a beautiful new 2.5HD look in the vein of Octopath Traveler. They don’t always retain the vibrant colors and compositions of the original pre-rendered scenes.

Sidney was getting smoked by Nancy when I voted, and by a couple hundred votes. Impressive comeback.

I’m sorry, did you say the 2014 hit? No no no, it came out... like... a couple years ago... right? ...right?!?!

You know you’re fucking old when the actors from your childhood cartoon are dying every few months. Goddamn man, it doesn’t feel that long ago. RIP to a performer who gave an animated character his all and lit up our young imaginations.

and probably should

While its possible Smash’s largest cultural impact is it’s competitive scene, it could also be very very true that its most profitable form is as a casual/party game.

Keeping Smash Bros alive in cultural awareness will always benefit long-term sales.

Sony has the money to pull it off. Kojima Productions, not so much. But Sony could hire them.

What makes Nintendo unique is a double edged sword: they live in their own bubble, insulated from the fads in the larger world, pursuing their own crazy whims, and so they come up with genuinely new ideas that no one would ever think of.

Can they do a good port of MGS4?

For as much of a distaste as I have for consolidation, Konami’s acquisition would a blessing to gamers everywhere

I distinctly remember really disliking it. Very slow pace, and repetitive gameplay and puzzles. Any allure of the “next-gen graphics” quickly dissipated as you explored the same looking dingy environments and fought the same looking enemies over and over again. We didn’t know it at the time, but it was the harbinger…

It does reek of PS2 era — too many games to count, so many games we’ve never heard of, and some of them truly awful.

I wonder when 80s nostalgia will be succeeded by 90s nostalgia.

People acting like airbrushing is new, just because AI is doing it now. Pfft. It’s not impressive, it’s dull.

There a bit more detail, but it no longer looks like the actor. It genericized the character.

Ahsoka has its flaws, but even haters have to admit that by its midway point the series had abandoned any potential plodding plots and carved away at the excess fluff

Yeaaaah, I’m sick of films stretching out a 90 minute plot into a 2+ hour movie. It’s crazy how a lot of so-so movies from the 80s and 90s are far more efficient (and as a result, often clever) in the storytelling than today’s blockbusters, so that they can fit onto a VHS. Comedies in particular can benefit from a…

Um, in what way way is Paxton still “embattled”?

It’s not clear what changed on Paxton’s end