@spacemanspiff00: The Bioshock novel is surprisingly good. The plasmid stuff does stick out as a bit gamey when you read it in a novel, but otherwise a very enjoyable book.
Would love to see new entries in these franchises: F-Zero, SSX, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, Power Stone, Bushido Blade, Soul Calibur, Crimson Skies.
This is unlikely, but I hope Quiddich Champions turns out to have offline split-screen multiplayer modes, and isn't just some live-service thing.
Metroid Prime 4 revealed as a cross gen title, with the next gen version being mostly the same, but with higher resolution and ray tracing or something.
Star Wars Squadrons 2 with ships and arenas from all eras.
Squadron 42 gets a release date. What? It could happen.
No. I only had an OG Gameboy as a kid, but still kinda feel like I grew up with Nintendo. Would play NES/SNES/N64 at friends houses, and would swap a friend's N64 for our PlayStation once in a while. Wasn't until young-adulthood when the Gamecube came out that I consistently got Nintendo consoles.
I had a Gamecube and loved it. Probably my most played retro console to this day. But the PS2 won this fight. XBox and GC both pulled out some heavy hitters, but the PS2 has everything you could possibly want. Great system with a huge library. No genre was left out.
I think in general, video games buck the trend of sequels getting worse. Usually the second and third entry fix what didn't work in the first, and improve on what did.
But you specifically pointed out "stories", and in that case it tends to be a more mixed bag along the same lines as other media. Someone brought up Portal, which I would say illustrates both these points. Portal 2 is a bigger and better game than the first, but the story and humor are not as well written. In another medium, it would be a disappointment, but better gameplay offsets weaker storytelling in games.
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