General Game News

[Variety of Cells]

This news came out in May, but is resurfacing now at E3 too, for some reason. Harvest Moon:A Light of Hope, will be coming out on the Switch, the PS4 and the PC. This is the game's first appearance on the PC. I'm guessing the success of Stardew Valley convinced the developers that there might be a market for  Harvest off console.

Couple years ago I would have been super excited for this.  But like you said, now we have Stardew Valley, which is most likely better than whatever this new game is.  I feel like this will be another Sim City / Cities: Skylines situation, where the fan inspired knock off will be far superior to the current iteration of the franchise. 

[Pak-Man]

My understanding is that Harvest Moon isn't Harvest Moon anymore and that the real series is Story of Seasons now, with the Harvest Moon name being smuggled off to another company/creative team. Something complicated like that.

[The Lurker]

Coming 9/29...

[Pak-Man]

Star Fox 2!? Time to head over to Gamestop and see if I can preorder one like- today...

[Pak-Man]

A full list of the games from IGN (Which, hilariously, had the subheadline, "Star Fox 2!?")

A full list of included games follows:
•Contra III: The Alien Wars
•Donkey Kong Country
•EarthBound
•Final Fantasy III
•F-ZERO
•Kirby Super Star
•Kirby's Dream Course
•The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
•Mega Man X
•Secret of Mana
•Star Fox
•Star Fox 2
•Street Fighter® II Turbo: Hyper Fighting
•Super Castlevania IV
•Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts
•Super Mario Kart
•Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
•Super Mario World
•Super Metroid
•Super Punch-Out!!
•Yoshi's Island

[The Lurker]

Oh and it also means Star Fox 2 gets official artwork now.

[Variety of Cells]

A full list of the games from IGN (Which, hilariously, had the subheadline, "Star Fox 2!?")

A full list of included games follows:
•Contra III: The Alien Wars
•Donkey Kong Country
•EarthBound
•Final Fantasy III
•F-ZERO
•Kirby Super Star
•Kirby's Dream Course
•The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
•Mega Man X
•Secret of Mana
•Star Fox
•Star Fox 2
•Street Fighter® II Turbo: Hyper Fighting
•Super Castlevania IV
•Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts
•Super Mario Kart
•Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
•Super Mario World
•Super Metroid
•Super Punch-Out!!
•Yoshi's Island

Wow. That's a real quality list. Top of the top for the SNES. Makes me a little curious about the system.

[Pak-Man]

Yeah if I was going to pick a list of  20 of the best SNES games ever, it wouldn't be a whole lot different than that list. (I'm a Final Fantasy 2 man, myself, but you gotta give the people what they want.)

[Quirk]

I still own about half of these games for the SNES, and a few more on VC, so I'm not sure it's worth the price for me just to play them on my HDTV instead of my CRT. Also, it doesn't have the other 2 DKCs, which is disappointing.

[Pak-Man]

I'd almost pay it just to get my hands on Star Fox 2. Plus it would be a convenient way to play games I like on the dinky TV in my room, which is small enough to accommodate the 5 foot cords.

[The Lurker]

Especially since Star Fox 2 may be the unavailable 100% complete version, which has yet to be emulated.

[Compound]

FYI- for those who play Marvel Heroes. Yeah, changes going on. First up, all the Fantastic Four characters in the game are going away. Johnny, Sue, Reed, Thing and the Surfer gone along with all associated costumes. You could buy them with in-game currency until the 28th, but the news leaked after that deadline. The heroes and costumes can still be bought until 6/30. After that, if you have them in game, you can still use them but nothing for them will appear in the store. Doctor Doom is unaffected by this, for some reason, aside from his FF costume. The current explanation is allegedly some legal dispute between Marvel and Fox. This isn't likely since the other Fox properties aren't being touched, and Doom is still in the game. In fact Fox properties just got added to Marvel Future Fight for the first time. So it's likely Disney throwing another tantrum. Again. But if interested, better buy them now while you can. Oh, and the FF characters aren't ever coming to the console versions. On that note....

Also this week from Marvel Heroes, they've said that you'll no longer be able to directly buy heroes or costumes in the console versions. The reason stated is "the previous a la carte model simply wasn't sustainable in the longer term" so they're going to the completely random lockbox model instead. Folks are not pleased. They have not announced that this change is coming to the PC version. Yet.

[k1]

That sucks. I started playing it on PS4 but things got crazy and it's been a few weeks. I was going to grab Hawk Guy. But if it's going to the random lockbox....

[Compound]

More images from the Atari box.



Still no actual tech details, other than some shots of the ports on the back. (HDMI, USB, etc.)

[Darth Geek]

More images from the Atari box.



Still no actual tech details, other than some shots of the ports on the back. (HDMI, USB, etc.)

So...are they just getting ahead of everybody by making it a doorstop?