There was a certain charm to those PS1 days of using pre-rendered backgrounds. Looks super primitive today, since games are able to do this 100x better and in realtime, but back then I used to think it was a pretty cool way to cheat graphics. Especially how they would blend and transition, like with Riven and Abe’s…

RE2 remade into the RE4 format? Hell to the yeah, I’m in.

Thanks for the head’s-up. I owe ya one. It’s totally perfect for my feed that is filled with too-serious people. A palate cleanser, if you will.

The Phantom Menace: “Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic. The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute.”

I think also a large part of his change was the fact that he became several bosses in one, with Lucasfilm, ILM, Skywalker Sound, etc, and then it’s like, man how do you say no to him if he thinks he’s right?

“Star Wars used to be a pastiche of external influences like Flash Gordon, Lord of the Rings, etc; it has over the years switched to being primarily a pastiche of itself.”

The excluded conveyor belt level in the home ports has been what stopped me from getting the zillion ports made up to now after feeling burned the first time. Finally, justice has come.

Those also get ignored by the majority of the players. Hype much?

I hope your interview covers some interesting things that have cropped up over the years, such as why every illogical design choice is answered with “sorry, this is due to server limitations”, “we knew this was obviously a terribad decision to implement, please provide feedback anyway on how we wasted your time”, and…

The white spider overlay on his costume needs to go. If the game allows us to swap out costumes in the beginning for something else (anything else), I’m in.

The great Trek over-saturation era was a real thing. Not just from an audience point of view, but the writers would come up with so much stuff that eventually they got to a point where they would write themselves into a corner all the time until the only tropes left were the dumb-as-fuck ones. To say that they were…

Also, having Ron Howard come in probably dulled whatever remaining edgy material was left. His style has always had that annoying “play it safe” vibe to his films.

Spot on.

Yeah, Lando’s shtick on mispronouncing Han’s name was the best, and seems like it should have been the only thing in the movie in regards to the name-based jokes. The “Solo” and “Chewie” bits felt so unnecessary, kinda like the movie itself.

In my mind, there is the “pre-comment section”, and “post-comment section” era. While there were forums prior to blogs/websites where people close to whatever hobbies they were into at the time could communicate in the name o f “community”, those were mostly compartmentalized I think.

Ahh, the pre-Russo Brothers Winter Soldier era outfit. Thar suit has not aged well. I guess it’s cool that we’re seeing it repurposed for comedic purposes, but still... I wish Marvel would just pull a George Lucas and digitally replace it.

No, you haven’t considered the other alternative. Fix the game before actually releasing it.

I would really like Kotaku to run a modern comparison on console games pre- and post- patching/DLCing, because now to me the process has given devs too much of an open window to ship incomplete games, whether it be with content or bugs. This article seems to imply that it’s becoming the norm and that it is now…

That Three Moon Wolf Tshirt, though...

It’s annoying that people take offense to the show’s political leanings, whether it’s due to the show’s history or the batshit crazy remarks Roseanne does in the media.