Turns out when you actually make video games and sell them, you can record higher profits than years you didn’t do that.

Looks like it could have come from a cancelled Command and Conquer game.

Perhaps, but it was just in regular comments, not admin actions. Maybe I just got unlucky RNG.

Yeah, I blocked the entire Blahaj instance a while ago. I cant think of a single user I have seen from that instance that isn’t unsavory. Hopefully things improve soon.

I will be playing Stellaris intead, lol.

Not a fan of Fortnite and never got into CoD after World at War came out. Felt like they were less and less about the soldiers that gave their lives protecting their country, and more about being some romanticized war hero shooter. War is bad but I don’t think that soldiers who fought in them should be disrespected. I just feel like the new CoD games glorify war and violence more than the older games did, and I am not about that.

I don’t know if goading Take Two into a lawsuit is a good idea. These guys may have good lawyers, but Take Two undoubtedly has deeper pockets.

I dont think so, nor do I care. Black people dress up as white characters all the time, I consider it the same. Dressing up as a character means that character means something to you, so I dont see where anyone should be offended by it.

Interesting choice. I hope it is successful.

So Apple finally decided to copy the Intel NUC after Intel stopped making them and pushed them off to ASUS?

Yes. BotW and TotK departed very dramatically from what consumers would expect from Zelda. TotK was a bit closer but still was not the same. I suppose another way to say it is “true Zelda” or “pure Zelda,” but it is all the same meaning.

BotW, and to a lesser degree TotK, is to Zelda what Star Fox Adventures is to Star Fox. Not necessarily a bad game, but when someone talks about Star Fox, or “real Star Fox” they are not referring to Star Fox Adventures because it deviated so drastically from the expected gameplay of a Star Fox game.

Which Zelda do you mean? Real Zelda like A Link to the Past/Ocarina of Time, or Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom?

For BotW/TotK, pretty much any open world ARPG will do.

For real Zelda, I would absolutely recommend Tunic. Link’s Awakening remake was quite good, performance issues not withstanding, and Echoes of Wisdom was a fun spinoff in the same vein.

Elden Ring is vastly superior IMO. I found there was less empty space compared to BotW, and far better combat mechanics.

Brightis, made by the developers that made Arc the Lad, would be great to see redone and released in English/other languages.

I only like the Resident Evil remake on the GameCube from 2002 (which was later ported and released as Resident Evil HD). It retained everything about the original that was iconic and made minor additions. I wish those were optional, but since the game came out in 2002 before options were really a consideration it gets a pass. I can’t believe I am saying this, because without Kojima it feels like sacrilege, but MGS3 Delta actually looks like it might be a good remake by keeping the original gameplay as an option.

As a Silent Hill fan, I disagree. SH2 remake is very mid, and misses the mark on many points IMO. Too much was changed just for the sake of being changed. It is filled with every “Bloober-ism” in the book: stupid, predictable jumpscares (which were not really in SH2 originally since it built up as a horror game in a different way from the first game which did use jumpscares), bad performance problems, etc. The game focuses too much on combat; in the original game the optimal way to play (and lore accurate way) was avoiding most combat, but the remake refuses to allow you to avoid combat like you could in the original game. Character designs are worse than the original IMO. I really wanted to love the game, but right when I start to enjoy whatever was happening, Bloober swooped in with some addition or change or -ism that immediately pulled me out and had me rolling my eyes. Also, swapping out the original’s camera for a boring, bland, copying-everyone-else over the shoulder camera without even giving the option for the original camera hurts my soul.

I don’t really care about Pokemon so I can’t comment on it. Never played it except the TCG game on GameBoy, and I never finished that game either. Just didn’t hold my interest.

Honestly, looking at how modern game development studios handle remakes, I wouldn’t want them anywhere near any of my beloved games. I haven’t played a single remake in the last 20 years where I felt like the studio that made it knocked it out of the park.

Also, I strongly believe good games should not be remade, and only remastered/ “deluxe remastered” (where even if the game is remade, its a 1:1 faithful recreation with additional features and gameplay mechanics being optional). Remake the games that weren’t great, give them another chance at big success.

• Sonic 2006
• the XenoSaga games (don’t @ me XS fans, you know the combat and boss design in those games were terrible, 1 had DOMO Carrier, Tiamat, and whatever was going on in Song of Nephilim)
• Most Konami games in the late 90s - mid 2010s
• LAPD Future Cop
• etc

Honestly, looking at how modern game development studios handle remakes, I wouldn’t want them anywhere near any of my beloved games. I haven’t played a single remake in the last 20 years where I felt like the studio that made it knocked it out of the park.

Also, I strongly believe good games should not be remade, and only remastered/ “deluxe remastered” (where even if the game is remade, its a 1:1 faithful recreation with additional features and gameplay mechanics being optional). Remake the games that weren’t great, give them another chance at big success.

• Sonic 2006
• the XenoSaga games (don’t @ me XS fans, you know the combat and boss design in those games were terrible, 1 had DOMO Carrier, Tiamat, and whatever was going on in Song of Nephilim)
• Most Konami games in the late 90s - mid 2010s
• LAPD Future Cop
• etc

Connect app for Lemmy actually has this feature, and it really is a gamechanger. I mean, it makes Lemmy kinda into a desolate wasteland of posts, but its better than seeing most of the garbage I don’t care about and don’t want to interact with.

Granted, this also relies on users putting said keywords in the title of their post, so I still end up seeing stuff I don’t want to, but it is drastically decreased.

I like the way Lemmy functions, with things like an open moderator log and the way that instances can be created to prevent too much control from one singular instance from pushing people completely off the platform if they have bad moderation, for example.

I don’t like the users. For every one user that is nice and wants to have a legitimate conversation, there are like 300 that just want to fight/argue or spew politics into a non-political conversation. The number of users I have blocked on Lemmy is far longer than the amount of users I ever blocked on Reddit, and my Reddit account existed for about 10 years. This Lemmy account has only been around for about 1/10th of that.

One of the biggest strengths of Lemmy is also one of its biggest curses. Due to its federated nature, anyone can create a new instance. The problem with this is that particularly nasty users can keep creating accounts on instances they keep creating in order to harass people they don’t like. So even if you block them, they just switch to a new account, etc. They can also do this for vote manipulation, not like that really matters on Lemmy but Lemmy users seem to have fallen victim to the same problem Redditors had: seeing a comment with 0 or -1 score and then completely disregarding whatever it said, not reading it and downvoting it automatically.

Reddit 2.0 lol

Think we going to see a XenoSaga collection/XenoGears collection on Switch too? I think putting X on Switch gives the others a chance perhaps, thouvh probably quite small.