Alex Heat

Little Mac's carpooling buddy, Captain Falcon, returns to Smash to show even more people his moves. Honestly, I'm surprised they picked Lucina over Chrom (as I'd have figured Chrom could be a middle ground between the nimbler Marth and hard hitting Ike), but there does exist the possibility that he might still be a separate character or an alternate costume.

I didn't think it was very difficult when I was a kid. After the initial attempt at just warping to where I needed to be and discovering that the game would just be like 'Nope, fuck you' anyway.

Toejam & Earl is best played in co-op, though it can be enjoyed in single player. I have some fond memories of just screwing around and having a blast.

I imagine it involves pizza, plumbing work and being unable to pay for either of these things.

Don't worry, I felt the same way when I saw they were going to play Toejam & Earl. I was also thinking they were giving Decap Attack an unnecessary about of shit. It's not even a particularly awful game (also, it was a licensed game in Japan) either. Toejam & Earl though... I get the feeling that maybe they're getting burnt out or they need to stop playing stuff late at night or whatever it is that leaves them just falling back on 'This game sucks because reasons' or seemingly being awful on purpose.

In a sense, I do believe the divide between casual and hardcore is necessary, but only in the same way I think it exists in every other entertainment medium. It's a symbiotic relationship. The stuff for the casual and lowest denomination crowd funds the innovative, higher quality stuff.

I was just minding my own business, posing with statues of Siegfried and Roy then this fat guy came up to me and put me in a headlock!

Having worked at gas stations overnight and dealing with a lot of cops, they've all been affable to me. Some were stern and straight-laced, but never disrespectful or stand off-ish.

Nah, I've been arrested twice. Both while I was under 18. First time was when I was 13-14 and my sister started a physical fight with me because...I ate some Snack Packs that my mom had bought us. Being a drama queen who doesn't think shit through, once I got the upper hand in the fight, she threatened to call the police while I was pretty content to just have here go away and leave me alone. She still called the police...who took us both to juvie. Second time was when I was barely 17. My mom had designated times in which the two of us could be using the internet since we only had one computer at the time. My time was between noon and midnight while hers was between midnight and noon. Sure enough, she eventually tried to muscle me out of the desk during the afternoon in that way only siblings know how to do (trying to gradually shove me out of the chair). When I wouldn't budge, she escalated it to a physical fight again. And much like before, once I had her in a headlock, I told her to get outta my face and go do something else. And again, she threatened to and actually did call the police. Only this time it was worse because she was pregnant at the time. You can probably guess whose word they took. Three days in juvie, got to see a judge...who turned out to be a misandrist who spent a few minutes dressing me down and making vague threats about me being tried as an adult and getting sent to prison before I was escorted back to my cell. Four days later, I got to go home. Haven't forgiven my sister for it and never once has she apologized in any fashion.

Gentleman, behold! A PSN flash sale!

I've never really understood the appeal of drinking while underage. It's not like booze is going anywhere. Sure as hell can't be for the taste, because the stuff ones dad buys is probably going to be Bud Light or some other domestic beer and no amount of the seasoning that is being verboten will make it taste any better.

I think it is lot more from column B than column A. A lot of the people I know of who bitch about police are the people who frequently do things that are, how you say, frowned upon. Or they're anti-establishment types who like to say 'FUCK THE POLICE!' a lot, regardless of whether or not the cop is in the right.

For reference, I've found a fair amount of stuff I ended up enjoying via Hardcore Gaming 101. Not that it serves exclusively as a thing full of underrated and overlooked stuff, but there is a good deal of it.

I enjoyed DA:O, but I'm not going to lie. Everything about the game ran at glacial pace. And I enjoyed Hawke far more than the Warden, but I also seriously hate silent protagonists with 'fill in the blank' personalities. Granted, Hawke's tendencies are still decided by the player, but s/he's still got things going for them outside of those 'decide if you're going to be nice/a snarky jerk/violent' moments.

I still don't understand how SNK could afford to put of XII in the condition it was in. Maybe if they weren't so busy spending like a month making a character with their convoluted sprite making process.

I'm only accepting of the idea that DLC has potential in the form of expansion packs. I say this even though I bought the Unlimited characters in BlazBlue 2 because fuck Score Attack mode and its nonsense.

I think Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 got a physical release in the form of a compilation disc, but aside from that, the only way you'd be getting the physical version of the old Capcom D&D arcade games is by investing in a Saturn. Final Fight, Magic Sword, NBA Jam and NFL Blitz obviously have consoles ports, but your mileage is gonna vary there. Otherwise everything listed is only available as a downloadable title. Well, okay, The Simpsons arcade game has a DOS and Commodore 64 port, but uh...

Sifting through downloadable titles (that I actually have) yields a fair number of co-op games, though again, a lot of them are ports: Bionic Commando Rearmed 1&2 DeathSpank DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue DeathSpank: The Baconing D&D: Chronicles of Mystara (awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww yeah) D&D: Daggerdale Double Dragon Neon Dungeon Defenders Elevator Action Deluxe Final Fight: Double Impact (Contra) Hard Corps: Uprising Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light Matt Hazard: Blood Bath and Beyond Moon Diver NBA Jam: On Fire Edition (in so much as you and your buddy can be on the same team) NFL Blitz (same as the previous) Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game Shoot Many Robots The Simpsons Arcade Game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Re-Shelled (I would avoid this though because it's...not as good as it could have been) Voltron (Defender of the Univerrrrrrrrrrrrrse) Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3 X-Men (the Arcade Game)

Probably Hunter: The Reckoning, or whatever those Vampire: The Masquerade spin-offs were.

Yeah, no FPSes really does narrow the scope. Aside from Mario Kart, the only other thing that comes to mind is Phantasy Star Online which, contrary to the name, does have local co-op, albeit limited in scale. Looking through the list of stuff I own, there's Dragon's Crown, Fable 3, Kameo, Resident Evil 5 (not sure if 6 has local co-op, probably not), Sonic Racing and Transformed. I can probably sift through downloadable stuff later, but that's mostly ports of older games.

I do this too, though I'm starting to notice that the number of 40 hour long RPGs are starting to outnumber the shorter stuff, so I feel like I should probably commit to it before that's all I have left.

The one thing I could suggest is the one thing I will sometimes do: Play something at random on your backlog, then play a game you want to play then pick another random game.

I've got my own backlog split up by platform and whether they're retail or downloadable and have been making a concentrated effort to at least work through my console retail stuff before I actually play my PS4/Wii U (which works reasonably well as incentive). I started at about 65 games in September or so and I've whittled it down to 17 at this point. And then there's the monster that is Steam...which we're not gonna talk about.

I remember getting the original NES in 1989 on Christmas. That moment, when I was a wee lad of 4 years old, ended my life as I knew it right there. Over the years, my family accumulated well over 100 games, some good, most bad. We ended up trading a lot of them in to buy an SNES not long after it came out (about...a year I think?). I played that a helluva lot and would occasionally loan it to one of my friends in exchange for his Sega Genesis (and sometimes my older cousin in exchange for his Sega CD). The Sega Saturn largely passed me by (but I did buy one in like 2006 along with Shining Force 3), especially after I got a taste of the original Playstation. My brother bought it, so my access to it was relatively limited then outright lost when he went to college. I got one for my birthday about a year and a half to two years afterwards along with an N64 that my brother got for $80 from his friend who worked at a toy store in the mall (I assume he didn't work there much longer). Ever since then, I primarily game on the system with most of the games I want (which was the PS2) or the one that most of my friends own (which was the 360 once that came out). This gen, I already switched over to the PS4 Eventually, I own all the big name consoles on the market so I have access to all the games.