Just like John Carmack and company made a pitch to Nintendo to port Super Mario to IBM PC... Then made Commander Keen using the tech they developed for it.

Demon’s Crest, the spinoff of Gargoyle’s Quest, the spinoff of GnG focused on Firebrand, is what we'd nowadays call an actual open world Metroidvania soulslike. Look it up!

Bayonetta has been pretty much her only VA work in the past decade, as opposed to Jennifer Hale who does between four and twenty per year. I presume where you aren’t getting any other offers, it does make you wonder how you’ll be paying those grocery bills, but also makes her look hella entitled as it’s the industry…

To be fair, he did make Thimbleweed Park look like the LucasFilm Games that made the company famous: Maniac Mansion and Zak McKracken.

More importantly, how the fuck did he miss that the ORIGINAL GAME predicated its entire plot on multicultural gender bs? The Swordmaster has always been a black woman. Elayne Marley has always been the baddest badass in the setting. One of the Pirate Leaders now being female is not that huge a change to a game…

Which is interesting given that Ashly Burch (her VA) is mixed-race, even if none of those races is black.

Tony Hawk's American Wasteland was AMAZING, you take that back. It just got lost in the glut of yearly releases.

There’s also the scandal about the Russian dude that registered anything he could think of related to SCP as a trademark in Russia and started selling merch all over the place. There's also something similar happening in China as well.

I am full of WHAT.

They do have variety in the books tho after the initial introduction of the Spartans to the MJOLNIRs (complete with a reference to how they were developed for something entirely different, aka the battleroids from Marathon) since each Spartan has their own specialization and it sort of grows from there.

System Shock 2 had a bunch of “mini” games on the PDA you use to read logs, one of which was a full scale RPG in the vein of the first Ultima games (owing to the fact that System Shock 1 was sort of a sci-fi Ultima Underworld).

It looks like they want to erase the lay-to-win nightmare that was Halo Online from everyone's memory (look it up) and they're succeeding.

And here I thought you’d be spoiling the ending with the discussion of those lyrics.

INB4 the Children of the Elder Gods sequence from Alan Wake where the song actually HELPS you fight the horde off.

I’m Russian. The Gobliiins games were big here, so the reboot was moderately well-received even, Lost in Time and Ween less so, but I’ve never heard of Adibou until I wandered into a FNAC in Paris on my first visit to France in, oh, 1998, I believe. It was just “hey, this company was great, it made great games, where…

Bigger? Yes. Better known outside of France? Definitely not.

Exactly so. Goblins 3 was even marketed as "Goblin's Quest" to fold it into Sierra's then-thing of making every game named "Something Quest"!

Yay, more acknowledgement for Dani Bunten is always welcome.

But... WHY?! Why not make an actual Marvel XCOM game, why... This?

Did people already forget Punisher spent 1997 I believe as an angel?