“Lets he honest, if this was Nintendo, they would make you buy a new license to play each game remotely.”

But if they had done full-on, Metroid Prime Remastered-level work on MGS2 and MGS3 and charged full price for them individually, people would’ve complained about THAT too...

I had the nerve to applaud the developers for not having the camera be obsessed with Miranda’s ass anymore in the remasters and Mass Effect Twitter absolutely ate me alive. So another thing you apparently never say to a Mass Effect fan is to criticize their level of horny. 

A) There is already an HD remaster of WipeOut in the WipeOut Omega Collection.

Looking for the people who act like Nintendo is the only one who does this...

That was super fun to look through! Thanks for sharing!

I also remember knowing that E. Honda’s name was Edmond, but I have no idea why or how I knew that. There was no internet back then, I didn’t read any Street Fighter comics, I knew that before I saw any screen adaptations. When and where was that conveyed, exactly?

So I am a complete moron when it comes to this stuff so be nice lol. But I guess I don’t understand how old games can be made available for emulators and whatnot, but when it comes to officially re-releasing them, the companies can’t do it because they lost the source code. It makes no sense to me. Can someone explain…

Sure, but OPEN WORLD GAMES should allow you some freedom in how you play them. The main quest should be able to stand on its own as a complete experience if that’s all someone choses to play. You shouldn’t HAVE to do ANY “side quests” — hence why they are called side quests — to redeem an open world game. Yes, it…

Also known as the beep that will wake up a sleeping wife EVERY SINGLE TIME. Or is it just mine?

My mom called my NES “the Atari,” my Genesis “the Nintendo,” and my PlayStation “the Sega.” She was always exactly one generation behind. It was bizarre.

I was more of a Dark Alliance guy, and I’m still super miffed at how badly they botched Dark Alliance III. That’s all I can think about when I see an article about Balder’s Gate III — the wasted opportunity of Dark Alliance III.

I hear more and more stories like this of people who can’t even give arcade machines away. People don’t have the means, or simply don’t want to bother with, finding a way to transport the things. And even if you just want to junk them, you need to either pay extra to have the garbage people take them away, break them…

Unrelated, but it’s a bummer to watch Twister now that Hoffman and Paxton are both dead.

I am currently replaying it again, and Yuna’s voice acting is so bad. Why... does she pause... constantly but... at really strange... points in... the sentence?

Final Fantasy does the reverse of the Holmes/Watson thing. Sherlock Holmes is technically the “main character” but the books were written from Watson’s POV which made it really interesting to have that perspective on the protagonist. Whereas with games like FFXII, it seems like they are trying to do something like…

Final Fantasy has always been the poster child for “the main character is the worst character in the game.” I assume it probably stems from the old school way of thinking of having the protagonist “be” the player, so they are deliberately kept kind of quiet and generic but are instead surrounded by an awesome…

And I’m fine with that. There are so many classic games that we lose access to forever because of rights issues — if it’s a matter of removing music from a game to make it playable again, or some other such tweak, it’s better than not having the game at all in my opinion.

I took a gamble on this. I just went with the one year access — if the service does last for two years or more, and I keep it, obviously the lifetime access is the better value, but whose to say this even lasts that long? So we’ll see on that one.

At this point, I can start saying “I’m so old I remember when Blizzard was still one of the last true player-friendly game companies.” That statement feels like ancient history now.