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The thing is, I don't really have any nostalgia. Which makes me wonder which games are objectively the best, since the historical value is what people usually cite in support of the older ones.

Where Am I?
Long setup, decent payoff.

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I'm starting to see a pattern in repetitive game serieses.

Game K1 was good.
K2 improved on K a lot.
K3 only improved on K2 a little.
K4 was actually slightly worse than K3.

Now, original fans of the K series would say K1 was the best out of nostalgia.
People who started with K2 would say that K2 was better, as even though it reused K1's mechanics, the total quality was higher.
K3's generation would probably admit that K2 was the best, as though K3 was of the most polished quality, the innovation of K2 makes playing that seem somehow more genuine.
All three generations would hate K4, as it had no innovation and total quality below the sum of its parts.

Someone who never played any K could be said to be of the K4+ generation. Their experiences will be based on what they have seen most recently. Herein lies the question.

K4, subjectively speaking, is a bad game. It's worse than its predecessor. However, objectively speaking, it's better than K1, as it still incorporates the improvements of K2&3. The K1 generation would be outraged, but would that asessment really be wrong?

Later Pokemon games apparently contain less dramatic improvements than the previous ones. But if I, as a new player with no loyalty to speak of, just want to have fun, are they really such a bad idea?

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Every generation has massive gameplay and balance improvements over the last one, and Generation V actually has a story and characters who have character, making it feel more like the (incredible) pokemon manga and less like the (horrible) pokemon anime.

Also, frankly, I think the ugliest pokemon are from Generation III, at least GV tried to do a lot of new things.

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No. Darksiders 2 doesn't really let you create multiple saves for some reason.

Edit: I just discovered that if I toggle the map to the world map I can fast travel out of the dungeon. Thank fucking god.

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What level were you when you took on Ghorn in The Scar?

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I remembered I had Final Fantasy VI on my Wii, so I've been playing that. It's fun, but I don't know how to get to the other continent without my ship. Kinda confused about that.

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I remembered I had Final Fantasy VI on my Wii, so I've been playing that. It's fun, but I don't know how to get to the other continent without my ship. Kinda confused about that.

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I had the pleasure of trying some Portal 2 multiplayer with a friend over the weekend. Very fun, well-designed puzzles and GLaDOS’ humor is just pitch-perfect. Only played the first 2 courses though.

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I remembered I had Final Fantasy VI on my Wii, so I've been playing that. It's fun, but I don't know how to get to the other continent without my ship. Kinda confused about that.

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Yes.

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Where exactly are you?

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I was at the part shortly after the War ends, when Kefka is in jail. I'm now looking for the Espers that have been running around causing shenanigans, as Terra and that thief guy (whose name escapes me as I named him after my cat). I'm not quite sure where to go now; this game can be very vague on objective details... very vague.


But it wouldn't be FF if it wasn't like that, I guess.

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Well you can't have STM, he's already made commitments.

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I'm playing the Donkey Kong Country remakes for the Gameboy Advance. For some reason DKC3's music is completely different from the SNES release, but it was done by the same guy at Rare. I played these more than anything else when I was a kid.

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I blitzed through the story mode in a couple of days on the hardest setting, but I fully expected to.

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That's funny, I've been playing the original three on my Wii recently. I forgot how damn challenging these games can be.