip-service, let's hope not. But the capitizilation of their logo is like the least of things they are doing that I'm concerned with.

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General / Re: June 2026 - Recently added to collection/recently purchased

« on: June 05, 2026, 12:24:58 pm »

Recently got Crimson Desert. Thought it was gonna be my new Skyrim. But I couldn't stand the janky controls. (Controls absolutely make or break a game for me.) So I turned around and sold it.

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General / The Mighty Polymega

« on: June 04, 2026, 02:32:47 pm »

I LOVE mine.

I get the spite directed at it after they initially were going to make it an FPGA console, and then in pre-production changed that. FPGA would, of course be preferred. But given what we got, I'm still not disappointed in mine, in the slightest. Well...I take that back, sort of. The company behind the product, Playmaji, can be frustrating. They do not make enough product to meet their demand. And this seems to be a common practice with them, still, years later. The product itself is great...waiting months, sometimes even years to get it, is not so great. (I'm still awaiting my N64 module add-on.)

What this machine does is take your existing physical retro game library, and put it onto one multi-system console. I know, I know...I hear you, "My Retron 5 can do that!" and, "Raspberry Pi!".
1. Regarding Retron 5: This is a much better designed and better built system than the Retron 5 could ever hope to be. It's got more solid feeling hardware (the Retron 5 feels like a child's toy). A robust GUI that is intuitive and fun to navigate. And I don't experience the input lag I did on the Retron 5. And I can have more consoles worth than the Retron 5.
2. Regarding Raspberry Pi: I'm not a techie guy, so I don't get into that stuff. And I don't pirate, I use my own physical collection, and I love having it all in one place.

Out of the box, this things covers:
1. PS1
2. Sega Saturn
3. Sega CD/Mega CD
4. Neo Geo CD
5. Turbo-CD/PC Engine-CD
And we recently got a tease from Playmaji saying a new core is coming...

There are also also add-on modules that you can add as you like for the following:
1. NES/Famicom
2. SNES/Super Famicom
3. Nintendo 64
4. Genesis/Mega Drive/32X
5. TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine
6. Atari 2600/7800

And it has all the modern bells and whistles such as save states, filters, aspect ratio settings, play speed settings, etc. and even selectable Game Genie codes built in.

In addition, they have been putting out officially licensed retro game collections on disc that are compatible with the Polymega...I really hope this leads to some original or indie games also doing the same thing (like the Evercade).

In even bigger news for the system, they just announced both a new more powerful version of the console coming soon, and a handheld version of the system coming soon. So now is the perfect time to jump in and get a pre-order in on the new consoles if you were ever on the fence.

Do any of you have one? What do you think of it?

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General / Re: VGC's Anonymous/"General" Topic:

« on: June 04, 2026, 02:14:19 pm »

Hey guys, just poking around, seeing how things are. I still use the website, but stopped hitting the forums because frankly, they kind of died. I hope there's a little more activity now. You might see a few new posts from me around here.

And BTW, check out my Stargate post in the off topic forum if you were ever a fan. What Amazon did is heartbreaking.

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Off Topic / Re: Save the New Stargate Series!

« on: June 04, 2026, 12:49:43 pm »

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Off Topic / Save the New Stargate Series!

« on: June 04, 2026, 12:40:36 pm »

The already greenlit, already pitched, already being written Stargate series just got the plug pulled by Amazon before it ever had a chance. WTF?!

Their reasoning? It wouldn't appeal to a broader audience. Showrunner Joseph Mallozi and former Stargate actor Michael Shanks have both voiced disagreement on that reasoning saying the show was specifically written to have a broad appeal and bring in new viewers. Michael Shanks has called for fans to speak up and let Amazon know what a mistake they made. To sign the petition and contact Amazon to tell them.

Here's the link to the petition:

https://www.change.org/p/amazonstudios-revive-the-stargate-franchise

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