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I would like to play Iron Rain. It sounds like a neat and more manageable twist on the game.

You see that every now and then but I wish it was more of a common feature. It'd be tougher for Japanese-made games, though, because of the language barrier. Pretty easy by comparison to throw some quick interviews in when the devs already speak English.

If you remember, let me know!

It's kind of funny (and sad) that the thing that brought TellTale such success and reknown—putting out games with big expensive licenses attached—ultimately led to their downfall too. I wonder if they had to stuck to smaller "classic" style adventures games, or at least a mixture of the two, if they'd still be around today.

Isn't that like missing the best part?

Hey, I've actually played and finished all of those! Winter Waker is possibly my favorite Zelda and has for sure the best ending, so you gotta see that. Twilight Princess has some really great dungeons but it's just a reeeally long game and takes itself very seriously. I played Skyward Sword just a few years ago myself and finally lessened my own shame somewhat. I think the motion controls in that game are some of the best ever done...however, they are still motion controls. But the game has great and very inventive dungeons and perhaps the best character of Zelda in the whole franchise. I would say it is worth playing.

Masters of Doom? I've been meaning for years now to get that book. Also Racing the Beam about Atari. There are a lot of good video game books these days.

When it comes to Nintendo history, yeah, you can find that info a million different places online. You'd have to dig a lot deeper to find the Sega history but I'm sure it's out there. What you get with books like these is the convenience of having it all compiled neatly for you and in the case of Console Wars in particular, the author did a lot of interviews himself, since the account largely deals with Sega of America. Plus...I just like reading from a book better than a browser screen, you know?

"9 games played" would be a big chuck of my year, probably. Lol.

Is the first boss in Vanquish that giant tank? I started that game years ago but didn't finish it. I remember that tank boss being ridiculous.

According to howlongtobeat.com those games are all between 30 and 40 hours to beat the main story, which, to be honest, is quite a bit less than I figured each of those would go (they're potentially much longer, of course, if you are a completionist). So for three games totaling 100-110 hours, I'd say that's actually pretty doable.

...unless you're a completionist