I followed the directions to the letter and ended up meeting my dad.

I was more of a 720 kinda guy myself, but yah, as soon as I saw the thumbnail all the memories of playing shitty isometric skating games on theNES came flooding back.

Except without all the, “I want to rip my own eyes out” frustration of playing Skate or Die.

I don’t know if I want one, I’m wary of Valve’s hardware endeavours after the Steam Machine was born and then died.

Kenan and Kel as one fighter like the Ice Climbers in smash!

Yes, I couldn’t support this more. Donkeylips from Salute You Shorts. Artie, The Strongest Man in the World from Pete and Pete, Mo from GUTS, Omar Gooding from Wild and Crazy Kids, the list goes on and on. Give me my nostalgia bomb. I can afford to buy my own games now!

I still remember when I wrote a full GameFAQs guide on a very obscure PlayStation dragon-battling game I loved simply because there was no info on it at the time.

I think GameFAQs is a shadow of what it once was.  I don’t know if it’s just the games I play, but even bigger games sometimes do not have any FAQs or they don’t have one for my console (like Switch) and no direct link to the FAQ for the game on a different console even if the FAQ would be identical other than the…

Not to mention the guides themselves. I still think I prefer hitting ctrl+f and searching for a specific part of a game more than trying to skim videos. Sometimes videos are more helpful, yes, but so often I just need like, a checklist, or a text hint of direction of where to go, or to just quickly type the name of…

I never got around to playing this one though I do have it downloaded on my switch. However, what caught my eye is GameFAQ’s being in the title of this article. I lived on that forum as a young gamer in the 90's and it was the end all be all resource for obscure gaming info. I still go there to check game release…

I downloaded the Denuvoless crack to apply to my purchased steam version of the game and sure enough the performance is much better!

That’s about one step away from my tongue-in-cheek suggestion that the best DRM is making a shitty, broken game that requires a year’s worth of patches (small and often!) before it’s barely up to snuff.

The best DRM is just trolling pirates with broken doors blocking progression or “technically possible” glitched bosses dealing huge amounts of damage with near infinite health.

I’m no fan of DRM, but cracking RE VIII did take about two months. That seems like more than long enough for Capcom to feel like it was worth the effort.

Just finished this a few days ago. I knew nothing about it when it launched but it was really good! Level design was kinda meh, but otherwise a great game. 

Not-quite-patiently waiting for replies on this myself. I’m interested in hearing if anyone has any input on other games/movies/shows/books with similar settings.

Not-quite-related, but this also reminds me that I need to get around to trying Rebel Galaxy Outlaw. I’ve had it installed since it launched *mumbletime*…

The Expanse is one of the best Sci-Fi shows ever made. It helps in no small parts that these ships and respectful adherence to physics that informs the designs said ships are some of major part of what made The Expanse so damn compelling.

At one point it was actually an MMO pitch. Might have even been its first iteration. But that didn’t go anywhere, so books it was. Now show and TTRPG.

Nice Spaceships You Got There

After watching For All Mankind recently, I’ve been in the mood for more low-tech early days of space opera kind of thing. What’s out there, except for the Expanse and maybe Firefly?