The Grand Budapest Hotel

It's good to see that the rest of the internet has taken notice of him.

I haven't found a single crashed ship yet! I've visited four planets, and even managed to 100% one of them, so it's not for lack of exploration. Such is the magic of procedural generation, after all. I didn't realize that some of the planetary bodies were moons and some were planets, so I'll have to keep an eye on…

I'm playing No Man's Sky. Here are my impressions:

Maybe they pulled in the Nintendo staff who worked on Metroid Prime: Federation Force. They've got the necessary experience to endure such a scenario, haha.

Believe it or not, I actually heard the "alarm" sound effect when I read your comment. And I haven't even played a Metal Gear Solid game since Metal Gear Solid 2!

Agreed. This might be the only time I've seen an analytic piece on Mega Man 7.

The furthest I ever made it into the game was after an extraordinarily long and tedious session, where at the end I discovered that I needed to have done something in a specific order (or remember the order of bosses?) to progress to the final area. I was so disgusted that I turned off the game and never played it…

I just found a video of the old PC game from 1990. It looks like one of the worst games I've ever seen. And there's no music either! Crazy.

I've said it here before, but I'll say it again (since I like the sound of my own voice, even when it's just typed words): Twilight Princess does what Ocarina does better than Ocarina does it. Admittedly, the game was ten years later, and Ocarina of Time was a trend-setter while Twilight Princess was not, but it's…

What about Ni No Kuni?

Was Mega Man 5 hard to find, or something? I recall being a kid in the early 1990s and owning Mega Man 3 and Mega Man 6, while my friends had 2, 4, and some combinations of these titles, but I don't ever recall seeing Mega Man 5. I had to wait for the Anniversary Collection on PS2 to play through it. Was this just my…

My thoughts ran similarly to Girard, but I agree that it was right to stick to the standard entries. It would be a bit of a cop-out to pick The Wand of Gamelon for a Zelda Best/Worst/Weirdest, for instance.

If you've got a Wii U or 3DS, I'd encourage you to check out the Zero and/or ZX games. They are some really excellent side-scrollers that build on the foundation established by the earlier Mega Man titles. In particular, Zero is some tough-as-nails action that almost feels like an alternative universe of the original…

Shovel Knight is such a cool amalgamation of various 8-bit systems. As you said, SMB3, along with Ducktales (which I've never played, but I have seen videos of) and Adventure of Link. I think the Mega Man link comes in when you get to the bosses - they are much more reminiscent of Mega Man boss characters than they…

Upvote for 8 Eyes reference. I spent way too much time playing that game as a kid, and it was terrible.

Oh neat! I was just remarking above that I might pursue a Mega Man marathon once my current playthrough of the Zelda series is complete, and this would be a cool order to move in. If I understand correctly, it would be:

There were PC games? The '90s sure were a strange time for established properties.

Not sure what you mean. I do love me some pixel-based retro platformers, though, so either one would be a good bet.

Oh no! This was one of the cooler looking games shown off in the past year, and it's disappointing to hear that it doesn't live up to its potential. At least I can continue to feel vindicated in buying a computer rather than a PS4, right? Haha.