This is actually enjoyable on the Xbox, for me.

Yup. The default controls are 100% better.

I tried it on NSO and I couldn’t get the controls to work for me. I’m loading it up on my Xbox now to try it out.

It definitely already looks better.

You said the controls were better on the Xbox Game Pass version?

But if I never try anything again that I hated once I never get the opportunity to not hate it.

I appreciate y’all putting up with me. I know I can come across as really negative and I am grateful to have some idea of what it meant to you beyond the game itself.

I still think GBA and even GBC have held up better than almost anything from that era. They’re just so charming and so many of the games really lean into looking good in pixel art. Heck, Golden Sun is still impressive and it was a 3D-like game on the GBA! It even managed to make the GBA sound good, which is a miracle…

I think a big help to DOOM and it’s family (Wolfenstein 3D before it, DOOM II after it, the games that use the engine like Heretic and Hexen and all the myriad of games beyond them, like Unreal, and even, ugh, Duke Nukem) were helped a lot by also being shareware, having access to netplay VERY early (definitely before…

Well that’s just embarrassing.

Wait until they find out there are people born with both a penis and ovaries. Oh right, they know, they just don’t care cause they’re assholes.

I’m glad you got to enjoy them. I’m actually always a little grumpy that I can’t play N64 games (despite trying really hard the past year or so to experience more of the library).

That makes sense. I started using TCP/IP over the phone when I was pretty young, and I was putting PC’s together by the time I was 4 or 5 (original x86 family that gave the name), so I suppose that’s another bit of cultural impact I just can’t relate to. I’d be dialing a modem to play DOOM multiplayer or over the LAN…

Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask were my least favorite when they came out and only ever have been unseated by the DS games and the awful remake of Link’s Awakening on the Switch as my least favorite in the series.

I’m not even a newer generation and I can’t play it with its controls. They were bad back then, too.

It was definitely not the pinnacle of FPS games that it seems to be lauded as of the time. It was actually pretty...fine. Not the worst ever, but held back by a bad controller and performance issues, and with all the caveats that came from playing FPS on a console in a time where that was literally considered…

If the performance was good it wouldn’t be reliving the original experience😂

My least favorite game, bigotry bingo.

I know this game predated Halo: Combat Evolved by nearly 5 years, and that that game is often credited as “bringing FPS to the console” in a way that made it actually commercially viable, and I liked Halo just fine, for a console shooter, but I’ve always been confused as to the love for this game (which doesn’t mean…

This world was made by a monstrous person, and then this game had a neo-Nazi for a lead dev.

I’m shocked, shocked I say, that maybe it’s more than a little morally questionable.

Can’t forget all the neo-Nazi, racist, biphobic, homophobic, etc., folks that Rowling also supports, gives money to, and hangs out with on the weekends. One kind of bigotry rarely stands alone.