Also consider that these games came out 20 years ago—a lot of artists have died since then, and their estates might have different ideas about licensing than they did.

Mythical Kitchen did a similar takedown a year ago

Yeah, basically. To put it tl;dr, Roblox is half Second-Life-for-kids, half low-rent game maker. There’s a currency called Robux that you can buy with real money, or you can create your own game within Roblox and add microtransactions, and you get the Robux spent by players playing your game (or maybe just a cut, I…

It bothers me that this guy always uses his knife in the most dangerous way possible

Agreed, but at least it’s obvious on Steam which version is which.

These versions have “Definitive” in the name, which is a pretty common term for rerelease versions, and a lot of games that have had a similar treatment label the old one “Classic” or something to that effect. XIII and the first two Mafia games are good examples.

According to the Kotaku article that first broke the existence of this release, it’s neither; the games were ported to Unreal Engine. It was said to be because this is being handled by Rockstar Dundee, a studio that just joined Rockstar Games and thus has no experience with Rage.

I would love to see Chinatown Wars reworked into the GTA IV engine, almost Episodes from Liberty City style. I realize that’s a pipe dream, but hey.

If I recall, the most recent attempt branded it as American food, and the crunchy tacos weren’t called “tacos” on the menu.

TVTropes calls this “gameplay and story segregation” and has a lot of examples

I’ve never actually seen the movie. Is there a reason why the dude is standing right on the edge of a huge pit?

I mean, Arkham didn’t invent that style of combat. The Spider-Man 2 movie tie-in game had similar combat.

Has there ever been a game with a tracking mechanic that isn’t terrible?

If the wager was $5,000, it’s not a $10,000 match, it’s a $5,000 match. You don’t count it twice.

I’m not a lawyer, but as a counter point, just because something is in a license agreement doesn’t mean it’s legally enforceable.

Never having played Fortnite, I struggle to imagine how all this shit works. Is the battle royale map just huge and has all this crossover content populating it? Does it rotate? Is there a special map/playlist for each thing?

I know I’m very much in the minority, but I’m hoping for a tone similar to the first game. It was still somewhat grounded, and its sense of humor had some cleverness to it. The whole “shooting poop as a minigame” thing in Saints Row 2 was too dumb for me.

From a museum website:

Looks like someone asked and he basically confirmed that they had good reasons for doing it that way, but didn’t elaborate.