I think you’re getting too hung up on the CD-i thing. When I said I had the CD-i and 3D0 libraries confused, I didn’t mean that figuratively. My recollections of the two really were just that jumbled. I only have one genuine memory of the CD-i - and that’s of seeing a demo kiosk running one or the other of the two…

Well, part of the issue is the survival rate among good video game parents ain’t exactly high.

Or like comparing a loud fan and some beeping to the single most catastrophic hardware flaw in the medium’s history.

If there’s a gaming equivalent to Godwin’s Law, it has to be comparing anything to RRoD.

Yeah, I corrected myself not too long after posting this with a quick trip to Wikipedia - as something was nagging at the back of my mind. Sadly, time limits on editing posts and all that. I realized that I tend to conflate many recollections of the 3D0 and its library with those of the CD-i.

I disagree. I think they abandoned the idea that a generational transition need only be defined by a quantum leap in power. And they did that because their former adherence to it was killing them.

Eh, I just don’t think it has much bearing on the broader topic of hardware transitions. I mean, they were a mess before the crash and, looking at the fourth gen alone, they were frequently a mess afterwards, too. And, moreover, they were a mess everywhere. (Never mind what an arbitrary concept they are to begin with…

Ok, but I’m not really sure what the crash has to do with any of this. Loosely defined generational transitions were the least of the industry’s problems back then. And it’s not like the crash wasn’t primarily an American issue anyway. Japan’s industry kept trucking right along. And Europe continued to busy themselves…

I mean, if you wanna get needlessly pedantic, you could say this already happened during the fourth generation with the 3DO, Jaguar, and CD-i all majorly jumping on the gun on Gen 5. All were basically dead well in advance Sony sticking a pin in everything, so it’d be equally fair to consider all three fourth-gen…

So I’ve heard. And I only need to defeat, like, a thousand skeletal dinosaurs on some island, right?

In the meantime, it takes me a solid month to beat Final Fantasy VI.

And yet he continues to employ Aaron Greenberg and engage with people like Timdog.

Yes, Gods and Monsters is generic. But it has the advantage of also not being terrible. So maybe dial the ‘gotcha’ back a notch, pal.

This. I don’t know how many times a stupid title has turned me off of ever playing a game, but it’s been more than a handful.

Except Ubisoft will call the sequel Immortals II anyway because mega-publishers are creatively bankrupt and most gamers are idiots.

Yeah, I would’ve been pretty disappointed if Neo was a Switch exclusive. So, alongside Nier Replicant, that’s at least two big (for me, at any rate) native PlayStation 4 titles to look forward to next year. Three if Gungrave G.O.R.E. turns out to not be either A) vaporware or B) a ninth-gen release.

To add, the iOS port was actually quite good and clearly had some real care placed into it. And it ultimately formed the basis for the later Switch port. (It also created something of a minor divide within the fandom of those who preferred dual screen combat versus single screen.)

Which is a shame, because as insufferable as Instagram can be at times, filled with aspirational travel photos, rich celebrities offering a peek into their gluttonous lifestyles, and millions of wannabe influencers trying to capture your attention so they can make a living off of posing in Reformation dresses...

Yeah, I played the remaster when it came out this summer. And the third act’s ‘America was the bad guy all along’ twist was so half-hearted and steeped in ‘bad apples’ logic (and so drowned out by the oo-rahs and sounds of alt-righters beating their meat to the first act’s South American Shooting Gallery *because…

Yeah, I don’t remember a lot about Medal of Duty, save that it was basically the series’ Funky Headhunter moment.