As did I, and I actually did managed to find Bloodstorm at a single arcade inside a mini golf place. I thought I knew the game pretty well, but it moved and controlled VERY different from how I expected it to haha. Crazy how there were so many games back then that I felt intimately connected to before I had any idea…

Oh snap, Double XP with the deep cut! I totally remember that Daniel Pescina Bloodstorm ad.

I now genuinely want all of this to happen haha

I just came to say that I don’t play Outriders, but every time I see an Outriders thumbnail like the one in this article I think it’s about a new Darksiders game and I get really excited. Then I see that’s not the case and get really disappointed haha. 

Pretty much all my thoughts exactly (except I’m a bit younger, graduated high school in ‘01). If I have to pick a retro style it’s 16-bit pixel art by a long shot, and that was the predominant style in my real formative years as a hardcore gamer.

He never lost the arm, just bound it so he wouldn’t accidentally kill his opponents haha. If you look at the ultimate versions of his super arts that require full meter in 3rd Strike, he reveals both arms for them since they require all his power. 

Nope, never. But I’m pretty mild-mannered. I’ve gotten pissed at some games and flipped out a bit, but never to the point where I take it out on anything other than like slapping the couch or something haha.

A lot of competitions, from word games to sports, are about adhering to specific rule sets even if it requires un-training actions and reactions that feel natural to you. This is just one of those things. The fact that we have been taught to add “and” when listing items is neither here nor there where the game is…

Hah! Good one 

I personally don’t care about backwards compatibility because with responsibilities and other hobbies in the picture, I really don’t have it in me to be bothered to play old games when I have a mountainous backlog as it is; and I guess I prioritize new experiences. Every once in a while I might get a passing desire to…

Trips definitely looks the part these days, but maybe they’d want a better actor haha. I wish Christopher Judge was a bit younger, he’s already got the voice.

I will tell my children, and my children’s children of your Kinja abilities

This post and all the replies are giving me some real nice nostalgia warm & fuzzies. 

They do have Marduk, who uses vale tudo, which is essentially proto-MMA with less rules. Would be cool to see them implement a character that does have a well-rounded modern MMA move set.

Silat is super broad with a ton of variations; there’s definitely enough unarmed technique there to base a character on. 

As soon as I saw her I was like “Oh, karate again” haha.

And neither of have nothing on Senator Armstrong from Metal Gear Rising. Who needs a mech suit?

He was my first thought as well (probably keeping in line with fighting game politicians). G also holds the highest political rank of them all, since he is indeed president of the world.

I usually go through (single player) games and don’t really go back to them, but I have done this. I remember getting stuck in the subway area in Silent Hill 3 for some reason, and I just kinda dropped it to play other stuff. I came back to it over a year later and just somehow immediately went to where I was supposed…

It’s gotten a bit healthier just by way of me actually having time to play them more. I have so many other hobbies and interests that I don’t really get burned out on them (I often still wish I could spend even more time playing games than I already do). I guess I’m still too occupied to just really binge on games…