m. tarah henry 🌹 @Lobst@scalie.club

Love that this comes out a few years after Sony manufactured the Playstation TV: a device that plays nearly every digital PSOne Classic title in addition to nearly every digital PSP title and a majority of Vita titles, for the same $99 price point, after which they -almost instantly- left it to die

The pro-consumer version of this is a matte grey PSTV that takes SD cards and is compatible with optional USB optical drives that take CD-ROMs and UMD discs

Sony just announced the Playstation Classic:

https://blog.us.playstation.com/2018/09/18/introducing-playstation-classic-with-20-pre-loaded-games/

As much as I adore this era of games, and am glad a selection of them is still being repackaged and sold today, these single-shot devices are (by nature) anti-consumer, and I do not recommend buying any of them

Sorry to be so negative about this; most of the games in the Direct do look nice and I'm glad they're being brought to modern audiences (especially the ones I personally didn't own yet), I'm just salty about the Emuparadise closure. If they're dead-set on legislating out-of-print games out of existence, I'd only be satisfied if they created a consumer-friendly alternative for obtaining them, and that just isn't on the horizon yet.🔸

If Microsoft's Xbox division was able to rest on their laurels the way Nintendo does, we'd be seeing Viva Pinata Deluxe, Grabbed By The Ghoulies HD, and Perfect Dark Zero: Fully Armed Edition as 2018 Xbox One X exclusive retail titles priced at $40-$60 each instead of being able to use the original discs at no extra charge, as part of a massive backward-compatibility program spanning hundreds of non-Microsoft titles. It doesn't have to be this way.

- NSMBU continues the trend of Wii U ports accompanied by no discount for existing digital owners. I Don't Like It
- A lot of this Direct seemed to focus on taking existing games, adding a dash of new content, and reselling them full-price. Great for some companies, sure, but I'd take a digital storefront full of emulated titles over native ports of a few older games I'm interested in (Bowser's Inside Story, The World Ends With You, Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon)

- I'm OK with everything in Switch Online -except- the Virtual Console replacement. Buying games a la carte should be an option
- I'm curious to see what's new in Katamari Damacy Reroll, since a lot of it looks directly from the original. If it includes We <3 Katamari I'll get it
- Really glad FFXII is coming to Switch, and World of Final Fantasy, since I've never owned either one
- That said, juxtaposing Crystal Chronicles's GameCube models alongside FFXV Mobile's is a bad look

3D update: The topology I'm settling on for the torso section is clearly a mistake (even though I am keeping everything as an arrangement of quads), but I suspect it's a mistake I'll have to follow through on to figure out *why* it's a mistake and how to more effectively avoid it in the future