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I like I can say the words Tiannamen and Square and not feel like bots are out to get me 🙂

Now you can play as a tedious weapon shop owner lol.

I vaguely recall reading DQ3 players in Japan loved the merchant in the early game so much they made it more of a thing on future outings

Shenmue is a good example, I was hyped for it back in the Dreamcast days. I'm fairly certain we have quick time events to thank shenmue for popularizing, for better or for worse.

For better because wonderful 101 created the greatest quick time event of all time

Never knew that, thanks!

And bottle water runs rampant in the US. I can name at least 8 brands of water it's so commercialized 😆

That and gave Ed his microwave hamster. I even tried to stay up late to watch the Maniac Mansion TV show but didn't understand the VCR too much

There are mods to make JPT much more playable I recall if you ever tried to take another crack at it.

And it had some very clever immersion but just needed more tweaking to reach Dead Space levels of HUD without HUD kind of play

Arguably the Sid Meier's Civ board game was ahead of it's time easily. But 4x board games today so remarkably well, and the latest Sid Meier board games can't seem to catch up anymore sales wise to 4x board games

Thanks for the info on Severance I'll check it out

Also $20 freaking dollars MSRP for 2K5!!

That could have led to years of football bliss for affordable gaming. But I recall EA and the NFL took exclusivity to the license and killed 2K quick

I rented Populous for SNES as a kid but they didn't have a manual so that was a pretty tough one to figure out.

Played the crap out of Maniac Mansion but didn't realize it was before the PC point and click craze

Good stuff, thanks!