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Agreed! The retro anime aesthetic here is really cool. I love how the cutscenes look.

I am intrigued by FF Resonance. That’s a solid maybe for me.

I do not personally need an Ocarina remake but it’s neat that it exists.

I played so much Super Circuit on my SP back in high school. You nailed it when you said it felt like “more Mario Kart for the SNES.” I loved it for that very reason!

I have been using this for a little while. It works well. Installing extensions was slightly more difficult than regular zed. Otherwise it’s been a rather pleasant experience.

Heyyy, fellow FFXI player! Those were excellent time periods to play imo. I too took a break around the abyssea era (2010/11 I think?) but came back again around 2016.

I feel like the late 20-teens were almost a second golden age in terms of available content to play and community.

My Civ 5 experience was similar. Steam has me at 800 hours though I don’t count all of that since some was AFK. But 5 was just so addicting to me.

One of the later expansions kinda ruined it for me oddly enough but there was a time when I could just devote an entire weekend to it.

I tried 4 and 6 and neither worked for me at all.

Good for them. People expect the world from devs these days. It’s especially galling with a game like Peak that is less than 10 bucks.

Yes! They really under utilized free roam, especially when you look at how big a deal they made out of it in the reveal trailer.

Agreed. I’m pretty much completely over World at this point and only play if my kid asks me to. I think it’s technically impressive and gorgeous to look at, but the tracks are so utterly boring I have little motivation to fire it up.

I’m still salty about the lack of local multiplayer free roam too, but that’s another issue entirely.