Patrick Sounds Off: Furukawa vs. Scalpers
I’ve had the cure for scalpers for ages. Nintendo at least seems to be preparing to enact it.
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Patrick Sounds Off: It’s Not A Crash, It’s A Correction
If we’re honest, AAA has been digesting itself for quite some time, currently manifesting itself in the form of high-profile game cancellations, studio closures, and mass layoffs. However, a certain corner of the gaming audience is hyping this up as…
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Patrick Sounds Off: Cautious Optimism for Xbox Preservation
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06 May 2024
It seemed like that was that in Fall 2021 when Microsoft shuttered their backward compatibility development with one final and substantial wave of releases. One need only look at the percentage of games on their legacy platforms to understand just…
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Patrick Sounds Off: Virtua Fighter’s SoulCalibur Problem
Virtua Fighter’s main appeal has always been its unique approach to the fighting genre compared to its contemporaries. Is Sega on the verge of throwing it all away at the hands of the man who attempted bringing SoulCalibur in line…
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Patrick Sounds Off: Never Forget What They Took From Us
COVID-19 really diminished E3’s presence, and therefore its perceived value, in the years before the ESA finally pulled the plug. That shouldn’t distract you from the fact that it was one of the few truly unifying events on gaming’s calendar…
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Patrick Sounds Off: Much More Than an Ad Campaign
The Game Awards seldom do much for me, but I’ll certainly make an exception for the 2023 edition. Sega really showed out this year, but just as they implied in the Power Surge trailer, there’s a lot more to come….
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Patrick Sounds Off: Year of the Repro?
There’s a truly detestable demographic out there of people trying to commodify retro games, greatly complicating things for people getting into the retro gaming market with the intention of actually playing what they buy. Thankfully, there’s a healthy reproduction scene…
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Patrick Sounds Off: The Evolving Legacy of PC Engine
I’ve spent a lot of time on my channel lately talking about the PC Engine, largely because there’s been so much to talk about. Now it’s time to give my honest take on the system, its library, and ultimately what…
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Patrick Sounds Off: The Tipping Point
I’ve just about had it with ninth-gen’s underdelivering, and the constant black eyes being taken by the highly-touted digital side of the marketplace is exacerbating the problem to the point that I’m nearly ready to give up on it.. How…
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Patrick Sounds Off: What I Really Think of Nintendo Switch
I’ve recently realized that I haven’t really gone very deeply into what has made the Switch my main console these days, which I figure makes it a perfect entry in my growing “What I Really Think Of…” series.
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Patrick Sounds Off: How FFVII Remake and Rebirth Won Me Over
It’s pretty well established at this point that Final Fantasy VII Remake isn’t actually an attempt to replace the badly-aged 1997 release with a fresh coat of paint, but is rather a very ambitious spinoff that starts out in a…
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Patrick Sounds Off: Gameplay is King. No Exceptions.
A certain omission from my upcoming Top Ten JRPGs list invites a deeper conversation about battle system design philosophy, so I’ll break the ice.
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