there’s also some videos floating around on twitter comparing the 3d models between palworld and pokemon and um...pocketpair might be in trouble

What my brain is imagining is a wobble factor. things being off by just enough, or enough wear and tear over time to alter the track a bit so the cart rams into the fake track. Again, it’s my own mind conjuring it, but I think I’d still pass on this one.

I’m sure the engineering checks out for the most part, but I still see enough potential points of failure in my minds eye to never get on this thing.

“We are experimenting with AI” = “We are testing the waters to see how many artists we can reasonably fire”  

I remember when Square and Enix were different companies. When you saw one of those logos, you knew youd be getting a quality experience. I miss that.

Square predictably dipping their feet into murky waters. More news after the break.

Jax X: Combat Racing for the PS2 was the last non-Uncharted or The Last of Us game that Naughty Dog made. 

The best selling Xbox in Japan was the 360, mostly because Microsoft poured a metric tonne of money into creating a Japanese market for it, including commissioning two exclusive Hironobu Sakaguchi RPGs. It still didn’t sell especially well.

Yet another illustration that game design and aesthetic is more important than raw power or graphic quality.

Not only are the top ten all Switch games, all but two of them are first party. That’s pretty impressive, especially since the console and some of the games are getting pretty old. 

*wheeze*

I got it for $10 and only did so based on word of mouth and I almost immediately remembered why I haven’t enjoyed a single 3D Sonic game. Hell, I find it hard to enjoy the 2D Sonic games anymore and mid-90s me lived for that shit. 

Sega had already fumbled with the Saturn. The Dreamcast was simply the logical conclusion of the 32x, CD, Nomad, Their PC’s and all their other failed tech coming home to roost. 

They’ve made bizarre design choices in almost every Sonic game ever made starting from the first.

Speaking as someone who bought a Dreamcast in college just for Soul Calibur and Sonic Adventure, Heroes wasn’t underrated.  It’s as exactly as mediocre as it’s average Metacritic score would lead you to believe.  I think the only thing it really has going for it today is that so many worse Sonic games have come out…

If Sonic Frontiers was them breaking the Sonic cycle, I’d like them to kindly place me back into the Sonic cycle. Frontiers was an interesting game, in the sense that it was interesting to see what bizarre design choices they made.

I’ll be spending the final hours of 2023 like I have every year for the past 20 years, in my Animal Crossing village.

...realizing Persona 5 is already six years old...

As a lifelong fan of turn-based JRPGs, there was a point where the future of turn based JRPGs looked pretty grim. It was definitely being phased out and it was starting to feel like Pokemon was the only mainstream presence keeping it relevant in the West.

I’m with you.  I’m completely tired of this Zaslav guessing game.  So until the guy is fired, if nothing else is mentioned about the “genius”, that’ll be a good day for America.