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@hatking: Yeah, I thought there was something wrong with me for a good while there, especially with basically everyone on the Bomb Crew singing its praises. But something about it just felt kinda... bland? Boring? There just wasn't any hook that grabbed me and kept me wanting more.

At least you made it through the game though. By Steam's count, I'm at 2 hours and I think that's about as much time as I'm ever gonna put into it.

@zombiepie: is there any other avenues we can take for donation? I tried to make a donation last night but it didn’t accept my credit card. :(

@hatking:
For a while there, I thought I was the only one who felt meh on DOOM 2016. While I didn't hate the game by any metric, it never stuck with me and I bounced right off it.

As for other games... I bounce off of pretty much all of Rockstar's output, with GTA Vice City being the only game of their's that I actually finished. I also have pretty much no interest in the Fallout or Elder Scrolls games either. Those are the big ones that I can come up with off the top of my head.

I actually own a whole lot of Tales games: Symphonia (PS3, PC), Abyss (PS2, 3DS), Vesperia (not anymore as I sold my X360 when I moved), Xillia, Xillia 2, Hearts R... I forget if I bought Graces f during a PSN sale. Strangely enough though, I have never once finished a Tales game. I think I got the furthest in Abyss and really liked the story and characters, but I only know the conclusion to that story because I watched the anime.

I've always been interested in Berseria but never got around to checking it out due to my enormous backlog and proportionately little time I have to play games now. But it seemed to review well and have good word of mouth, so I might pick it up eventually from a Steam sale or something.

As to your question, I think my answer would be Legend of Zelda. I never had that chance to play the NES versions much, but I loved A Link to the Past, Link's Awakening and Ocarina of Time. OoT is probably one of, if not the most, replayed game I've ever owned. Going forward I also really liked Minish Cap, but eventually kind of fell off the series. I barely played Wind Waker on GC (re-bought it for Wii U and again barely touched it), didn't finish Twilight Princess (despite owning both the GC and Wii versions), lost interest in Phantom Hourglass, didn't buy Spirit Tracks or Skyward Sword, and though I really loved the time I put into Link Between Worlds, it's yet another game I eventually fell off of for some reason.

It became a sad realization for me that maybe the Zelda games just weren't for me anymore. I couldn't put my finger on the reason why, but somehow they were just no longer holding my attention. It may have been a larger thing of maybe Nintendo games just weren't for me anymore, as I was barely playing any games on my Wii U despite still buying games. I kind of said to myself that the Wii U would be the last Nintendo console I would ever buy, but smash-cut to Breath of the Wild and the reveal of the Nintendo Switch and somehow I was back on-board.

And man, even just thinking back to my experience playing Breath of the Wild fills me with this warm, tingly feeling. It was an amazing experience that went beyond even just gaming for me, and just made me happy whenever I played it. For so much of the game I just had stupid looking grins on my face, whether it was due to discovering some secret or just wandering around and figuring out how to get to a place that seemed unreachable, and reaching it. Seeing your first dragon out of nowhere, or pushing a boulder down a cliff so that it splits two trees and a Korok pops out to reward you with a seed, everything about that game was just magical.

I would say that by far, BotW did for me what Berseria did for you. It was something that I was sad to have potentially leave my life, only for it to come back in force and say no, you're not done with me yet. I saw someone say the Assassin's Creed series and I was considering that as well, since I played and enjoyed everything up to 3 (except Revelations), then never finished Black Flag and never bought another AC game until Origins recently on a sale. However, the jury's still out for me on whether Origins will bring me back to the series, which is why Zelda clinches this category for me.

@nicksmi56: There are parts of Super I do like, but there are also parts that really rub me the wrong way. That's why I think I need more time to mull over how I feel about it before I give a definitive statement of I do or don't like it.

Vegeta trying to outdo Goku I'm okay with. They're kind of eternal rivals and each one pushes the other to be better. I mean, it's pretty blatant with that when Vegeta is falling off the stage in the ToP and says he's leaving the rest to Goku while giving him what little energy he has left, that he still admits that Goku is the stronger fighter.

