If you dug Whispers of a Machine, then you owe it to yourself to check out Kathy Rain - Clifftop’s other point and click adventure. Everything - right down to the UI - channels the earlier 1990s perfectly. It has the same heightened sense of reality as the more ‘grounded’ adventure games from that era, too. I’m…

Read up on the earliest days of conventions - so going back to the early-to-mid seventies, where it was mostly centered around Star Trek or more broadly sci-fi as a whole - and you’ll find, unsurprisingly, that the drooling, toxic shitheads have always been a presence. It’s just that the internet has allowed all of…

Good lord, am I sucker for point and click adventures which, visually speaking, accurately channel the genre’s early-t0-mid nineties heyday.

Fair. But, to be honest, I only ever found the show to be critical of said things up to a point. It often veered into straight matter-of-factness or...I don’t wanna say it romanticized its characters exactly...but it was somewhere in the parking lot of that particular ballpark. To the extent that the people who did…

I wanna watch you watching Mad Men.

Her beer of choice? Ebisu.

Yeah...well...when you release a game where everything - even the title - is cumbersome, chances are high that a shitcanning will follow.

Because gamers (and I’m using the word in the most enthusiast sense) claim to hate fetch quests on the one hand, while loudly decrying shorter length on the other.

I think if they finally make good on the longstanding threat to bring a remastered version of Timesplitters 2 to fruition (that you don’t need to play through hours upon hours of a godawful shooter to access first), many will befr more accepting of whatever changes Timesplitters 4 may bring.

Are they though? Since 1997, Capcom has released little beyond various Street Fighter and Mega Man anthologies.

But when was the last time Square-Enix sold Final Fantasy VI on anything? Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe the Vita is technically the most ‘current’ piece of hardware for which that game can be legitimately played and purchased. And it launched, somewhat DOA, in 2012.

Except that doesn’t explain all of the Capcom titles that aren’t Mega Man or Street Fighter. Where’s Bionic Commando, Strider, or Mighty Final Fight for the NES? What about Final Fight 2 and 3 or Mega Man Soccer for the SNES?

I’ve screamed till I’m hoarse for U.N. Squadron. Actraiser, too. Sadly, it just doesn’t seem as though either Capcom or Square-Enix wanna do what needs to be done to bring either game to current-gen hardware. (Or what’s qualified as current-gen at any point in the past twenty-five years.)

See, I don’t disagree with any of that, but also don’t believe it’s telling the whole story.

Capcom Arcade Stadium is just that - arcade games. It doesn’t cover unique home versions or console specific titles. (To say nothing of those like myself who actually prefer many of Capcom’s SNES ports to the arcade originals.) As it should be noted their offerings on NES - where their catalog is arguably more…

After seeing this announcement yesterday, I cast an eye over the Switch’s entire SNES catalog. And the list is just...so...bizarre.

Cyberpunk 2077 was the single most over hyped and under delivering software launch of all time. E.T. and No Man’s Sky don’t even chart. And at least both of those games worked as intended. Cyberpunk is so borked you still can’t purchase it from the PlayStation Store six months later.

Another poster already mentioned Auto Modellista, but I’m gonna bring it up anyway along with R: Racing Evolution. Both brought their own spin on the Gran Turismo formula, and both were ultimately successful in their own way - warts and all.

Absolutely. It actually reminded me of playing Bionic Commando for the first time - both the 1988 NES original and the 2009 version. Initially, I hated both and returned them. Eventually, I re-rented the former and, recalling how the it went on to become one of my favorite third-gen games once everything clicked -…

Well, speaking from personal experience, I was both. And the one absolutely fueled the other in such a way that I was this sort of ouroboros of crappy personality traits. (Basically a meek, shat upon nerd with just enough of a spine to lash out in the worst ways possible, but not so much self-confidence to simply let…