Popular music in the early 2000's was sooooooooo terrible. So much of the impetus to dive into “retro” music during that time (like that of the Vice City soundtrack) was specifically because contemporary music of the period was total ass.

Therein lies the problem with games like this (see also: Super Indie Karts)... Indie games are by nature a very diverse scene, catering to all sorts of (often picky) tastes, which makes it super difficult to come up with a roster that pleases everyone. One could even argue it’s against the spirit of indie games to…

On the contrary, I’d say what satisfies both sides is insisting on divisive, unlegislatable rhetoric and alarmist histeria - all of which causes a political gridlock in which nothing is done.

For anyone who missed it, Michael Swaim from After Hours is continuing do videos and podcasts on a channel called Small Beans.

Exactly, it blows my mind that more people don’t understand this:

Yeah, I agree and at this point would really like to see a Halo “campaign” with absolutely zero story; just a series of highly-replayable missions set ambiguously *some time* during the USNC/Covenant war, which scale well according to how many players are involved.

I still wonder who actually reads IGN these days? I don’t mean that as a dig, but as an honest question as to their demographic.

Would rather have co-op.

Yeah, then sometimes trying to explain your niche hobby to a “normie” is even more painful than just pretending to be interested in sports. It’s nice that they’re trying to be accommodating, but if they’re not really interested in the topic, and you’re not really interested in talking about it at the newbie level,…

Honestly the way traditional education expects you to just memorize and regurgitate information, people are practically taught to plagiarize. Maybe on a formal paper they have enough time to “remix” the text to avoid it, but on a test with essay questions and a time limit, it’s inevitable that kids will just spit out…

Is he though? Unfortunately at this juncture it seems the average gamer considers Alucard to be the iconic hero of Castlevania, and all those whip-wielding guys are just a blur of leather and random anglosaxon names.

I mean, by that same token, Sonia Belmont sired the entire rest of the Belmont lineage with Alucard and Igarashi wrote it out of the canon and swept it under the rug. The GB titles were much closer to classic CV gameplay, but they aren’t remembered by either devs or most players unfortunately.

I get it, but to a lot of us DK’s arch rival will always be Mario. In fact, IMO Smash is overdue for a Miyamoto-style classic DK skin, if not DK Junior as a playable character.

As much as I like CV4, there’s a reason directional whipping was abandoned immediately after in X68000 and Rondo. I liked how they made it optional in Bloodlines though (via Lecarde).

Would be hilarious with orchestral strings and harsichords replacing Devo’s synths.

Also Namco made Mario Kart and Star Fox games. Square Enix made a Mario game. Also, Philips CDI...lol.

Could also use a cameo of Maria asking “what do you here???”

lmao @ “you don’t belong in this world, monster!111”

I guess Sypha could have been an echo fighter of Alucard to some degree; she uses a sword and has magical powers.

To be fair, the artists building cosmetics and lawyers filing lawsuits aren’t the same people as the programmers who should be fixing bugs.