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I'm sure there are many instances my mind has "forgot", but a major one I still remember is Street Fighter Ex plus alpha.

For those who remember that game, it had a challenge mode that required you to accomplish different conditions to unlock things, aka., perform combo x, counter with y, etc. There were over 100 of them, and many of them were very hard. That said, a friend and I marathoned through most of it over a weekend and neither of us were good at the game, just good at the challenges. Then on Sunday night, I was getting ready to leave his house, while my cousin was playing the game. Afraid that he would mess up the save, I insisted I take care of it. I highlighted the main save and clicked to save the new file. My mind instantly knew something was wrong, but it had already fired off the command to my hand to confirm the overwrite. I probably sat there for a good 5 minutes, motionless and silent.

The good news is my friend and I were able to complete many of the challenges again fairly quick, but never the hardeset ones again. The cruel irony of it all.

Going in I knew the Vita wasn't a console for exclusives, but I wanted a portable Dragon's Crown, and Person 4. Once Sony released the vast majority of PSP/PSOne classics to the Vita, it's become my one-stop shop for nostalgia trips, indies, and visual novels. Would I like more games like Gravity Rush, and Tearaway? Sure, but as long as the Vita gets games that are good that I want to play, that's really my only concern.

I don't have achievements at the level of some others here, but two that come to mind are:

1. 100% Metroid: Zero Mission in under an hour. I threw my gba into the wall so many times when I messed up a segment, I have no idea how it still works, or how the game cart still retains the time attack data.

2. Getting 'The Undying' achievement in World of Warcraft. Basically, go through a 10-man Naxxramas raid in one lockout period where no one dies. I was a healer for that run, so it made me feel extra proud, though it took high skill from everyone to do it.

I think my favorite part about RE 2 was how each character's A/B scenario were sightly different, and it also impacted the game of the other character. Oh, so that's how that helicopter got there! Oh, so that's why the Umbrella lab has crazy monsters, because jerk-face Leon needed an easier time and left the BOW gas on. I never understood how the keys/puzzle items ended up where they were. Realistically, the puzzles were already solved or the doors were unlocked, so you would think the next character to get there wouldn't even need to do anything. Though imagining Tyrant sneaking around and "reseting" the puzzles for the next guy is quite amusing. Like Tyrant has to re-plaster/re-finish the wall he just burst through for the next go around. Poor guy...

I'd love a REmake version of the game, but I don't have faith in Capcom doing it justice.

I have the same dilemma, though I'll probably pass on Diablo 3 for now. Prior to the patch I was at a point where it was just fine tuning to start pushing for higher grifts, but now the new patch has set me back to have to find a bunch of new gear.

Yeah, it's a loot-based game, so that's kind of the idea. However, normally when that happens, you're getting brand new content to keep you busy while you start a new item hunt. This patch not only invalidates some items, but the "new" items are just the same shit with higher numbers (ancients). And once someone acquires said items, it's just to run the same as grifts as before.

Don't get me wrong, it's still fun as hell, but it would be nice if Blizzard didn't take 2 months to release a patch that didn't improve the game.

The name of the game is farming Adventure mode for rift keys, then farming rifts for greater rift trial keys and blood shards. This leads to using the trial keys to run greater rifts for, yep, more blood shards, legendary gem upgrades, and gear. Your priority should be to complete the Marauder's set (M6), which is done fairly quick by doing Torment 1-2 rifts to collect as many blood shards and trial keys as you can. The idea is to stick with the level that you can do quickly, but make sure its at least Torment 1.

Use the shards at Kadala to gamble for specific pieces which typically nets you set items quicker than monster drops. You can also run greater rifts until around level 10 while gearing up, which can also get you decent gear, but monsters drop no loot so it's based entirely on the RIft Guardian. You can go further with the rifts, but the difficulty starts curving up more sharply as you get to level 25 (Torment 6).

With ancient legendaries, your best bet is to craft an ancient Arcane Barb at the smithy. Since the new M6 is now very Hatred dependent, you want your burst damage to be as high as possible. A kridershot is also an excellent option, but it's very rare on its own merit, let alone an ancient version.

Once you complete M6, even if you don't have an ancient weapon, you can easily jump to Torment 6. Once you do that, run Adventure Mode quests for Act 1 to get the cache and try for a Royal Ring of Grandeur. Torment 6 caches have a 100% to drop a legendary now, so it's quicker to find it there. With that ring, you can then aim for either a CinderCoat (for Fire Builds) or Pride's Fall (for Cold Builds).

I'm leaving a shit load of other things out, but that's kind of the basics.

I'm not the most knowledgeable on the tech, but wouldn't the fact that current gen is using x86 architecture mean it would be much easier for backwards compatibility in the future compared to older consoles?

Terraria is an excellent option if you prefer a pure crafting game with some RPG elements.

I always love the races. Don't get me wrong, watching speed runs is impressive on its own, but applying those skills against others just as skilled makes it much more exciting to watch. The Super Metroid race from AGDQ 2014, including screen-by-screen commentary was superb.

Talledega Nights. It was bundled with my $600 PS3. Oh, the money I've wasted.