I think the gradual shift from goofy arcadey games into aspiring sims is probably the biggest problem I have with everything Rockstar has put out in the last ten or so years (which, uh... I guess is only two games, but whatever).

Cool, good to hear.

I thought so but thinking about it now I genuinely can’t remember. It has been years so yeah I dunno.

The story wasn’t really doing it for me but honestly if I recall correctly it was actually the minute-to-minute gameplay simply did not feel good. Even the first RDR didn’t have great gameplay but I found pretty quickly that you could easily headshot every enemy with little trouble so I was able to brute force my way…

Eh... not sure. I think I got past the snow stuff but maybe not? It was years ago and my memory is pretty foggy.

In the years since the open-world game has continued to be popular, and it eventually got a bigger, better prequel in the form of Red Dead Redemption 2

Although I guess I already established there were only ONE dozen of us. Ah well.

Okay, but to be clear that’s a full remake and is a much larger undertaking than this, which is simply a port.

Yeah, Mario Kart is the best-selling racing game of all time and in the (increasingly nebulous) ranking of “best-selling games of all time”, the 6th best-selling game of all time. It’s pretty popular and wildly enough still hasn’t really slowed down too much.

As one of the 12 Wii U owners in the world I’d like to say: okay, fair.

I dunno; you say that, but looking at the list itself it’s pretty much exactly the games you’d expect: Mario Kart, Animal Crossing, Smash Bros, Breath of the Wild, Mario Odyssey, a couple of Pokemon games, etc. It’s not that surprising those games sold that well, considering how big they were when they were released.

From what I’ve read they’re implying this will be the end of the main storyline that’s been running since the beginning but they’ll start a new storyline after that.

Okay, but this actually isn’t true and it’s largely due to some bizarre reporting stuff that Capcom does. If you look at their full list of top games, you’ll see that they sometimes lump all versions of a game into one listing while other times they break out ports and GOTY versions as separate versions:

REmake2 is very good but I still prefer the original RE2 a lot more.

I think I’ll watch this later because it seems like it could be a fun stunt, but also the idea of spending all that time traveling with the goal of visiting Gamestops sounds like pure hell.

Tears of the Kingdom, for example, the follow-up to 2017's Breath of the Wild, sold 18.51 million units just between its May 12 launch and June 30, roughly a month and a half.

The years between when they opened an Alamo nearby and when we had our kids, I think my wife and I were going to the movies almost twice a month. The fact that they showed new movies as well as classics was such a draw for us. I saw so many classic movies in a theater instead of at home and I’m really glad for it.

I definitely haven’t loved Pixar’s output from the last five or six years as much as I did their early output, but I dunno, I enjoyed Soul and really liked Turning Red. I’m also a big fan of Coco, which is maybe outside of this arbitrary timeframe I set up but I figured I’d mention it anyway.

Can’t wait until we’re at the point that all these YouTubers/Twitch stars are just AIs and their videos play to nobody as silent autoplay ads on Fandom pages. Just an endless cycle of crap being peddled to nobody and somehow somebody gets rich.

I mean, yeah, I suppose if the job requires to put out endless slop for the impossible-to-please masses, it makes sense to have an AI churn it out.