A few years ago I was at a classic car show, oggling a 1964 Ford Falcon. I struck up a conversatino with an odler guy there, and he said something that stuck with me. To paraphrase it went to the vein of “You can appreciate and lvoe these old crs, drive them, enjoy them, but if you didn’t grow up with them, if you…

so I finished setting up my RetroPie and have decided to tearinto soem old stuff I missed as a kid, mainly a string of NES platformers. I’m going to play through Journey to Silius, power Blade 1 and 2, Code Name Viper, and maybe the SNES game Violinist of Hamlin.

I honestly loved the plain vanilla SF2 on Snes, the one this cartridge seems to be based upon. It was simple and fun. all of the turbo and other versions just seemed to add more fluff. I got the original with my SNES for Christmas and still love and play it.

For those who lvoe this series, I’d point out that there were a few really good clones of it back in the 16 bit era. The first is Lagoon which actualyl gave you a sword (albeit a VERY short one) but that minor changed made a huge difference as the initial two Ys games had that infuriating combat where you rammed into…

And not a single republican will utter a word.

I’m ok with it as it is. The game is really the perfect lenght. I’d assume anything cut wasn’t major story stuff but likely fluff and from the limited dev commentary that seems to be the case along with some darker tone stuff. But I think we got the overall game they intended. When I think of SoM being longer i think…

SoM is a masterpiece in evey conceivable way, it’s one of if not the greatest games of all time. It just.......works. The soundtrack is bar none the best ever produced, and the pacing and gameplay are perfect. I played seiken densetsu 3 the day Neil released his translation patch and while it improved nearly…

Damn I didn’t even think abotu that angle. Yeah that sucks that people won’t get that shock. The first time you get Flamey in Matango and fly into the air in that Mode 7 map, it was glorious, it’s probably the most liberating feeling I’ve ever had in a game. It’s like “holy crap look at all of these palces I can go,…

Agreed. This literally looks liek a PS1 game and not in a good way. SoM is a masterpiece, in fact I’d go as far as saying it’s perfect. Even the combat works, once you learn that it’s not just a button masher. This is not the treatment it deserves.

EEEEEEEEw barf. They’re using that fugly ass art style that they used in Adventure of Mana only slightly upgraded. Whoi decided that shit looks good? It didn’t look good in the DS FF4 remake, it sure s hell didn’t look good in Adventure of Mana, so what fool decided it looked good here? Hell even the IOS SoM version…

So how is the Hydro Thunder remake? I loved the Dreamcast one and always wondered why we never got newer games (I know the answer is Because: Sega). Is this one any good? How did it transition to Xbox 360?

“Repreentative director” “Prime Advisor” What the hell does any of that even mean? Are those actual job titles? Either way though, when was the last time this guy actuall wa involved in a good game? I’m thinking it’s been at least a decade. And hell other than the newer Ninja Gaiden titles, what did he really do in…

This is all Benghazi’s fault. Fuck you Benghazi.

Well to be fair though, most every bit of sci fi, at least military sci fi, sine the lat 70s has taken some inspiration from Aliens.

The only really good Jurrasic Park games have been the sim ones so this could be cool. there was a good one on the original Xbox so this seems sort of like that. I’m cautiously optimistic here.

Some new exclusives would be nice or maybe soem new Jaanese titles, MS has been donig pretty good getting Japanese titles on Xbox as of late so who knows. Also I know it’s a long shot but some OG Xbox BC titles would be cool too. I have this crazy urge to play Panzer Dragoon Orta lately.

Say what you will about the derivative-ness of the games themselves, but Halo has one of the best universes in terms of “stuff” there is, from weapons to vehicles to places.

It’s not a puma!

Yeah that’s the parallel I drew also. this situation is shitty.

Her lack of comment pretty much assures that she’s one of the victims which makes this even mroe painful. She not only has to see them donig nothing but has to see it as a victim. Kudos to her for having the fortitude to stand up to this shit.