I usually play three games at a time: Something with a relaxed pace, typically an adventure or RPG (right now: Final Fantasy IV), an arcade game I'm trying to get good at (After Burner II), and something in between. At the moment that's Dark Souls in parallel with a friend, the same one I've been playing Demon's Souls…

Nah, it's 1080p alright, but PS3 Dark Souls runs at 720p, I suppose. Admittedly, not all games benefit from the SD CRT like that one. In Dark Souls, it very much looks like a downsampled image (so while there's a loss of detail, the image quality is excellent). But then there's other cases like Dynasty Warriors 8,…

Sorta (too much ghosting, but miniscule input lag). But I haven't seen one LCD monitor that doesn't look terrible when it's upscaling.

Well, sure, everything can be done to good effect. But in these cases I'd argue it's not even just bad execution, it's lacking intent, too. I'm pretty sure this was "We have no budget and this is faster" rather than "See, the ending of Monkey 2 had that whole amusement park thing going on so I figured I'd foreshadow…

Here's another one: Pressing Y while holding the shoulder buttons switches between grayscale and original pea soup flavor!

I've got a good one for the "objectively bad" category: The ice skating effect on the walking animation.

It's not even just old games. PS3 Dark Souls looks like garbage on my monitor, but amazing on my Philips Matchline.

They're really doing amazing work, so much that I'm actually a bit miffed they got lumped in with Steam. I don't think Steam cares at all, they just sell whatever. The whole "knocking on EA's door and asking about Bullfrog and Origin" thing is all GOG.

The blurring from the 3DS VC is mostly seen on the Game Boy titles, because their resolution doesn't neatly scale pixel-by-pixel to the 3DS's native res. (The same goes for DS games, but that's neither VC nor emulation). On the plus side, when you enable pixel perfect scaling you get a fake GameBoy overlay complete…

You're leaving out some of the best/worst parts, like how a lot of vegetation is just stencil work. And of course there's the fact that the remake just straight up painted over the original art (see the area where the cursor is, the reflections in the river, the bottom right, the lower right branch of the tree in the…

I read a newish translation of The Narrow Road to the Interior. It seemed really good, except the translator was so in love with context that he apparently didn't trust the text itself to be enjoyable on its own. Annotations, man. They're like the achievement pop-ups of reading.

Alternatively, have we talked about Jean Grae's "Life with Jeannie" on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/wat… here before? It's a fairly dry single camera comedy and it's pretty good for a first episode. The closest thing I could compare it to would probably be Curb, but less acerbic (and in Bushwick). There's…

Oh, that site is the devil's work. Since, as I mentioned above, my PC is in its death throes, I'm in the market too. But with such an expansive list it's way too easy to go "Oh, this would suffice, but the better thing is only 20 bucks more and it's an investment and you don't want to kick yourself later for being…

I'm not a parent, but I still can't praise handheld gaming — and now XBox One, if I'm not mistaken — enough for their properly working suspend states. Getting into (and out of) games on portables takes half a second. I'm that much more likely to play something when I only MAYBE have time when it's not a whole thing…

Ugh, don't remind me! I finally got Brave New World for Civ5. Turns out my PC is dying. Conquer things in my stead.

A friend who lent me a box of games wants them back soon, so I finished Lollipop Chainsaw (better than I thought! Yes, it's a pretty crummy action game, but the writing and music really elevate it, and oh yeah, I appreciated the Elevator Action segment). I still have a game of Eternal Sonata open, but it's a slog so…

Oh you a Jedi now? No more dope game.

So, uh… is Koei a publicly traded company?

All I can think about is the lack of international flavor on this list, so here's relevant, dorky early '90s rap from Germany: http://youtu.be/C7M-ukAb3do

I'm going to assume whoever downvoted you for that only did so out of their undying love for Chala Head Chala.