Goku's character is what really upsets me, especially as I'm now watching Kai along with Jeff and Dan. Goku was always trying to better himself in martial arts, but that wasn't the ONLY thing on his mind. He still thought of his family and friends and was concerned for their safety and well-being. It stuck out even more when he first was killed by Piccolo and got sent to the other side. Kami helped him keep his body so he could get training with Kaio-sama, but he was ready to get training from Enma-sama instead once Goku heard how easily he restrained Raditz. Compare this with Goku from DBS and I'll bet that instead of trying to get training from Enma, he'd be asking to fight him instead. Same would've happened when he got to Kaio-sama's world, I'm sure he would've even tried fighting Bubbles if it was DBS Goku.

Trunks's future is not only messed up, but outright gone now because of how badly they screwed the pooch and had to get Zeno-sama in to just nuke that universe out of existence. Pilaf gang stuff I'm kinda okay with, they're not that bad. The Potaro fusion is a terrible retcon and basically just makes it another power-up that is arguably even easier to perform than the fusion dance, with essentially the same rules (lasts only 30 mins, not permanent, etc.)

I thought the Battle of Gods movie was okay, Resurrection F was a terrible concept (Frieza trains for 4 months and now he's even more powerful than SSGSS even though he was weaker than SSJ1 before??), Universe 6 vs 7 was kinda fun, Future Trunks arc was not great, ToP was pointless because the state of things is pretty much the same before and after, except that Frieza is alive again.

I was considering doing a blog series of each arc of Super and what I felt like were the problems of each. Eventually interest kind of waned on that idea but after typing out this post, the urge is coming back a bit...

@nicksmi56: I genuinely agree with your first two lines. Still on the fence about the last one.

@liquidprince: Agree 110% on that. I still go and watch the original DBZ clip of SSJ2 Gohan a few times every month and still get pumped up each time.

There is stuff that I miss about the original too, like the instrumental version of Head-Cha-La that plays at the beginning of each episode during the recap. I also really like that song as the OP, as well as "We Got Power", and while I'm coming around on Dragon Soul it still lacks a certain something something compared to those, or even DBGT's OP.

I have my fair share of issues with Super in general that I won't get into here, but my hot take on the Tournament of Power right now is a solid 'meh.' It's not the worst arc in Super, but it has inconsistency issues with power levels, the same problem with time as the Freiza fight back in original DBZ (longest 5 minutes ever) and so on. The worst part of it though, in my opinion, is we basically end up RIGHT WHERE WE STARTED BEFORE THE TOURNAMENT OF POWER TOOK PLACE.

We have the same 12 universes, which are going about their business as if they were never erased, nobody really got anything out of it or learned anything... and the worst thing is the bullshit about Goku no longer being able to use Ultra Instinct! So it seems Goku and Vegeta can only go SSGSS now (can Vegeta still go into his Limit Breaker form? Who knows!) for arbitrary reasons, probably because they wrote themselves into a corner with a "character" who is stronger than a God of Destruction, then having Goku obtain a form even more powerful than that. So since they can't think of an interesting way to keep things going, they just decide to have Goku not be able to use it anymore. Or, at least, not use it easily and only pull it out when he's up against some huge threat that he can't handle with only SSGSS (so when the plot needs him to be able to use it).

Honestly, the only lasting result of the tournament is that Freiza is alive again. That's basically it. So while we got some real cool fight scenes (including the Goku+Freiza+17 vs Jiren battle which was awesome) out of it, the tournament as a whole really just kind of ended with a wet fart, especially with an ending we could see coming from miles away.

I’d say really Legend or Anniversary are worth having a look at (as far as pre-2013 is concerned). And wouldn’t you know it, those are also Crystal D games.

The other ones I’d totally pass on, especially seeing them again as recently as in some Demo Derby’s. They didn’t age well AT ALL.

I say this without the slightest hint of irony; Greg K is God's greatest gift to man.

I'm just gonna leave this here...