Making a “recognizable” character out of low-poly models is a low bar to set for mastery. Making a beautiful character out of low-poly models is a mark of mastery.

You’re conflating two things and putting words into my mouth.

The difference is that Tim Follin mastered the NES sound chip.

I generally agree that art direction is more important than anything else, but the character models in the original game were grotesque. They looked ugly even at the time of release.

Debatable for FF6, honestly. It’s a great game, no doubt. But the music is handled pretty poorly in the GBA version.

I feel like this list could have gone on for days. Portable or not, the GBA is one of the best consoles ever made. Its library is insane.

I love that we now have a literal instance of Trump blowing sunshine up our asses.

Rightwing media will spin literally anything, so there’s no sense worrying about them spinning any specific thing. 

Likewise the games they are writing about.

Because making a larger profit is only one goal of a company. Presumably, a video game publisher also has the goal of making great games and building goodwill with their fans.

It was.

The only saving grace is that while the AAA industry embarrasses itself for the sake of wringing more dollars out of less effort, indie developers are delivering passion projects that respect the medium and its players.

I’d say I already addressed that with the “go capitalism!” part of my post, so thanks for emphasizing my point.

“Sadly Ubisoft are generally quicker to cancel Prince of Persia games than others IPs because [as far as I know] original creator Jordan Mechner still holds license rights so the profit margins are lower”

This is all true.

The movie industry didn’t give comics legitimacy. It gave them publicity.

It’s the difference between impossible and implausible. Movies need to play by their own rules — even movies that involve the supernatural — and the ‘fridge scene violates those rules.

It’s a pretty bad movie, but I do appreciate that it brought Marion back. 

Neither does Square-Enix.

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