The Mario & Luigi games are similarly approachable and good RPGs, Superstar Saga (the first one) especially. They are handheld games so maybe a bit more difficult to play together with someone, though you could emulate them very easily to play on a more suitable device.

Sea of Stars also might be worth a try. Takes a lot of inspiration from Paper Mario.

Good fucking riddance. I hate these things, people leave them just lying across the sidewalk all the time.

Your Only Move is Hustle is pretty much exactly what you described.

I grew up in the southeast US and while I don't think I have a strong accent and have tried to cut other southern things out of my speech, I quite like "y'all". In my opinion it's the best gender neutral second person plural word. Most others are needlessly gendered or sound even weirder.

I have a Chromecast (/Google TV, their branding is a mess) and Apple TV, and have used Rokus family members have. In my experience chromecast has the best app selection, it's just running a modified version of android. It does require specific tv versions of apps, but the standards are as low as the rest of the google play store for better and worse, so anything you can get on an android phone that you'd want on a tv is probably on there. It also (with a bit of trouble) allows sideloading, and I've put some github projects on there like SmartTubeNext (ad-free youtube with a better UI).

Thank you so much! I have this controller and love it, but had pretty much given up on the gyro being possible to use on PC.

This number is basically useless except for headlines like this. Actually using my steam deck I don't care at all about the verification status. There's plenty of unsupported and unknown stuff that works well, and there's verified games I've run into issues with. Playable is also a particularly bad category because it's weirdly picky about certain things but not others, and it seems to be rarely updated when games get patches, so stuff can get better or worse than it's labeled. I just check ProtonDB or look up youtube videos of someone playing a game on deck if I want to check something.

Holy shit. This has quickly gone from concerning to never watching any of their content again. The inaccurate data stuff sucks, but wasn't really unexpected, it's not what I watch them for and I knew they probably rushed that type of content to keep up their schedule. The thing with Billet was pretty bad in a number of ways, but you could understand the auction thing just being a case of horrible miscommunication that they should make up for. This is just beyond inexcusable though, I'm disgusted that they've acted like they're being so transparent about the company while this is going on behind the scenes.

Although they're somewhat different the modern Hitman trilogy scratches this same itch for me (especially turning some of the guidance in the UI off and exploring the levels yourself, they're actually designed well for that). Gloomwood is in early access but is shaping up really well and is inspired by classic Thief.

Seconded, one of my favorite podcasts.

Backed the kickstarter and eagerly awaiting it!

Eh, other developers are already basically making Zelda games minus the name, and you can play them without giving nintendo money. Unsighted, Death's Door, and Crosscode are all great and take strong inspiration from Zelda, just to name a few.