Is this Cook, Serve, Delicious combined with Recettear? Because both those games are great.

I agree that Ice Climbers has always been weak sauce because no one even liked their game on the NES, but who the fuck doesn't like Punch-Out? It's right up there with Mega Man in terms of super challenging boss design.

I'm pretty sure Krystal didn't kill the franchise. What killed the franchise was Nintendo completely abandoning it since Star Fox N64.

Yep, same. GB is all over it.

Even if I didn't recognize your username (which I do), I'd still know you were a GB user. Because in retrospect, that must be the only gaming website on Earth that significantly covered Trackmania enough that its readers remember that dead, dead game (at this point).

Agreed, the maps of Descent were just completely fucked in the way they twisted around and there really was no consistent point of reference you could think of as down.

On the other hand, only moody horror games could even try to capitalize on the fog of 3D games in that era..

Exactly. Divekick is above Skullgirls and P4A.

Cannot tell if serious.

To be fair, if he had just made the obstacles brick walls, instead of clearly Super Mario Bros. green warp pipes, the gamer community would've just said "Stupid casual phone gamers" and stopped talking about the game, like they've been doing for years about Angry Birds and Candy Crush Saga and so on.

In theory? I watch streams of Dota 2 and think it's a mechanically interesting game. I don't have enough free time to practice Dota or LoL to get anywhere close to competent at them.

Yeah, the part of WC3 where you have hero units, and you can buy items from shops on the map, and there are neutral creeps just sitting around that act as XP, all of that was the basis for Dota, which it turns out interests people far more than anything about the actual multiplayer of WC3.

I didn't mind the story of WC3, but I just never clicked with the gameplay. The unit cap always felt too low, and I really didn't like the system where you got "taxed" more gold the bigger your army got.

Is Diablo 2 basically the last time Blizzard made a game that everybody agreed was pretty good? I never really came around on Warcraft 3's brand of RTS, and WoW kinda dumbed down the whole MMO genre while simultaneously making all subsequent MMOs desperate to copy all of its ideas.

Yeah, it's the (fairly simple) work and force problems that seem out of place on a math assignment for me. Appropriate for a class about the fundamentals of physics, but kinda weird to see on a math assignment.

Maybe the professor should've called it a planar labia and see if anyone noticed.

I played Dustforce on the PC, but I think I came to a similar conclusion to you. Well, I kept playing it long after deciding I didn't like the gameplay. The art and music are just so good.

I am saddened to hear Kirk isn't into The Banner Saga's story, because I think the story and art are tied for being the best part of the game. The part where you make choices with the best of intentions but everything falls apart is an accurate simulation of most political leadership positions I can think of.

Huh. I'm not used to math assignments involving physics so directly.

I don't think the very best of the "phone/tablet games" has ever really approached the experiences I've had with the very best of the "traditional handheld games" I've played, so if he's talking about having time to sit down at home, I still think he's better of looking into a 3DS, DS, or Vita to spend that time on.