You omit a ton of the things that made it flat out better than X-Wing, most of it: the PLOT.

Always remember that one tune Jesper Kyd put into several games he worked on that originated as “Spinner” in Red Zone on the Megadrive but is probably best recognized/most widely known as “Apocalypse” in Hitman Blood Money.

My personal peeve isn’t actually the darkness. It’s the saturation. You know a game’s gamma balance is shit when you hit “auto levels” in Photoshop and the image becomes 77% clearer as if those pesky two inches of sand have been removed from your screen and you can suddenly see what the heck is going on in the scene…

This is ridiculous. The 3DS has had folders for ages. It made me play a gacha game to earn icons for these folders! I expected they would have taken that and moved on from it.

The Wii kept up with a lot of multiplatform releases but it also had a ton of gems both among exclusives and the way certain ports worked. FPSes were super amazing on it.

Look at Tumblr! Despite the best efforts of its shifting cavalcade of owners, it’s still alive, albeit in a defanged, allegedly porn-free (actually not) form.

The trick to Kubrows is that they’re essentially useless until you are prepared to grind for support items daily... Or engage in MTs way more frequently than anyone should be comfortable with.

Friendly reminder that this game and its SNES sequel got remade for the DS and the remake of this one even got an official localization as Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon.

Simpler than that: one they can relate to. Video games are a part of that.

I came into this article ready to start shit if TIE Fighter was not #1, but then I saw that it was.

She was also amazing as Rei in Persona Q. I mean, nominally it’s the same kind of character she almost got typecast as: tiny, moe, suffering mental trauma (Tiny Tina and Orendi from Battleborn are a lot alike, yes).

It SHOULD be pointed out that since the best well known Toshiharu Yamanishi song - “Metal Squad” from Thunder Force IV is a blatant ripoff of the LOUDNESS song “Soldier of Fortune”, everything else is probably suspect as well. We just may not be familiar enough with the 1980s Japanese metal scene to be aware of that.

AFAIK raytracing is PC exclusive for this game. Presumably, the bext gen versions will have that baked in.

The thing about Spec Ops is that is as much a critique of the GENRE as it is of the people playing it. Much like Sucker Punch and Cabin in the Woods are a middle finger wrapped in homages and fanservice wirh their respective genres - one succeeded at it, one did not.

Did you miss Manhattan Project and Critical Mass? There have been 2D scrollers about Duke after 3D (and several Playstation only TPSes), it's just that most people still think 3D and Forever were the only games about him.

A major element of Overwatch’s success is that at its core it’s just TF2 with a wider character roster and Blizzard’s trademark quirky character design - the push the cart to win mode functions absolutely identically, and at launch you could play spot-the-reference with everyone (like how Zarya was basically Heavy’s…

Lilith? This is a miscast. She has to be Steele. You know, and give Steel an actual story part, not the-- well, you know how she has more lines in the Robolution than in the core game.

Every time you bring this article back, I remember how much I love it, and Dark Forces remains my favorite Star Wars game, tied with TIE Fighter.

Is it me or do the new faces look a lot blander than the Wii ones? In a forgettably generic way, especially the girls?

Um. Why does your article have zero screamshots and only a video?