Thank you for providing these examples. I greatly appreciate the effort (especially since all these games were unknown to me), but I must say they still leave me somewhat unconvinced. These game certainly have sprawling worlds that the player has to explore, but for me one of the key design element that makes Metroid…

I was looking for this in the article and then looking for this in the comments. You win at gaming History. I guess P.N. 03 was a bit of an obscure game as it did not find commercial success, but it is also a game by a well known game designer, Shinji Mikami.

In a way, it may be a symptom of the difference between…

This argument would have more weight with examples.

I think the only thing Mario related that could interest me from Nintendo would be a Super Mario Maker 3. On a side note: the race to clear all Super Mario Maker 1 levels before they are no longer available is getting tantalizingly close (15 levels left as I write this) : https://www.issmmbeatenyet.com/#stats

I hear they even get clicks on Kotaku articles.

It’s very important to boycott Wendy’s, because if this system ends up working, you can be sure it will spread like wildfire through the fast food industry and beyond.

Somehow, I doubt that the staff at Wendy’s will see a dime off this.

Whoever picked the headline picture must really hate Anya Taylor Joy...

The greatest technical leap... on what metric? Because if it’s in pure processing power, each generation added more to the previous one than the one before, so it’s no big deal. If we look at it in percentage, it’s probably less clear. But if we look at something a little more subjective such as “visual fidelity”,…

BarbarousKing, a big variety gamer on Twitch, regularly plays games suggested by random viewers selected through a Marbles-on-Stream race. Many people pick games they like with no consideration wherther BarbarousKing would like it nor whether it would make for a good stream. Some guy picked Rollerdrome a few months…

I like how confident you sound while being completely wrong.

This is actually an issue for some movies too. A couple years back I saw a restored version of a Japanese film from the ‘70s and back then they really did not care about securing rights for the music they used (or possibly Japan did not sign the relevant international conventions related to copyrights yet?). When 50…

I have no idea if that is the case here or not, but from a game development perspective, it’s not unreasonable to work for years on a game using placeholder assets and, once you feel the finish line is in sight, buy assets to replace the placeholders. What I am saying is that buying recent assets does not mean they…

The smile is not aimed at humans. It’s aimed at the youTube bot that parses thumbnails.

Processing power to visual fidelity is a log curve. That’s why each new generation of console seems like a smaller step forward than the one before, and that’s why the differences between a PS4 game and its PS5 remaster is a lot less obvious than what they would have been between, say, a PS1 game and its PS2 remaster.

Apparently, according to the article linked below by Sensored Ship, the combined forces of COVID, Steam Deck and Japanese developers releasing their AAA games on PC greatly expanded the PC market in Japan. The more you know!

More depressing than impressive. While other media are also dominated by escapist entertainment with little to no substance, some more consequential creations are still able to find popular success.

Not sure there is much of a PC market for games in Japan other than pornographic adventure games. My first hand info are dated for sure, but before steam was the behemoth that it is and boxed PC games were still found in stores, the “PC game” section in japanese game stores was basically only porn.

Not new, but a new audience maybe: the 3 seasons of Warrior (gang wars in San Fransisco’s Chinatown in the 1870s) is coming to Netflix in 2024. Check it and maybe we will get more :D

There are many reasons to not like Bobby Kotick, but he did turn a failing business bought for $500k into a video game behemoth worth many billion of dollars.