The platform being similar to a PC doesn’t make it easy to emulate. Unless the code can be run 1:1 on PC hardware, being close is kinda meaningless, so it basically needs to still be developed from scratch.

If you mean the factions in this article, these are both player made groups, akin to a guild or clan war in a traditional MMO. In that sense, the reasons for the fight are not inherently moral, but more petty, and you absolutely wouldn’t need to align with either.

I’m really hoping that ending to Odyssey is a sign of more to come, where Peach exists as more than just... a sexy lamp I think is the movie trope?

I’m not sure if he means that as a positive/negative/neutral, but it feels negative. Which is a shame, since I thought it was a beautifully done game when I first played in the Game Boy. They didn’t really at any point try to hide the “it’s all a dream”,that’s pretty unconditionally established 1/4 in (in an already…

I really enjoyed that one tho. Sure it was recycled, but it was a good package done well to scratch an itch. Would have been a great filler to the next game in the series, except a next game never really came...

I thought we all collectively gave up on the auto runner genre (aside from Temple Run clones) after Super Mario Run showed that no matter how much skill and polish you put into it, it’s a shallow genre with dimensioning returns.

You’ll probably be pretty bombed with single points, which approximately sum up to “a lot of games’ communities permit mods when excessive RNG is required to constantly pull off a single run making trick.”

Kirby has more than once I believe single handedly saved all of reality, or other infinite concepts such as dreams and the like.

This is remarkably similar to a setup I’ve had (2 tiers of space, world, kingdom, city (I don’t think too many main characters fall below city)). I’ve only gotten as far as the Smash lineup, but the ones I’d argue being in what you call cosmic tier are...

I think about SMT series a lot. In the non persona games, the ones with slightly more story choice, they largely do away with the good vs evil dichotomy in fantasy and instead substitute order vs chaos. This is important because agents of chaos aren’t always inherently bad, and agents of order aren’t always inherently…

Well, adventure anyways. I’d accept a Rainbow Curse or Epic Yarn right now, even if they barely qualify as “platformer”.

Swap out every game that didn’t actually release this year for Red Dead Online (my favorite game from a previous year I’m just now getting), and I think this list might be perfect.

Cyberpunk was always going to be a disappointment (it was never going to meet it’s level of hype). To that end, I wouldn’t put Halo being delayed and Cyberpunk NOT being further delayed when it should have on the same list. I think this spares Halo from being a disappointment in a year that has already just been...…

How is that a scam tho?

Weird, I remember the game existing, thinking Square + looking cool as heck, renting it from Blockbuster... then... nothing. It left literally no impression on me. Maybe I didn’t play much because I had issues with the combat?

Huh, I pretty much just assumed most of the jokes that weren’t immediately obvious references were just absurdism.

I have two mains answers to the question, neither of which will be fully satisfying.

“The reason [we didn’t show the game on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One] is that we were updating the game on last-gen consoles until the very last minute, and we thought we’d make it in time,” Iwiński said. “Unfortunately, this resulted in giving it to reviewers just one day before the release, which was definitely too…

Blizzard might have remained good if Activision wasn’t involved. Same with Bioware and EA. Not that these companies woulda been fine without parent companies being shittiy, but it’s kinda hard to tell.

On one hand, everyone getting burned by the hype is kinda funny.