PT isn’t a game. People seem to miss that. It was a haunted house designed to tease a future game. It doesn’t even count as a demo.

“I’m SO hopeful for P.T. to give birth to a new era of Silent Hill because I love the premise and ideas behind it.

clearly they’ve changed it since I last played. still not that simple when you consider the alternative system used by the competition.

Your list is kind of embarrassing to read. Most the games in it use cliches and jump-scares. I think if System Shock 2 isn’t scary you’re playing it on easy mode and/or cheating. What makes SS2 so frightening is the brutal struggle to survive. The enemies are overpowering and will seek you out if you’re spotted. It’s…

splitscreen is great because you can watch the other players then use that too your advantage.... of course, because of that, it’s more fair when each person has their own TV. it also provides more of a challenge that way too (unless you sucked at watching your opponent’s screen but they were good at watching yours).

When did that happen? What’s the process like?

Vampire Killer for the MSX? Castlevania had exploration right from the beginning. The series had both an exploration based entry and a linear entry released within days of one another. Castlevania has always dabbled in both styles.

you’re forgetting Vampire Killer for the MSX which came out within days of the NES Castlevania.

diminishes Metroid? they both made the same sort of game around the same time. people usually cite Castlevania 2, but Castlevania had another more open world Castlevania title before that called Vampire Killer on the MSX. they came out within months, meaning they were developed at the same time.

no they aren’t. you can transfer them if you call them. it’s time consuming, it’s inconvenient, and it doesn’t provide all the benefits account-tied purchases do. it’s an inferior product that doesn’t give me the features I want from an online account, features other companies have made into a standard.

Plenty of older games let you run out of ammo. The same year Deus Ex came out. It was an FPS/RPG and resources were very rare. American McGee’s Alice wasn’t survival horror either and you’d be screwed if you didn’t manage your ammo/health. I also remember Thief 2 requiring a not wasting your items.

that game was awful. infinitely responding enemies is a terrible design choice is most every genre of game, but survival horror has got to be one of the worst genres they could have done that to. I didn’t mind conserving resources. that was pretty standard back then, especially in survival horror. everything was…

Yeah, that’s another story. Though I’m sure part of what killed it was how MS and Apple cornered the market with most their ideas. Xerox did try to market their ideas. They sold the Xerox Star. It wasn’t very successful. That probably helped kill PARC. Their brilliant ideas weren’t enough in the end. The damage was…

isn’t that kind of the norm now?

This makes me worry purchases are tied to devices, not to your account. It’s weird save data is the only type of data they show being able to be used on multiple devices. The account system would still be too antiquated if you can’t access your games on all your applicable devices. Without that it’s not worth the…

you’ve been able to for a while... it’s probably better quality than waiting for the inevitable, official freemium mobile Mario game to just load up an emulator, anyway.

I don’t know. This has me a little worried. I might be wrong, but this pic gives the impression that you may not be able to play games you own on all applicable devices you own. It looks like we can transfer save data, but what about game data? Part of what makes the Nintendo’s current system so bad is you’re games…

famicom had some neat, yet strange, addons.

Microsoft and Apple aren’t quite the big shots they’ve been made to be. Xerox is the big shot that revolutionized the PC. They invented the GUI which used a mouse to interact with icons on a “desktop.” Gates and Jobs took a tour of Xerox and saw what they were doing with their computers. They stole a lot of it when…

a lot of things people consider advanced have existed for decades, if not centuries.